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Encoding and decoding a message within an image

  • US 20020150276A1
  • Filed: 12/29/2001
  • Published: 10/17/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/22/1998
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A device for loading a web-site address into a web browser for connecting to the web-site, comprising:

  • (a) reader for receiving light from a pattern of pixels and determining pixel value of each pixel; and

    (b) processor having a program of code means readable by the processor to recover an embedded web-site address from the pattern of pixels, the program comprising;

    (i) code means for determining the embedded web-site address by determining binary values based on the pixel values for pixels from the pattern of pixels; and

    (ii) code means for loading the web-site address onto the web browser for connecting to the web-site according to the web-site address.

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