Multi-dimensional code translation
AssigneeMobeam, Inc.
InventorsChristopher Sellers, John Osborne, David Russell
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Abstract
Value documents such as coupons and event tickets that are represented or indexed in the form of QR codes or other types of two-dimensional encoding techniques may be acquired by imaging with a suitably-enabled mobile device, and then translated in the mobile device into a form suitable for presentation as a one-dimensional barcode at a point-of-sale/service using light-simulated barcode technology.
Claims19
A method for utilizing a multi-dimensional image code at a point-of-sale/service (“POS”) terminal having a one-dimensional (“1-D”) barcode scanner, comprising:
- imaging the multi-dimensional image code with a mobile device;
- extracting POS information from the multi-dimensional image code, in the mobile device;
- encoding the POS information into 1-D barcode-formatted POS information, in the mobile device;
- generating a signal from the barcode-formatted POS information to simulate a reflection of a 1-D barcode scanner scanning beam being moved across a static 1-D barcode image of the barcode-formatted POS information, in the mobile device;
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- transmitting light pulses from the mobile device in accordance with the signal.
A method for utilizing a multi-dimensional image code at a point-of-sale/service (“POS”) terminal having a one-dimensional (“1-D”) barcode scanner, comprising:
- imaging the multi-dimensional image code with a mobile device;
- translating the multi-dimensional image code to POS information;
- encoding the POS information into 1-D barcode-formatted POS information, in the mobile device;
- generating light pulses from the barcode-formatted POS information to simulate a reflection of a 1-D barcode scanner scanning beam being moved across a static 1-D barcode image of the barcode-formatted POS information.
Non-transitory computer-readable media having stored thereon a software program, which when executed, causes one or more computing devices to perform a method comprising:
- receiving an image of a multi-dimensional image code;
- translating the multi-dimensional image code to POS information;
- encoding the POS information into 1-D barcode-formatted POS information;
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- generating light pulses from the barcode-formatted POS information to simulate a reflection of a 1-D barcode scanner scanning beam being moved across a static 1-D barcode image of the barcode-formatted POS information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.