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US 6,176,427 B1Granted
Variable formatting of digital data into a pattern
AssigneeCobblestone Software, Inc.
InventorsThomas Charles Antognini, Walter Gerard Antognini
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AssigneeCobblestone Software, Inc.
InventorsThomas Charles Antognini, Walter Gerard Antognini
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A method of formatting digital data and a method of decoding the formatted digital data. User selectable format parameters vary the dimensions and other attributes of spots and the cells containing those spots as well as other features which the formatting process formats into a pattern. A method of encoding the formatted digital data using these format parameters allows for encoding a substrate optimally for any given printer or scanner. One embodiment provides for markers to facilitate determination of cell locations. In one embodiment the decoding process achieves a pyramid gain of knowledge by locating a landmark (801), which is located in a known position relative to a metasector (802), which contains information about the encoding process used to encode the main body of data (803), which the decoding process decodes to recover the original digital data. Further embodiments include encryption, transmission by facsimile, inclusion of human readable information, and automatic launches of computer files.
A method of decoding digital data values formatted into a pattern comprising the steps of:
A method of decoding digital data values from a pattern, the method comprising:
A method of decoding data wherein the data is formatted into a series of data values arranged in a pattern, the pattern comprising a plurality of spaces and at least one series of markers located between at least two of said spaces, the method comprising:
A method of decoding digital data values formatted into a pattern of spaces wherein the presence of a spot in a space represents at least one logical state, the method comprising:
A method of decoding digital data from a pattern wherein the pattern comprises a plurality of spaces at least some of which can contain a spot that represents at least one bit of said digital data, and wherein at least one way in which digital data is encoded within said pattern is by the presence in at least one space of a spot with at least one attribute different from at least one attribute of the space, such method comprising:
A method of decoding data from a pattern at least some of which pattern contains a plurality of spaces formatted in a plurality of subgroupings of contiguous spaces, each subgrouping formatted in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns, and wherein a series of markers is encoded in said pattern, the method comprising:
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