Personal identification system

• US 4,528,442 A
• Filed: 05/25/1984
• Issued: 07/09/1985
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/1981
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Omron Tateisi Electronics Co. (Omron Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Omron Tateisi Electronics Co. (Omron Corporation)
• Inventors: Endo, Kimikazu
• Primary Examiner(s): Pitts, Harold I.
• Application Number:
  US06/614,387
• Time in Patent Office: 410 Days
• Field of Search: 235/379, 235/381, 235/380, 235/382
• US Class Current: 235/379
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/23 by means of a password
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/10 together with a coded signal , e.g. in the form of personal identification information, like personal identification number [PIN] or biometric data

Abstract

A personal identification system capable of using the information of a combination of certain questions and answers to said questions as the information to connect a card to its original owner, capable of displaying said questions at the time of card input and letting a card user enter answers to said questions displayed, and capable of making the use of said card effective upon coincidence between said answers entered and answers selected and registered in advance by an original owner of said card and of invalidating the use of said card upon uncoincidence between said answers.

Claims

1. A personal identification system comprising a card information store unit for writing therein questions and answers in a card itself or a card information store file separately provided during card input, display means for displaying the contents of questions written in said card information store unit, input means for entering the answers to a question displayed, and control means, said control means being capable of comparing an answer entered for the question displayed by said display means to an answer stored in said card information store unit, capable of making the use of said card effective upon coincidence of said answers with the each other.

2. The personal identification system of claim 1, said card information store unit being connected to an CPU as control means in the offline mode.

3. The personal identification system of claim 1, personal data stored in said card information store unit being stored in a memory of a master equipment, the data exchange being made in the online mode between said master equipment and a subsidiary equipment having the functions of a terminal unit.

9. The personal identification system of claim 1, said questions comprising the contents asking the characteristics of the person himself of the card user.

10. The personal identification system of claim 1 wherein said control means not permitting the progress of transactions with said card upon non-coincidence of said answers with each other.

11. The personal identification system of claim 1, said control means not permitting further use of said card upon non-coincidence of said answers with each other.

12. The personal identification system of claim 1, said control means being capable of invalidating said card upon non-coincidence of said answers with each other.

4. A personal identification system comprising a card information registration means for registering the card information in a card itself at the first use of said card or in a card information record file provided separately, a question file recording predetermined plural questions and multiple choices of answer to each of said questions, and question-answer selection means for selecting desired questions and answers to said desired questions from said question file at the time of the first use of said card, said card information being formed with the information including at least the selected questions and answers selected for said questions, answers registered as said card information being compared to entered answers for the collation checking at the time of second use and thereafter.

5. The personal identification system of claim 4, said card information being formed with at least said questions and answers to said questions.

6. The personal identification system of claim 4, said card recording only the account number at the time of the first use of said card.

7. A personal identification system comprising a card information store unit for writing therein the questions and answers recorded on a card itself at the time of card input, display means for displaying the contents of questions written in said card information store unit, input means for entering answers to said questions displayed, comparison means for comparing answers entered by said input means to answers stored in said card information store unit, and question sequence change means for changing at discretion the sequence of questions stored in said card information store unit, said system being capable of taking out an output out of said questions stored in said card information store means after changing the sequence of questioning at discretion during the collation.

8. The personal identification system of claim 7, said question sequence change means comprising a counter, the contents of said question sequence change means being capable of adding 1 to said contents in the cycle at the time of each collating operation.