Patent ID: 6164552
Filing Date: 2000-12-26
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
A formation method of a two-dimensional code for forming the two-dimensional code, in which unit cells in a dark and bright pattern are arranged in a matrix, on a marking surface by laser burning, comprising the steps of: substituting a square unit cell, in which dots are arranged in an n.times.n or n.times.m matrix, n and m are integers, for a unit cell, forming a dark or bright unit cell by the laser burning, in image data of the two-dimensional code; irradiating the marking surface of metal, resin, ceramics, a transparent material, or the like with a laser beam for direct burning; forming dots on the marking surface through thermal deformation; and forming the two-dimensional code in a dark and bright pattern formed by combining dark or bright unit cells and bright or dark unit cells to which the laser burning has not even performed.