System for processing IC card with display function

• US 4,827,112 A
• Filed: 06/22/1987
• Issued: 05/02/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 06/24/1986
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Yoshino, Akira, Hino, Masafumi, Yasue, Nobuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Pitts, Harold I.
• Application Number:
  US07/064,703
• Time in Patent Office: 680 Days
• Field of Search: 235/380, 235/492
• US Class Current: 235/380
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/346 Cards serving only as information carrier of service
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/1008 Active credit-cards provided with means to personalise their use, e.g. with PIN-introduction/comparison system

Abstract

A card processing system having IC cards, and a device which executes information processing on the basis of information held in each IC card and information externally fed. A system for processing cards with a display function characterized in that each IC card is endowed with the display function, and that guidance information to be conveyed to a bearer of the IC card is generated and stored in the IC card at the time of the information processing, thereby to display the guidance information on the IC card.

Claims

1. A card processing system comprising IC cards each of which includes a visual portion, and means to read/write information in said each IC card, guidance information for a user of said IC card being displayed on said IC card.

2. A card processing system comprising IC cards each of which includes a visual portion, and window units each of which includes means to read/write information in said each IC card, said system performing processes which include the first means of reading out information in said IC card, the second means of determining on the basis of the read information the window unit to which a user of said IC card is to go, and the third means of displaying guidance information for specifying said window unit to which the user is to go, on said display portion of said IC card.

3. A card processing system according to claim 2, wherein said second means determines the window unit to which the user of said IC card is to go, on the basis of information indicating the window unit already visited by the user and written in said IC card, and information according to a progress of processes for the user of said IC card.

4. A card processing system according to claim 3, wherein said system is an outpatient receipt processing system of a hospital, and said window units are installed in an overall reception office, an internal department reception office, a surgical department reception office, an inspection reception office, a pharmacy reception office, etc.

5. A card processing system comprising IC cards each of which includes a display portion, window units each of which includes means to read/write information in said each IC card, and a host computer which is connected to said window units, said system performing processes which include the first means of reading out user identification information in said IC card and sending it to said host computer by means of said window unit, the second means of receiving information for specifying the window unit to which a user of said IC card is to go, from said host computer on the basis of information indicating the window unit visited by the user, and the third means of displaying said information for specifying the next window unit.

6. A card processing system according to claim 5, wherein said system second means determines said window unit to which the user of said IC card is to go subsequently, on the basis of the information indicating the window unit already visited by the user and stored in said host computer, and information according to a progress of processes for the use of said IC card.

7. A card processing system according to claim 6, wherein said system is an outpatient receipt processing system of a hospital, and said window units are installed in an overall reception office, an internal department reception office, a surgical department reception office, an inspection reception office, a pharmacy reception office, etc.