1994 How did the QR code invented by the Japanese become the "four new inventions" in China?

Once upon a time, when people talked about "scanning code", most of them thought of the barcode (one-dimensional code) scanned by the cashier at the supermarket checkout counter. At that time, the one-dimensional code scanning response was slow and the information capacity was small, so it could only be scanned physically with a physical scanning gun, and could not be scanned digitally with a mobile phone like a two-dimensional code picture.

Now in China, it has become an innate instinct for people to turn on their mobile phones and scan convenient QR codes every day, just like breathing. QR codes can be used for payment, shopping, ordering, booking, advertising and browsing. As early as 20 1 1, Xu Wei, the founder of Skynet, began to apply for the "two-dimensional code scanning patent" and successively obtained the patents of two-dimensional code scanning technology from China, the United States, Japan and the European Union. From 2065438 to September 2007, Xu Wei, chairman of China Development Bank, earned at least 700 million yuan from overseas patent licensing alone. But what few people know is that the QR code was invented by the Japanese as early as 1994.

Unfortunately, although the Japanese at that time had the patent right of QR code, they only focused on specific charging items, and their vision was narrow, so they could not expect the wide application of QR code in the future society. According to the website information of Denso Wave Company, which invented the QR code in Japan, NBDNews pointed out that the company has actually given up the idea of patent fees for the daily use of QR codes, and only charged negotiation fees for enterprise users to customize QR codes.

From 1994, when the QR code was invented, to 20 1 1 Wei Xu applied for registration of the "two-dimensional code scanning patent", the Japanese always * * * "took the lead" in 18, but in the end they gave up the hen that laid golden eggs because of short-sightedness.

Few people know that Seiji Maehara, the inventor of QR code, is from Denso Wave, a subsidiary of Denso Corporation of Japan. Denso became independent from Toyota Motor Corporation in 1949, but its main business is still supplying auto parts to Toyota. Japan Dansuo Company is still the second largest supplier of auto parts in the world, with more than 6,543,800 employees worldwide. Because high-precision auto parts need to match a lot of information (source of raw materials, origin, etc.). ), the information capacity of traditional bar codes is very limited. How to store more product information on parts labels has become an urgent problem for Japanese electrical equipment.