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With the help of QR code, many of our tasks have become easier. Through this QR i.e. Quick Response Code, you can do everything from UPI payment to Aadhaar card verification. Come, let’s know who made it?
Who made QR code
Highlights
- The QR code was invented in 1994 by Masaho Hara.
- QR code is used in UPI payment and Aadhaar verification.
- The specialty of QR code is that every time it is unique.
New Delhi. In today’s digital age, we do many things online. From sharing contacts to digital payments and documents verification, everything is happening digitally. The QR code has played an important role in making all these works easier. When paying UPI, you just have to scan the QR code and you can easily pay.
The specialty of the QR code is that it is unique every time it is generated, that is, every QR code is different from each other. Do you know that the QR code was invented about 31 years ago? Yes, the QR code technology that we use for everything from UPI payment to Aadhaar verification, was invented 31 years ago.
Who created the QR code?
The QR or Quick Response Code was invented in 1994 by Japanese engineer Masahiro Hara. Masaho has graduated from Hosei University in Japan. This code was developed by the Denso Web, a subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation. Mashelo Hara came to the Idea Go game of QR code. If you have never played a Go game, then let us know that it contains a cow board, which has a 19 × 19 grid. This grid contains black and white stones.
A lot of information is hidden in the grid
When Mashelo Hara saw this game board, he thought that a lot of information could be stored in a grid and it can be read with many angles, distances etc. Subsequently, Masaho, along with Denso Web team, worked to convert this grid system into QR code. This QR code contains data for locator, identifier and web tracking. It was first used to label parts in the automobile industry. Later it was used for many things including electronic tickets, contacts, payment, payment.
