Card security system

• US 6,328,209 B1
• Filed: 02/03/1999
• Issued: 12/11/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 02/03/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: OpSec Security Group, Inc.
• Original Assignee: American Bank Note Holographics, Inc. (Lumentum Holdings Inc.)
• Inventors: OʼBoyle, Lily
• Primary Examiner(s): Frech, Karl D.
• Application Number:
  US09/243,133
• Time in Patent Office: 1,042 Days
• Field of Search: 235/380, 235/382, 235/381, 235/382.5
• US Class Current: 235/380
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/14 the marking being sensed by radiation
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/16 the marking being a hologram or diffraction grating

Abstract

The object of the present invention is to effectively enhance card security in a system using identification card or the like. The card security system comprises a card issuing apparatus 100 and a card reader 300. The card issuing apparatus 100 obtains data D and E by reading hologram 2 and barcode 3 on a card 1. Data A, B and C are input from computer 200. An encryption unit 104 generates check data EN based on data A-E. A magnetic writer 103 write the data A-E and EN on a magnetic stripe 4. The card reader 300 reads data A-E and EN from the card 1, generates check data based on the read data A-E, and determines whether or not the card is genuine by comparing the calculated check data with the read check data EN.

Claims

1. A method of enhancing security in a card security system having a card issuer and a card reader, comprising:

a first recording step of recording at least first data onto an optically readable portion that is viewable on a first plane and contains a discrete visible holographic pattern formed to be reconstructed in a 2nd plane of a card;

an input step of inputting at least second data into the card issuer;

an obtaining step of obtaining check data based on at least the first and second data;

a second recording step of recording at least the check data to a storage medium which can be accessed by at least the card reader; and

a checking step of checking genuineness of the card by the card reader, based on at least data obtained by reading the optically readable portion of the card, data obtained from said storage medium, and the second data used in said input step.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein said storage medium is at least one of an optically readable portion of the card, a magnetically readable portion of the card, a memory mounted on the card or a memory unit independent from the card.

3. A method according to claim 1, wherein said second recording step records the check data and the second data to the storage medium, and said checking step obtains data from the storage medium as the check data and the second data.

4. A method according to claim 3, wherein said storage medium includes a magnetically readable portion of the card and memory unit independent from the card, and said second recording step records the check data to the magnetically readable portion and records the second data to the memory unit.

5. A method according to claim 1, wherein said first recording step records the first data as a holographic image.

6. A method according to claim 1, wherein the obtaining step obtains the check data by encrypting at least the first data and the second data.

7. A card security system having a card issuer and a card reader, comprising:

reading means for reading an optically readable portion that is viewable on a first plane and contains a discrete visible holographic pattern formed to be reconstructed in a 2nd plane of a card to obtain first data;

input means for inputting second data into the card issuer;

obtaining means for obtaining check data based on at least the first and second data in the card issuer;

recording means for recording at least the check data onto a storage medium which can be accessed by at least the card reader; and

checking means for checking genuineness of the card by the card reader, based on at least data obtained by reading the optically readable portion of the card, data obtained from said storage medium, and the second data used in said input means.

8. A card reading apparatus for reading a card having optically readable portion, comprising:

optical reader means for reading at least first data from the optically readable portion that is viewable on a first plane and contains a discrete visible holographic pattern formed to be reconstructed in a 2nd plane;

first obtaining means for obtaining at least second data and third data from a storage medium;

second obtaining means for obtaining check data based on at least the first and second data; and

judging means for judging genuineness of the card by comparing the check data with the third data.

9. A card reader apparatus according to claim 8, wherein said storage medium is at least one of an optically readable portion of the card, a magnetically readable portion of the card, a memory mounted on the card or a memory unit independent from the card.

10. A card reader apparatus according to claim 9, wherein said first obtaining means obtains the second data from the memory unit and obtains the third data from the magnetically readable portion.

11. A card reader apparatus according to claim 8, wherein said recording medium includes a magnetically readable portion on the card, further comprising invalidating means for invalidating data recorded on the magnetically readable portion after the card is used.

12. A card issuing apparatus for issuing a card, comprising:

reading means for reading at least first data from an optically readable portion that is viewable on a first plane and contains a discrete visible holographic pattern formed to be reconstructed in a 2nd plane of the card;

input means for inputting at least second data;

determining means for determining check data based on at least the first and the second data; and

recording means for recording at least the check data to storage medium.

13. A card issuing apparatus according to claim 12, wherein said storage medium is at least one of an optically readable portion of the card, a magnetically readable portion of the card, a memory mounted on the card or a memory unit independent from the card.

14. A card issuing apparatus according to claim 13, wherein said recording means records the check data to the magnetically readable portion and records the second data to the memory unit.