CA2281114A1 - A method and device for applying a picture onto a carrier - Google Patents
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Abstract
In a method and a device for depositing a picture of a user (B) on a document (D) firstly a digital picture (I) of a user is manufactured. The digital picture is produced in a recording device (10). The recording device (10) allocates a unique identification code (C) to the digital picture and stores the picture and the identification code (C) in a central storage medium.
The recording device (10) issues the identification code (C). The identification code (C) may be read-in in a document issuing device (20). The document issuing device (20) on account of the identification code (C) loads the digital picture allocated to the identification code from the central storage medium (11) and deposits the picture on a carrier.
The recording device (10) issues the identification code (C). The identification code (C) may be read-in in a document issuing device (20). The document issuing device (20) on account of the identification code (C) loads the digital picture allocated to the identification code from the central storage medium (11) and deposits the picture on a carrier.
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PDYT001 ca/18.08.99 A method and device for applying a picture onto a carrier.
The invention relates to a method and a device for applying a picture onto a carrier, for example a picture of a user onto a document.
It is known in many regions of application to provide documents, ID cards, entry cards or likewise with the picture of the user of the document. This is particularly common in the case of ID cards such as passports, with credit cards but also with subscriptions for ski lifts or for public transport.
Usually places which issue such documents have photo automats in which the user may make the passport pictures. The passport pictures are manufactured according to conventional photographing methods using chemicals in the photo automat.
The place issuing the document must subsequently cut out the passport pictures and adhese them to the corresponding documents.
For example at the counters of ski regions this work may lead to undesired delays.
Furthermore with passport pictures adhesed on in such a manner there exists the risk that the picture of the entitled bearer of the document is exchanged for another picture.
Therefore such documents are usually provided with a security stamp which is to make the exchange more difficult. This stamp however requires an additional work effort.
Furthermore it is known to print digitalised pictures on credit cards, identity cards or similar plastic cards.
It is therefore the object of the present invention to avoid the disadvantages of that which is known, in particularly therefore to provide a method and a device for applying a picture onto a carrier, which permit a rapid, economical and simple depositing of the picture, which reduce or exclude the use of chemicals and which in spite of this meet high security standards. According to the invention these objects are achieved with a method and with a device with the features of the independent patent claims.
PDYT001 ca/18.08.99 For applying the passport picture onto a document such as for example a subscription, firstly a digital picture is produced. Devices for producing digital pictures are known per se. Thus digital photo cameras or also video cameras may be used. The advantage with the use of video cameras lies in the fact that the user may follow a moved picture of himself and freeze the picture at the desired point in time.
The digital picture produced in this manner in a further step is deposited in a preferably central storage medium. Subsequently a unique identification code which is unambigu-ous for the digital picture is produced and allocated to the picture.
Subsequently the code is given to the user by way of code issuing means. The production of the digital picture as well as the issuing of the code are effected in a recording device.
The storage of the picture and the production of the code may be effected in a central control ar-rangement but also in the recording device. This recording device is essentially the same as a known photo automat, but has a digital picture acquisition arrangement and may completely do away with the application of chemicals.
The issuing of the document provided with the picture is effected in a document issuing device. The document issuing device is typically located at the location issuing tMe document, i.e. for example at a counter for a ski lift or in a passport office. In a first step for the issuing of the document the identification code previously issued by the record-ing device is acquired by an acquisition arrangement, in particular is read into the document issuing device. On account of the identification code the document issuing device in a second step reads the digital picture allocated to the identification code from the central storage medium. The document issuing device consists typically of a com-puter which is provided with a printer. The computer may access the central storage medium, for example a hard disk or other data carrier and convey the digitalised picture to the printer.
The application of the digital picture onto a carrier, for example paper or plastic ends the method according to the invention.
PDYT001 ca/18.08.99 3 In a preferred embodiment example simultaneously with the digital picture onto the car-rier there is deposited other information. In particular data of the authorised bearer, for example names or expiry date of a subscription is deposited, in particular printed onto the carrier.
The method according to the invention has various advantages. Thus the digitalised picture without great effort may be printed in exactly the desired size at an exactly de-fined location of the carrier. The effort to the user and to the issuing location is therefore minimal and the error quota is small. Thanks to the code, at all times it is ensured that the correct digitalised picture is issued. Furthermore the security against counterfeiting is large. Because the picture is deposited directly onto the document the replacement by another picture cannot be realised or only with extreme difficulty.
Usually the picture is printed, for example with a thermo-printer, an ink jet colour printer or also with a laser printer. However also other optical methods are conceivable.
The identification code is preferably issued as a machine-readable code. With this, ad-vantageous is a bar code, a number code recognisable by machine or also magnetic, electromagnetic or electro-optical codes are conceivable, which may be recognised by suitable reading apparatus. It is however also conceivable to indicate the code as a number code on a monitor in the recording device. The user must then only remember the code and inform the location issuing the document of this code.
In a further preferred embodiment example the digital picture in the recording device is indicated as a video picture on a monitor. The user may with this himself select the point in time at which the picture is to be stored.
The method according to the invention furthermore permits the desposition of verifica-tion codes on the document. The verification code codes certain features of the picture.
Conceivable are for example background colours, biometric parameters (eye colour of the user/typical distances or proportions in the face of the user) or also an invisible or barely visible code deposited to the picture. The comparison of the verification code with PDYT001 ca/18.08.99 the features of the picture permits an authentication of the document. With this the se-curity of the document is additionally increased.
The identification code is acquired in the document issuing device for example with a scanner (commercially available infrared scanner), a magnetic, electromagnetic or electro-optical reader (for example mini-disk drives/chip read devices or CD
reader) or also with a keyboard.
Advantageously the digitalised pictures are stored on a central storage memory which is arranged specially separated from the recording device and also specially separated from the document issuing device. This permits simultaneous access to a single storage medium by several recording devices and/or several document dispensing devices.
With this several counters and photo automats may be applied. In this case the digital picture is transmitted between the recording device, the central storage medium and the document issuing device via data leads. A wireless transmission is also possible. It is also conceivable to store the pictures in the recording device. The identification code then determines the storage location, that is the specific recording device in which the picture is located.
In a further embodiment example the central storage medium is located at a central registration location. A user may with an identification code be able to print one and the same picture for various documents, for example simultaneously for a passport, a sub-scription and a credit card. The document issuing devices of the individual issuing loca-tions fall back in each case on the same central storage medium.
The device for carrying out the method according to the invention comprises essentially at least one recording device and at least one document issuing device for applying the digital picture onto the carrier.
The recording device comprises means for producing the digital picture, a storage me-dium for storing the digital picture, means for producing and allocating an identification code unique to the digital picture as well as means for issuing the identification code.
PDYT001 cal18.08.99 The storage medium does not specially need to be arranged at the same location as the recording device, but however must be connected or connectable to the remaining components of the recording device.
The document issuing device comprises an acquisition arrangement for acquiring the identification code, means for reading in the digital picture allocated to the identification code as well as means for depositing the digital picture onto a carrier.
The acquisition arrangement for acquiring the identification code is typically a bar code scanner. The reading means for reading in the picture into the document dispensing means consists typically of a commercially available computer and the means for de-positing the picture may consist of a commercially available printer.
The identification code in the recording device is typically likewise outputted on a printer. Applied for example are till receipt printers which in operation are reliable and economical. The identification is printed as a number sequence, bar-code or likewise.
Conceivable however are also other issuing devices, in particular writing apparatus, which deposit data onto a data carrier in electronic form.
The recording device may simultaneously comprise a monitor for displaying the picture.
The recording device and the document issuing device are directly or indirectly (for ex-ample via the storage medium) connected or connectable to one another.
Conceivable are stationary installed data leads, but also on demand connections via telephone leads or wireless connections. For certain applications it is conceivable that the recording de-vice and the document dispensing device specially coincide. This may for example be advantageous in a card automat, in which simultaneously a picture can be is produced and issued on a card. The identification code with this is not issued to the user. The produced digital picture is directly printed on.
PDYT001 ca/18.08.99 The invention in the following is described in more detail in embodiment examples and by way of the drawings. There are shown:
Figure 1 a schematic representation of a device according to the invention with a re-cording device and with a document issuing device and Figure 2 a schematic representation of a document manufactured according to the invention.
In Figure 1 there is schematically shown a device 9 for applying a picture onto a docu-ment D.
The device 9 consists essentially of a recording device 10 and of a document issuing device 20. The recording device 10 and the document issuing device 20 are connected to a central storage medium 11 via a schematically represented data lead. The central storage medium 11 may also be a component either of the recording device 10 or of the document issuing device 20. In this case a data lead directly connects the recording device 10 and the document issuing device 20 to one another.
In Figure 1 further data leads 19' are schematically shown which connect the central storage medium 11 to further non shown recording devices or document issuing de-vices. The recording device 10 consists essentially of a digital camera 15, of a printer 12 and of a computer arrangement 17 which is connected to the printer 12 and the camera 15. The recording device 10 is furthermore provided with a monitor 14 which likewise is connected to the computer arrangement 17.
The recording device 10 is otherwise formed in the manner of a typical cabin of a photo automat. As soon as the user B takes his place in the recording device and sets the re-cording device in operation, for example by insertion of a coin, the position of the user is acquired and the computer arrangement 17 gives the camera a command to record a picture. The camera 15 may be formed as a digital photo camera or also as a video camera. In combination with the monitor 14 in Figure 1 the camera 15 is formed as a PDYT001 ca/18.08.99 video camera. The camera 15 delivers the picture signal to the computer arrangement 17 which displays the acquired picture on the monitor 14. As soon as the user B is happy with the displayed picture he may freeze the moved picture wherein a digital pic-ture is produced and subsequently stored.
The computer arrangement 17 deposits the digital picture to the central storage medium 11. Simultaneously the computer arrangement 17 generates an identification code C
unique to the digital picture and allocates this picture to the storage medium 11. This identification code C is given from the computer arrangement 17 to a printer 12 which prints the identification code C onto a paper strip 16. The operation of the recording de-vice 10 may be effected via the monitor 14 which is designed as a touch screen. How-ever also other operation are conceivable, e.g. via keyboards.
The document issuing device 20 consists essentially of a document printer 23 for issu-ing a document D which is provided with the picture I of a user.
The document issuing device 20 furthermore comprises a scanner 21 for reading in the identification code C printed on the strip 16. The identification code C is acquired by the scanner and is led further to a computer arrangement 22. The computer arrangement 22 accesses the central storage medium 11 and reads in the digital picture uniquely allocated to the identfication code C from the central storage medium 11. The computer arrangement 22 subsequently controls the print-out of the digital picture I
which is allo-cated to the identification code C, on the printer 23.
The computer arrangement 22 may furthermore comprise non-shown input means which permit the operation and also the input of additional data.
Simultaneously with the digital picture I as a result further data may be printed on the document D.
The central storage medium 11 is for example a magnetic storage disk or a tape drive.
However also optical data carriers are conceivable. The storage medium 11 may be formed as a central server with a computer arrangement. With this the whole device 9 PDYT001 ca/18.08.99 g may be based on the client-server principle, wherein the recording device 10 and the document issuing device 20 is applied as a client.
Of course also the recording device 10 may additionally be provided with input means.
With this for example user-specific data may be directly inputted by the user.
Figure 2 shows schematically a document D which has been manufactured with the method according to the invention. The document D comprises a written part A
and is provided with a picture I which shows a portrait of the user or bearer of the document D.
In the embodiment according to Figure 2 the document is backed up by a verification code V. The verification code V is simultaneously deposited onto the document D. A
comparison of the two codes permits the authentication of the document.
The written part A deposited onto the document may contain names, personal details or similar meterial. These details may be inputted into the system by inputting means in the document issuing arrangement 20 or in the receiving device 10.
The system according to the invention consists of various components which are known to the man skilled in the art. Basically any of such known devices may be applied. For example the following components may be used:
- type of camera Mitsubishi CCD - 400E
- type of code printer: receipt printer for thermopaper 0663.0001 - type of graphic card: ELSA Winner 2000 Office - type of scanner bar-code method - type of printer thermosublimation method Mitsubishi CP-710 PDYT001 ca/18.08.99 9 - type of data connection: coaxial or glass fibre, two-wire lead - type of monitor: Top Touche Operator Panel 10,4"-VGA
The invention relates to a method and a device for applying a picture onto a carrier, for example a picture of a user onto a document.
It is known in many regions of application to provide documents, ID cards, entry cards or likewise with the picture of the user of the document. This is particularly common in the case of ID cards such as passports, with credit cards but also with subscriptions for ski lifts or for public transport.
Usually places which issue such documents have photo automats in which the user may make the passport pictures. The passport pictures are manufactured according to conventional photographing methods using chemicals in the photo automat.
The place issuing the document must subsequently cut out the passport pictures and adhese them to the corresponding documents.
For example at the counters of ski regions this work may lead to undesired delays.
Furthermore with passport pictures adhesed on in such a manner there exists the risk that the picture of the entitled bearer of the document is exchanged for another picture.
Therefore such documents are usually provided with a security stamp which is to make the exchange more difficult. This stamp however requires an additional work effort.
Furthermore it is known to print digitalised pictures on credit cards, identity cards or similar plastic cards.
It is therefore the object of the present invention to avoid the disadvantages of that which is known, in particularly therefore to provide a method and a device for applying a picture onto a carrier, which permit a rapid, economical and simple depositing of the picture, which reduce or exclude the use of chemicals and which in spite of this meet high security standards. According to the invention these objects are achieved with a method and with a device with the features of the independent patent claims.
PDYT001 ca/18.08.99 For applying the passport picture onto a document such as for example a subscription, firstly a digital picture is produced. Devices for producing digital pictures are known per se. Thus digital photo cameras or also video cameras may be used. The advantage with the use of video cameras lies in the fact that the user may follow a moved picture of himself and freeze the picture at the desired point in time.
The digital picture produced in this manner in a further step is deposited in a preferably central storage medium. Subsequently a unique identification code which is unambigu-ous for the digital picture is produced and allocated to the picture.
Subsequently the code is given to the user by way of code issuing means. The production of the digital picture as well as the issuing of the code are effected in a recording device.
The storage of the picture and the production of the code may be effected in a central control ar-rangement but also in the recording device. This recording device is essentially the same as a known photo automat, but has a digital picture acquisition arrangement and may completely do away with the application of chemicals.
The issuing of the document provided with the picture is effected in a document issuing device. The document issuing device is typically located at the location issuing tMe document, i.e. for example at a counter for a ski lift or in a passport office. In a first step for the issuing of the document the identification code previously issued by the record-ing device is acquired by an acquisition arrangement, in particular is read into the document issuing device. On account of the identification code the document issuing device in a second step reads the digital picture allocated to the identification code from the central storage medium. The document issuing device consists typically of a com-puter which is provided with a printer. The computer may access the central storage medium, for example a hard disk or other data carrier and convey the digitalised picture to the printer.
The application of the digital picture onto a carrier, for example paper or plastic ends the method according to the invention.
PDYT001 ca/18.08.99 3 In a preferred embodiment example simultaneously with the digital picture onto the car-rier there is deposited other information. In particular data of the authorised bearer, for example names or expiry date of a subscription is deposited, in particular printed onto the carrier.
The method according to the invention has various advantages. Thus the digitalised picture without great effort may be printed in exactly the desired size at an exactly de-fined location of the carrier. The effort to the user and to the issuing location is therefore minimal and the error quota is small. Thanks to the code, at all times it is ensured that the correct digitalised picture is issued. Furthermore the security against counterfeiting is large. Because the picture is deposited directly onto the document the replacement by another picture cannot be realised or only with extreme difficulty.
Usually the picture is printed, for example with a thermo-printer, an ink jet colour printer or also with a laser printer. However also other optical methods are conceivable.
The identification code is preferably issued as a machine-readable code. With this, ad-vantageous is a bar code, a number code recognisable by machine or also magnetic, electromagnetic or electro-optical codes are conceivable, which may be recognised by suitable reading apparatus. It is however also conceivable to indicate the code as a number code on a monitor in the recording device. The user must then only remember the code and inform the location issuing the document of this code.
In a further preferred embodiment example the digital picture in the recording device is indicated as a video picture on a monitor. The user may with this himself select the point in time at which the picture is to be stored.
The method according to the invention furthermore permits the desposition of verifica-tion codes on the document. The verification code codes certain features of the picture.
Conceivable are for example background colours, biometric parameters (eye colour of the user/typical distances or proportions in the face of the user) or also an invisible or barely visible code deposited to the picture. The comparison of the verification code with PDYT001 ca/18.08.99 the features of the picture permits an authentication of the document. With this the se-curity of the document is additionally increased.
The identification code is acquired in the document issuing device for example with a scanner (commercially available infrared scanner), a magnetic, electromagnetic or electro-optical reader (for example mini-disk drives/chip read devices or CD
reader) or also with a keyboard.
Advantageously the digitalised pictures are stored on a central storage memory which is arranged specially separated from the recording device and also specially separated from the document issuing device. This permits simultaneous access to a single storage medium by several recording devices and/or several document dispensing devices.
With this several counters and photo automats may be applied. In this case the digital picture is transmitted between the recording device, the central storage medium and the document issuing device via data leads. A wireless transmission is also possible. It is also conceivable to store the pictures in the recording device. The identification code then determines the storage location, that is the specific recording device in which the picture is located.
In a further embodiment example the central storage medium is located at a central registration location. A user may with an identification code be able to print one and the same picture for various documents, for example simultaneously for a passport, a sub-scription and a credit card. The document issuing devices of the individual issuing loca-tions fall back in each case on the same central storage medium.
The device for carrying out the method according to the invention comprises essentially at least one recording device and at least one document issuing device for applying the digital picture onto the carrier.
The recording device comprises means for producing the digital picture, a storage me-dium for storing the digital picture, means for producing and allocating an identification code unique to the digital picture as well as means for issuing the identification code.
PDYT001 cal18.08.99 The storage medium does not specially need to be arranged at the same location as the recording device, but however must be connected or connectable to the remaining components of the recording device.
The document issuing device comprises an acquisition arrangement for acquiring the identification code, means for reading in the digital picture allocated to the identification code as well as means for depositing the digital picture onto a carrier.
The acquisition arrangement for acquiring the identification code is typically a bar code scanner. The reading means for reading in the picture into the document dispensing means consists typically of a commercially available computer and the means for de-positing the picture may consist of a commercially available printer.
The identification code in the recording device is typically likewise outputted on a printer. Applied for example are till receipt printers which in operation are reliable and economical. The identification is printed as a number sequence, bar-code or likewise.
Conceivable however are also other issuing devices, in particular writing apparatus, which deposit data onto a data carrier in electronic form.
The recording device may simultaneously comprise a monitor for displaying the picture.
The recording device and the document issuing device are directly or indirectly (for ex-ample via the storage medium) connected or connectable to one another.
Conceivable are stationary installed data leads, but also on demand connections via telephone leads or wireless connections. For certain applications it is conceivable that the recording de-vice and the document dispensing device specially coincide. This may for example be advantageous in a card automat, in which simultaneously a picture can be is produced and issued on a card. The identification code with this is not issued to the user. The produced digital picture is directly printed on.
PDYT001 ca/18.08.99 The invention in the following is described in more detail in embodiment examples and by way of the drawings. There are shown:
Figure 1 a schematic representation of a device according to the invention with a re-cording device and with a document issuing device and Figure 2 a schematic representation of a document manufactured according to the invention.
In Figure 1 there is schematically shown a device 9 for applying a picture onto a docu-ment D.
The device 9 consists essentially of a recording device 10 and of a document issuing device 20. The recording device 10 and the document issuing device 20 are connected to a central storage medium 11 via a schematically represented data lead. The central storage medium 11 may also be a component either of the recording device 10 or of the document issuing device 20. In this case a data lead directly connects the recording device 10 and the document issuing device 20 to one another.
In Figure 1 further data leads 19' are schematically shown which connect the central storage medium 11 to further non shown recording devices or document issuing de-vices. The recording device 10 consists essentially of a digital camera 15, of a printer 12 and of a computer arrangement 17 which is connected to the printer 12 and the camera 15. The recording device 10 is furthermore provided with a monitor 14 which likewise is connected to the computer arrangement 17.
The recording device 10 is otherwise formed in the manner of a typical cabin of a photo automat. As soon as the user B takes his place in the recording device and sets the re-cording device in operation, for example by insertion of a coin, the position of the user is acquired and the computer arrangement 17 gives the camera a command to record a picture. The camera 15 may be formed as a digital photo camera or also as a video camera. In combination with the monitor 14 in Figure 1 the camera 15 is formed as a PDYT001 ca/18.08.99 video camera. The camera 15 delivers the picture signal to the computer arrangement 17 which displays the acquired picture on the monitor 14. As soon as the user B is happy with the displayed picture he may freeze the moved picture wherein a digital pic-ture is produced and subsequently stored.
The computer arrangement 17 deposits the digital picture to the central storage medium 11. Simultaneously the computer arrangement 17 generates an identification code C
unique to the digital picture and allocates this picture to the storage medium 11. This identification code C is given from the computer arrangement 17 to a printer 12 which prints the identification code C onto a paper strip 16. The operation of the recording de-vice 10 may be effected via the monitor 14 which is designed as a touch screen. How-ever also other operation are conceivable, e.g. via keyboards.
The document issuing device 20 consists essentially of a document printer 23 for issu-ing a document D which is provided with the picture I of a user.
The document issuing device 20 furthermore comprises a scanner 21 for reading in the identification code C printed on the strip 16. The identification code C is acquired by the scanner and is led further to a computer arrangement 22. The computer arrangement 22 accesses the central storage medium 11 and reads in the digital picture uniquely allocated to the identfication code C from the central storage medium 11. The computer arrangement 22 subsequently controls the print-out of the digital picture I
which is allo-cated to the identification code C, on the printer 23.
The computer arrangement 22 may furthermore comprise non-shown input means which permit the operation and also the input of additional data.
Simultaneously with the digital picture I as a result further data may be printed on the document D.
The central storage medium 11 is for example a magnetic storage disk or a tape drive.
However also optical data carriers are conceivable. The storage medium 11 may be formed as a central server with a computer arrangement. With this the whole device 9 PDYT001 ca/18.08.99 g may be based on the client-server principle, wherein the recording device 10 and the document issuing device 20 is applied as a client.
Of course also the recording device 10 may additionally be provided with input means.
With this for example user-specific data may be directly inputted by the user.
Figure 2 shows schematically a document D which has been manufactured with the method according to the invention. The document D comprises a written part A
and is provided with a picture I which shows a portrait of the user or bearer of the document D.
In the embodiment according to Figure 2 the document is backed up by a verification code V. The verification code V is simultaneously deposited onto the document D. A
comparison of the two codes permits the authentication of the document.
The written part A deposited onto the document may contain names, personal details or similar meterial. These details may be inputted into the system by inputting means in the document issuing arrangement 20 or in the receiving device 10.
The system according to the invention consists of various components which are known to the man skilled in the art. Basically any of such known devices may be applied. For example the following components may be used:
- type of camera Mitsubishi CCD - 400E
- type of code printer: receipt printer for thermopaper 0663.0001 - type of graphic card: ELSA Winner 2000 Office - type of scanner bar-code method - type of printer thermosublimation method Mitsubishi CP-710 PDYT001 ca/18.08.99 9 - type of data connection: coaxial or glass fibre, two-wire lead - type of monitor: Top Touche Operator Panel 10,4"-VGA
Claims (14)
1. A method for applying a picture onto a carrier, preferably onto a document (D), characterised by the steps:
- producing a digital picture by way of a recording device (10), - storing the digital picture in a storage medium (11) - producing and allocating an identification code (C) unique to the digital picture - issuing the identification code (C) by way of code issuing means (12) - acquiring the identification code (C) with an acquisition arrangement (21) in a document issuing device (20) - reading the digital picture allocated to the identification code from the storage medium (11) into the document issuing device (20) - applying the digital picture (I) onto the carrier by way of the document issuing device (20).
- producing a digital picture by way of a recording device (10), - storing the digital picture in a storage medium (11) - producing and allocating an identification code (C) unique to the digital picture - issuing the identification code (C) by way of code issuing means (12) - acquiring the identification code (C) with an acquisition arrangement (21) in a document issuing device (20) - reading the digital picture allocated to the identification code from the storage medium (11) into the document issuing device (20) - applying the digital picture (I) onto the carrier by way of the document issuing device (20).
2. A method according to claim 1, characterised in that the digital picture (I) is printed onto the carrier, wherein preferably simultaneously an additional print (A) is deposited onto the carrier.
3. A method according to one of the the claims 1 or 2, characterised in that the identification code (C) is printed out as a bar-code, number code or is displayed as a number code on a monitor or is outputted as a magnetic or electromagnetic or electro-optical code on a data carrier.
4. A method according to one of the claims 1 to 3, characterised in that the digital picture in the recording device (10) is displayed as a video picture on a monitor (14), wherein the point in time for storing a desired picture can be selected by the user.
5. A method according to one of the claims 1 to 4, characterised in that on the carrier (D) there is applied a verification code (V) coding predeterminable features of the picture.
6. A method according to one of the claims 1 to 5, characterised in that the identification code (C) is acquired by way of a scanner, a keyboard, a magnetic, electromagnetic or electro-optical reader.
7. A method according to one of the claims 1 to 6, characterised in that the digital picture via data leads (19) is transmitted from the recording device (10) to the central storage medium (11) and/or from the central storage medium (11) to the document issuing device (20).
8. A device (9) for applying a picture onto a carrier, preferably onto a document (D), with at least one recording device (10) for producing a digital picture and with at least one document issuing device (20) for applying the digital picture (I) on a carrier, wherein the recording device (10) comprises - means (15) for producing a digital picture, - means (17) for producing and allocating an identification code (C) unique to the digital picture and means (12) for issuing the identification code (C), wherein the document issuing device (20) comprises an acquisition arrangement (21) for acquiring the identification code (C) means (22) for reading the digital picture from the central storage medium (11) into the document issuing device (20) and means (23) for applying the picture allocated to the identification code (C) onto a carrier and wherein the recording device (10) and/or the document issuing device (20) are connected or connectable to a storage medium (11).
9. A device according to claim 8, characterised in that the means for depositing the picture onto the carrier consists of a printer (23), in particular a thermoprinter, an ink jet printer or a laser printer.
10. A device according to one of the claims 8 or 9, characterised in that the means for issuing the identification code (C) consist of a printer (12), of a monitor (14) or of a drive for writing onto a data carrier.
11. A device according to one of the claims 8 to 10, characterised in that the recording device (10) comprises a monitor (14) for displaying a video picture, wherein the recording device (10) furthermore preferably comprises means for freezing the video picture.
12. A device according to one of the claims 8 to 11, characterised in that the acquisition arrangement (21) is a scanner.
13 13. A device according to one of the claims 8 to 12, characterised in that the recording device (10) and the document issuing device (20) are connectable directly or indirectly via data leads (19) to one another and/or to the storage medium (11).
14. A device for producing a document (D) provided with a picture, characterised by means for producing a digital picture (I), and by issuing means (23) for issuing the document (D), wherein the issuing means (23) are designed for providing the document (D) with the digital picture (I) and with a writing (A) and wherein the device is preferably formed as a ticket automat.
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| EP98117696A EP0987650B1 (en) | 1998-09-18 | 1998-09-18 | Method and apparatus for applying an image to a carrier |
| EP98117696.9-2210 | 1998-09-18 |
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