{"id":225087,"date":"2025-11-14T01:27:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T07:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/masahiro-hara"},"modified":"2025-11-14T01:27:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T07:27:33","slug":"masahiro-hara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/masahiro-hara","title":{"rendered":"Masahiro Hara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/masahiro-hara2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After graduating from <i>Hosei University<\/i>, Hara worked at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Denso\" title=\"Denso\">Denso<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Toyota_Group\" title=\"Toyota Group\">Toyota Group<\/a> subsidiary, where he began developing a barcode system.<sup id= cite_ref-Guardian_6-0 class= reference><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Masahiro_Hara#cite_note-Guardian-6\"> [ 6 ]<\/a> <\/sup> In 1992, at Denso\u2019s development department (later <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Denso_Wave\" title=\"Denso Wave\">Denso Wave<\/a>), he was tasked with creating a new 2D code to efficiently track automotive components.<sup id= cite_ref-gapper_7-0 class= reference><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Masahiro_Hara#cite_note-gapper-7\"> [ 7 ]<\/a> <\/sup><sup id= cite_ref-8 class= reference><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Masahiro_Hara#cite_note-8\"> [ 8 ]<\/a> <\/sup><sup id= cite_ref-Nippon.com_9-0 class= reference><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Masahiro_Hara#cite_note-Nippon.com-9\"> [ 9 ]<\/a> <\/sup><sup id= cite_ref-10 class= reference><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Masahiro_Hara#cite_note-10\"> [ 10 ]<\/a> <\/sup> One day during a lunchtime game of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Go_(game)\" title=\"Go (game)\">go<\/a>, he realized the black-and-white patterns could encode information.<sup id= cite_ref-Guardian_6-1 class= reference><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Masahiro_Hara#cite_note-Guardian-6\"> [ 6 ]<\/a> <\/sup> He also researched publications to find a unique proportion for the position pattern to ensure readability.<sup id= cite_ref-11 class= reference><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Masahiro_Hara#cite_note-11\"> [ 11 ]<\/a> <\/sup> The code was introduced in 1994.<sup id= cite_ref-IEEE_12-0 class= reference><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Masahiro_Hara#cite_note-IEEE-12\"> [ 12 ]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>In 2021, QR codes were being used to book and track <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/COVID-19\" title=\"COVID-19\">COVID-19<\/a> tests and contact tracing.<sup id= cite_ref-Guardian_6-2 class= reference><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Masahiro_Hara#cite_note-Guardian-6\"> [ 6 ]<\/a> <\/sup> Hara has stated that he would like to develop QR codes for additional medical purposes, including imaging such as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/X-ray\" title=\"X-ray\">x-rays<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Electrocardiography\" title=\"Electrocardiography\">electrocardiogram<\/a> data.<sup id= cite_ref-SBS_2-1 class= reference><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Masahiro_Hara#cite_note-SBS-2\"> [ 2 ]<\/a> <\/sup> Hara still works for Denso as of 2024.<sup id= cite_ref-meet_1-2 class= reference><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Masahiro_Hara#cite_note-meet-1\"> [ 1 ]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Masahiro_Hara&action=edit&section=8\" title=\"Edit section: Further reading\"> edit<\/a> ].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After graduating from Hosei University, Hara worked at Denso, a Toyota Group subsidiary, where he began developing a barcode system. [ 6 ] In 1992, at Denso\u2019s development department (later Denso Wave), he was tasked with creating a new 2D code to efficiently track automotive components. 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