Operating device, authentication device, and image forming device

• US 8,210,427 B2
• Filed: 03/19/2009
• Issued: 07/03/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/24/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions, Inc. (Kyocera Corporation)
• Original Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions, Inc. (Kyocera Corporation)
• Inventors: Noda, Tatsuo, Ikazaki, Akihiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Vo, Tuyen K
• Application Number:
  US12/407,061
• Publication Number:
  US 20090236410A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,202 Days
• Field of Search: 235/375, 235/380, 235/451, 235/492, 235/381, 235/382, 340/572.1
• US Class Current: 235/382
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07336 Active means, e.g. jamming or scrambling of the electromagnetic field
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07345 by activating or deactivating at least a part of the circuit on the record carrier, e.g. ON/OFF switches
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/0008 General problems related to the reading of electronic memory record carriers, independent of its reading method, e.g. power transfer

Abstract

An operating device, including: a non-contact IC reader which reads specific data stored in a non-contact IC; a non-contact IC displacement direction detection device which detects a displace direction of the non-contact IC after the non-contact IC reader has read the specific data; and an operating instruction determination device which determines an operating instruction based on the displacement direction detected by the non-contact IC displacement direction detection device.

Claims

1. An authentication device, comprising:

a non-contact IC reader which reads identification data stored in a non-contact IC;

a non-contact IC displacement direction detection device which detects first and second displacement direction of the non-contact IC after the non-contact IC reader has read the identification data; and

an authentication determination device which stores permitted identification data and permitted displacement data on displacement directions of the non-contact IC given for each permitted identification data, and determines whether or not authentication is to be made based on the permitted identification data, the identification data stored in the non-contact IC, the permitted displacement data, and the first and second displacement directions detected by the non-contact IC displacement direction detection device,

the permitted displacement data including permitted first displacement data, permitted second displacement data, and permitted ordinal data, the permitted ordinal data representing the first displacement direction which is firstly detected and the second displacement direction which is detected subsequent to the first displacement direction.

2. The authentication device according to claim 1, wherein the non-contact IC displacement direction detection device includes a plurality of antennas disposed apart from one another and detects the displacement direction of the non-contact IC based on a variation pattern of the intensity of signal received at the antennas from the non-contact IC.

3. The authentication device according to claim 2, wherein the antennas are disposed so as to surround the non-contact IC reader.

4. An image forming device, comprising an authentication device according to claim 1, wherein an image is formed based on a determination result of the authentication device.