Colour barcodes and cellphone
OwnerWesley John Boudvilleinventor
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A two dimensional barcode with default background and foreground colours uses other foreground colours, to make separate means of encoding data, used by decoding hardware and software, or by an observer's perception. The new colours show text or graphics. A barcode on a dynamic display shows a progress indicator for an operation started by a user who imaged the barcode with her phone. Or it shows the number of votes for users who picked it with their phones. The barcode could show scrolling text. A barcode on a computer screen simulates a pushbutton; pressed when the user takes a photo of it with a cellphone. Suppose a barcode has a symbol drawn on its foreground rectangles, and the barcode encodes a URL. The URL is crafted to maximise the number of foreground rectangles that the symbol intersects, helping a human interpolate the symbol from fragments.
A system of a black and white barcode using non-default foreground colours in zero or more of the foreground rectangles and using non-default background colours in zero or more of the background rectangles;
A system of a cellphone with a camera and software that decodes a barcode from a screen that shows changing images;
A method of the display of text or graphics on the foreground or background rectangles of a barcode, with non-default foreground or background colours;
A method of using a barcode on an electronic screen as a game;
A method of a change to one of a barcode's geometric components that are invariant under different data being encoded;
A system of a cellphone networked to an electronic book Reader;
A method of a barcode encoding an URL and showing a graphic on the barcode's foreground rectangles, with non-default foreground colours;
A method of a barcode encoding an HTML form with an action that has an URL of a web server that parses the submitted form;
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