IC card with display and card recording and reading device

• US 4,746,787 A
• Filed: 07/17/1985
• Issued: 05/24/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 07/20/1984
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: OKI Electric Industry Company Limited
• Original Assignee: OKI Electric Industry Company Limited
• Inventors: Okada, Toshihiko, Suto, Shin-ichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Pitts, Harold I.
• Application Number:
  US06/756,082
• Time in Patent Office: 1,042 Days
• Field of Search: 235/379, 235/380
• US Class Current: 235/379
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/0723 the record carrier comprising an arrangement for non-contact communication, e.g. wireless communication circuits on transponder cards, non-contact smart cards or RFIDs
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/0728 the arrangement being an optical or sound-based communication interface
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07703 the interface being visual
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07749 the record carrier being capable of non-contact communication, e.g. constructional details of the antenna of a non-contact smart card
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/1097 Optical sensing of electronic memory record carriers, such as interrogation of RFIDs with an additional optical interface
• 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 20/4093 Monitoring of device authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/28 the pass enabling tracking or indicating presence
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/1008 Active credit-cards provided with means to personalise their use, e.g. with PIN-introduction/comparison system

Abstract

An IC card includes an integrated circuit composed of a transmitter/receiver, a processor, a memory, and a display controller, a display, and control switches for successively switching data displayed on the display. Desired data stored in the memory can be displayed on the display by a command delivered through the transmitter/receiver or by actuation of the control switches. An IC card reader for reading the IC card includes signal transmitting and receiving circuits for transmitting signals to and receiving signals from the IC card, and a control unit for displaying the stored data on the display of the IC card in dependance upon the processed results.

Claims

1. An IC card with a display for storing transaction data from a card recording and reading device in combination with the card recording and reading device and for displaying it, comprising:

(a) a transmitter means and a receiver means respectively connected electrically and optically with a receiver part and a transmitter part of the card recording and reading device;

(b) a transmitter/receiver part for transmitting and receiving data to and from the card recording and reading device via said transmitter means and said receiver means;

(c) a processing unit for processing said data;

(d) a memory part for storing transaction data contained within said data processed in said processing unit in conformity with the development of an associated transaction;

(e) a display part for displaying one of said transaction data stored in said memory part;

(f) a first operating switch for sequentially switching the display of the transaction data presently displayed on said display part to that of new transaction data one at a time;

(g) a second operating switch for sequentially switching the display of the transaction data presently displayed on said display part to the previously transaction data one at a time;

(h) an operation and display control part for controlling said display part so as to display said transaction data stored in said memory part in conformity with operations of said first operating switch and said second operating switch;

(i) wherein said data received from the card recording and reading device via said receiver means includes one of either a display instruction to instruct new transaction data to be displayed or a display instruction to instruct the previous transaction data to be displayed; and

(j) wherein said operation and display control part, upon reception of said display instruction by said transmitter/receiver part, displays and controls said transaction data stored in said memory part, whereby desired data stored in said memory part is displayed on said display part based upon said instruction provided via said transmitter/receiver part or based upon operations of said first and second operating switches.

2. A card recording and reading device for an IC card with a display, said display displaying on the display part one transaction data from among a plurality of transaction data stored in a memory part in conformity with the development of an associated transaction by operation of an operating switch for switching one at a time transaction data presently displayed or an instruction provided via a transmitter/receiver part, said card recording and reading device comprising:

(a) a transmitter and receiver means for respectively transmitting and receiving data between said transmitter/receiver part of said IC card via a transmitter means and a receiver means provided in said IC card;

(b) said data including associated transaction data, said transaction data being stored in said memory part of the IC card in conformity with the development of said associated transaction, one of the transaction data stored in said memory part being displayed on the display part; and

(c) a push lever for operating an operating switch provided in said IC card for switching said display one at a time.

3. A card recording and reading device for use in an IC card with a display, said display displaying on a display part one transaction data from among a plurality of transaction data stored in a memory part in conformity with the development of an associated transaction by operation of an operating switch for switching one at a time transaction data presently displayed or an instruction provided via a transmitter/receiver part, said card recording and reading device comprising:

(a) a transmitter and receiver means for respectively receiving and transmitting data between said transmitter/receiver part of said IC card via a transmitter means and a receiver means provided in said IC card; and

(b) wherein said transmitter and receiver means is adapted to permit said data to include associated transaction data which are stored in said memory part of said IC card in conformity with the development of said associated transaction, one of the transaction data stored in said memory part being displayed on said display part of said IC card, and wherein said transmitter and receiver means is further adapted to transmit an instruction to instruct said display to switch to new transaction data.