Information processing system, hand held cellular phone, and information processing method

• US 20060049259A1
• Filed: 10/19/2005
• Published: 03/09/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/1999
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kitada, Takaharu
• Granted Patent: US 7,299,988 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 235/451
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/025 adapted to a specific application
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10 by electromagnetic radiation, e.g. optical sensing; by corpuscular radiation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

An information processing system comprises: information providing electronic parts 11 capable of reading information in an electromagnetic or optical manner, the parts being attached to an entity 2 in order to provide information associated with the entity 2; a hand held terminal device 30 with its information read function that reads information from the information providing electronic parts 11 in an electromagnetic or optical manner and record the information; and an information processing unit 5 for reading and processing the information recorded in this hand held terminal device 30. In this way, in the case where an information user attempts to obtain information associated with an entity such as commodity or advertising material, the information can be electronically recorded momentously and processed.

Claims

1-19. -19. (canceled)

20. An information processing system comprising:

an information providing medium attached to an object, said information providing medium having an IC chip for storing information corresponding to the object and a first antenna connected to the IC chip; and

a hand-held terminal device having a second antenna capable of electro-magnetically interacting with the first antenna to obtain the information when the hand-held terminal device is made close to the information providing medium, means for storing the obtained information in the hand-held terminal device, an information on processing unit for processing the information into an audible or visible form, and means for representing the processed information.

25. A cellular phone comprising:

a telephone function;

means for reading information stored in an information providing medium attached to an object, said information providing medium having an IC chip storing the information corresponding to the object, and a first antenna connected to the IC chip, said reading means having a second antenna capable of electro-magnetically coupling the first antenna to obtain the first information when the cellular phone is made close to the information providing medium;

means for processing the information into an audible or visible form; and

means for representing the processed information.

26. An information processing method comprising:

reading first information stored in an information providing medium attached to an article or material when a portable device is made close to the information providing medium, the reading being performed by electro-magnetically coupling between a first antenna;

connected with an IC chip included in the information providing medium and a second antenna implemented in the portable device;

processing the information into audible or visible form; and

representing the processed information.