BE821851A - Identification appts. for use with bank cards - provides record of transaction and bank card presented - Google Patents

Abstract

The identification appts provides a photocopy record of the presented bank card on a transaction slip on which the date etc is recorded. The bank card carries the fingerprint of the holder (4) and when the card is inserted in the identification appts, the holder places his finger over an appropriate location, so that a second record of the fingerprint (3) is obtained on the photocopy, for comparison with the first, hence verifying the identity of the card holder. The photocopy transaction slip obtained can be handled by automatic accounting machines at the bank. Pref. the bank card is also made of a special plastic with specific colour, magnetism etc, so that the identification appts can compare these with stored parameters.

Description

       

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It has always been difficult to avoid the use of false documents, whether they are ID, bank documents or otherwise. The main problem lies in the difficulty of attributing

  
a document to a natural person, a

  
photo or signature not always easy to control

  
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the use of personal documents as well as the avoidance of

  
false.

  
We can design a personal document, which we will call an identity document, including in addition to the usual information,

  
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In addition, a device is constructed intended to simultaneously reproduce the identity document in question as well as the fingerprint of its holder. In this way, the document "copies"

  
will include all the details of the identity document, so

  
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make the holder of the identity document will have to apply his

  
finger (in our example the right thumb) on the device

  
moment when one reproduces his identity document. To verify that the identity document belongs to its holder, it will suffice to note the resemblance of the two juxtaposed fingerprints on the copy.

  
One of the main advantages of the system lies in the fact that this copy constitutes a document that can be kept,

  
undeniable proof of the passage of a person in a given place.

  
In addition, this copy can be easily read and processed by an electromechanical machine, all the indications being in

  
block letters.

  
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one could conceive of the application of such a system in the

  
executive of a bank or a credit organization.

  
The bank customer would have a credit card (Fig. A) mentioning the name of the bank, his name and

  
his Account N [deg.]. In addition on this map would be reproduced

  
the fingerprint of his right thumb for example. On the back side

  
this card would possibly be his signature.

  
Suppose the customer comes to an establishment

  
with this card. This establishment has a device that

  
copy their credit card to a document (Fig. B). Other information will also be printed on this document: the amount due, currency, date, etc. (1) as well as the name of the establishment to be credited with its bank account number. (2) The customer applies

  
his right thumb for a moment on the device and his imprint will reproduce in (3), i.e. juxtaposed with

  
the one from his credit card. (4) The employee of the establishment may, after verifying the agreement of the fingerprints

  
(3) and (4), give credit to your client with confidence.


    

Claims (1)

The copy thus obtained (Fig. B) can be entirely <EMI ID = 6.1> fingerprints, serve as undeniable proof. If the credit card is hard enough to imitate <EMI ID = 7.1> the use of forgery is made practically impossible. A system for verifying the authenticity of the credit card can be provided in the copying apparatus. (by color coparison, magnetism ...) <EMI ID = 8.1> Identification device characterized in that this device simultaneously copies a personal document on which is located <EMI ID = 9.1> preprint of a natural person presenting himself with this document.