Patent ID: 8736615

Claim:
A method of displaying an image of a barcode in a pixel display belonging to a device, the method comprising the steps of: receiving data indicative of characteristics of a pixel display belonging to a device; identifying, based on the received data indicative of the characteristics of the pixel display, a plurality of possible image forms of a barcode for the pixel display, wherein in at least one of the possible image forms includes a barcode wherein: i. the barcode has a minimum display size in pixels which renders each element of the barcode readable by a barcode reader from the pixel display; ii. each element of the barcode has a minimum element size in the pixel display and the barcode has a minimum size in which every element of the barcode is its minimum element size, iii. a display size of the barcode on the pixel display is an integer multiple of the minimum size of the barcode and is at least equal to the minimum display size; selecting and generating an image form from the plurality of possible image forms of the barcode, the selected and generated image form being readable as a barcode, when displayed in the pixel display and read from the pixel display by a barcode reader such that the barcode reader can extract barcode information from the image form as displayed in the pixel display of the device; and causing the selected image form to be displayed in the pixel display.