Inventor

Motoaki Watabe

Patents indexed

Year range

1998

Associated with

Toyota Central R&D Labs Inc

Years active

1998

Total patents

Most recent

1998

Frequent collaborator

Masahiro Hara

Domains

consumer_electronicssoftwareautomotiveecommerce

Activity by decade

1990s

Patents

Career timeline

1 patents, in 1998

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1998 — How the QR Code Works

US 5726435·1998·Toyota Central R&D Labs Inc

How the QR Code Works

The 1995 patent by Toyota Central R&D Labs that invented the QR code, using three distinct corner squares with a unique 1:1:3:1:1 pixel ratio to let scanners instantly find and read the code from any angle.

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