DE10246640A1 - Intelligent visitor card system has card holder address encoded in printed graphic pattern scanned by camera incorporated in mobile telephone, notepad computer or personal digital assistant - Google Patents

Intelligent visitor card system has card holder address encoded in printed graphic pattern scanned by camera incorporated in mobile telephone, notepad computer or personal digital assistant Download PDF

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DE10246640A1
DE10246640A1 DE2002146640 DE10246640A DE10246640A1 DE 10246640 A1 DE10246640 A1 DE 10246640A1 DE 2002146640 DE2002146640 DE 2002146640 DE 10246640 A DE10246640 A DE 10246640A DE 10246640 A1 DE10246640 A1 DE 10246640A1
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Wolfram Koch
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System has standard visitor card printed with graphic pattern prepared by computer, using software which allows card holder address to be encoded in pattern. Pattern is scanned by camera for reading address code, camera is incorporated in mobile telephone, notepad computer or personal digital assistant, allowing address information to be entered in its electronic telephone book or address book.

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Millionen Geschäftsleute tauschen jeden Tag ihre Visitenkarten aus. Das ist nicht nur eine schöne Geste, sondern auch Ausdruck des Geschmacks und der beruflichen Position des Karteninhabers. Diese Karten enthalten wichtige Informationen über Adressen, berufliche Verbindungen und Telefonnummern des jeweiligen Geschäftspartners. Viele Geschäftsleute bewahren diese Visitenkarten auf. Dafür gibt es besondere Etuis. Manche legen sie einfach nur in ein Fach in ihrem Schreibtisch. Irgendwann kommt der Zeitpunkt, wo man die Adresse und die Telefonnummern in ein elektronisches oder digitales System übertragen will. ( Kaum jemand benutzt noch handgeschriebene Adressbücher!) Dazu muss die Karte aber abgetippt und in der im Computer vorhandenen Adresskartei gespeichert werden. Eine weitere Möglichkeit , Zeichen auf der Karte in ein maschinenlesbares Format zu wandeln, ist scannen. Diese Methode ist aber nicht fehlerfrei, denn jede Software die den Text auf der Karte in mäschinenlesbare Zeichen überträgt, arbeitet ungenau. Eine gute OCR (Optical Character Recognition) Software macht bis zu 5 Fehler auf 100 Zeichen. Das heißt, wenn nur eine Zahl einer Telefonnummer falsch ist, wäre der ganze Scan nichts wert.Millions of business people exchange theirs every day Business cards. This is not only a nice gesture, but also an expression the taste and professional position of the cardholder. These cards contain important information about addresses, professional connections and phone numbers of the respective business partner. Many business people keep these business cards. There are special cases for this. Some just put them in a compartment in their desk. At some point comes the time when you get the address and the phone numbers wants to transfer into an electronic or digital system. ( Hardly anyone still uses handwritten address books!) But the card has to typed and saved in the address file available in the computer become. One more way To convert characters on the card into a machine-readable format, is scanning. However, this method is not error-free, because everyone Software that translates the text on the card into machine-readable characters works inaccurate. Good OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software makes up to 5 errors per 100 characters. That is, if only one number one Phone number would be wrong the whole scan is worth nothing.

Eine herkömmliche Visitenkarte besitzt keine Schnittstelle zur digitalen Welt.Has a conventional business card no interface to the digital world.

Hier nun die Idee:
Auf die normale Visitenkarte wird, entweder bei der Herstellung oder nachträglich, ein Muster ähnlich einem Barcode aufgedruckt. Das Muster ist quadratisch und enthält viele kleine weiße und schwarze Quadrate. Auf einer Fläche von einem Quadratzentimeter ergeben sich so mehrere Millionen Kombinationen. Durch ein Computerprogramm wird die Adresse in ein solches Muster verschlüsselt und im Internet in einer Datenbank hinterlegt. Das Muster kann dann zum Beispiel einfach mit einem Drucker auf die Visitenkarte gedruckt werden. Oder aber der Adresscode wird, wie schon erwähnt , direkt bei der Herstellung der Visitenkarte aufgedruckt.
Here is the idea:
A pattern similar to a barcode is printed on the normal business card, either during manufacture or afterwards. The pattern is square and contains many small white and black squares. This results in several million combinations in an area of one square centimeter. The address is encoded in such a pattern by a computer program and stored in a database on the Internet. The pattern can then, for example, simply be printed on the business card using a printer. Or, as already mentioned, the address code is printed directly when the business card is made.

Das Lesen ist ebenso einfach : Eine primitive Webcam, die nur in der Lage sein muss Schwarz und Weiß zu erkennen ist an einen Computer angeschlossen oder integriert. Genauso wäre es möglich diese „Kamera" in ein Handy, in einen Laptop oder einen Calculater einzubauen. Einige Hersteller bieten bereits Geräte mit eingebauter Webcam an. Auch diese könnten nach entsprechender Softwareänderung bereits genutzt werden. Die Kamera liest das Muster auf der Karte und entschlüsselt mit Hilfe des Programms das Muster und übersetzt es in die Adressdaten und speichert diese schließlich in der gewünschten Adresskartei. Auch die Verifizierung mit der Internetdatenbank wäre möglich.Reading is just as easy: one primitive webcam that only needs to be able to recognize black and white is connected to or integrated into a computer. It would also be possible to put this "camera" into a cell phone to install a laptop or a calculator. Some manufacturers already offer devices with built-in webcam. These could also be changed after a corresponding software change already being used. The camera reads the pattern on the card and decrypted with the help of the program the pattern and translates it into the address data and finally saves it in the desired one Address file. Verification with the internet database would also be possible.

Eine weitere Funktion der Software erlaubt, die Adressdaten an das eigene Datenbankformat anzupassen. Dadurch wird die Kompatibilität mit bereits implementierten Systemen sichergestellt.Another function of the software allows you to adapt the address data to your own database format. This makes compatibility ensured with already implemented systems.

Das heißt, es wird keine neue Adressdatenbank nötig sein um die neue Adresse auf Computer vom PDA (persönlichen digitalen Assistenten) wie Palm oder IPAQ bis hin zum Desktop zu übertragen.That means it won't be a new address database be necessary to get the new address on computer from PDA (personal digital assistant) like Palm or IPAQ to the desktop.

Der Vorteil dieses neuen Systems besteht in der Verwendung herkömmlicher Visitenkarten und den damit verbundenen Gepflogenheiten in der Geschäftswelt. D.h. die Geste, eine persönlich gestaltete Visitenkarte zu überreichen, bleibt erhalten. Es wird darüber hinaus keine Zeit mehr verschwendet den Inhalt der Karte mühsam abzutippen. Dementsprechend werden Tippfehler der Vergangenheit angehören.The advantage of this new system consists in the use of conventional Business cards and the associated customs in the business world. That the gesture, one personally to present the designed business card, remains intact. It gets over it no more wasted typing the contents of the card. Accordingly, typing errors will be a thing of the past.

Die sogenannte Kamera ist sehr billig in Geräte zu integrieren, da sie lediglich aus einer einfachen Fotozelle und einem Chip besteht, der die Daten überträgt.The so-called camera is very cheap in devices to integrate, since they only consist of a simple photocell and a chip that transmits the data.

Noch ein weiterer Vorteil: Das maschinenlesbare Adressmuster lässt sich auch in der Geschäftskorrespondenz nutzen. Es kann auf Briefe , Akten oder auch Telefaxe aufgedruckt werden. Weitere Inhalte können gespeichert werden. Auch die Verschlüsselung von Daten, welche dann nur mit Hilfe eines Codes geöffnet werden könnten, wäre möglich.Another advantage: the machine-readable Address pattern leaves also in business correspondence use. It can be printed on letters, files or even faxes become. More content can get saved. Also the encryption of data, which then only opened with a code could become, could be possible.

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DE102007038810A1 (en) * 2007-08-16 2009-02-26 Vodafone Holding Gmbh Method for transmission of digital coded data from processor-controlled device to other processor-controlled device, involves generating image data, which is produced from digital coded data that has to be transmitted
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