Patent ID: 8849943

Claim:
A method for navigating through information associated with physical objects or locations, the method comprising: detecting a multi-resolution visual code placed on or in the vicinity of a physical object or location, wherein the multi-resolution visual code encodes a plurality of hierarchical information categories, and wherein each information category corresponds to an area on a tag which includes: a low-resolution visual code that encodes general category information, for an information category, using a plurality of information-encoding regions; and a high-resolution visual code within at least one information-encoding region of the low-resolution visual code, wherein the high-resolution visual code encodes detailed information corresponding to the information category; determining a level of resolution for the detected code; decoding the code at the determined resolution level to obtain information; and presenting the information to a user, thereby allowing the user to navigate through the information associated with the physical object or location, wherein presenting the information involves displaying a user interface to the user that allows the user to select a portion of the code to be decoded at a resolution level that is higher than the present level of resolution.