Universal product code conversion to electronic product code
A method and apparatus for converting or translating descriptions of products encoded in the Universal Product Code (UPC) or Uniform Code Council 12 (UCC-12) format to the Electronic Product Code (EPC) format.
1 . A method and apparatus for converting or translating descriptions of products encoded in the Universal Product Code (UPC) or Uniform Code Council 12 (UCC-12) format to the Electronic Product Code (EPC) format comprising:
a means of loading and storing registers;
and a means of multiplying, dividing, shifting or adding register contents.
2 . A method according to claim 1 wherein the operation of storage of a register involves only shift operations.
3 . A method according to claim 1 wherein the operation of storage of a register involves only multiplication or division operations.
4 . A method according to claim 1 wherein the operation of storage of a register involves a mix of multiplication, division, or shift operations.
5 . A method according to claim 1 wherein the entire operation of the method or parts of it are embodied within digital logic gates.
6 . A method according to claim 1 wherein the entire operations of the method or parts of it are embodied within a Hamiltonian or other matrix operation.
7 . A method according to claim 1 wherein all values to be incorporated into the resulting EPC code are extracted from input and from the UPC code before being incorporated, via a single bit-field storage command into the target EPC storage range.