Personal information card system
First Claim
1. A data card transaction system comprising,a wallet-size card having opposed, planar, major surfaces,an in situ, laser recordable strip disposed on one of said surfaces and a visually readable image disposed on an image medium on the opposite surface, andoptical means for reading both sides of said card while said card remains operatively associated with said optical means.
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Abstract
A system in which wallet-sized visually readable information relating to a person is created on material disposed on one side of a wallet-size card and machine readable information relating to the person is recorded on a laser recordable optical data storage strip disposed on the opposite side of the card. The visually readable information may be a fingerprint or face photograph created by conventional photography or with a laser. The data storage strip is disposed in the card and may be a pre-formed strip of laser recording material. Information spots recorded on the strip may be insurance, medical, banking, security or other transaction information. Both the machine readable information and the eye readable information are read simultaneously by two optical systems, one disposed on each side of the card.
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15 Claims
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1. A data card transaction system comprising,
a wallet-size card having opposed, planar, major surfaces, an in situ, laser recordable strip disposed on one of said surfaces and a visually readable image disposed on an image medium on the opposite surface, and optical means for reading both sides of said card while said card remains operatively associated with said optical means.
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8. A data card transaction system comprising,
a wallet-size card having opposed, planar, major surfaces including a first surface with a strip of in-situ, laser recording material thereon, and an image medium for visually readable information disposed on a second major surface of the card, a reading and writing beam means disposed in writing relation with respect to said strip for writing sequential data thereon, a first light detector means disposed in reading relation to said strip for reading sequential data, a reading beam means disposed in reading relation with respect to said image medium for shining reading light on said second major surface, a second light detector means disposed in reading relation to said image medium for detecting said visually readable information, and means providing relative motion between said beams and the card for reading and writing said information on the card.
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11. A method for recording personal information on a wallet-size card comprising,
creating visually readable information on an optical recording medium, said information relating to a person, disposing said visually readable information on a first side of a wallet-size card, disposing a laser recordable optical data storage lamella on a second side of said card, said second side opposite said first side, and recording information indicia related to said person onto said lamella, in situ, by means of laser.
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14. A multilayer data card comprising,
a planar substrate having opposed major surfaces, a layer of photosensitive material being photographically exposed and developed disposed over at least part of a major surface of the substrate, said material layer bearing visually readable information, and a direct-read-after-write optical data storage layer disposed over a portion of the photosensistive material layer, said data storage layer recordable in situ with a laser.
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15. A multilayer data card comprising,
a planar substrate having opposed major surfaces, a direct-read-after-write optical data storage layer disposed over part of a major surface of the substrate, said data storage layer recordable in situ with a laser, and a layer of photosensitive material being photographically exposed and developed disposed over the optical data storage layer, said material layer having a first portion bearing visually readable information optically adjacent to said optical storage layer and having a second portion with an optically transmissive zone over the optical storage layer.
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