Contact-free display peripheral device for contact-free portable object

• US 6,799,721 B2
• Filed: 02/25/2002
• Issued: 10/05/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Ask S.A. (Paragon Group Limited)
• Original Assignee: Ask S.A. (Paragon Group Limited)
• Inventors: Parrault, Olivier
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Diane I.
• Application Number:
  US10/069,377
• Publication Number:
  US 20020105065A1
• Time in Patent Office: 953 Days
• Field of Search: 235/383, 235/491-492, 235/487, 343/856, 343/857, 343/595, 343/895, 307/104, 705/20-23
• US Class Current: 235/383
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07703 the interface being visual
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07749 the record carrier being capable of non-contact communication, e.g. constructional details of the antenna of a non-contact smart card
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10178 including auxiliary means for focusing, repeating or boosting the electromagnetic interrogation field comparable booster antennas integrated on the record carrier itself G06K19/07794
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/201 Price look-up processing, e.g. updating

Abstract

A peripheral display device for a portable contactless object such as a smart card (10) enabling information associated with the use of this portable object to be displayed. This peripheral device includes at least one chip, a display (16) and a receiver for receiving energy and information (18), not connected by an ohmic contact to the portable object. This receiver is a flat coil which plays the role of the secondary of a transformer, the primary of which is formed by the antenna (14) of the portable object, when the latter receives energy and information from a portable object reader via electromagnetic coupling.

Claims

1. A peripheral display device for display of information associated with the use of a contactless portable object, comprising

at least one chip,

a means for receiving energy and said information, said receiving means comprising a flat coil which is not connected by ohmic contact to said portable object,

at least one energy storage means, and

a display means,

wherein an antenna of said portable object and the receiving means are capable of acting as the primary and secondary, respectively, of a transformer when said portable object receives energy and information from a reader of said portable object through electromagnetic coupling.

2. The peripheral display device of claim 1, wherein said energy and information transmitted by the antenna of said portable object are generated by said portable object reader.

3. The peripheral display device of claim 1, wherein said information transmitted by the antenna of said portable object is generated by the chip of said portable object.

4. The peripheral display device of claim 1, wherein said information transmitted by the antenna of said portable object are generated by the chip of said portable object.

5. The peripheral display device of claim 1, wherein said energy storage means is a capacitor.

6. The peripheral display device of claim 1, wherein said display means is capable of generating a persistent display, such that information remains displayed on said display means for a predetermined period of time.

7. The peripheral display device of claim 6, wherein the long-persistence display means is a bistable liquid crystal screen.

8. The peripheral display device of claim 6, wherein the display means is provided with a long-persistence screen feature due to energy stored in said energy storage means.

9. The peripheral display device of claim 1, wherein said device is integrated into said portable object, said flat coil being in the same plane as said antenna of said portable object.

10. The peripheral display device of claim 1, wherein said device can be separated from said portable object.

11. The peripheral display device of claim 1, wherein said device is capable of sending a response to said portable object reader by retromodulation, via said flat coil, coupled to the antenna of said portable object.