Information transfer system

• US 5,995,018 A
• Filed: 04/27/1998
• Issued: 11/30/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Hane, Toshihide, Mori, Kazuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Pitts, Harold I.
• Application Number:
  US09/067,295
• Time in Patent Office: 582 Days
• Field of Search: 340/825.54, 235/384, 235/382
• US Class Current: 340/10.34
• 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: G07C 2011/02 related to amusement parks
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/10 Movable barriers with registering means
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/28 the pass enabling tracking or indicating presence

Abstract

An information transfer system includes an IC card including a communicating section; a passage checking apparatus for checking passage through a gate using the IC card, without being in physical contact with the IC card; and a display device for displaying information of the IC card, wherein the passage checking apparatus includes a communicating section for transmitting passage check information required to check passage through the gate and additional information other than the passage check information to the IC card and for receiving the passage check information from the IC card, the IC card includes a memory for storing the additional information transmitted from the passage checking apparatus, and the display device includes a communication section for obtaining the additional information stored in the memory of the IC card.

Claims

1. An information transfer system, comprising:

an IC card including a communicating section;

a passage checking apparatus for checking passage through a gate using the IC card, without being in physical contact with the IC card; and

a display device for displaying information of the IC card, wherein

the passage checking apparatus includes a communicating section for transmitting passage check information required to check passage through the gate and additional information other than the passage check information to the IC card and for receiving the passage check information from the IC card,

the IC card includes a memory for storing the additional information transmitted from the passage checking apparatus, and

the display device includes a communication section for obtaining the additional information stored in the memory of the IC card.

2. An information transfer system according to claim 1, wherein

the passage checking apparatus includes a first portion and a second portion which is different from the first portion, and

the passage checking apparatus transmits and receives the passage check information via the first portion and transmits the additional information via the second portion.

3. An information transfer system according to claim 1, wherein

the passage checking apparatus and the display device each supplies power to the IC card, using a radio wave having a prescribed frequency.

4. An information transfer system according to claim 1, wherein

the IC card includes a display section for displaying the additional information transmitted from the passage checking apparatus.

5. An information transfer system according to claim 4, wherein

the display section is a ferroelectric liquid crystal display or an anti-ferroelectric liquid crystal display.

6. An information transfer system according to claim 1, further comprising:

an information providing apparatus,

the information providing apparatus including a memory for storing the additional information, and a transmission section for transmitting information selected from the additional information stored in the memory to the IC card.

7. An information transfer system according to claim 6, wherein

the information providing apparatus supplies power to the IC card, using a radio wave having a prescribed frequency.

8. An information transfer system according to claim 1, wherein

the IC card is a ticket, and the passage checking apparatus is an automated ticket gate for checking the ticket.