Method and apparatus for generating a barcode with a human readable interpretation, a printing apparatus, and a program

摘要

The present invention is an apparatus and method for generating a barcode with a human readable interpretation (HRI). The method includes receiving a data set comprising an application identifier and a data portion. The data set further includes a first special character before the application identifier and a second special character after the application identifier and before the data portion. The application identifier and data in the data portion have a one to one correspondence with an HRI. The method further includes generating a barcode encoding data set based on the data set, including stripping the first special character and the second special character from the data set; generating an HRI data set based on the data set; and generating the barcode with the HRI based on the barcode encoding data set and the HRI data set.

主权项

1. A method of generating a barcode with a human readable interpretation, comprising the steps of:
receiving a data set comprising an application identifier and a data portion, the data set including a first special character before the application identifier and a second special character after the application identifier and before the data portion, wherein the application identifier and data in the data portion have a one to one correspondence with a human readable interpretation; generating a barcode encoding data set based on the data set, including stripping the first special character and the second special character from the data set; generating a human readable interpretation data set based on the data set; and generating the barcode with the human readable interpretation based on the barcode encoding data set and the human readable interpretation data set; wherein the barcode and the human readable interpretation corresponding to the application identifier and data in the data portion have a one to one correspondence.