INFORMATION REPRODUCING METHOD, INFORMATION INPUTTING/OUTPUTTING METHOD,INFORMATION REPRODUCING DEVICE, PORTABLE INFORMATION INPUTTING/OUTPUTTING DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC TOY USING DOT PATTERN

摘要

The present invention proposes a dot pattern onwhich code information and x and y coordinate informationcan be defined even if the dot pattern is extremely small,and proposes an information reproducing method and aninformation reproducing device based on the dot pattern.More specifically, a medium such as a printed materialon which is formed a dot pattern portion by arrangingin accordance with a given rule dots generated by a dotcode generating algorithm in order to recognize variouskinds of multimedia information is scanned as image databy scanning means. Then, the image data is convertedinto code data. Multimedia information correspondingto the code data is read out of storing means to bereproduced.