# US 2015/0324679 A1 · Optical-reading code preparation device > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2015/0324679 A1 - Document ID: US20150324679A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 14/803,345 - Filed: 2015-07-20 - Published: 2015-11-12 - Earliest claimed: 2011-08-16 - Assignees: Mobilead - Applicants: Mobilead - Inventors: Laurent Tonnelier; Ludovic Lebas - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20150324679A1 ## CPC - G06K 19/06103: {the marking being embedded in a human recognizable image, e.g. a company logo with an embedded two-dimensional code} - G06K 1/121: {by printing code marks (applying code marks to labels B65C9/46; marking or coding completed packages B65B61/26)} - G06K 19/06037: {multi-dimensional coding} - G06K: GRAPHICAL DATA READING (image or video recognition or understanding G06V); PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS ## Abstract An optical-reading code preparation device includes: a storage unit able to receive data to be coded, and parameter data including presentation data, an encoding unit, able to produce code data on the basis of data to be coded and of parameter data, an imaging unit, able to produce data defining an image plane on the basis of presentation data and/or of code data, a scheduler devised so as to, in response to the receipt of data to be coded and of parameter data comprising presentation data: call the encoding unit with the data to be coded and the parameter data received so as to produce associated code data, call the imaging unit with the associated code data, selectively with some at least of the presentation data, call the imaging unit, and prepare an optical-reading code. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A two-dimension image comprising a first two-dimension layer comprising a transformation of a part of an encoded information, a code to encode and decode said information being an optical code; wherein the transformation is one of an optical transformation and a geometrical transformation of the part of the encoded information. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The two-dimension image of claim 1, wherein the transformation comprises a vector operation. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The two-dimension image of claim 1, wherein the optical code is compliant with an encoding and decoding standard. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The two-dimension image of claim 3, wherein the encoding and decoding standard is one of a QR standard, an EAN standard and a Datamatrix standard. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The two-dimension image of claim 1, wherein the optical code encodes at least one of an URL, an URI and an alphanumeric information. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The two-dimension image of claim 1, wherein the geometrical transformation is one of a rotation about an axis, a translation and a scaling. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The two-dimension image of claim 1, wherein the optical transformation is one of an illumination, a darkening, a flouting, a shading and a shaking. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The two-dimension assembly of claim 1, further including reserved areas around subparts of the transformation of the information. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The two-dimension image of claim 1, further comprising a second two-dimension layer comprising a pictorial image which is one of an overlay and an underlay of the first two-dimension layer. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The two-dimension image of claim 9, wherein the pictorial image comprises one of a photo, a trade dress and a trademark. ### Claim 11 (depends on 9) The two-dimension image of claim 9, wherein portions of the pictorial image are visible in between portions of transformations of parts of the encoded information. ### Claim 12 (depends on 9) The two-dimension image of claim 9, wherein the first layer is divided into a first portion with light shades and a second portion with dark shades, the second layer is divided into a first portion with light shades and a second portion with dark shades, the first portion of the first layer is one of an overlay and an underlay of one of the first portion and the second portion of the second layer and the second portion of the first layer is one of an overlay and an underlay of one of the first portion and the second portion of the second layer. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The two-dimension image of claim 12, wherein the first portion and the second portion of the second layer have been produced by an inversion of brightness features of an original second layer. ### Claim 14 (depends on 1) The two-dimension image of claim 1, which is generated by a computer process from a source file stored on a non-transitory computer media, said source file comprising: information to be encoded using an optical code; at least a parameter defining at least one of an optical and a geometrical transformation of said information. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The two-dimension image of claim 14, wherein the source file further comprises a pictorial image. ### Claim 16 A source file stored on a non-transitory computer media, said source file comprising: information to be encoded using an optical code, said optical code being usable to decode the information; at least a parameter defining at least one of an optical and a geometrical transformation of said information. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The source file of claim 16, wherein the optical code is compliant with an encoding and decoding standard. ### Claim 18 (depends on 17) The source file of claim 17, further comprising a pictorial image. ### Claim 19 (depends on 18) The source file of claim 18, wherein the pictorial image is divided into a first portion with light shades and a second portion with dark shades.