QR code inventors win European Patent Office prize

NAGOYA, Japan - Masahiro Hara (R) of Denso Wave Inc. and Takayuki Nagaya of Toyota Central R&D Labs. Inc. show their Popular Prize awarded by the European Patent Office for their invention of the square "Quick Response Code," or QR code, in a photo taken in Agui, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on July 8, 2014. Released in 1994, the code is popular globally as a Matrix code, or a two-dimensional barcode, due to the proliferation of cell phones with built-in cameras.

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• ILEA001204065

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• 2014/7/23 00:00:00

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• Kyodo / Kyodo News Images

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• 2014 Kyodo News

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