JP2007193390A - Information reader - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information reader preventing deterioration of operability and service to a user of an apparatus having both functions of recording information in a contactless recording medium, and displaying a two-dimensional bar code recording the information, without causing enlargement of a body. <P>SOLUTION: A gate passage confirming device 1 determines that ticket information is recorded in a two-dimensional bar code 11 when the contactless recording medium 10 positioned in a radio communication area with the contactless recording medium 10 is detected, and the two-dimensional bar code 11 positioned in a reading area is detected for a time from detection of the contactless recording medium 10 to passage of a certain time. Processing is carried out using the ticket information read from the two-dimensional bar code 11. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an information reading apparatus having a function of acquiring information recorded by a barcode and a function of acquiring information recorded on a non-contact recording medium having a wireless communication function.

  Conventionally, electronic tickets have been used at airports and the like to improve convenience for users. As electronic tickets, those using a system for recording ticket information on a non-contact recording medium having a wireless communication function and a system for recording ticket information using a two-dimensional barcode (for example, QR code) are generally used. Also, with the spread of electronic tickets, there are devices that acquire ticket information from non-contact recording media, two-dimensional barcodes, issue tickets (tickets), devices that confirm the passage of users at security gates, etc. It has been put into practical use. A user can obtain an electronic ticket relatively easily by using the Internet or the like.

  As described above, there are two commonly used electronic tickets: a system for recording ticket information on a non-contact recording medium and a system for recording ticket information with a two-dimensional barcode. For this reason, a user who uses an electronic ticket based on a non-contact recording medium and a user who uses an electronic ticket based on a two-dimensional barcode are mixed. Therefore, for both an electronic ticket using a non-contact recording medium and an electronic ticket using a two-dimensional barcode, it is necessary to read ticket information, issue an air ticket based on the read ticket information, and confirm passage of a gate. There is a strong demand for the development of an apparatus capable of processing.

Further, in Patent Document 1, this is achieved by wireless communication between a barcode reader that acquires barcode information by optically reading the barcode and an ID tag (non-contact recording medium) having a wireless communication function. There has been proposed a device having a tag reader / writer including a wireless communication unit that acquires information recorded in an ID tag. This apparatus is configured to allow an operator to switch between acquiring information from a barcode and acquiring information from an ID tag. In addition, a barcode and ID tag detection function is provided, and the above-described switching is performed based on the detection result of this detection function. When this detection function detects both a barcode and an ID tag, A configuration for acquiring information sequentially from a code and an ID tag is also shown.
Japanese Patent No. 3514171

  However, in the configuration proposed in Patent Document 1, each user has to perform an operation related to selection of an electronic ticket using a non-contact recording medium or an electronic ticket using a two-dimensional barcode, which reduces operability. There is a problem. Further, when the operation for selection is not required and a non-contact recording medium is detected, information is acquired from the non-contact recording medium. When a two-dimensional bar code is detected, information is acquired from the two-dimensional bar code. Although the configuration is conceivable, the following problems arise.

  There are devices such as mobile phones that have both a function of recording ticket information on a non-contact recording medium and a display function of displaying a two-dimensional barcode on which ticket information is recorded. Even this type of device has ticket information in either a non-contact recording medium or a two-dimensional barcode. Normally, when a user records ticket information on a non-contact recording medium, the user can display a two-dimensional barcode on which no ticket information is recorded on the display unit or cause the apparatus to read the two-dimensional barcode. The display unit displaying the two-dimensional barcode is not brought close to the device. For this reason, when the ticket information is recorded on the non-contact recording medium, there is no particular problem because the two-dimensional barcode is not detected and the ticket information is acquired from the detected non-contact recording medium. However, when the user has the ticket information as a two-dimensional bar code, the two-dimensional bar code on which the ticket information is recorded is displayed on the display unit and is brought close to the apparatus in order to read it. For this reason, if the wireless communication area with the non-contact recording medium and the two-dimensional barcode reading area overlap, both the non-contact recording medium and the two-dimensional barcode are detected and information is acquired from each. To do. Then, there is a problem in that processing using information acquired from a non-contact recording medium in which ticket information is not recorded results in an error, and as a result, processing for the user is not performed properly and service is degraded.

  Note that it is possible to arrange the wireless communication area with the non-contact recording medium and the two-dimensional barcode reading area separately so as not to overlap. As a result, there is a problem that the radio communication area in which the two-dimensional barcode is located and the reading area in which the two-dimensional barcode is located are confirmed, resulting in a decrease in operability and an increase in the size of the apparatus main body.

  An object of the present invention is to operate a user of a device having both a function of recording information on a non-contact recording medium and a function of displaying information on a two-dimensional bar code without causing an increase in size of the apparatus main body. It is an object to provide an information reading apparatus that does not deteriorate the performance and service.

  In order to solve the above problems, an information reading apparatus according to the present invention has the following configuration.

(1) Bar code reading means for detecting whether or not a bar code is located in the reading area, optically reading the bar code located in the reading area, and acquiring recorded information ,
The barcode reader detects whether or not a non-contact recording medium is located in a wireless communication area formed by an antenna arranged around the reading area of the barcode reading means, and is located in the wireless communication area. Wireless communication means for performing wireless communication with the contact recording medium and acquiring information recorded on the non-contact recording medium;
When the wireless communication means detects a non-contact recording medium located in the wireless communication area, the bar code reading means is between the detection of the non-contact recording medium and the elapse of a predetermined time. If the barcode located at the reading position is not detected, it is determined that the information recorded on the non-contact recording medium is information to be processed, and on the contrary, until the predetermined time elapses, When the bar code reading unit detects a bar code located at the reading position, the bar code reading unit determines that the information recorded in the bar code is information to be processed.

  In this configuration, the barcode reading unit optically reads a barcode located in the reading area and acquires information on the barcode. Further, the wireless communication means performs wireless communication with the non-contact recording medium located in the wireless communication area, and acquires information stored in the non-contact recording medium. The wireless communication area is a range of several centimeters from the antenna arranged around the reading area of the barcode reading means. The wireless communication area includes substantially the entire reading area. For this reason, the location where the non-contact recording medium in which the information to be processed is recorded is positioned substantially the same as the location in which the barcode on which the information to be processed is recorded is positioned. That is, regardless of whether the user has the information to be processed in a non-contact recording medium or a barcode, the location where the non-contact recording medium in which the information to be processed is recorded or the barcode is located is almost omitted. Since they are the same, the operability is not lowered and the apparatus main body is not enlarged.

  The wireless communication means repeats polling of the non-contact recording medium at intervals of several ms to several tens of ms, and when there is a response from the non-contact recording medium to the polling, the non-contact recording medium located in the wireless communication area Is detected. Therefore, the non-contact recording medium is detected regardless of whether information to be processed is recorded. On the other hand, the bar code reading unit repeats scanning in the reading area and detects a bar code located in the reading area. Normally, when a user records ticket information on a non-contact recording medium, a user can display a two-dimensional barcode on which no ticket information is recorded on the display unit or cause the apparatus to read the two-dimensional barcode. The display unit displaying the two-dimensional barcode is not brought close to the device. Therefore, when the information to be processed is not recorded as a barcode, the barcode is not detected. When a barcode is detected, it is highly likely that the information to be processed is not recorded on the non-contact recording medium but is recorded on the barcode. As described above, since the wireless communication area is formed in a space that includes substantially the entire reading area, it has both a function of recording information on a non-contact recording medium and a function of displaying a barcode on which information is recorded. When a device such as a cellular phone has information to be processed as a barcode, the non-contact recording medium is detected before the barcode is detected. Depending on the speed at which the user brings the barcode closer to the reading area, the barcode is detected with a delay of about several hundreds of milliseconds from the detection of the non-contact recording medium.

  The barcode is detected by the barcode reading unit between the determination unit detecting the non-contact recording medium located in the wireless communication area in the wireless communication unit and elapse of a predetermined time, for example, 1 s. If the barcode is not detected by the barcode reader until the predetermined time elapses, the information recorded in the barcode is determined to be information to be processed. It is determined that the information recorded on the recording medium is information to be processed. Therefore, when a device such as a mobile phone having both the function of recording the information on the non-contact recording medium and the function of displaying the bar code on which the information is recorded is used, By setting the time corresponding to the delay time from the detection of the non-contact recording medium by the communication means to the detection of the barcode on which the information to be processed is detected by the barcode reading means, the information to be processed becomes non- Whether it is recorded on a contact recording medium or a barcode can be properly determined. Accordingly, a user of a device such as a mobile phone having both a function of recording information to be processed (for example, ticket information) on a non-contact recording medium and a function of displaying a barcode in which the information to be processed is recorded. However, proper processing can be performed, and the service to the user is not deteriorated.

  (2) Whether the determination means detects a non-contact recording medium located in the wireless communication area when the barcode reading means detects a barcode located in the reading area. Regardless of whether or not, it is means for determining that the information recorded with the barcode detected this time is the information to be processed.

  In this configuration, when the barcode reading unit detects a barcode located in the reading area, the information recorded in the barcode is determined to be information to be processed. It is possible to smoothly perform the process when the barcode is recorded.

  (3) When the wireless communication unit detects a non-contact recording medium located in the wireless communication area, the information recorded on the non-contact recording medium is determined to be information to be processed by the determination unit. Until the wireless communication means waits for the output of information from the non-contact recording medium, the information recorded on the non-contact recording medium by the determination means is determined to be information to be processed. If not, the wireless communication means is provided with information output control means for stopping output of information from the non-contact recording medium.

  In this configuration, even if the wireless communication unit acquires unnecessary information that is not information to be processed from the non-contact recording medium, the output of this information can be stopped. Therefore, it is possible to prevent unnecessary processing from being performed in the host device that processes the output information.

  According to this invention, it is possible to appropriately determine whether the information to be processed is information recorded on a non-contact recording medium or information recorded on a barcode. Appropriate processing can be performed even for users of devices such as mobile phones that have the function of recording information on a non-contact recording medium and the function of displaying a bar code that records information to be processed. As a result, the serviceability of the apparatus is not lowered, and the problem that the operability is lowered and the apparatus body is enlarged is not caused.

  A gate passage confirmation apparatus to which an information reading apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention is applied will be described below.

  FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an external appearance of a gate passage confirmation apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of the gate passage confirmation apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. The gate passage confirmation device 1 of this embodiment is a device that confirms the passage of a user at, for example, an airport security gate (hereinafter simply referred to as a gate). The gate passage confirmation apparatus 1 has a function of acquiring ticket information from a non-contact recording medium 10 having a wireless communication function, and a function of acquiring ticket information from a two-dimensional barcode 11 such as a QR code. The gate passage confirmation apparatus 1 according to this embodiment includes a control unit 2 that controls the operation of the apparatus body, a wireless communication unit 3 that performs wireless communication with a non-contact recording medium 10 having a wireless communication function, and a two-dimensional barcode 11. Barcode reading unit 4 for optical reading, display unit 5 for displaying a guidance screen for the user, operation unit 6 for accepting an input operation to the apparatus main body, and a gate passage confirmation slip for the user And a printing unit 7 to be issued and a communication unit 8 that communicates with a host device (not shown).

  The wireless communication area of the wireless communication unit 3 is formed by an antenna coil 3a provided around the reading area 4a of the barcode reading unit 4, and is several centimeters from the antenna coil 3a as shown in FIG. Space. As shown in FIG. 3B, the barcode reading unit 4 optically reads the two-dimensional barcode held over the reading area 4a formed on the surface of the main body. As shown in FIG. 3, the wireless communication area of the wireless communication unit 3 is a space that includes substantially the entire reading area 4a of the barcode reading unit 4, and is wider than the reading area 4a. For this reason, when the object is positioned in the reading area 4a of the barcode reading unit 4, the object first enters the wireless communication area and is then positioned in the reading area 4a.

  Therefore, when the object has the non-contact recording medium 10 having the wireless communication function, the object is read after the non-contact recording medium 10 located in the wireless communication area is detected by the wireless communication unit 3. Located in area 4a. Further, when this object has a function of displaying a two-dimensional barcode, and the user positions the display surface on which the two-dimensional barcode 11 is displayed facing the reading area 4a, a barcode reading unit 4 detects a two-dimensional barcode 11 located in the reading area 4a. Therefore, if the object is a device such as a mobile phone having a function of recording the ticket information on the non-contact recording medium 10 and a display function of displaying the two-dimensional barcode 11 on which the ticket information is recorded, the user can Depending on the speed at which the display surface displaying the bar code approaches the reading area, the two-dimensional bar code 11 is detected with a delay of about several hundreds of milliseconds from the detection of the non-contact recording medium 10.

  If the object does not have the non-contact recording medium 10, the wireless communication unit 3 does not detect the non-contact recording medium 10 and is positioned in the reading area 4a. At this time, if the two-dimensional barcode 11 is opposed to the reading area 4a, the barcode reading unit 4 detects the two-dimensional barcode. The object may be a printed matter obtained by printing the two-dimensional barcode 11 on a sheet or the like.

  The display unit 5 displays an operation guidance screen for the user and information corresponding to the ticket information acquired by the wireless communication unit 3 or the barcode reading unit 4 on the display screen 5a. A touch panel 6a is provided on the surface of the display screen 5a. The operation unit 6 accepts an operation of the touch panel 6a by a user, a staff member, or the like as an input operation for the apparatus main body. The printing unit 7 issues a passage confirmation slip in which passage information including gate passage time and ticket information is printed on printing paper such as roll paper stored in the apparatus main body. The communication unit 8 outputs the ticket information acquired by the wireless communication unit 3 or the barcode reading unit 4 to a host device (not shown). The higher-level device determines whether the ticket information transmitted from the gate passage confirmation device 1 is appropriate ticket information, and transmits the processing result to the gate passage confirmation device 1. Further, the gate passage confirmation device 1 receives the processing result on the ticket information output to the host device by the communication unit 8.

  Hereinafter, the operation of the gate passage confirmation apparatus 1 according to the embodiment of the present invention will be described. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the operation of the gate passage confirmation apparatus of this embodiment. The gate passage confirmation device 1 of this embodiment is located in the reading area 4 a in the wireless communication unit 3 for detecting the non-contact recording medium 10 located in the wireless communication area and in the barcode reading unit 4. The two-dimensional barcode 11 is detected (s1, s2). In s1, when the wireless communication unit 3 repeatedly polls the non-contact recording medium 10 at intervals of several ms to several dozen ms, and when there is a response from the non-contact recording medium 10 to this polling, the wireless communication unit 3 enters the wireless communication area. This is processing for detecting the non-contact recording medium 10 that is positioned. In s2, whether or not the two-dimensional barcode is located in the reading area 4a is determined depending on whether or not a two-dimensional barcode cut-out symbol (so-called finder pattern) is detected by the barcode reading unit 4 repeatedly scanning the reading position. This is a process for detecting.

  In addition, the process concerning s1 and s2 is performed in parallel.

  When the non-contact recording medium 10 located in the wireless communication area is detected in s1, the gate passage confirmation device 1 starts a timer for measuring an elapsed time since the detection of the non-contact recording medium 10, and Ticket information is acquired from the contacted recording medium 10 (s3). This timer is provided in the control unit 2. In s3, elapsed time measurement is started after the timer is reset. In s3, the wireless communication unit 3 outputs a command for requesting transmission of ticket information to the non-contact recording medium 10 detected in s1. The contactless recording medium 10 located in the wireless communication area transmits the recorded ticket information in response to a ticket information transmission request from the gate passage confirmation device 1. The gate passage confirmation apparatus 1 acquires the ticket information from the non-contact recording medium 10 by receiving the ticket information transmitted from the non-contact recording medium 10 in the wireless communication unit 3.

  The gate passage confirmation apparatus 1 has a two-dimensional barcode that is located in the reading area 4a before or after a lapse of a predetermined time from the detection of the non-contact recording medium 10 that has started measurement in s3. 11 is detected (s4, s5).

  As described above, the wireless communication area of the wireless communication unit 3 includes substantially the entire reading area 4a of the barcode reading unit 4, and is a space wider than the reading area 4a. Therefore, when a device such as a mobile phone having a function of recording ticket information on the non-contact recording medium 10 and a display function of displaying the two-dimensional barcode 11 on which the ticket information is recorded is used. There is a possibility that the two-dimensional barcode 11 on which the ticket information is recorded is detected a little later than the detection of the medium 10. For a certain period of time required for s4, in a device such as a mobile phone, the user has a function of recording the ticket information on the non-contact recording medium 10 and a display function of displaying the two-dimensional barcode 11 on which the ticket information is recorded. When the display surface on which the two-dimensional barcode 11 on which the ticket information is recorded is displayed is positioned in the reading area, the detection timing of the non-contact recording medium 10 is detected according to the delay time at which the two-dimensional barcode 11 is detected. Has been decided. Specifically, as described above, this delay time depends on the speed at which the user brings the two-dimensional barcode 11 closer to the reading area 4a, but is about several hundreds of milliseconds, so it is slightly shorter than this delay time. It takes a long time of about 1s.

  If the gate passage confirmation device 1 determines that the predetermined time has passed in s4, the ticket information acquired from the contacted recording medium 10 in s3 is output from the communication unit 8 to the host device (s6). In other words, the gate passage confirmation apparatus 1 records the ticket information on the non-contact recording medium 10 because the two-dimensional barcode 11 is not detected even after a predetermined time has elapsed since the detection of the non-contact recording medium 10. And the ticket information acquired from the non-contact recording medium 10 is output. The host device performs processing for determining whether or not the ticket information output from the gate passage confirmation device 1 is appropriate, and transmits the processing result to the gate passage confirmation device 1 that has transmitted the ticket information this time. When the communication unit 8 receives the processing result from the host device (s9), the gate passage confirmation device 1 performs an output process based on the processing result (s10). In s10, for example, an information display process corresponding to the ticket information on the display screen 5a and an issuing process for printing and issuing a pass confirmation slip in the printing unit 7 are performed.

  In addition, when the gate passing device 1 detects the two-dimensional barcode 11 located at the reading position in s5 before determining that the predetermined time has passed in s4, the gate passing device 1 starts from the two-dimensional barcode 11 detected in the barcode reading unit 4. The ticket information is read (s7). That is, the gate passage confirmation device 1 detects that the ticket information is recorded on the two-dimensional barcode 11 by detecting the two-dimensional barcode 11 before a predetermined time has elapsed since the detection of the non-contact recording medium 10. Judgment is made and processing related to acquisition of ticket information recorded in the two-dimensional barcode 11 is started. A user whose ticket information is not recorded on the two-dimensional barcode 11 displays a two-dimensional barcode on which no ticket information is recorded on the display unit, or the two-dimensional barcode 11 (the ticket information of the ticket information displayed on the display unit). In order to make the apparatus read the two-dimensional barcode 11) which is not recorded, the display unit displaying the two-dimensional barcode is hardly brought close to the apparatus. Therefore, when the two-dimensional barcode 11 is placed over the reading area 4a, it can be estimated that the ticket information is recorded in the two-dimensional barcode 11. If the two-dimensional barcode 11 is detected in s2 before the non-contact recording medium 11 is detected in s1, the gate passage confirmation apparatus 1 reads ticket information from the two-dimensional barcode 11 detected in s7. The gate passage confirmation device 1 outputs the ticket information read from the two-dimensional barcode 11 located in the reading area 4a in s7 to the host device from the communication unit 8 (s8), and applies to s9 and s10 described above. Perform output processing.

  Note that the gate passage confirmation device 1 determines that an error in the display screen 5a is performed as an output process related to s10 when the host device determines that the ticket information acquired from the non-contact recording medium 10 or the two-dimensional barcode 11 is not appropriate. Execute screen display processing.

  As described above, the gate passage confirmation apparatus 1 according to this embodiment has a function of recording the ticket information on the non-contact recording medium 10 and a function of displaying the two-dimensional barcode 11 on which the ticket information is recorded. Even when the device is used, it is possible to appropriately determine whether the ticket information is recorded on the non-contact recording medium 10 or the two-dimensional barcode 11. Therefore, it is also appropriate for a user of a device such as a mobile phone having a function of recording ticket information on the non-contact recording medium 10 and a function of displaying a two-dimensional barcode 11 on which ticket information is recorded. It can be processed and does not degrade the service to the user.

  In addition, since the antenna coil 3a of the wireless communication unit 3 is provided around the reading position 4a of the barcode reading unit 4, either the non-contact recording medium 10 or the two-dimensional barcode 11 has ticket information. The place where these are located is substantially the same. Accordingly, regardless of whether the ticket information is owned by the non-contact recording medium 10 or the two-dimensional barcode, the user can use the non-contact recording medium 10 or the two-dimensional barcode on which the ticket information is recorded. Since it suffices to hold it at the same position, the operability for the user is not lowered. In addition, the apparatus main body is not increased in size.

  Further, the gate passage confirmation device 1 of this embodiment determines that the ticket information is recorded in the two-dimensional barcode 11 as soon as the barcode reading unit 4 detects the two-dimensional barcode 11 located in the reading area 4a. Since the ticket information is acquired from the two-dimensional barcode 11 and output to the host device, the processing for the user whose ticket information is recorded in the two-dimensional barcode 11 can be performed smoothly.

  Furthermore, the gate passage confirmation device 1 of this embodiment outputs the ticket information acquired from the non-contact recording medium 10 to the host device until a predetermined time elapses after the non-contact recording medium 10 is detected. When the two-dimensional barcode 11 located in the reading area 4a is detected before waiting for a certain period of time, the wireless communication unit 3 outputs the ticket information acquired from the non-contact recording medium 10 to the host device. Since there is no configuration, that is, the output of the ticket information acquired from the non-contact recording medium 10 to the host device is stopped, unnecessary ticket information is not output to the host device 1. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the processing for useless ticket information from being performed in the host device.

  In the above embodiment, when the non-contact recording medium 10 is detected at s1, the ticket information is acquired from the non-contact recording medium 10 at s3. However, the non-contact recording medium 10 is acquired until it is determined that a fixed time has passed at s4. You may make it wait for acquisition of the ticket information from the contact recording medium 10. FIG. Specifically, the process relating to s3 shown in FIG. 4 is a process for starting a timer for measuring an elapsed time since the detection of the non-contact recording medium 10, and when it is determined that a fixed time has elapsed in s4, A configuration may be adopted in which processing relating to acquisition of ticket information from the non-contact recording medium 10 is executed, and thereafter processing relating to s6 and thereafter is performed. In this way, it is possible to stop the processing related to the acquisition of useless ticket information for the contacted recording medium 10 detected in s1, and to reduce the load on the apparatus main body.

  Moreover, although the case where the present invention was applied to the gate passage confirmation device 1 was described as an example in the above embodiment, the present invention can be applied to other devices such as a ticket issuing device that issues an air ticket. When applied to a ticket issuing device, the printing unit 7 may be configured to print and issue a ticket.

  Further, the barcode on which the ticket information is recorded is not limited to the two-dimensional barcode 11, and may be a one-dimensional barcode.

It is a figure which shows the external view of the gate passage confirmation apparatus which is embodiment of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the gate passage confirmation apparatus which is embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the radio | wireless communication area and the reading area in the gate passage confirmation apparatus of this embodiment. It is a flowchart which shows operation | movement of the gate passage confirmation apparatus of this embodiment.

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1-gate passage confirmation device 2-control unit 3 wireless communication unit 3a-antenna 4-barcode reading unit 5-display unit 6-operation unit 7-printing unit

Claims (3)

Barcode reading means for detecting whether a barcode is located in the reading area, optically reading the barcode located in the reading area, and acquiring recorded information;
The barcode reader detects whether or not a non-contact recording medium is located in a wireless communication area formed by an antenna arranged around the reading area of the barcode reading means, and is located in the wireless communication area. Wireless communication means for performing wireless communication with the contact recording medium and acquiring information recorded on the non-contact recording medium;
When the wireless communication means detects a non-contact recording medium located in the wireless communication area, the bar code reading means is between the detection of the non-contact recording medium and the elapse of a predetermined time. If the barcode located at the reading position is not detected, it is determined that the information recorded on the non-contact recording medium is information to be processed, and on the contrary, until the predetermined time elapses, An information reading apparatus comprising: determination means for determining that information recorded by the barcode is information to be processed when the barcode reading means detects a barcode located at the reading position.   The determination means may determine whether the wireless communication means detects a non-contact recording medium located in the wireless communication area when the barcode reading means detects a barcode located in the reading area. The information reading apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the information reading device is means for determining that the information recorded by the barcode detected this time is information to be processed.   When the wireless communication unit detects a non-contact recording medium located in the wireless communication area, the information recorded on the non-contact recording medium is determined as information to be processed by the determination unit The wireless communication unit waits for output of information from the non-contact recording medium, and the information recorded on the non-contact recording medium is not determined to be information to be processed by the determination unit. The information reading apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an information output control unit that causes the wireless communication unit to stop outputting information from the non-contact recording medium.

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