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US 2013/0153670 A1Published application
Coded information systems
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InventorDuncan Robinson
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A code is applied to a part of the retail item or its packaging/label. The code is applied in a repeat pattern. The code is presented in an optical machine-readable format. Code markers are arranged at pre-defined positions within a matrix. An optical machine-readable orientation device indicates the correct orientation of the matrix, so that the position of the code markers within the correctly orientated matrix corresponds to a pre-defined sequence of code integers. The code corresponds to an existing barcode number for the retail item. The code is presented in a manner discreet enough to be part of the printed design of a label or packaging for the retail item, without changing the overall appearance of the printed design.
An optical machine-readable code format having an optical machine-readable code zone and a plurality of optical machine-readable code markers arranged within the code zone, wherein each of the optical machine-readable code markers is arranged at one of a plurality of pre-defined positions within the code zone, the code format further including an optical machine-readable orientation device indicating a correct orientation of the code zone, wherein the position of the code markers within a correctly orientated code zone corresponds to a pre-defined code.
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A coded information system including a plurality of retail items each having an associated code which is presented on the respective retail items in an optical machine-readable code format having an optical machine-readable code zone and a plurality of optical machine-readable code markers arranged within the code zone, wherein each of the optical machine-readable code markers is arranged at one of a plurality of pre-defined positions within the code zone, the code format further including an optical machine-readable orientation device indicating a correct orientation of the code zone, wherein the position of the code markers within a correctly orientated code zone corresponds to a pre-defined code,
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A coded information system including a database containing information about each of a plurality of different food products, and a unique code associated with each food product in the database, wherein said codes are applied to the food products or their packaging in an optical machine readable format which is repeated over at least a portion of the respective food product or its packaging, the system further including a device configured for optical machine reading the code on the food products and for using the code to access the database and extract information relating the food product, the information including at least one of the following:
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A product identification system comprising an electronic database of unique codes, each code corresponding to a particular product, an optical machine-readable code format displaying a code which represents or corresponds to one of the unique codes, and an optical imaging device configured for reading said code format to identify said unique code, wherein the system is configured to enable a user to scan a product with the optical imaging device, identify the optical machine-readable code format applied to the product or its packaging, and then electronically retrieve information about the product by interrogation of the database of unique codes using the code displayed by the code format, wherein the system is configured to enable the user to electronically record information about the scanned product, and to electronically update the information about the product by re-scanning the product or its packaging using an optical imaging device configured for reading said code format to identify said unique code.
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