JP2005056181A - Two-dimensional image reader and stamp - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To substitute a two-dimensional image reader for a stamp card, and to attach an imprint by a stamp without using ink. <P>SOLUTION: Photodetector elements are two-dimensionally arranged in a display screen of a display part 3 to configure an image input part 6, and the stamp card is abutted on the display screen to make a storage part 9 store an image thereof. An impression part of the stamp is abutted on the display screen in a state that the stamp card stored in the storage part 9 is displayed on the display screen. Because light of an internal light-emitting diode is transmitted through a light transmission part formed according to mirror writing of the imprint in the impression part, the imprint can be read, and the imprint is stored in the storage part in a state that the imprint is impressed on an impression column of the stamp card. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a two-dimensional image reading apparatus in which a display screen can also be used as an input means for a two-dimensional image, and in particular, an image of a paper such as a pre-read stamp card or a package delivery slip, or The present invention relates to a two-dimensional image reading apparatus capable of pressing a stamp on a created document and a stamp used therefor.

One form in which retail stores offer benefits to customers is stamp cards. For example, each time a certain amount of money is purchased, a stamp card is given to the customer. When one stamp is pressed and the number of stamps is collected to a certain extent, a privilege corresponding to the number of stamps is provided to the customer. It is to do.
In addition, a package delivery company employs a system in which a delivery slip affixed to a package is stamped from a recipient to obtain a delivery certificate.

The stamp described in Patent Document 1 can be used as a stamp for pressing the stamp card or the slip. This stamp has a storage unit that stores a plurality of impressions and a clock unit, a printing unit that prints the imprint and date and time output from the control unit, and selects any one of the imprints. The imprint is printed on the object by the ink jet method together with the date and time.
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 10-202989

Stamp cards are issued at various stores such as drug stores and bookstores. This makes the wallet full of stamp cards. If you don't like this and keep the stamp card in your desk drawer, you will forget to bring the stamp card when you go shopping and you will not be able to press the stamp.
In addition, it is necessary for a luggage delivery company to store delivery slips for a certain period of time, but a trader with a large amount of daily handling needs a large space for storage. It becomes difficult to store.

In addition, since stamps pressed on stamp cards at retail stores and stamps pressed when receiving packages at home usually use ink or vermilion, the ink sometimes gets dirty on hands and clothes. Since the stamp of Patent Document 1 also uses ink, this problem cannot be fundamentally solved.
The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and a first object of the present invention is to provide a two-dimensional image reading apparatus that can be used in place of paper such as a stamp card and a delivery slip. Is to provide a stamp that can be imprinted without using ink.

The two-dimensional image reading apparatus of the present invention comprises a display means, an image input means for optically reading an image applied to the display screen, wherein light receiving elements are two-dimensionally arranged on the display screen of the display means. A storage means for storing the image read by the image input means, and a display control means for displaying the image stored in the storage means on the display screen of the display means,
By applying a sheet to the display screen and storing the sheet as an image in the storage device, and applying a stamp to the display screen in a state where the image of the sheet is displayed on the display screen, a stamp is stored in the storage device. The seal impression is stored as an image in association with the image on the paper. In this case, the paper may be a stamp card or a package delivery slip.

In this two-dimensional image reading apparatus, it is possible to eliminate the trouble of carrying a large number of stamp cards by storing the stamp cards. In addition, by storing the delivery slip of the package and pressing the stamp of the recipient of the package on the stored delivery slip, a large number of delivery slips can be stored easily without taking up space.
The two-dimensional image reading apparatus of the present invention comprises a light receiving element arranged two-dimensionally on a display means and a display screen of the display means or a display screen of a sub display means provided separately from the display means. The image input means for optically reading the stamp impression applied to the display screen as an image, the storage means for storing the stamp impression image read by the image input means, and the storage means Display control means for displaying an image of the stamp imprint at a predetermined position on the display screen of the display means.

In this two-dimensional image reading apparatus, for example, a sentence can be created by the reading apparatus, and the created sentence can be printed out with a mark pressed.
The stamp of the present invention includes a stamp main part in which a translucency is different between a stamped part and other parts on a stamped surface applied to a display screen provided with a light receiving element, and the stamped surface of the stamp main part. And a light source for projecting outside.
According to this stamp, the stamp can be made without using ink or vermilion.

(First embodiment)
Hereinafter, a first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.
FIG. 2 shows a stamp card portable terminal 1 as a two-dimensional image reading apparatus. A display unit 3 is provided on the front surface of a case 2 of the portable terminal 1. The display screen with backlight of the display unit 3 is a liquid crystal display capable of full color display, and a light receiving element 5 is embedded in each liquid crystal pixel 4 as shown in FIG. The light receiving elements 5 arranged two-dimensionally on the display screen in this manner can read an object applied to the display screen as an image, and constitute an image input unit 6 (see FIG. 1). The display unit 3 capable of reading the image can be constituted by a liquid crystal display device called “input display”, for example.

  The electrical configuration of the portable terminal 1 is shown in FIG. 1. As shown in the figure, the portable terminal 1 includes a control circuit 7 and an operation unit 8 in addition to the display unit 3 with the image input unit 6. A storage unit 9 is provided. Further, the portable terminal 1 includes a battery (not shown) as a power source, and the power is turned on to the display 3 and the control circuit 7 by operating the power switch 10 shown in FIG. .

  The control circuit 7 controls the entire portable terminal 1 and is mainly composed of a microcomputer and its peripheral circuits. The image input unit 6 is connected to the control circuit 7 via the A / D converter 11 and the binarization circuit 12, and the light reception information (image information) of the light receiving element 5 of the image input unit 6 is output as a scanning line signal. Then, it is converted into a digital signal by the A / D converter 11 and binarized at a predetermined level by the binarization circuit 12. The binarized scanning line signal is stored in the storage unit 9 as an image signal by the control circuit 7. The control circuit 7 functions as a display control unit, reads the image information stored in the storage unit 9, and displays an image on the display screen of the display unit 3.

  The operation unit 8 includes switches such as a page feed switch 13 as a read image selection unit, a page return switch 14 as a read image selection unit, and an image reading switch 15 as an image reading start unit. The page feed and return switches 13 and 4 are for selectively reading out the image information stored in the storage unit 9 and displaying it on the display screen of the display unit 3. Reading is performed with the relationship that the reading order is opposite to each other.

  Such a portable terminal 1 stores a stamp card distributed at a retail store as an image, and displays the image of the stamp card on the display screen of the display unit 3. When the stamp card is displayed on the display screen and the stamp is applied to the display screen, the image input unit 6 reads the stamp imprint as an image. A stamp 16 used for applying the impression to the display screen and reading the imprint is shown in FIGS.

  As shown in FIG. 6, the stamp 16 includes a columnar main body 17, a stamping portion 18 provided at the tip of the main body 17, a light emitting diode 19 as a light source provided in the main body 17, and an inside of the main body 17. The battery 20 as a power source detachably provided on the switch, the switch 21 for turning on / off the light emitting diode 19, and the like. As shown in FIG. 7, a current limiting resistor 22, a light emitting diode 19, and a lighting switch 21 are connected in series between the positive electrode and the negative electrode of the battery 20.

The stamp part 18 is made of a translucent material, for example, a transparent or translucent plastic material, and a black light-shielding film 23 is bonded to the tip surface. The light-shielding film 23 is formed with a translucent portion 23a cut out with a pattern constituting a mirror character of an imprint.
The light emitting diode 19 illuminates the stamp portion 18 from within the main body 17. The light emitted from the light emitting diode 19 is emitted from the stamping portion 18 to the outside through the light transmitting portion 23 a of the light shielding film 23. Accordingly, when the light-emitting diode 19 is turned on by placing the stamping part 18 on the display screen of the display part 3, the image input part 6 reads the seal impression as an image. A lid 24 for taking in and out the battery 20 is provided at the other end of the main body 17.

Next, how to use the portable terminal 1 having the above-described configuration will be described.
It is assumed that the mobile terminal 1 is taken when going out for shopping. Suppose you shop at a retail store, for example, XX pharmacy, and you are encouraged to use a stamp card using the mobile terminal 1 and accept it. Therefore, the portable terminal 1 is turned on, a stamp card 25 of XX pharmacy as shown in FIG. 4 is applied to the display screen of the display unit 3, and the image reading switch 15 is operated in that state.

  Then, the backlight of the display screen of the display unit 3 is reflected by the stamp card 25, and the light receiving element 5 receives the reflected light. As a result, the stamp card 25 as a sheet is read as an image and stored in the storage unit 9. Next, the page turning switch 13 is operated to display the image of the stamp card 25 stored in the storage unit 9 on the display screen of the display unit 3. When there is only one stamp card stored in the storage unit 9, the XX pharmacy stamp card 25 is immediately displayed. When a plurality of stamp cards are stored, the page feed switch 13 or the page return switch 14 is operated to display the XX pharmacy stamp card 25.

  With the stamp card 25 displayed on the display screen, the stamped portion 18 of the stamp 16 is applied to the first box in the stamped column of the stamp card 25 on the display screen, and the light emitting diode 19 is turned on by operating the switch 21 of the stamp 16. Light up. In this state, the image reading switch 15 of the portable terminal 1 is operated to read the image. Then, the image input unit 6 captures an image with the seal of the stamp 16 at a position corresponding to the first grid in the stamp field of the stamp card 25 on the display screen, and the image is stored in the storage unit 9.

The storage unit 9 has a stamp card storage area for storing a stamp card and an imprint storage area for storing an imprint, and stores an image of the imprint in association with the image of the stamp card. When one stamp card is selected, the stamp card image and the stamp image are read out and displayed on the display screen of the display unit 3.
Next, when shopping at XX pharmacy and pressing a stamp on the stamp card, the image of the XX pharmacy stamp card 25 is displayed on the display screen of the display unit 3 of the portable terminal 1 in the same manner as described above. . Then, the stamping portion 18 of the stamp 16 is applied to the second box of the stamping column of the stamp card 25 on the display screen, and the light emitting diode 19 is turned on by operating the switch 21 of the stamp 16. In this state, the image reading switch 15 of the portable terminal 1 is operated to read the image.

  Then, the image input unit 6 captures an image having a stamp imprint of the stamp 16 at a position corresponding to the second grid in the stamp column of the stamp card 25 on the display screen, and the image is stored in the storage unit 9. As a result, the imprint storage area of the storage unit 9 includes an image in which an imprint is pressed at a position corresponding to the first cell of the stamp card 25 on the display screen, and an image in which an imprint is pressed at a position corresponding to the second cell. Will be stored. Accordingly, when the next operation for displaying the stamp card 25 on the display screen is performed, the stamp card 25 shaded on the first and second cells is displayed.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, since a plurality of stamp cards can be stored in the portable terminal 1, the trouble of having to carry a large number of stamp cards can be eliminated, and the stamp cards can be forgotten. It is possible to eliminate the troubles that happened when you could not press the stamp. In addition, since the stamp 16 does not need to use ink or vermilion, the problem of dirty hands and clothes can be fundamentally solved.

(Second embodiment)
8 to 10 show a second embodiment of the present invention. This embodiment is applied to the case where a stamp is applied to a delivery slip (receipt) attached to a package. The package delivery operator carries the portable terminal 1 similar to that described in the first embodiment, and the delivery worker and the package recipient receive the stamp 16 similar to that described in the first embodiment. Are owned by themselves. In the following description, the reference numerals used in the first embodiment are used as they are.

As shown in FIG. 8, a delivery slip 27 as a sheet is attached to the parcel 26 to be delivered. As shown in FIG. 9, the delivery slip 27 includes a slip number for identifying the package 26, a recipient (destination) address, and a sender (requester) address, as well as the recipient and delivery work. There is a stamp field for the person.
Before delivering the package to the recipient, the delivery worker places the display unit 3 of the portable terminal 1 against the delivery slip 27 of the package 26 and causes the image input unit 6 to read the image (description items) of the delivery slip 27. Then, the delivery worker displays the read delivery slip 27 on the display unit 3 as shown in FIG. 9, and puts his / her stamp 16 on the display unit 3 in the stamp column of the delivery worker, and imprints the stamp 16 on the image. The input unit 6 is made to read.

Thereafter, the delivery slip 27 and the impression of the delivery worker stored in the storage unit 9 are displayed on the display unit 3 in order to deliver the package 26 to the recipient and press the stamp on the recipient. Then, the recipient's stamp 16 is applied to the recipient stamp field of the delivery slip 27 displayed on the display unit 3 and the imprint of the stamp 16 is read by the image input unit 6.
Thus, according to the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 10, a large number of delivery slips can be stored in the portable terminal 1 in a state where the stamps of the delivery worker and the recipient are pressed. For this reason, there is no possibility of taking a place for storing the delivery slip or making it difficult to store the delivery slip due to rain.

(Third embodiment)
11 and 12 show a third embodiment of the present invention. This embodiment is applied to a personal computer. For example, a document created using word processing software on a personal computer can be imprinted.

  FIG. 11 shows a personal computer 28 as a two-dimensional image reading apparatus, and FIG. 12 shows its electrical configuration. As shown in both figures, the personal computer 28 has a CPU 31, RAM, ROM, a control circuit 29 composed of peripheral circuits thereof, a storage unit 30 as storage means, a main body 31, a display device 32, and operation as operation means. Part 33.

  The display device 32 includes a main display 34 made of a liquid crystal display and a sub-display 35 made of the same liquid crystal display as display means. The sub-display 35 is normally used for schedule display or for writing notes. Of these displays 34 and 35, the sub-display 35 is also used as an image input unit (image input means) 36 comprising light receiving elements provided in the liquid crystal pixels and arranged two-dimensionally on the display screen. When a stamped portion (not shown) having the same configuration as that of the first embodiment is applied to the display screen of the sub-display 35, the image of the document creator formed on the stamped portion can be input as an image. It has become. The imprint read by the image input unit 36 of the sub display 35 is displayed at a predetermined location on the display screen of the main display 34, for example, a location where the name of the creator is written when a document is created by word processing software. It is like that.

The operation unit 33 includes a keyboard 37 and a mouse 38. An image of a seal is input by operating a predetermined key (image reading start unit) of the keyboard 37 or by operating a mouse (image reading start unit) 38. The input seal image is stored in the storage unit 33. When a predetermined key (image selection means) on the keyboard 37 is operated or a mouse (image selection means) 38 is operated, the control circuit 29 as a display control means operates. It is displayed at a predetermined position on the display screen of the main display 34.
According to the present embodiment configured as described above, a stamp created by the creator can be displayed on a document created by the personal computer 28, and can be printed out as a document with a seal impression, and data can be transmitted as a document with a seal impression through a communication network. can do.

The present invention is not limited to the embodiments described above and shown in the drawings, and can be expanded or changed as follows.
The light shielding film 23 constituting the stamped portion 18 of the stamp 16 may be cut away from the portion other than the imprint. In short, the stamped portion 18 only needs to have different translucency between the imprinted portion and other portions. .
The paper to be read is not limited to stamp cards and delivery slips.
In the third embodiment, the imprint may be configured to be moved to a desired location on the display screen of the main display 34 by an operation with the mouse 38, for example.
In the third embodiment, a light receiving element is provided in the liquid crystal pixel of the main display unit 34, the main display unit 34 is configured with an image input unit, and the imprint is read by the main display unit 34 and the stamped position is applied. An imprint may be displayed on the screen. In this case, the sub display 35 may be omitted.

The block diagram which shows the electrical constitution of the portable terminal in 1st Example of this invention Front view of mobile terminal Schematic showing the display pixels of a liquid crystal display Figure showing an example of a stamp card Figure with stamp on the stamp card displayed on the display screen Cross section of stamp Electrical diagram of stamp Luggage perspective view showing a second embodiment of the present invention Front view of mobile terminal showing delivery slip FIG. 9 equivalent view showing the delivery slip with the stamp pressed Front view of a personal computer showing a third embodiment of the present invention Block diagram showing the electrical configuration of a personal computer

Explanation of symbols

In the drawings, 1 is a portable terminal (two-dimensional image reading device), 3 is a display unit (display unit), 5 is a light receiving element, 6 is an image input unit, 7 is a control circuit (display control unit), 16 is a stamp, 19 Is a light emitting diode, 23 is a light-shielding film, 25 is a stamp card (paper), 26 is a baggage, 27 is a delivery slip (paper), 28 is a personal computer (two-dimensional image reader), 34 is a main display section, and 35 is a sub-display. Reference numeral 36 denotes an image input unit.

Claims (5)

Display means;
The light receiving elements are two-dimensionally arranged on the display screen of the display means, and image input means for optically reading an image applied to the display screen;
Storage means for storing an image read by the image input means;
Display control means for displaying the image stored in the storage means on the display screen of the display means,
By applying a sheet to the display screen and storing the sheet as an image in the storage device, and applying a stamp to the display screen in a state where the image of the sheet is displayed on the display screen, a stamp is stored in the storage device. A two-dimensional image reading apparatus that stores an imprint as an image in association with an image on the sheet.   The two-dimensional image reading apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the paper is a stamp card.   2. The two-dimensional image reading apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the sheet is a package delivery slip. Display means;
The light receiving elements are two-dimensionally arranged on the display screen of the display means, and image input means for optically reading an image applied to the display screen;
Storage means for storing an image read by the image input means;
Display control means for displaying the image stored in the storage means on the display screen of the display means;
By applying a stamp card to the display screen and storing the stamp card as an image in the storage device, and applying the stamp to the display screen in a state where the image of the stamp card is displayed on the display screen, the storage device A stamp image of a stamp is stored as an image in association with the image of the stamp card. A stamp for storing in the two-dimensional image reading apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein a stamped surface and other parts on a stamped surface applied to a display screen provided with the light receiving element And a light source for projecting light outside through the stamping surface of the stamp main part.

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