Patent ID: 9734361
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: A61M,G06K

Claim:
1. An information reading method comprising: obtaining reading information from an information recording medium including a sheet-form member, a plurality of information symbols displayed on a surface of the sheet-form member, and an end recognition component; a first information symbol selection step including selecting information symbols that do not overlap the end of the sheet-form member and are not cut off at the end of the sheet-form member, and ignoring any information symbols that overlap an end of the sheet-form member or are cut off at an end of the sheet-form member; and an information acquisition step including validating reading information read from the selected information symbols; wherein the information recording medium is affixed to an outer peripheral face of a columnar body, each of the information symbols include the same information, the information recording medium is wound around the columnar main body such that a portion of the information recording medium overlaps itself.