(keitai-l) Re: QR Code Reader Download: US Availability?

From: Marcus Nilsson <Marcus.Nilsson_at_codigo.se>
Date: 03/20/06
Message-ID: <20060320171914.c4mfx741s0kwk8kk@webbmail42.loopia.se>
I seem to remember that there is no such developed QR-code software 
provided by Denso outside of JP.

Instead I suggest you should try with software from Semacode or 
Gavitec/NeoMedia. However I may
add the remark that they will probably adwise you  to use the data 
metrix code instead.

BR
Marcus

Citerar Gerhard Fasol <fasol@eurotechnology.com>:

> The QR-code has been developed and is owned and patented by
> a TOYOTA subsidiary called Denso-Wave.
>
> They make much of their living selling products related to QR-code -
> and the QR-code spex itself are open. Therefore you should be able
> to do one of the following
> - obtain the software you need from Denso-Wave
> - ask Denso Wave were to get the software
> - make the software from the published spex
>
> By the way the QR-code does not work the way you indicate below:
>
> 1. on most phones you don't need to "take a picture of the QR-code",
> but the software recognizes the QR-code direct while the camera
> is running and focusing
>
> 2. reading the QR-code needs high-quality camera with autofocus and
> macro-mode, most European and US phones don't have sufficient
> camera quality to read QR-codes. I don't know if the Samsung you
> mention has a camera good enough to read QR-codes
>
> 3. the QR-codes in general don't "direct you to a site on your phone's
> browser". They can do that, but they can do much much more - and
> in many cases one or more of these several functions is used.
>
> You can see an actual decoding of a QR-code by a mobile phone
> demo'd here in our blog:
> http://fasol.com/blog/2005/01/qr-codes-everywhere.html
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Gerhard
> http://fasol.com/
>
>
>
>>  From what I understand most Japanese phones come with a QR code
>> reader
>> installed, which you can use the camera to take a picture of a square
>> "bar-code", which will then direct you to a site on your phone's
>> browser.
>>
>> I was wondering if there is a Java APP available anywhere that i can
>> download to my U.S. Sprint  Samsung sph-a920 so that I can test? Are
>> there issues due to launching browser etc?
>>
>> Help would be noted and appreciated.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Dave Harper
>> Founder, WINKsite
>>
>>
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Received on Mon Mar 20 18:19:19 2006