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commercialise research from the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and Laboratory for Communications Engineering. Least Bango.net, a mobile company used SpotCode 2004 in their ads. In 2005 High Energy Magic Ltd. sold the entire SpotCode IPR to OP3. Afterwards the name was changed from SpotCode to ShotCode.
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as a result. It has been used to track printed TRIPCode paperbadges in realtime with webcams. After that in Cambridge it had another research use; to read barcodes with mobile phone cameras, and they used TRIPCode in a round barcode which was named SpotCode. High Energy Magic was founded in 2003 to
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The software used to read a ShotCode captured by a mobile camera is called ‘ShotReader’. It is lightweight and is only around 17kB. It ‘reads’ the camera’s picture of a ShotCode in real time and prompts the browsers to navigate to a particular site.
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in that they do not store regular data - rather, they store a look up number consisting of 40 bits of data. This needs to link to a server that holds information regarding a mapped
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surrounding it. The technology reads databits from the datacircles by measuring the angle and distance from the bullseye for each point.
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Using visual tags to bypass Bluetooth device discovery, Mobile Computing and Communications Review, Volume 9, Number 1, 2005
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The last website update was from 2007, suggesting that updates for phones based on
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ShotCodes are designed to be read with a regular camera (including those found on
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when researching a low cost vision based method to track locations and developed
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which the reading device can connect to in order to download said data.
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was the first company to officially use the ShotCode technology.
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SpotCode in action videos from University of Cambridge
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list of references
related reading
external links
inline citations
improve
introducing
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Sample ShotCode linking to this article.
barcode
Cambridge University
dartboard
bullseye
mobile phones
webcams
matrix barcodes
URL
University of Cambridge
TRIPCode
Heineken
Android
iPhone
QR Code
Semacode
SPARQCode
Official Shotcode website
Wayback Machine
Using visual tags to bypass Bluetooth device discovery, Mobile Computing and Communications Review, Volume 9, Number 1, 2005
SpotCode in action videos from University of Cambridge
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