JP2813591B2 - ID card and ID booklet having this ID card - Google Patents

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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to an ID card and an ID booklet having the ID card, and more specifically, a so-called ID used for certifying personal identity such as an employee ID card or a student ID card. The present invention relates to a card and an ID booklet having the ID card.

[Conventional technology] A so-called ID that proves the identity of an individual, such as an employee ID card or a student ID card
A card has been used in the past, and various personal information such as a photograph of the person's face, address, affiliation, and personal code number is described or affixed to the ID card in order to confirm the person.

These ID cards perform their functions well in normal usage, but if they are lost, for example,
In some cases, photos are copied and falsified, or falsified without going through a legitimate production route, and abused, causing social problems.

For this reason, in the past, when creating an ID card, in particular, devising, such as pressing a stamp on photos, has been done in recent years.In recent years, lamination of color photographic paper, etc., has been widely performed. Is coming.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] By the way, materials and instruments for producing ID cards have become available at relatively low cost,
There is a need for an ID card that is more difficult to forge and falsify.

Then, forgery and falsification as described above, the laminate material is harder to be peeled off, a tint block, a crest, a color pattern and the like are printed or image-recorded, and a forgery and falsification are more effectively performed using a hologram or the like. Attempts have been made to prevent them, but there is a need for an even more reliable means for preventing forgery and alteration.

The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and an object of the present invention is to provide a more compact ID card and an ID booklet having the ID card, which can more effectively prevent forgery and falsification. It is in.

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to solve the problems and achieve the object,
The present invention is configured as follows.

The invention according to claim 1 is an ID card in which at least a part of personal information is visually image-recorded, and at least a part of the visually image-recorded part is a personal image of personal information and / or Alternatively, the image is visually processed and recorded according to the density and / or the color of the background, and the portion to be visually processed and recorded is a part of the part of the person image and is processed by the image processing. The place where the image is recorded is in the human image, and the pixel unit for performing the image processing is 0.05 pixels per side.
An ID card having a size of up to 3 mm. ].

The invention according to claim 2 provides an "ID booklet having an ID card, wherein a page having a booklet is formed by the ID card according to claim 1. ].

There are several visual image processing methods which are performed when creating the ID card and the ID booklet of the present invention and which are performed according to the density and / or color of a personal image and / or background of personal information. For example, the following method can be mentioned, but the present invention is not limited thereto.

a. Visible image processing modulates at least a part of the visible image in density. That is, in a part of the original image, the density of the part is increased with respect to the original density and / or
Alternatively, the image processing is performed by lowering.

b. The visible image processing intermittently forms at least a part of the visible image. That is, by not recording a part of the image to be originally formed as a part of the image, a stripe image or a mosaic image is formed.

c. visible image processing, at least part of the visible image,
A negative-positive reversal process is performed. That is, for a part of the image, a portion which should be originally low density is converted into a high density, and a portion which should be originally high density is converted into a low density.

d. visible image processing, at least part of the visible image,
This is performed by forming a complementary color. That is, an image is formed such that portions that should be originally formed in the respective colors of yellow, magenta, cyan, blue, green and red correspond to the complementary colors of blue, green, red, yellow, magenta and cyan, respectively. .

The part of the ID card and the ID booklet to be image-processed is a part of the part of the person image, that is, the part of the photograph of the person. In other words, every part of the photograph of the person is different, and this is a part where general forgery or alteration is most difficult to perform.

The image processing means may be a single method, but a combination of a plurality of methods is preferable in terms of preventing forgery and falsification. In this case, the image may be processed by a single means for each of the plurality of parts, or a plurality of means may be combined with the plurality of parts.

In the image processing part, the pixel unit for performing the image processing is preferably of such a size that it can be easily identified visually and that it cannot be falsified later. Is 0.05-3mm on one side, 0.2-1mm
Is preferable.

The personal information to be recorded on the ID card and ID booklet of the present invention is input as a digital electric signal by a known method such as reading by a CCD camera or a scanner.
The read personal information is combined with other information as necessary, or is converted to another value by appropriate means based on the read personal information, and the image information to be finally recorded with fidelity is obtained. can get.

Next, the image information is subjected to the various image processing described above, and then image-recorded on an image recording medium. The image forming system for forming an image on the image recording medium used for the ID card and the ID booklet according to the present invention includes, for example, a printing system using characters, a photographic system of a wet process using a silver halide photographic emulsion, and a silver halide photographic emulsion. Image transfer method using, or, for example, non-impact printing-technology and materials-(edited by Shin Ohno)
Examples thereof include a thermal transfer printer system, an inkjet printer system, an electrophotographic system, and the like described in CMC Publishing (1986). In addition, these image methods can be used in combination of two or more as appropriate.

In the present invention, it is particularly preferable to have a face photograph in order to identify the individual, but in such a case, in order to express the delicateness of the face photograph, an image forming method using a silver halide with good sharpness Is particularly preferred.

For example, an image forming method (wet processing) such as a normal negative or positive type color photographic paper, for example, a viscous tone described in PHOTO TECHNOLOGY MANUAL (above) Basic Edition P104-114 (1977 Photographic Industry Publishing Co.) The so-called instant photographic method using an alkaline solution, the 17th meeting of the Photographic Society of Japan, a heat-developable silver halide recording system, (Semi-dry method described in Abstracts P28-37, June 1987) and P18-27.
The image forming method using a known silver halide such as a dry method described in (1) can be used.

In particular, when the preferably used image recording material is a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material, image recording is performed by exposure. In the present invention, an exposure source and a tungsten lamp, a halogen lamp, a xenon lamp, a mercury lamp, and a laser beam are used. , A CRT light source, a light emitting diode, an FOT and the like can be used alone or in combination.

When the ID card and the ID booklet of the present invention are prepared using the silver halide photographic light-sensitive material, a laser beam and a light-emitting diode are preferably used from the viewpoint of image recording density, and a laser beam is most preferably used. As a laser beam particularly preferably used in the present invention, a semiconductor laser (for example, GaAs, GaAlAs, GalInAsP, Ga (As
_{X P 1-X), CdTe} , InP, In X Ga 1-X As, InP X As 1-X , etc.), solid lasers (e.g. _{^{YAG: Nd 3+, CaWO 4:}} Nd 3+, CaWO 4: H
O ³⁺ , MgF ₂ : Ni ²⁺ , SrF ₂ : U ³⁺ , CaF ₂ : Tm ^2+, etc., liquid laser (for example, SeOCl ₂ : Nd ³⁺ , POCl ₃ : Nd ³⁺ , chloroaluminum, phthalocyanine, 3-3 diethyl thiatricarbocyanine, etc.), or a gas laser (e.g., neutral noble gas _{atoms, Co-He, Co 2 -He} , CO 2 -Ne, NO-He, N 2 O-H
e, He-Ne, Kr, Ar, He-Cd) are used, but a semiconductor laser and a gas laser are preferably used.

It is also possible to use a so-called SHG element (Second Harmonic Generator), which halves the wavelength together with the infrared laser light, together with the infrared laser light and a combination of the infrared laser light and the SHG element that is converted into visible light. it can.

In order to convert the image record thus obtained into an ID card and an ID booklet, preferably when at least one surface of the image recording medium is laminated with a plastic film or the like, the scratch resistance can be improved. In this case, means for preventing forgery or falsification are combined as necessary with the means of the present invention. For example, such a method is to firmly adhere the surface of the image recording body on the image recording layer side to a plastic film or the like. Firmly through a special hot melt or adhesive, form a hologram on the part that forms the ID card, emboss a specific part, or create a stamp with a specific pattern It is preferable to make it more difficult to forge the ID card by printing on a reflective surface or a plastic surface.

The ID card of the present invention is used as a single
The booklet has this ID card, has a writable page, and has the functions of a notebook.

In the ID card and the ID booklet according to the present invention, a part of the image recording that is visually recorded is formed by performing image processing by various means, and the part to be recorded by performing the image processing is a part of a person image. Is a part of the human image, and a place where image processing is performed is recorded in the human image, and a pixel unit on which the image processing is further performed has a size of 0.05 to 3 mm per pixel side. For this reason,
It is difficult to easily duplicate the image recording medium, and it is also very difficult to alter a part of the image recording medium. It is even more difficult to forge or alter the image recording medium. And a compact ID card and ID booklet can be obtained because no separate parts are provided to prevent forgery or alteration.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. FIGS. 1 and 2 show an example of the ID card of the present invention, and the structure of the ID card will be specifically described below.

FIG. 1 is a front view of an ID card according to the present invention. In the figure, the ID card has image information such as a personal photograph 1 as well as personal information such as name, address, affiliation or company name, and school information. Common items 2 such as name and issue date are described as character information.

FIG. 2 shows a cross-sectional view of the ID card. This ID card is composed of an image recording body 20 on which an image is recorded, a back laminating material 10, and a front laminating material 30.

The back laminate material 10 is composed of a plastic film 11 and a hot melt layer 12. As the hot melt, for example, known materials such as a polyolefin-based resin, an ethylene-acrylic acid-based copolymer, and an ethylene-acrylic ester-based copolymer can be used. For the plastic film 11, polyethylene terephthalate, polyvinyl chloride, polyvinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer, polyarylates, polycarbonates, polystyrene and the like are preferably used.

The plastic film 11 may be transparent or reflective, but when the support 21 constituting the image recording body 20 is transparent, the plastic film 11 is light reflective and substantially white. It is necessary to have a given surface reflection characteristic. Note that paper can be used instead of the reflective plastic film.

In the ID card of the present invention, when an image is recorded on the image recording body 20, various known image forming methods can be used. In this case, the image recording layer 22 and the support 21 constituting the image recording body 20 are preferably selected according to the respective image forming methods.

Surface laminate material 30 is a transparent plastic film
32 and a hot melt layer 31. The plastic film 32 may be the same as the plastic film 11, but is not necessarily the same. The hot melt layer 31 is made of the same function and material as the hot melt layer 12, but is not necessarily the same.

In the ID card of the present invention, at least a part of the printing of the character information can be performed on the hot melt layer 12 or the hot melt layer 31. Printing methods include typewriter, wire dot printer, thermal printer,
A known device such as an electrophotographic system is used.In the case of the electrophotographic system, it is preferable to write character information with a laser optical system, but a liquid crystal shutter array, an LED array, an FOT, or the like is used for the optical system. It is possible to
When printing on the hot melt layer 12, the support 21 needs to be a transparent support.

In addition, when printing on the hot melt layer 31, it is performed so as to have a mirror image relationship with ordinary characters, and forgery becomes difficult due to this special property.

FIG. 3 is a sectional view of another embodiment of the ID card of the present invention. In this case, the support 21 of the image recording medium needs to be a transparent support, and the plastic film 11 of the backside laminating material 10 has light-reflecting and surface-reflecting properties that substantially provide whiteness. It is necessary to be.

4 and 5 show an ID having an ID card according to the present invention.
Here is an example of a booklet. FIG. 4 is an example of a completed drawing of the ID booklet.

In this figure, the ID booklet includes a booklet section 40 including a plurality of writable pages and an ID card section 50 on which personal information is recorded. The ID card section 50 contains a personal photo 60 and name,
Information on the individual such as date of birth, address, affiliation, etc. or common matters 70 such as company name, date of issuance, etc. are described as appropriate.

FIG. 5 shows an example of a state in which an ID booklet is created.
The outer case 41 of the ID booklet is formed of, for example, a plastic film sheet or the like that is not easily damaged, and this plastic film sheet is folded back, one of which is the outer case of the booklet unit 40, and the other is the outer case of the ID card unit 50. Has become. The booklet section 40 is provided with a plurality of pages 42 having pages that can be written with a pencil, a pen, or the like, but the pages that can be written need not be particularly provided.

The ID card unit 50 includes a part 80 constituting an exterior of the booklet and an image recording body 90 on which an image is recorded. Image recording body 90
Is composed of an image recording layer 92 and a support 91, and a preferable one is selected according to each image forming method.

The part 80 that constitutes the exterior is the part that constitutes the outermost part of the booklet
81, a plastic film 82 and a hot melt layer 83. As the hot melt, for example, known materials such as a polyolefin-based resin, an ethylene-acrylic acid-based copolymer, and an ethylene-acrylic ester-based copolymer can be used.

Further, instead of the hot melt layer 83, a welding layer can be used. In this case, the image recording layer 92 and the welding layer are welded thermally without using an adhesive. The welding layer and the image recording layer 92 are preferably made of a polymer that can be thermally fused and adhered. Preferred examples of the polymer include polyvinyl chloride, vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer, polyester, polyether, and polycarbonate.

The material of the portion 81 constituting the outermost package is not limited, and materials such as synthetic leather, natural leather, etc., which are used for a normal notebook or the like are used.

FIG. 6 is an enlarged view of the face photograph portion in FIG. 4, which is not subjected to the image processing of the present invention (comparative example).

7 to 14 are enlarged views of a face photograph portion when the image processing of the present invention is performed. 7 and 8, the background BG (color of the shirt) has a yellow color, and a
No image dye is formed in the stripe portions of (c) and (c). The stripe part b has the same color as BG, but the part d is image-recorded in blue, which is complementary to BG. As the colors of these parts a to d, for example, predetermined colors are selected from preset colors according to the color of the background BG. The line width of each of the stripes a to d is 0.5 mm.

In FIGS. 9 and 10, the portion of stripe e (line width 0.5 mm) has a pitch of 0.5 mm in the horizontal direction, and the unimaged portion (white) and the BG negative-positive inverted image (high yellow density) Has been repeated. In the stripe portion f, an unimage-formed portion (white) and a negative-positive inverted image (high blue density), which is a complementary color of yellow, are also repeated. In the configuration of these parts e and f, for example, a predetermined pattern and color are selected from preset patterns according to the color of the background GB, and image processing is performed.

11 and 12, stripes g to i each have a line width of 0.8 mm, and stripes g and i have white and high yellow density as stripes e in FIGS. 9 and 10. Is repeated (pitch 0.5 mm). Stripe h repeats white and a yellow density pattern lower than BG. The configuration of these parts g to i is also, for example, the background BG
According to the color, a predetermined pattern and color are selected from preset patterns and image processing is performed.

In FIGS. 13 and 14, stripes j to l have line widths of 0.5 mm, 1 mm and 0.5 mm, respectively. The stripes have white and black patterns, and the stripe k has the same uniform pattern as BG. The stripe 1 repeats a yellow and blue pattern. The configuration of these parts j to l is also subjected to image processing, for example, by selecting a predetermined pattern and color from preset patterns according to the color of the background BG.

Next, specific examples according to the present invention will be described. A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material having the following layers on a transparent support was prepared.

Layer 1 is a green-sensitive silver chlorobromide emulsion layer containing a cyan coupler (AgCl 99 mol%). Layer 2 is a gelatin intermediate layer. Layer 3 is a red-sensitive silver chlorobromide emulsion layer containing a magenta coupler (AgCl 99 mol%). 4 is a gelatin intermediate layer. Layer 5 is an infrared-sensitive silver chlorobromide emulsion layer containing a yellow coupler (AgCl 99 mol%). Layer 6 is a gelatin protective layer. Information is read from the photosensitive layer side with a laser exposure device shown in Fig. 15 using green (He-Ne), red (He-Ne), and infrared (semiconductor).
Exposure was performed with each of the above laser beams, and development was performed using a processing solution such as a color developing solution, a bleach-fixing solution, or a stabilizing solution to obtain an image recording medium 90 shown in FIG.

Here, the image processing is of the type shown in FIG. 7 and FIG. 8 (however, the pattern of abcdcdabcd is repeated).

Next, the image recording medium 90 is superimposed on a booklet (having a white pet as a reflective support) as shown in FIG.
An ID booklet having the ID card of the present invention shown in FIG. 4 was obtained by passing the sheet through a heating and pressing roller at 120 ° C.

The block diagram of the laser exposure apparatus shown in FIG. 15 will be described below.

A signal G for controlling the cyan dye image is input to the laser light modulation circuit 127, and the output signal 131
Laser light 134 output from Ne (for green) laser 101
Is converged by the lens system 105, then the dichroic mirror 1
Due to 06, only the green component is reflected in a certain direction of the polygon mirror 119.

Similarly, the magenta dye image is converted to the control signal R.
Is input to the laser light modulation circuit 128 and the output signal 1
Laser light 135 output from laser 107 by 32 is
After convergence by the lens system 111, only the red component is reflected by the dichroic mirror 112 in a certain direction of the polygon mirror 119.

Also, a signal IR for controlling the yellow dye image
Is input to the laser light modulation circuit 129, and the output signal 1
The laser beam 136 output from the laser 113 by 33 is
After convergence by the lens system 117, only the yellow component is reflected by the dichroic mirror 118 in a certain direction of the polygon mirror 119.

The mixed laser beam 145 of the three different wavelengths of light is guided to the polygon mirror 119.

The polygon mirror 119 is rotated by a polygon mirror driving unit 147 controlled by a control signal generating unit 148, and is irradiated with a laser beam onto a photosensitive material 123 through an f-θ lens 120, a mirror 121, and a cylindrical lens 122 to be exposed. .

The photosensitive material 123 is stored in a stage 124, and the stage 124 is moved in the direction of the arrow by a motor 126. The motor 126 is driven by a motor drive circuit 146. The drive of the motor 126 is performed by the control signal generator 148 in synchronization with the polygon mirror 119.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, in the ID card and the ID booklet of the present invention, at least a part of the portion where the image is visually recorded is
The image is visually processed and recorded in accordance with the density and / or color of the personal information and / or background of the personal information, and the part to be visually processed and recorded is a part of the part of the human image. And the place where the image processing is performed is recorded in the human image, and the pixel unit for performing the image processing has a size of 0.05 to 3 mm on one side of the pixel, so that the image recording body is easily copied. It is very difficult to forge and falsify a part of the ID card, so that an ID card and an ID booklet that are more difficult to forge and falsify can be obtained, and forgery and falsification can be further prevented.

In addition, a part to be visually image-processed and recorded according to the density and / or color of the personal image and / or background of the personal information is a part of the part of the person image and is recorded by image processing. Since the location to be used is in the human image, it is a compact ID because there is no separate part that makes it difficult to forge or falsify
You will get a card and an ID booklet.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of an ID card according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of creating an ID card according to the present invention, and FIG.
FIG. 4 is a perspective view of an ID booklet according to the present invention, FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of creating an ID booklet, and FIG. 6 is a face image of a comparative example. FIGS. 7 to 14 are enlarged views, each showing an embodiment after image processing, and FIG. 15 is a block diagram of a laser exposure apparatus. In the figure, reference numerals 1 and 60 denote a face photograph, 2 and 70 denote common matters, 10 denotes a back lamination material, 20 and 90 denote an image recording body, 30 denotes a front lamination material, BG denotes a background, and a to l denote contrasts.

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Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. An ID card in which at least a part of personal information is visually image-recorded, wherein at least a part of the visually image-recorded part is a personal image of personal information and / or
Alternatively, the image is visually processed and recorded according to the density and / or the color of the background, and the portion to be visually processed and recorded is a part of the part of the person image and is processed by the image processing. An ID card in which a recording location is in a person image, and a pixel unit for performing image processing has a size of 0.05 to 3 mm per pixel side. 2. An ID booklet having an ID card, wherein a certain page of the booklet is formed by the ID card according to claim 1.