SECURE DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING UNIT

• US 20070145132A1
• Filed: 03/05/2007
• Published: 06/28/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Minemura, Atsushi
• Application Number:
  US11/681,798
• Publication Number:
  US 20070145132A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 235/435
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/0719 at least one of the integrated circuit chips comprising an arrangement for application selection, e.g. an acceleration sensor or a set of radio buttons application selection on smart cards using pure software control, see G07F7/10
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/341 Active cards, i.e. cards including their own processing means, e.g. including an IC or chip
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/346 Cards serving only as information carrier of service
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3576 Multiple memory zones on card
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/0886 the card reader being portable for interacting with a POS or ECR in realizing a payment transaction
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/1008 Active credit-cards provided with means to personalise their use, e.g. with PIN-introduction/comparison system

Abstract

The present invention provides a multi-application IC card capable of displaying a plurality of card functions internally incorporated so as to be easily comprehensible. Further, it provides an information processing unit such as a mobile terminal device to utilize card functions with the corresponding IC card held. In the invention, the IC card 10 having a plurality of card functions is configured so as to hold obverse side data to display images 21 and 22 of the obverse sides of respective cards. Using the obverse side data, it is possible to display the images 21 and 22 of the obverse sides of the cards expressing respective card functions of the IC card 10, wherein a user is able to intuitively interpret the types of card functions internally incorporated in the IC card 10 on the basis of the obverse side images 21 and 22.

Claims

1. An information processing unit which activates a plurality of card information in order to carry out processing relating to an arbitrary card, comprising;

a communication unit which receives a selection instruction of card information to be activated, among the plurality of card information, from an external device; and

a lock application designating unit which gives an instruction to an information storage unit that stores the plurality of card information, so as not to activate card information prepared not to correspond to the selection instruction.

2. The information processing unit as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

a surface data reading unit which reads out the surface data from the information storage unit;

a display unit which displays an image of the card surface on the basis of the surface data; and

a control unit which controls the surface data reading unit and the display unit.

3. The information processing unit as set forth in claim 1, wherein the display unit displays an image of a card surface that corresponds to the card information, when the information storage unit carries out processing relating to card information selected by the external device.

4. The information processing unit as set forth in claim 2, wherein card information, which is prepared to correspond to a selection instruction from the external device, is card information that corresponds to surface data displayed on the display unit.

5. The information processing unit as set forth in claim 4, wherein the lock application designating unit gives an instruction to the information storage unit, to deny a selection from the external device specified numbers of times.

6. The information processing unit as set forth in claim 2, wherein the display unit, when it carries out processing relating to card information of the information storage unit, continues to display an image of a card surface displayed on the display unit until predetermined numbers of times elapse after the processing is terminated.