Guangming Daily: The Independently Innovated 2D Bar Code Standard Comes into the World
2 Jul 2006
The experts call on to speed up the popularization so that to prevent the ??patent trap??.
Reporter: Feng Yongfeng Published time: 2006-07-02 06:02 Source: Guangming Daily
The paper Beijing July 1 telegram (reporter: Feng Yongfeng) Several days before, the Information Industry Ministry convened in Beijing the ??2Dbar code?? standard announcement meeting, it summons the various fields of society to unit together and pay attention to the popularization and usage after the come into being of the first independently innovated 2D bar code standard in China, and avoids the repay of ??patent tuition fee?? as DVD industry does.
Vice director of Science and Technology Department of Ministry of Information Industry Han Jun introduces that the 2D bar code is a optical image-reading-based coding technology, which is currently one of the most widely used information technology globally. On May 25 this year, Ministry of Information Industry had already approved and issued the two 2D bar code making electronic industry standard of the Compact Matrix Code (short for CM code) and Grid Matrix Code (short for GM code), it have filled up the gap of China independent intellectual property rights 2D bar code standards. 2D bar codes have great prospect for application in electronic government administration, e-commerce informatization construction, especially in information collection, and promotion of modern logistics and industry chain management and the development of the internet revolutionary process which is an integral part for establishing high-quality and efficient information systems. It is of great significance to own the 2D bar code standard with independent intellectual property rights to accelerate our national economy and social services informatization.
The director of Information Industry Office of Hubei province Zhang Hong expresses, since the independently innovated 2Dbar code technology in our country fully utilizes other achievements of the present information industry, therefore it is more advanced than the achievements of many manufacturers about a dozen year before in foreign countries, the coding method is simple and the information appendix volume is large. ??The application prospect after combining 2D code and CCD camera of present mobile is especially broad, currently, many newspapers and magazines of the country has already developed the ??mobile newspaper and magazine?? based on the 2D code. In the future, the 2D code will have broad application space in certificate and license management, license annual check, statement management, electromechanical product production and goods delivery etc.??