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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 2004
Filed:
May. 25, 2000
Izhak Baharav, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Cormac Herley, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Yihong Xu, Marlborough, MA (US);
Jonathan Yen, San Jose, CA (US);
Timothy Harrison, Belmont, CA (US);
Doron Shaked, Haifa, IL;
Avraham Levy, Kiryat-Tivon, IL;
Angela K. Hanson, Eagle, ID (US);
Terry P. Mahoney, Boise, ID (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A barcode system for generating and decoding a barcode with visual significance. The barcode system of the present invention includes an encoding module for receiving a message and a logo and generating a visually significant barcode based on these inputs. A decoding module is also provided for receiving an acquired version of a visually significant barcode that may have been degraded in a typical document handling channel (e.g., through the printing, scanning, or copying process) and for recovering the message specified by the visually significant barcode.