Who invented the QR code first

2023-02-03 | 796 view

In the United States, two-dimensional codes had begun to appear, but because of the amount of information, it took two to three seconds to read a code, which could not be used in industry

The QR code was invented in Japan by Masahiro Hara for a company called DENSOWAVE.

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Masahiro Hara was born in 1957 in Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from Hosei University in 1980 and received a bachelor's degree in Electrical engineering from Hosei University. In the same year, he joined Denso Co., LTD. He developed QR code in 1994, adopted JIS standard in 1999 and ISO standard in 2000.

Life of characters

Born in Tokyo in 1957, Hara graduated from Hosei University with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1980 and joined Nippon Electric, which is part of Toyota Motor. The company is also actively involved in the development of new technologies such as voice recognition.

Character achievement

In the United States, two-dimensional codes had begun to appear, but because of the amount of information, it took two to three seconds to read a code, which could not be used in industry, decided to consider a whole new two-dimensional code, its theme is "reading speed", computers are good at one-dimensional processing such as bar codes, so, If there is a pattern with a unique black and white ratio, then it is recognized that there is a code there, and eventually Masahiro Hara invented the QR code.