Instruction and/or identification input unit

• US 6,298,146 B1
• Filed: 11/08/1999
• Issued: 10/02/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 01/01/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Advanced Recognition Technologies, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Advanced Recognition Technologies, Inc.
• Inventors: Ilan, Gabriel, Kadosh, Arie
• Primary Examiner(s): Johns, Andrew W.
• Application Number:
  US09/436,059
• Time in Patent Office: 694 Days
• Field of Search: 382/115, 382/119, 382/120, 382/121, 382/122, 382/123, 382/124, 382/313, 382/315, 705/18, 902/3, 902/5, 902/6, 902/20, 340/825.33, 340/825.34, 340/5.4, 340/5.51, 340/5.52, 340/5.6, 340/5.81, 340/5.82, 235/380, 235/382
• US Class Current: 382/115
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/373 using a special pattern or subpattern alphabet
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00563 using personal physical data of the operator, e.g. finger prints, retinal images, voicepatterns
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/32 in combination with an identity check
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/37 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voice recognition
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27475 using interactive graphical means or pictorial representations

Abstract

An instruction input unit for supplying operating instructions to a machine is provided. The unit includes a touchpad, an instruction library and a recognizer. The touchpad receives an input pattern from a user and the instruction library stores a multiplicity of operating instruction patterns. Each operating instruction pattern has an operating instruction associated therewith. The recognizer detects which of the multiplicity of operating instructions patterns the input pattern most closely matches and provides the operating instruction associated with the matched operating instruction pattern to the machine. The recognizer includes a handwriting recognizer for recognizing alphanumeric characters.

Claims

1. A credit card authorizer for authorizing the use of a credit card having a memory strip, the memory strip storing at least one identifier pattern, the authorizer comprising:

a touchpad configured for receiving a finger drawn input pattern from a user; and

a recognizer for detecting if said finger drawn input pattern matches one of said at least one identifier pattern and for providing an authorization signal only if a match is detected.

2. An automatic teller machine having a credit card authorizer according to claim 1.

3. A credit card writer for writing information into a memory strip of a credit card, the credit card writer comprising:

a touchpad configured for receiving a finger drawn input pattern from a user;

a credit card imprint for imprinting said finger drawn input pattern into said memory strip of said credit card.