Updatable micrographic pocket data card
First Claim
1. An updatable micrographic data card comprising,a wallet size card having a strip of optical contrast laser recording material disposed thereon,a plurality of laser written characters disposed on said strip, each character formed from a plurality of laser recorded character pixels, each pixel formed by a uniform array of laser recorded spots aligned in a matrix of rows and columns, said laser recorded spots being a first level of organization to form characters and which are written line by line at designated locations where said uniform arrays of spots forms said pixels, said pixels being a second level of organization, said characters being a third level of organization which have a character height exceeding one millimeter and being laser recordable in place on the card wherever unused areas of the recording material exist.
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Abstract
A strip of optical contrast laser recording material is disposed on the wallet-size card, and has laser written characters recorded thereon. The characters are formed by a plurality of pixels, similar in nature to the dots forming dot matrix characters, except that the pixels themselves are formed of spots. The spots are disposed in a geometric regular array and are usually written one column at a time until a complete pixel is formed. Machine readable and visually readable characters may be combined on a single data strip.
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1. An updatable micrographic data card comprising,
a wallet size card having a strip of optical contrast laser recording material disposed thereon, a plurality of laser written characters disposed on said strip, each character formed from a plurality of laser recorded character pixels, each pixel formed by a uniform array of laser recorded spots aligned in a matrix of rows and columns, said laser recorded spots being a first level of organization to form characters and which are written line by line at designated locations where said uniform arrays of spots forms said pixels, said pixels being a second level of organization, said characters being a third level of organization which have a character height exceeding one millimeter and being laser recordable in place on the card wherever unused areas of the recording material exist.
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7. A method of laser writing of eye readable characters comprising,
writing in a scan-like manner a plurality of spots with a laser in groups forming uniform pixels, said spots being a first level of organization to form characters, said spots being aligned in rows and columns and being written line by line at designated locations where said uniform arrays of spots forms said pixels, said pixels being a second level of organization, grouping pixels in juxtaposed relation forming eye readable characters, said characters being a third level of organization in forming said characters.
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