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 Sat Mar 18 00:30:46 2006