MULTI-DIMENSIONAL CODE TRANSLATION

摘要

Value documents such as coupons and event tickets that are represented or indexed in the form of QR codes or other types of two-dimensional encoding techniques may be acquired by imaging with a suitably-enabled mobile device, and then translated in the mobile device into a form suitable for presentation as a one-dimensional barcode at a point-of-sale/service using light-simulated barcode technology.

主权项

1. A method for utilizing a multi-dimensional image code at a point-of-sale/service (“POS”) terminal having a one-dimensional (“1-D”) barcode scanner, comprising:
imaging the multi-dimensional image code with a mobile device; extracting POS information from the multi-dimensional image code, in the mobile device; encoding the POS information into 1-D barcode-formatted POS information, in the mobile device; generating a signal from the barcode-formatted POS information to simulate a reflection of a 1-D barcode scanner scanning beam being moved across a static 1-D barcode image of the barcode-formatted POS information, in the mobile device; and transmitting light pulses from the mobile device in accordance with the signal.