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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 12, 2017
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Erich Guenter, Hofheim, DE;
Mark E. Maresh, Wake Forest, NC (US);
Colm Nolan, Meath, IR;
Juan F. Vargas, Rochester, MN (US);
Michael J. Whitney, Cary, NC (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Examples of techniques for encoding data in a 2D symbology are disclosed. In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a computer-implemented method includes assigning a first data symbol representative of a 0-bit and a second data symbol representative of a 1-bit, each of the first data symbol and the second data symbol include a line segment. The method further includes designating a starting indicator and an ending indicator. The method also includes generating, by a processing device, the 2D symbology. The 2D symbology includes a series of data symbols representing a binary string. Each data symbol in the series of data symbols are positioned in an end-to-end orientation starting at the starting indicator and ending at the ending indicator. The series of data symbols include 0-bit symbols represented by the first data symbol and 1-bit symbols represented by the second data symbol.