Computing - Input & Output Devices
AQA Computer Science 2022
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Barcodes and how they work
What’s an example usage of barcodes?
- Airline baggage tracking
- Product labelling
- Parcel delivery and shipment
- Ticketing and identification
Barcode standards
Reading a UPC-A barcode
This image contains identical bars at the beginning, middle and end. What are these called?
This image contains identical bars at the beginning, middle and end. What are these called?Guard bars.
Why is the left hand side and the right hand side the exact opposites?
Why is the left hand side and the right hand side the exact opposites?So that the orientation doesn’t matter.
If you have $0010$ on one side of a barcode, what do you have on the other?
\[1101\]
QR codes
Camera sensors
What happens when a camera’s shutter opens?
The light hits the sensor and the light values are represented as binary values.