JPH07296099A - Two-dimensional bar code and paper media device using the same - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a paper media device where a deal is executed with a twodimensional bar code on which control information is recorded and display or printing as against an original document, etc., is faithfully reproduced. CONSTITUTION:The two-dimensional bar code consisting of a data part bar code pattern where a document or a picture is made into a bar code and a control part bar code pattern adding information for displaying or outputting a mainbody data part is read by a scanner 5 so as to be restored by a two-dimensional bar code restoring part 7, the control part bar code pattern of the two patterns is picked-up and analyzed by a control part pick-up part 8 and a control part analyzing part 9, the data part is restored by a data mainbody part restoring part 10 based on the result and, moreover, the original document, etc., is reproduced by the data mainbody restoring part 10.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a two-dimensional bar code in which document contents and the like are bar coded, and a paper media device for reading and restoring the two-dimensional bar code for display or output. .

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 7 is a connection configuration diagram showing a conventional paper media device. The apparatus main body 301 has a built-in processing device shown in FIG. 8 and is connected with a display device 302 for displaying processing results and the like. In addition, the scanner 3 is attached to the apparatus main body 301.
03 is connected. This scanner 303 scans the original 3
It is used to read the two-dimensional bar code 305 recorded in 04 as shown in FIG.

As shown in FIG. 8, the processing device is composed of a code restoring unit 401 and an application software starting unit 402. The two-dimensional bar code 305 read by the scanner 303 is captured imagewise by the scanner 303, and the data is read by the code restoration unit 401.
Send to. The code restoration unit 401 restores the contents of the two-dimensional barcode 305 into code information. The restoration result is not limited to the code information and may be image information. For example, information created by a word processor (word processor) or the like is code information. The information read by the scanner and represented by dots is image information. The image information will be described below as an example.

The restored code information may be filed in a file format of a specific application, for example, a DOS (disk operating system) file format. At this time, in order to expand the data file on the display device or the like, the application software starting unit 402 reads and expands it, and displays it on the display device 302. If the image information is simple dot data that does not depend on the application, it may be directly displayed on the display device 302.

Since the two-dimensional bar code 305 is only the information to be developed and the image information / code information and the information about the necessity / unnecessity of the application are not recorded, it is necessary to manually specify in advance. . After that, it is read by the scanner 303, the file is restored, and the application is activated and displayed as necessary.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing an example of processing for restoring a file and starting and displaying an application as needed.

First, the data type of the two-dimensional bar code is designated (step 501). Then, the scanner 303 reads the two-dimensional barcode 305 (step 50).
2). This read information is restored to code information by the code restoration unit 401 (step 503), and this is displayed on the display device 30.
2 is displayed (step 504).

[0008]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional technique, the data to be displayed or printed out by the two-dimensional bar code and the minimum necessary physical information for restoring the data from the two-dimensional bar code are recorded. Since there is no information from the application (that is, whether it is image information or code information, whether the application is required or not, whether there is an external character when displaying or printing and whether there is external character data, whether a font is specified, etc.) It is necessary to operate with input. Also, if the font is not specified, faithful display and printing cannot be performed.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a two-dimensional bar code capable of recording control information for faithful display and printing.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a paper media device which can deal with a two-dimensional bar code in which control information is recorded.

[0011]

To achieve the above object, the present invention provides a two-dimensional bar code having a data part bar code pattern in which a document or an image is bar coded. It is a two-dimensional bar code having a control part bar code pattern including control information.

The control bar code pattern may record font data information, application software information such as emulation, connection information for connecting a plurality of the data bar code patterns to each other, and the like. it can.

Another object of the above is a two-dimensional bar comprising a data part bar code pattern in which a document or an image is bar coded and a control part bar code pattern including information for displaying or outputting the main body data part. A reading unit for reading the code; a restoring unit for restoring at least the control unit barcode portion of the two-dimensional barcode read by the reading unit; and an analyzing unit for analyzing control information of the restored control unit barcode portion, According to a configuration including a main body data portion restoring means for restoring the main body data portion barcode portion based on an analysis result by the analyzing means, and a reproducing means for forming an original document or the like based on the analysis result by the analyzing means. Is also achieved.

In this paper media device, the control data information relating to the restoration level recorded in the control bar code pattern is collated with the restoration level designating value externally applied to the analyzing means, whereby the body data portion of the main body data portion is collated. Restoration processing can be performed.

[0015]

According to the above means, the control unit bar code pattern provided in addition to the bar code pattern corresponding to the character part converts this bar code pattern into code information and restores this code information into an image image. When doing
Various kinds of information necessary for the restoration (whether an application is necessary, designation of code information or image information, etc.) can be given from the barcode side. As a result, it is possible to faithfully display or print the original image (character image or image image).

When such a two-dimensional bar code is read and restored, the control section barcode pattern is analyzed, and the main body data section is restored based on the analysis result. Further, based on the result of the analyzing means, the original bar coded image is reproduced. Therefore, the image reproduction based on the two-dimensional barcode can be faithfully performed.

At this time, if the restoration level is specified from the outside to the analyzing means and the restoration processing is performed while comparing with the information regarding the restoration level of the control information of the two-dimensional bar code, the output format according to the purpose of the operator You can get the document information.

[0018]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a processing system of a paper media device (system) according to the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the processing contents of the configuration of FIG. FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing the appearance of the paper media device according to the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 3, a paper media device 1 according to the present invention comprises a main body 2 containing the processing device shown in FIG. 1, a media driving device 3 for recording the restored code information on different media, A printer 4 for printing out the contents based on the code information and a scanner 5 for reading the two-dimensional bar code according to the present invention are provided.

As shown in FIG. 4, the two-dimensional bar code 6 of the present invention comprises a control section 6a (control section bar code pattern) and a data body section 6b (data section bar code pattern). The data body portion 6b is a portion of the two-dimensional barcoded data to be stored or a portion of image data (or code data) to be barcoded. On the other hand, the control section 6a is a section in which processing information for displaying or printing the data body section 6b is recorded. The control unit 6a may be provided between the data main body units 6b or may be provided at the rear part.

Specific examples of information recorded in the control section 6a will be listed below.

(1) Data type designation information (image or code information) of the data body 6b. With this information,
Specification by manual input can be eliminated.

(2) When the data main body portion 6b is composed of a plurality of blocks, delimiter information and position information thereof. This information allows for accurate document recovery.

(3) Application information, font information, and position information for further expanding the restored file information like an image (when the data of the font information is recorded in the data body portion 6b). With this information, it is possible to eliminate the need to manually start the application.

(4) Copyright information, confidential information, output level information for limiting display output, search information (search information is the title of a document, a part of an image, etc.), and the like. With this information, it is possible to obtain the document information in the output format according to the purpose of the operator.

As shown in FIG. 1, the scanner 5 is connected to a two-dimensional bar code reconstructing section 7 for reconstructing the two-dimensional bar code 6, and the two-dimensional bar code reconstructing section 7 (reconstructing means) is provided with The control unit extraction unit 8, the control unit analysis unit 9 (analysis unit), the main body data unit restoration unit 10 (main body data unit restoration unit), the configuration unit 11 (reproduction unit), and the display device 12 are connected in series.

Next, the processing operation of the paper media device 1 having the above configuration will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

First, the information of the two-dimensional bar code 6 read by the scanner 5 (step 101) is restored by the two-dimensional barcode restoring section 7 (step 102), and is temporarily stored in the two-dimensional barcode restoring section 7. Be stored. Of this information, only the control unit 6a is extracted by the control unit extraction unit 8 (step 103), and the extracted control unit 6a is analyzed by the control unit analysis unit 9 (step 104), and the processing information for the data main body unit 6b is processed. To get. If the secret information or the like is included, the encryption information or the ID (recognition) number or the like for determining the restoration level or the like is externally input to the control unit analysis unit 9. Data body 6 based on the above processing information
b is sent to the main body data unit restoring unit 10 including application software (emulation, etc.), and the data main body unit restoring unit 10 restores it (step 106). At this time, if there is external character information or font designation information, the automatically designated data is searched for from the restoration environment and set (step 105). If the data is a user-dependent data such as an external character, it is recorded in the data main body portion 6b of the two-dimensional barcode, and this information is restored and referred to. If the application software of the data main body 6b is not common, the entire application software (or only a part of the display driver or the like is recorded) is recorded in the data main body 6b.

The data body 6b restored in step 106 is created on the original document by the configuration part 11 with reference to the position information and the like (step 107), and the reproduced document content is displayed on the screen of the display device 12. Displayed (step 10)
8). If necessary, a hard copy is taken by the printer 4 or recorded on a floppy disk or the like by the medium driving device 3.

If information other than the control unit 6a is determined in step 103, it is determined whether or not it is image information (step 109). If it is not image information, the processing from step 105 onward is executed, If it is image information, the process proceeds to step 110 and the image development process is executed (step 110). Step 10 for this result
After performing the configuration in step 7, the display device 12 displays this.
Further, the data is output to the printer 4 or the recording on a floppy disk or the like is executed by using the medium driving device 3.

Further, in the above embodiment, the control section 6a
And the data body 6b is to be collectively restored,
The control unit 6a may be restored first, the contents of the control information may be checked before deciding whether to restore the data body unit 6b, and the data body unit 6b may be restored based on this.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing a configuration for creating a two-dimensional bar code. This two-dimensional bar code creating section is installed in the main body section 2 shown in FIG.

An image file 14 and a character part code information file 1 are provided in the conversion part 13 for converting the contents of the document into a file.
5, external character / font file 16, and application software file 17 are connected. Further, a barcode generation unit 18 that creates the data body 6b is connected to these files, and a control unit generation unit 19 that creates the control unit 6a is provided in the barcode generation unit 18 and the conversion unit 13.
Are connected. Furthermore, a mixing unit 20 for mixing the control unit 6a and the data main body unit 6b is connected to the barcode generation unit 18 and the control unit generation unit 19.

The flow chart of FIG. 6 shows the processing operation in the configuration of FIG. 5, and the operation of the embodiment of FIG. 5 will be described with reference to this flow chart and FIG. Here, it is assumed that the document is composed of image information and code information (for example, ASCII file). In addition, the external character data, font data and application software used are recorded as a two-dimensional bar code.

First, the document data (original) is converted into the conversion unit 13.
Filed by. In this case, the conversion unit 13 uses application software to create a file such as a DOS file (step 201). In this case, the image is converted into the image file 14 such as a TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) file, the character part is converted into the character part code information file 15, and the external character data and font data are converted into the external character / font file 16, respectively. Further, the application software file 17 is created to restore the original from the code information. Such processing is executed in steps 202, 203 and 204. The conversion unit 13 separates the control information from the main body data unit and sends it to the control unit generation unit 19 (steps 202 and 205).

Each piece of file information coded in this way and organized in file type units is input to the bar code generating section 18 to create each two-dimensional bar code (step 206). With respect to the image, a two-dimensional barcode is created by the barcode generation unit 18 with respect to the contents of the image file 14 (step 207).
On the other hand, the control unit generation unit 19 is provided with position information (information indicating the sticking position of the image part) from the conversion unit 13, and the bar code generation unit 18 is arranged information (position information where each file information should be arranged) ) Is given. Based on these, the control unit generation unit 19 creates a two-dimensional barcode for the control unit 6a (step 209).

Here, the mixing section 20 collects the two-dimensional bar codes of the plurality of files output from the bar code generating section 18 to create the data body section 6b (step 208). Then, the mixing unit 20 controls the control unit generation unit 19
The control unit 6a output from the above and the data body unit 6b previously created are combined to create a two-dimensional barcode (step 210). The created two-dimensional barcode image is displayed on the display device 12 or printed out by the printer 4 (step 211).

It should be noted that it is difficult for the human eye to discriminate with the two-dimensional barcode information as it is. Therefore, a part or the whole of the original may be displayed as an image in the margin of the two-dimensional barcode output result. Alternatively, only the secret part may be converted into a two-dimensional bar code. Alternatively, it is possible to display only the front cover of the document and not display the rest.

Further, in the above-mentioned embodiment, the medium driving device 3 has been described for the floppy disk, but the present invention is not limited to this, and may be, for example, a hard disk, a writable and readable optical disk, or the like. Good.

Further, although the code information and the image information are described in the above embodiment, the present invention can be applied to pattern information such as voice information.

[0042]

Since the present invention is configured as described above, it has the following effects. The two-dimensional bar code according to claim 1, wherein the two-dimensional bar code is provided with a data section bar code pattern in which a document or an image is bar coded, and has a control section bar code pattern including control information for restoration and reproduction. As a result, it is possible to display or print the original image (character image or image image) faithfully.

In the two-dimensional bar code of claim 2,
Since the control unit bar code pattern includes the font data information, even if the bar code document includes the external character data created by a specific model, the characters are not garbled.

In the two-dimensional bar code of claim 3,
Since the control unit barcode pattern includes information of application software such as emulation, it is a barcode document created by a specific model, and
Even when scanned with a model that does not have the barcode development software, it is possible to faithfully reproduce the barcode document.

In the two-dimensional bar code of claim 4,
Since the control part barcode pattern is configured to record the connecting information for connecting the plurality of data part barcode patterns to each other, even when a plurality of main body data parts are recorded separately, It can be faithfully reproduced.

In the paper media device according to the present invention, a bar code pattern of a data section in which a document or an image is bar coded and a control section bar code pattern including information for displaying or outputting the main body data section are used.
A reading means for reading the three-dimensional barcode, a restoring means for restoring at least the control portion barcode portion of the two-dimensional barcode read by the reading means, and an analyzing means for analyzing the control information of the restored control portion barcode portion. And a main body data portion restoring means for restoring the main body data portion barcode portion based on the analysis result by the analyzing means, and a reproducing means for forming an original document or the like based on the analysis result by the analyzing means. Since this is done, it is possible to faithfully perform image reproduction based on the two-dimensional barcode.

In the paper media device according to the sixth aspect of the present invention, the control data information relating to the restoration level recorded in the control bar code pattern is collated with the restoration level designation value externally applied to the analyzing means. Since the restoration process of the main body data part is performed,
It is possible to obtain the document information in the output format according to the purpose of the operator.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a processing system of a paper media device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the processing contents of the configuration of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing the outer appearance of a paper media device according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a conceptual diagram showing a configuration of a two-dimensional barcode according to the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing a configuration for creating a two-dimensional barcode.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a processing operation in the configuration of FIG.

FIG. 7 is a connection configuration diagram showing a conventional paper media device.

8 is a block diagram showing the processing device of FIG. 7. FIG.

FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram schematically showing a two-dimensional bar code recorded on a document.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing a conventional processing example for activating and displaying an application as needed for a file restoration result.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Paper Media Device 2 Main Body 3 Media Driving Device 4 Printer 5 Scanner 6 Two-dimensional Bar Code 6a Control Part 6b Data Main Part 7 Two-dimensional Bar Code Restoring Part 8 Control Part Extracting Part 9 Control Part Analyzing Part 10 Data Main Part Restoring Part 11 configuration unit 12 display device 13 conversion unit 14 image file 15 character portion code information file 16 external character / font file 17 application software file 18 bar code generation unit 19 control unit generation unit 20 mixing unit

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A two-dimensional barcode having a data portion barcode pattern obtained by barcode-forming a document or image, having a control portion barcode pattern including control information for restoring and reproducing the document or image. A two-dimensional bar code characterized by the following. 2. The two-dimensional bar code according to claim 1, wherein the control unit bar code pattern includes font data information. 3. The two-dimensional bar code according to claim 1, wherein the control section bar code pattern includes information of application software such as emulation. 4. The two-dimensional bar code according to claim 1, wherein the control section bar code pattern has connection information recorded therein for connecting a plurality of the data section bar code patterns to each other. 5. A reading means for reading a two-dimensional bar code comprising a data section bar code pattern in which a document or an image is bar coded and a control section bar code pattern including information for displaying or outputting the main body data section, Restoring means for restoring at least the control part barcode part of the two-dimensional barcode read by the reading part;
Analyzing means for analyzing the control information of the restored control part barcode portion, body data portion restoring means for restoring the body data portion barcode portion based on the analysis result by the analyzing means, and analysis result by the analyzing means And a reproduction unit that composes an original document based on the above. 6. The restoration processing of the main body data portion is performed by collating the control data information regarding the restoration level recorded in the control unit barcode pattern with the restoration level designation value externally applied to the analysis unit. The paper media device according to claim 5, wherein the paper media device is performed.