隨著QR Code的普及，QR Code被社會大眾廣泛的使用，而傳統由黑白區塊所組合而成的QR Code，在視覺上略顯單調，並且在掃瞄之前無法得知其內容，也就是缺少圖像意涵，例如商標。因此有許多國內外研究提出方法來改善QR Code的外貌，使QR Code本身就帶有訊息，也就是改變編碼外觀來增加視覺效果，參考過去論文和文獻顯示，為了避免編碼結構被破壞導致影響QR Code辨識掃描的準確度，通常會犧牲QR Code的視覺效果來遷就編碼結構的完整性。
另外隨著電子載具的普及，QR Code的使用方式不再侷限於紙本上，在電子產品上也被廣泛的使用，這使得彩色圖示QR Code不光是靜態上的表現，甚至可以達到動態化的效果，令其具備更高的經濟價值。如何在不影響其結構的完整性下，得到彩色圖示QR Code，並且將圖片清楚顯示出來，然後結合電子載具實現動態化彩色圖示QR Code，便是本論文的研究主題。
本論文先將圖片經由半色調技術處理轉至黑白圖片，再以處理過的黑白圖片為基底並使用中心模組的概念得到黑白塊狀化的QR Code，接著使用高斯-喬登消去法來移動被遮蓋的部分，之後將此QR Code與原始圖片結合得到圖片化QR Code，並利用讀取器在掃描QR Code時會先灰階之後二值化的特性，將中心模組消除，最後將圖片化QR Code結合起來得到動態化QR Code。而為了印證本論文方法的可行性，本論文產生多張彩色圖示QR Code和動態化彩色圖示QR Code，並經過使用者掃描的實驗，證明了用本論文方法所產生之QR Code，能被一般市面上常用的掃描軟體所辨識。

QR Code is a popular 2-D bar code. Traditional QR Code is composed of black and white blocks. Therefore, the content is unknown before scanning. If a color icon, such as trademarks, can be embedded, the usability is better. Researchers proposed some methods to improve the appearance of QR Code, making QR Code itself provide a visual message. Referencing from other previous works, in order to avoid damaging the coding structure, the QR Code visual effects must accommodate the integrity of the coding structure to have a better accuracy.
Nowadays, with the widely used of electronic displays, QR Code does not only appear on paper, but also appear in electric billboards. As a result, the color icon QR Code can be shown as animations dynamically, making economic value of QR Code higher. Generating dynamic color QR Codes which keeps the integrity of its structure, is the goal of this thesis.
In this thesis, the halftone technology, and the concept of the center module is applied to get the black and white block QR Code. Some generated blocks will cover the embedded icon in the QR code, and is uncovered using the Gauss-Jordan elimination method. The characteristics of the QR reader is also considered to reduce the center module. Finally, a series of color icon QR Codes to are used to get the dynamic color icon QR Codes. Our method produces a number of color icon QR Codes and dynamic color icon QR Codes. Through the user scan experiment, we validated that the QR Code generated by our method can be identified by the scanning software commonly used in the market.

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