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Fujitsu is introducing a technology that can encode data into a picture that is invisible to the human eye but can be decoded by a mobile phone with a camera. The technique works by taking advantage of the sensitivities of the human eye.

“The key is to take the yellow hue in the picture and we skew that ever so slightly to create a pattern,” said Mr Nelson.  “A camera is perfectly sensitive to that yellow hue but the human eye doesn’t see it very well.

“Any camera, even those in mobile phones, can decode it very easily.”

Pictures printed with the technique look perfectly normal but a camera can see the code printed into the image. The technique can currently store just 12 bytes of information – soon to rise to 24 – the equivalent amount of data in a barcode.

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Article Credit: Slashdot