METHOD OF INPUTTING INFORMATION ABOUT A CARD, APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION ABOUT A CARD, AND COMPUTER PRODUCT

• US 20020121544A1
• Filed: 07/19/2001
• Published: 09/05/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 03/02/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited, PFU Limited (Fujitsu Limited)
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Terasaka, Susumu, Ito, Toshiyuki, Matsubara, Yoshihiro
• Granted Patent: US 6,464,146 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 235/380
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/342 Cards defining paid or billed services or quantities
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/347 Passive cards
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 19/201 Accessories of ATMs
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/025 by means, e.g. cards, providing billing information at the time of purchase, e.g. identification of seller or purchaser, quantity of goods delivered or to be delivered
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/08 by coded identity card or credit card or other personal identification means without personal verification means G07F7/02
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/0833 Card having specific functional components

Abstract

The system according to the present invention includes the server and the client apparatus connected through a network. The server identifies the type of the card based on the a few figures of the card number input by the user. Furthermore, the server obtains image data of the card and positions of items printed or embossed on the card based on the identified card. The image data and the positions of items has already been stored with the server. Then the server generates a data for displaying an input assistance screen based on the image data and the positions of items and transmits the generated data to the client apparatus where the input assistance screen is displayed.

Claims

1. A method of inputting information related to a card, the method being executed on a card information input system, said card information input system including a card information inputting terminal with which an user inputs information related to his/her card and a card information processing apparatus that processes the information related to said card, said card information inputting terminal and card information processing apparatus being connected to each other through a network, the method comprising the steps of:

obtaining image data of said card;

recognizing positional information which is an information related to positions of items printed or embossed on said card from the obtained image data; and

generating an image data for displaying an input assistance screen, based on the image data and the positional information, that assists the user when inputting personal information that has been printed or embossed on said card.

2. The card information input method according to claim 1 further comprising the step of generating an image data for displaying a confirmation screen, by displaying the personal information input by the user on the input assistance screen on the image data based on the positional information.

3. The card information input method according to claim 1, wherein said card is a credit card.

4. The card information input method according to claim 3 further comprising the steps of:

inputting some starting figures from the card number of said credit card; and

deciding the image data based on the input figures of the card number.

5. A computer program that contains instructions which when executed on a computer causes the computer to realize a method of inputting information related to a card, the method being executed on a card information processing apparatus in a card information input system, said card information input system including a card information inputting terminal with which an user inputs information related to his/her card and said card information processing apparatus that processes the information related to said card, said card information inputting terminal and card information processing apparatus being connected to each other through a network, the method comprising the steps of:

obtaining image data of said card;

recognizing positional information which is an information related to positions of items printed or embossed on said card from the obtained image data;

generating an image data for displaying an input assistance screen, based on the image data and the positional information, that assists the user when inputting personal information that has been printed or embossed on said card; and

transmitting the image data for displaying the input assistance screen to said card information processing apparatus.

6. A computer program that contains instructions which when executed on a computer causes the computer to realize a method of inputting information related to a card, the method being executed on a card information inputting terminal in a card information input system, said card information input system including said card information inputting terminal with which an user inputs information related to his/her card and a card information processing apparatus that processes the information related to said card, said card information inputting terminal and card information processing apparatus being connected to each other through a network, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving an image data for displaying an input assistance screen, that has been generated by said card information processing apparatus based on an image data of said card and positional information which is an information related to positions of items printed or embossed on said card, from said card information processing apparatus; and

displaying the image data for displaying the input assistance screen.

7. A method of inputting information related to a card, the method being executed on a card information inputting terminal in a card information input system, said card information input system including said card information inputting terminal with which an user inputs information related to his/her card and a card information processing apparatus that processes the information related to said card, said card information inputting terminal and card information processing apparatus being connected to each other through a network, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving an image data for displaying an input assistance screen, that has been generated by said card information processing apparatus based on an image data of said card and positional information which is an information related to positions of items printed or embossed on said card, from said card information processing apparatus; and

displaying the image data for displaying the input assistance screen.

8. A card information processing apparatus in a card information input system, said card information input system including a card information inputting terminal with which an user inputs information related to his/her card and said card information processing apparatus that processes the information related to said card, said card information inputting terminal and card information processing apparatus being connected to each other through a network, the card information processing apparatus comprising:

an image data obtaining unit which obtains image data of said card;

a positional information recognizing unit which recognizes positional information which is an information related to positions of items printed or embossed on said card from the image data obtained by said image data obtaining unit;

an image data generating unit which generates an image data for displaying an input assistance screen, based on the image data obtained by said image data obtaining unit and the positional information recognized by said positional information recognizing unit, that assists the user when inputting personal information that has been printed or embossed on said card; and

a transmission unit which transmit the image data for S displaying the input assistance screen to said card information inputting apparatus.

9. A card information inputting terminal in a card information input system, said card information input system including said card information inputting terminal with which an user inputs information related to his/her card and a card information processing apparatus that processes the information related to said card, said card information inputting terminal and card information processing apparatus being connected to each other through a network, the card information inputting terminal comprising:

an image data for displaying an input assistance screen receiving unit which receives an image data for displaying an input assistance screen, that has been generated by said card information processing apparatus based on an image data of said card and positional information which is an information related to positions of items printed or embossed on said card, from said card information processing apparatus; and

a displaying unit which displays the image data for displaying the input assistance screen.