Identifying card
AssigneeSilverbrook Research Pty Ltd
InventorKia Silverbrook
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Abstract
A identify card includes, on a first surface, human readable information relevant to the owner of the identify card and, on a second surface thereof, containing encoded information encoded in a highly fault tolerant manner, the information being adapted for sensing by a sensing device and decoded by a computational processor so as to provide information relevant to the owner in a human readable form. Preferably, the encoded information is distributed across substantially the total of the second surface of the identify card. The encoded information can be printed on the second surface and the human readable information can comprise business contact details for the owner of the identify card. The encoded information can include company information for a company associated with the owner.
Claims9
An identifying card comprising:
- a first surface carrying human readable information relevant to an owner of the identifying card;
- and
- a second, opposed surface carrying encoded information being adapted for sensing by a sensing device and decoded by a computational processor, so as to provide information relevant to the owner in a human readable form, the encoded information comprising an array of dots applied to said second surface;
- wherein the encoded information comprises spatially distributed redundancy encoded data
- such that the information is encoded in a highly fault tolerant mannner and can be decoded by
- said processor despite a localized obliteration of the encoded information on the card.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.