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Generating landscape and portrait oriented tags

  • US 6,817,539 B2
  • Filed: 09/22/2003
  • Issued: 11/16/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method for generating landscape or portrait oriented tags embedded with error correctable data, comprising the steps of:

  • using an encoder in the printing of a tag having a data area comprising data dots and a locator component comprising constant dots;

    using the tag encoder to obtain, from a stored tag format structure, required data in row-wise or column-wise directions, for both landscape and portrait orientations of the tag;

    the tag format structure being a dot based data package template containing a plurality of entries, each entry corresponding to a dot'"'"'s position, each entry further indicating whether a dot is a data dot or a constant dot, and accordingly each entry having either fixed data bits or variable data bits.

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