Information conveyance system and printing medium having IC chips
AssigneeFuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
InventorAkira Yoda
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Abstract
Additional information of visual information printed on a printing medium can be stored in a large volume and can be provided easily. A photograph is printed on a photograph printing paper roll embedded with an IC chip having unique ID. A Web server stores additional information of the photograph in relation to the unique ID, and the URL address of the Web server is written in a ROM of the IC chip. The URL address sent from a transmission unit of the IC chip is received by a terminal, and the terminal accesses the server based on the URL address to obtain the additional information.
Claims19
An information conveyance system comprising:
- printing means for printing visual information on a printing medium embedded with an IC chip that has unique ID;
- ID reading means for reading the ID of the IC chip;
- output means for outputting to a server the ID that has been read and additional information of the visual information while relating the ID to the additional information;
- and
- the server that can store the additional information in relation to the ID output from the output means and can provide the additional information in response to an access request from a terminal for accessing the additional information corresponding to the ID, wherein
- the IC chip has a storage unit that stores access information corresponding to the ID and used for accessing the server, and a transmission unit that can send the access information to the terminal, in addition to the unique ID.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.