Patent ID: 9659201
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: G06K

Claim:
1. An information code producing method for producing information code by an information code producing apparatus, the information code having a predetermined code region of a medium in which cells are arranged, the cells being units for displaying information, the information code producing method comprising: providing a specification pattern region and a data recording region in the code region, a specification pattern being arranged in the specification pattern region, data being recorded in the data recording region by a plurality of types of the cells, the specification pattern having a predetermined shape and including a pattern indicating a position of the code region; providing a free space in a position other than the specification pattern region in the code region, the free space enabling at least one of recoding data and displaying designs differently from and independently of a method for recording data in the data recording region, the free space having a predetermined size larger than a size of a single cell of the cells; and determining a shape of the free space by at least one of: a method for selecting a shape from a plurality of preliminarily prepared candidate shapes; and a method for setting a shape according to shape specifying information input from outside to the information code producing apparatus.