Patent ID: 8459565

Claim:
A two-dimensional code generating apparatus comprising: a two-dimensional code generating unit that generates a two-dimensional code including: a plurality of region symbols that represent a rectangular region in which one unit of the two-dimensional code is disposed, the rectangular region having a first side and a second side opposed to the first side; a plurality of first pattern symbols that consist of a first pattern and a plurality of second pattern symbols that consist of a second pattern different from the first pattern, each side of the rectangular region having disposed thereon one of the plurality of first pattern symbols adjacent to one of the plurality of region symbols and one of the plurality of second pattern symbols adjacent to another one of the plurality of region symbols, the one of the first pattern symbols disposed along the first side faces another one of the first pattern symbols disposed along the second side and the one of the second pattern symbols disposed along the first side faces another one of the second pattern symbols disposed along the second side.