Seems that an US company suddenly invents something that others have
been doing for years.
"NeoMedia Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: NEOM - News), an innovator
(sigh) in wireless services and patented technologies that provide
mobile marketing-enabling automatic links to Internet-based
information, said today that it has been awarded a patent covering
the capture and processing of bar codes explicitly from camera cell
phones."
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/060202/20060202005583.html?.v=1
The patent itself:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?
Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/
srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,993,573.WKU.&OS=PN/6,993,573&RS=PN/
6,993,573
Does this have effect on such project as Semacode?
http://semacode.org/
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Mika Tuupola
http://www.appelsiini.net/~tuupola/
Received on Fri Feb 3 10:37:19 2006