Card identifying apparatus
US8045750B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 27, 2007 |
| Grant date | Oct 25, 2011 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 19, 2030 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG07D7/12
- WIPO fieldControl
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A card identifying apparatus according to one embodiment of the invention has a light-receiving portion that reads a card on a pixel basis of a predetermined area as a unit including color information having brightness, RAM that stores image data comprised of a plurality of pixels read by the light-receiving portion, an image data thinning processing section that makes the number of read pixels lower in another direction than in one direction to vary the number of pixels of the image data when the reading means reads the card, and an judgment processing section that identifies authentication of the card based on the image data varied by the image data thinning processing section.
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