Informative data identifying device for spectacles

• US 6,809,647 B2
• Filed: 02/25/2002
• Issued: 10/26/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Valter Mazzarolo
• Original Assignee: Valter Mazzarolo
• Inventors: Mazzarolo, Valter
• Primary Examiner(s): TRIEU, VAN THANH
• Application Number:
  US10/082,979
• Publication Number:
  US 20030160737A1
• Time in Patent Office: 974 Days
• Field of Search: 340/573.1, 340/573.4, 340/572.1, 340/572.4, 340/572.7, 340/572.8, 340/571, 340/870.17, 340/10.1, 340/10.2, 340/10.42, 342/44, 342/51, 705/1, 705/29
• US Class Current: 340/573.1
• CPC Class Codes: G02C 11/00 Non-optical adjuncts; Attachment thereof G02C7/16 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07758 arrangements for adhering the record carrier to further objects or living beings, functioning as an identification tag

Abstract

Informative data identifying device for spectacles, adapted to permit informative data of any kind concerning the spectacles to be identified by utilizing a device associated with a display. A device comprising a circuital element (6, 8; 25) is arranged on the spectacles and interconnected with a receiver-transmitter device (11, 29) and the display (12), the circuital element (6, 8; 25) being adapted to receive, store and manage the informative data of the spectacles, as coded informations, which have been set on the receiver-transmitter device (11, 29) and displayed on the display (12), and an additional circuital device (8, 30) interacting with the circuital device (6, 8; 25) and being adapted to detect the informative data of the spectacles which have been stored and managed on the circuital device (6, 8; 25), by transferring them toward the receiver-transmitter device (11, 29) for recognizing and managing such informative data with the aid of the display (12).

Claims

1. Informative data identifying device for spectacles, provided with lenses joined with a nose resting support and with rods having a terminal portion, the device being adapted to permit the informative data of the structural components, the names of the manufacturer and owner of the spectacles, and possible further data pertaining the same spectacles to be identified, by utilizing at least a device associated with display means, wherein circuital means are provided and arranged on said spectacles and interconnected with each other and said device, which is able to receive from and/or transmit to said circuital means coded informations relating to the informative data of the spectacles, and interconnected with said display means, said circuital means being adapted to receive, store and manage the informative data of the spectacles, as coded informations, which have been set with said device and displayed through said display means, and said device being interacting with said circuital means and adapted to detect the informative data of the spectacles which have been stored and managed onto said circuital means, so as to recognize and manage such informative data with the aid of said display means.

2. Identifying device according to claim 1, wherein said circuital means are constituted by at least an electronic circuit formed by a storage, and by at least an antenna and an electric supply connected operatively from each other and with said electronic circuit, said electronic circuit being so set as to manage the informative data inputting and outputting the spectacles onto which it is arranged, said antenna being adapted to receive the informative data set through said device, by transferring them toward said electronic circuit through at least a receiver unit, and to transfer the informative data from said electronic circuit toward said device through at least a transmitter circuit, and said electrical supply being adapted to generate, depending on the electromagnetic field picked up outside by said antenna, an electric signal sufficient to supply all the circuits of said circuital means.

3. Identifying device according to claim 2, wherein said receiver circuit and said transmitter circuit are arranged parallel to each other.

4. Identifying device according to claim 2, wherein said antenna is comprised of wound turns of metallic wire which are included on said electronic circuit.

5. Identifying device according to claim 4, wherein said circuital means is made of an inductive integrated circuit with integrated storage (transponder).

6. Identifying device according to claim 5, wherein said device is constituted by at least a processing unit formed by a microprocessor or a microcontroller, by at least an antenna, an electric supply and an interface connected operatively from each other and with said processing unit and said display means, said microprocessor or microcontroller being so set as to operate on the same transmission frequency of the informative data of said circuital means, by means of an integrated circuit of interface permitting to code the codes coming from said circuital means into a format compatible with said processing unit, and being adapted to activate and de-activate said circuital means and said device and to manage the transmission of the informative data, said antenna being adapted to receive informative data set through said device, by transferring them toward said electronic circuit of said circuital means, through said processing unit and at least a transmitter circuit, and to transfer the informative data coming from said electronic circuit toward said device, through said processing unit and at least a receiver unit, said electric supply being adapted to generate an electric signal sufficient to supply all the circuits and said interface being connected with said device through at least an electrical plug for standard connection with serial cable, and being adapted to permit the transmission of informative data from said device toward said circuital means and from these toward said device, in order to identify and set the same data.

7. Identifying device according to claim 6, wherein said transmitter circuit and said receiver circuit are connected in parallel to each other.

8. Identifying device according to claim 6, wherein said electrical plug is adapted to permit the connection also with internet through respective further interfaces.

9. Identifying device according to claim 6, wherein said informative data are coded as digital data.

10. Identifying device according to claim 6, wherein said antenna is composed preferably of air wound turns of metallic wire, which are enclosed onto a container and are preferably approached to the turns of the antenna of said circuital means.

11. Identifying device according to claim 10, wherein said device comprises one or more computers.

12. Identifying device according to claim 5, wherein said circuital means are housed, included or applied to the nose resting support, or rods or terminal portion or any position of the spectacles, or also on positions outside the spectacles.

13. Identifying device according to claim 1, wherein said circuital means are constituted by at least a storage and at least a data processing device forming said device, which are associated and can be supplied electrically, and which are adapted to receive, transmit and process informative data concerning the spectacles.

14. Identifying device according to claim 13, wherein said storage is included on an integrated circuit made as a chip, and said data processing device is separated from and arranged outside with respect to said chip.

15. Identifying device according to claim 14, wherein said storage and said data processing device are included on an integrated circuit.

16. Identifying device according to claim 15, wherein said circuital means are housed, included or applied to the nose resting support, or rods or terminal portion or any portion of the spectacles, or also on positions outside the spectacles.

17. Identifying device according to claim 14, wherein said storage is a static storage of serial or parallel type (ROM, EEPROM, flash storage) or a dynamic storage (RAM).

18. Identifying device according to claim 14, wherein said data processing device comprises at least a microcontroller or a microprocessor.

19. Identifying device according to claim 14, wherein further circuital means are provided, constituted by at least a multipolar electrical connector, adapted to be coupled with said circuital means and connected electrically with processing means through interface means, in order to transmit the informative data stored and processed on said circuital means toward said processing means, so as to identify and manage the same informative data.

20. Identifying device according to claim 19, wherein said informative data are coded as digital data.

21. Identifying device according to claim 19, wherein said circuital means and said further circuital means are housed, included or applied to the nose resting support, or rods or terminal portion or any position of the spectacles, or also on positions outside the spectacles.