Printed material on which two-dimensional code is displayed

• US 9,613,305 B2
• Filed: 04/30/2013
• Issued: 04/04/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/26/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Qoncept, Inc., Tokyo Shoseki Co., Ltd. (TOPPAN Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Qoncept, Inc., Tokyo Shoseki Co., Ltd. (TOPPAN Holdings, Inc.)
• Inventors: Uchida, Koju, Okamoto, Tomoyuki, Tohi, Takeru, Koshizawa, Yuta, Nakano, Kenichi, Kojima, Takashi, Hayashi, Kenichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Labaze, Edwyn
• Application Number:
  US14/654,569
• Publication Number:
  US 20160155033A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,435 Days
• Field of Search: 235494, 235454, 235375, 23546209, 2354621
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/06037 multi-dimensional coding
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/1443 locating of the code in an image
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/1456 determining the orientation of the optical code with respect to the reader and correcting therefore

Abstract

The invention is a printed material on which a two-dimensional code that can be read by a terminal and from which information for specifying contents reproduced by terminal can be acquired is displayed. Two-dimensional code displays a frame portion from which information about position and attitude of terminal can be acquired by terminal and a code portion configured by rotational state display dots 151, 152, 153, and 154 and 20 dots specifying contents to be reproduced by terminal. The 20 dots of the code portion and rotational state display dots are arranged on upper and lower dot portions sandwiching a dot nondisplay portion displaying a character, pictorial symbol, and the like. Rotational state display dots 151, 152, 153, and 154 show rotational position state of the terminal with respect to the two-dimensional code, and displays pattern information.

Claims

1. A printed material on which a two-dimensional code is displayed and on which the two-dimensional code that can be read by a terminal and from which information for specifying contents to be reproduced by the terminal can be acquired is displayed,

wherein the two-dimensional code includes:

a position/attitude acquiring portion from which information about a position and an attitude of the terminal with respect to the two-dimensional code through the terminal is acquired, and

a code portion that specifies contents to be reproduced by the terminal, and wherein;

the position/attitude acquiring portion includes a frame portion arranged around the two-dimensional code and four rotational state display dots that can display pieces of 1-bit information representing rotational states of the terminal with respect to the two-dimensional code, respectively,

the code portion includes a plurality of code display dots that can display each of the pieces of 1-bit information, and

the rotational state display dots and the code display dots are displayed on both side portions sandwiching a dot nondisplay portion on which no dot is displayed in the frame portion.

2. The printed material on which a two-dimensional code is displayed according to claim 1, wherein the frame portion is square, and the rotational state display dots are displayed at four corners of the frame portion.

3. The printed material on which a two-dimensional code is displayed according to claim 1, wherein the code portion includes dots for error detection and error correction.

4. The printed material on which a two-dimensional code is displayed according to claim 1, wherein the contents include at least one of an image, a moving image, and sound.

5. The printed material on which a two-dimensional code is displayed according to claim 1 is displayed, wherein:

the rotational state display dots include four dots that represent pieces of 1-bit information displaying “

0”

or “

1” and

are arranged in any one of the following states,

a first array;

a state in which “

0”

is displayed at one corner, and “

1”

are displayed at the other corners,

a second array;

a state in which “

0”

are displayed at two adjacent corners, and “

1”

are displayed at other two corners, and

a third array;

a state in which “

1”

is displayed at one corner, and “

0”

are displayed at the other corners,

an array state of the rotational state display dots in the first array, the second array, and the third array read in a specific positional relationship between the two-dimensional code determined in advance and the terminal is compared with an array state of the rotational state display dots of the two-dimensional code recognized by the terminal to make it possible to recognize an attitude of the terminal with respect to the two-dimensional code, and

any one of the first array, the second array, and the third array that is selected as the acquired rotational state display dots is determined to make it possible to recognize pieces of 3 pattern information as information except for the attitude of the two-dimensional code.

6. The printed material on which a two-dimensional code is displayed according to claim 1, wherein the printed material is a book, and the two-dimensional code causes the terminal to reproduce contents related to details displayed on a page space on which the two-dimensional code is displayed.