Barcode Generation Unit Adapting Bar Width to Print Region Height
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional barcode printing techniques face challenges in maintaining reading accuracy when adjusting barcode size, as altering the width can result in the height not fitting within the designated print region, leading to reduced readability.
Innovation Solution
An information processing apparatus and method that acquires print region size information to generate barcode image data, ensuring bars and intervals are optimized based on width and height information to maintain reading accuracy.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the barcode width is adjusted to fit the print region, then the barcode size adapts to the layout restriction, but the barcode height may exceed the print region boundaries
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the font size parameter of the barcode to simultaneously adjust both width and height proportions, ensuring the entire barcode fits within the print region while maintaining its aspect ratio and readability requirements
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically calculates and adjusts the barcode dimensions based on the print region constraints, making the barcode size adaptive rather than fixed, allowing it to fit different print regions while maintaining precision
2Area of stationary object
If the barcode size is reduced to fit within print region constraints, then layout restrictions are satisfied, but reading accuracy may deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The font size parameter is carefully adjusted to find the optimal balance where the barcode is small enough to fit the print region but large enough to maintain the minimum width requirements for reliable reading by barcode scanners
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses width information and height information as feedback to iteratively adjust the barcode font size, ensuring that the final barcode meets both the print region constraints and the minimum readability requirements
Data Source
AI summary
An information processing apparatus operates to acquire first information concerning a size of a print region where a barcode is printed, to generate, based on the acquired first information, image data of the barcode to be printed in the print region, and to set a lower limit of the width of each bar forming the barcode. The first information includes width information concerning a width of the print region and height information concerning a height of the print region. The generated image data includes, as a bar forming the barcode, a bar having a width based on the width information and a height based on the height information, and the image data is generated if a minimum width of each bar forming the barcode is equal to or larger than the set lower limit.