Patent ID: 6715684
Filing Date: 2004-04-06
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
A code-reading apparatus comprising:reading means allowing manual scanning to optically read a code from a recording medium having data recorded as said code that is optically readable, said code comprising a plurality of blocks provided for defining a read unit of said code and arranged at least in a scanning direction, and each of the blocks comprising block-address information indicating an address of each of the blocks in said code; block-address-information-obtaining means for obtaining said block-address information from each of the blocks read out by said reading means; scanning-state-determining means for determining a scanning state of manual scanning performed for said code along said scanning direction according to an obtained pattern in obtaining said block-address information obtained by said block-address-information-obtaining means; and notifying means for performing predetermined notification according to a result of determination performed by said scanning-state-determining means.