Research Article

Robust Visual Secret Sharing Scheme Applying to QR Code

Table 1

The characteristics of QR code version 7 and version 8.

Version Total codewords Error correction level Number of error correction codewords Number of blocks Error correction code per (c, k, r)

7 196 L 4 2 (98, 7810)

M 72 4 (49, 31, 9)

Q 108 2(32, 14, 9)
4(33, 15, 9)

H 130 4(39, 13, 13)
1(40, 14, 13)

8 242 L 48 2 (121, 97, 12)

M 88 2(60, 38, 11)
2(61, 39, 11)

Q 132 4(40, 18, 11)
2(41, 19, 11)

H 156 4(40, 14, 13)
2(41, 15, 13)

  :c=total number of codewords; k=total number of datawords; r=error correction capacity.