HCCB (High Capacity Color Barcode), a Microsoft technology of encoding data in a 2D “barcode” using clusters of colored triangles instead of the square pixels. Palette of 4 or 8 colors for the triangles is used to increase the data density. This technology can also check black and white barcodes. Gavin Jancke, an engineering director at Microsoft Research, created this advanced technology.
Technology
This technology uses grid of colored triangles to encode the data. According to the size of grid, symbol density and symbol count it can vary. It is capable to use eight-, four-, or two-color (black-and-white) palette.
Application
This provides capability to use a mobile phone’s on-board camera to take a picture of a tag and can direct information in any form like text, vCard, URL, Online Photos, Online. It is also used to transform traditional marketing media gateways for accessing information online.
It is a free download for an Internet-capable mobile device and compatible to Internet-capable mobile devices like Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, Java, Android, Symbian S60, and i-Phone.