for Camera Phone Applications

wo inventions have contributed to the commercial viability of perva-sive 2D barcodes: CyberCode1 and J-SH09. In 2000, Sony introduced CyberCode—one of the earliest uses of a 2D barcode for developing a visual tagging system. Although CyberCode wasn’t imple-mented on a camera phone—it was for aug-mented reality systems—it showed the potential for developing pervasive applications using 2D-barcode technology. Two years later, J-Phone (now Softbank Mo-bile) and Sharp introduced J-SH09, the first com-mercial camera phone with a reader for the 1D Japanese Article Number bar-code and the 2D barcode, Q