DISPLAY DEVICE, DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM USING THE DISPLAY DEVICE

• US 20090032584A1
• Filed: 04/03/2007
• Published: 02/05/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/03/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Yamada, Yasuhiro, Hakoishi, Takahisa, Sugaya, Hiroshi
• Granted Patent: US 8,061,595 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 235/380
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/387 Payment using discounts or coupons relating to marketing G06Q30/02
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/088 the card reader being part of the point of sale [POS] terminal or electronic cash register [ECR] itself
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/0045 with a code reader for reading of an identifying code of the article to be registered, e.g. barcode reader or radio-frequency identity [RFID] reader
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/12 electronically operated digital data processing aspects G06Q20/00

Abstract

The present invention has non-contact communication means (3a) configured to read a card identifier ID stored in a memory of an IC card, a barcode generation unit (22) configured to generate a two-dimensional barcode of a bonus data associated with the card identifier ID read by the non-contact communication means (3a), and a display unit (13) configured to display the two-dimensional barcode of the bonus data generated by the barcode generation unit (22). And, the bonus data displayed on a display unit 13 in the two-dimensional barcode is read by a barcode reader (2a) of a POS terminal (2).

Claims

1. A display device comprising:

non-contact communication means configured to read a card identifier stored in a memory of an IC card;

generation means configured to generate a one-dimensional or two-dimensional symbol of bonus data associated with the card identifier read by said non-contact communication means; and

display means configured to display the symbol of the bonus data generated by said generation means;

wherein the bonus data displayed in the symbol displayed on said display means is read by a reading means of a POS terminal.

2. The display device according to claim 1,

wherein said generation means, on the basis of the card identifier obtained by said non-contact communication means, gets usable bonus data from a management means of said bonus data and displays the bonus data on said display means in the form of a symbol.

3. The display device according to claim 2, further comprising

a memory configured to manage an article to be handled by a store with said POS terminal installed,

wherein said display means displays the bonus data of an article managed in said memory among the bonus data obtained by said management means.

4. The display device according to claim 2, further comprising

symbol reading means,

wherein said display means displays a symbol of the bonus data that matches article information attached to an article read by said reading means among the bonus data obtained by said management means.

5. The display device according to claim 1, characterized in that

said generation means encrypts at least a part of the bonus data to be displayed on said display means.

6. The display device according to claim 5,

wherein said generation means encrypts expiration time information of said symbol and attaches the encrypted expiration time information to said symbol, and

said expiration time information is decrypted on said POS terminal so as to authenticate the read symbol for authorization.

7. The display device according to claim 1,

wherein said generation means attaches expiration time information of said symbol to the said symbol and,

on said POS terminal, references said expiration time information so as to authenticate the read symbol for authorization.

8. A data processing method comprising:

a step of reading, through non-contact communication means, a card identifier stored in a memory of an IC card;

a step of generating, through generation means, one-dimensional or two-dimensional symbol of bonus data associated with the card identifier read by said non-contact communication means;

a step of displaying bonus data generated through said generation means onto display means in the form of a symbol; and

a step of reading, through reading means of a POS terminal, the bonus data displayed on said display means in the form of a symbol.

9. A data processing system comprising

a POS terminal and a display device arranged in the vicinity of the POS terminal,

said POS terminal being connected with reading means configured to read one-dimensional or two-dimensional symbol of an article,

said display device having non-contact communication means configured to read a card identifier stored in a memory of an IC card and generation means configured to generate one-dimensional or two-dimensional symbol of bonus data associated with the card identifier read by this non-contact communication means, and display means configured to display the symbol of the bonus data generated by this generation means,

the reading means of said POS terminal further being connected to said display device via ripping means,

wherein, when the symbol of said article has been read by said reading means, said display means displays a symbol of bonus data matching article information attached to an article read by said reading means among the bonus data associated with the card identifier read by said non-contact communication means.

10. A data processing method comprising:

a step of reading a card identifier stored in a memory of an IC card by non-contact communication means;

a step of reading one-dimensional or two-dimensional symbol of an article by reading means of said POS terminal connected to a display device via ripping means;

a step of generating, by generating means, a symbol of bonus data matching article information attached to an article read by said reading means among bonus data associated with the card identifier read by said non-contact communication means;

a step of displaying the bonus data generated by said generating means onto display means; and

a step of reading, by said reading means, the bonus data displayed on said display means in the form of a symbol.