POSITIVE IDENTIFICATION MEANS AND METHOD FOR OWNER-PRESENTED DOCUMENTS

• US 3,571,957 A
• Filed: 01/04/1968
• Issued: 03/23/1971
• Est. Priority Date: 01/04/1968
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Earle F. Smith, Peter N. Cumming
• Original Assignee: Earle F. Smith, Peter N. Cumming
• Inventors: Cumming, Peter N., Smith, Earle F.
• Application Number:
  US04/695,651
• Time in Patent Office: 1,174 Days
• US Class Current: 283/70
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 2033/04 Transparent material
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 2035/06 Picture of the user
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 2035/08 Alphanumerical data
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 2035/44 Miniaturised markings
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 2035/50 Corresponding markings appearing in different shapes or at different places
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 25/00 Information-bearing cards or sheet-like structures characterised by identification or security features; Manufacture thereof printing processes to produce identification or security features B41M3/14
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 25/22 for use in combination with accessories specially adapted for information-bearing cards
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 25/309 Photographs
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 25/318 Signatures
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/253 visually
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 283/904 Credit card

Abstract

A credit card or other identification document as issued to the owner named thereon having as a permanent part thereof a micronegative containing normally unreadable identifying indicia of the owner of the card or document and a viewer capable of enlarging the indicia on the negative sufficiently to produce a readable identification of the owner of the card or document.

Claims

1. The combination comprising a credit or similar identification card as issued to the owner named thereon having an aperture within which is provided a micronegative containing personal identifying indicia of the owner of the card and confidential data assigned by the issuer to the owner of the card, said indicia and data being of such size as to be illegible to the unaided eye, and a viewer adapted to receive said card and enlarge the indicia and data on the negative thereof sufficient for determining from said indicia whether the holder of the card is in fact the owner thereof, and said viewer including keyboard means for selected manual receipt of said confidential data wheN enlarged sufficiently for determination and after determining from said indicia that the holder of said card is the owner thereof.

2. The combination of claim 1 in which said confidential data comprises private business account data of the owner of the card, and said viewer through its keyboard means permits transmission of said account data therebeyond.

3. The combination of claim 2 in which said viewer is operably interconnected with a central computer system capable of reporting on and updating business accounts selected through data transmitted thereto through said keyboard means.

4. The combination of claim 1 in which said viewer includes a display screen for presenting enlargement to a readable size of said identifying indicia and confidential data.

5. The combination of claim 4 in which the identifying indicia presented readable on said display screen comprises the likeness of the face, facsimile signature, and a personal description of the owner of the card, and the confidential data presented readable on said display screen comprises private banking and/or credit account data of the owner of the card.

6. Positive identification method for owner-presented documents comprising the steps of including as a part of the document a micronegative containing normally unreadable identifying indicia personal to the owner of the document which becomes readable with sufficient enlargement thereof, subjecting the document to a viewer capable of enlarging the indicia on the negative sufficiently to produce a readable image thereof, including as a part of the viewer a keyboard capable of selected transmission therethrough of certain of the identifying indicia, and actuating the keyboard for transmitting such certain identifying indicia from the readable image thereof when once a positive identification of the owner of the document is determined from the readable image of certain other of the identifying indicia.

7. Positive identification method for owner-presented documents comprising the steps of including as a part of the document a micronegative containing normally unreadable personal identifying indicia and confidential account indicia of the owner of the document which becomes readable with sufficient enlargement thereof, subjecting the document to a viewer capable of enlarging the indicia on the negative sufficiently to produce a readable identification of the owner and of the account of the owner of the document, including as a part of the viewer a keyboard capable of transmission therethrough of the confidential account indicia of the owner, and actuating the keyboard for transmitting such account indicia when enlarged sufficiently for readable identification when once a positive identification of the owner of the document is established through the readable identification of the personal identifying indicia.