Patent ID: 6170750
Filing Date: 2001-01-09
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
A reading aid member comprising:a hard substrate having a printed code pattern recording face on which a plurality of optically readable two-dimensional code patterns representing at least one of audio data, video data and digital code data are printed; anda scan guiding plate member fixedly arranged on the code pattern recording face of said hard substrate, said scan guiding plate member being provided with a plurality of windows, each having a shape corresponding to a shape of a respective one of the two-dimensional code patterns and formed at a position corresponding to a printed position of the respective one of the two-dimensional code patterns,wherein said windows serve as a guide for a reading apparatus for optically reading the two-dimensional code patterns by manually scanning the two-dimensional code patterns, andwherein at least two of said windows are linked to each other by a linking portion through which the reading apparatus can pass, such that the two-dimensional code patterns corresponding to said linked windows can be serially read and data obtained thereby can be synthesized to reconstruct one piece of data.