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The QR code system was invented in 1994, at the Denso Wave automotive products company, in Japan. [6] [7] [8] The initial alternating-square design presented by the team of researchers, headed by Masahiro Hara, was influenced by the black counters and the white counters played on a Go board; [9] the pattern of the position detection markers was determined by finding the least-used sequence of ...
The QR code system was invented in 1994 by Masahiro Hara from the Japanese company Denso Wave. [4]In December 2010, the first documented description of QR code-based payments came from two patents filed by Shaun Cooley and Andrew Charles Payne, based on a prototype system developed for Norton Labs at Symantec called Norton Mobile Pay.
The code was introduced in 1994. [12] In 2021, QR codes were being used to book and track COVID-19 tests and contact tracing. [6] Hara has stated that he would like to develop QR codes for additional medical purposes, including imaging such as x-rays or electrocardiogram data. [2] Hara still works for Denso as of 2024. [1]
Jovan Hutton Pulitzer (self-styled as Commander Pulitzer [1] [2] and formerly Jeffry Jovan Philyaw) [3] [4] is an American entrepreneur and onetime treasure hunter [1] from Dallas, Texas, [5] who invented the widely-criticized CueCat barcode scanner [5] and "kinematic artifact detection" technology to find folds and bamboo fibers in election ballots. [6]
GS1 is a not-for-profit, international organization developing and maintaining its own standards for barcodes and the corresponding issue company prefixes. The best known of these standards is the barcode, a symbol printed on products that can be scanned electronically. GS1 has 118 local member organizations and over 2 million user companies.
In early 2012, Scan had released support for scanning QR codes, 1D barcodes, and offered connections to these technologies in the form of websites, shopping carts, social media actions, and lead generation pages. In February, Scan launched Scan Pages; mobile optimized, hosted sites for businesses and individuals that are linked to QR codes. [15]
A patent for prepaid mobile phones (Patent Number 5826185) [1] was filed on November 16, 1994. Among the first, if not the first large metropolitan area implementation of prepaid mobile phone service in the United States was in the early 1990s at Houston Cellular Telephone Company, Houston, TX.
Bernard Silver (September 21, 1924 – August 28, 1963) was an electrical engineer and early developer of barcode technology alongside Norman Joseph Woodland.. Silver earned his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Drexel Institute of Technology in 1947. [1]