US 5,410,642 A · ID card issuing system

Abstract

A plurality of different kinds of information, for example, full-color photographic image information and attribute information such as a name, date of birth, etc., are input by use of a CCD scanner (1a), a camera (1b), a keyboard (1c), a mouse (1d), etc., with coordinate information assigned to each piece of information. The input pieces of information are matched with each other with reference to the coordinate information, and an arrangement of the coordinated information is determined with reference to layout information prepared separately, and then the information is printed out onto a card substrate. Thus, an ID card can be made accurately and efficiently. In addition, forgery prevention processing is applied by simultaneously inputting forgery prevention information and further falsification prevention processing is applied by carrying out emboss processing, thereby enabling an improvement in the security of the ID card. In addition, it is possible to prevent the making of forged cards and the undesired issue of cards which are not conformable to a particular production purpose by adding a special pattern (113) to a blank card (110) and applying print processing thereto after recognizing the special pattern by a card processing machine (112).

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Dependent claims

An ID card issuing system for composing information on a card substrate, comprising:

means for inputting respective primary information relating to first and second individuals, said primary information including associated coordination bar code information, and for separately inputting respective secondary information relating to said first and second individuals;
means for identifying the respective primary information on the first and second individuals by the associated coordination bar code information, identifying the respective secondary information on said first and second individuals, and automatically pairing together the primary information and the secondary information relating to the same individual in accordance with commonality of identification;
means for determining laid-out information on paired primary and secondary information relating to said individual;
and
means for outputting the laid-out information pertaining to said individual onto a card substrate.

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A method for providing a gradation image and a non-gradation image on a card substrate for forming an ID card, the method comprising:

(a) providing gradation image information that is characteristic of a given individual concurrently with coordination bar code information for the given individual within a first information storage that provides storage for gradation information on a plurality of individuals;
(b) providing non-gradation image information concerning the given individual within a second information storage that provides storage for non-gradation image information on a plurality of individuals, said non-gradation information including coordination information in common with that encoded via the coordination bar code information of said gradation image information for the given individual;
(c) automatically retrieving from the associated ones of the first information storage and second information storage one of said gradation image information and non-gradation image information for the given individual and then the other of said gradation image information and non-gradation image information for the given individual, said other information for the given individual being retrieved upon establishing a commonality between the coordination bar code information and the coordination information in said non-gradation information such that said gradation image information and non-gradation image information for the given individual are automatically paired together for placement on the same card substrate;
and
(d) outputting said gradation image information and said non-gradation image information for the given individual as paired onto said same card substrate.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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