Certification card producing apparatus and certification card

Patent 5717776 Issued on February 10, 1998. Estimated Expiration Date:

March 28, 2015. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

Abstract Claims Description Full Text

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Inventor

Watanabe, Yoshihiro

Application

No. 411874 filed on 03/28/1995

US Classes:

382/116, Using a combination of features (e.g., signature and fingerprint)235/380, Credit or identification card systems351/237, Including target image projection382/117Using a characteristic of the eye

Examiners

Primary: Boudreau, Leo H.
Assistant: Kelley, Chris

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Foreign Patent References

2 -1353 JP. 01/21/1990
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International Class

G06K 009/00

Foreign Application Priority Data

1994-03-30 JP

Abstract

An apparatus comprises a print section for printing a face image and characters on a first card medium, a check section for checking on whether the first card medium is defective or not, an integration section for integrating the first card medium with a second card medium with an IC memory to produce a certificate card only when the print of the first card medium is acceptable, and a write section for writing at least the data corresponding to the face image and characters into the memory section of the second card medium. The apparatus further comprises an automatic reception section containing a retina image photoing unit and an eyesight test unit, wherein an retina image of the owner of the card is photoed, while he or she is having an eyesight tested, thereby identifying the owner.