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AssigneeHarue Sugimoto
InventorsHarue Sugimoto, Akira Sugimoto
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A visiting card of a new type on which symbols, such as characters, mumerals and figures of any kind, for discriminating the bearer's identification items, such as the company name, section name or own name, from other items are marked in the vicinity of the identification items in the margin of the visiting card. Camouflage print may be made on the symbols to conceal them, by the use of a colored/colorless ink, so that they are readable only by an optical reader. The discriminating symbols optically read together with the identification items are converted into binary optical or electric signals and input to a computer in order to obtain a swift, correct and cheap retrieval of the data required.
A visiting card with symbols for discriminating a bearer's preprinted identification items, each of said discriminating symbols being printed in alignment with one of said identification items by an ink invisible to the human eye and recognizable by an optical means for reading the items, the symbols for discriminating the identification items being adapted for use by an automatic card reading apparatus in discriminating and classifying the identification items.
A rectangular visiting card with four margins and having a number of preprinted identification items which are discriminated from each other by a corresponding number of discriminating symbols, each of the discriminating symbols being printed with an ink that is invisible to the human eye and that absorbs light in one of the infra-red and ultraviolet regions, the discriminating symbols being located on one of the margins of the visiting card in a manner corresponding to the identification items.
A visiting card for use with an automatic card reader having means for maching reading information, the card comprising:
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