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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2012
Filed:
May. 03, 2004
Thomas Charles Antognini, Lexington, MA (US);
Walter Gerard Antognini, New York, NY (US);
Thomas Charles Antognini, Lexington, MA (US);
Walter Gerard Antognini, New York, NY (US);
Cobblestone Software, Inc., Lexington, MA (US);
Abstract
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 (), which is located in a known position relative to a metasector (), which contains information about the encoding process used to encode the main body of data (), 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.