Patent ID: 6308296
Filing Date: 2001-10-23
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
A coded image recording device which, in recording data on a recording medium as an optically readable coded image in which the contents of the data are imaged, subjects the data to an error correcting code generating processing, divides the data into equal amounts of data to produce a plurality of items of block data each having a predetermined amount of data, and arranges a plurality of blocks each having imaged contents of each block data in a given area to thereby record the coded image, comprising:dummy data inserting means for, when imaging each block data, inserting dummy data into a block whose data amount is less than the predetermined amount of data, said dummy data having a data amount equivalent to a difference between the predetermined amount of data and the data amount of the block whose data amount is less than the predetermined amount of data, and said dummy data not being associated with the data to be recorded into the block.