JPS60162341A - Bar code display device for telephone number - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To record simply and assuredly a bar code corresponding to telephone numbers by providing a display element for bar codes corresponding to the fed telephone numbers as well as an input means for telephone numbers to a sheet- shaped case. CONSTITUTION:A liquid crystal display element LCD2 for bar codes is set on a sheet-shaped main body 1 together with a numeric LCD3 for display of numeric characters, a solar battery 4 serving as a power supply, and an input part 8 containing a numeric keys 5 including ten digits including 1-0, a power supply ON/OFF key 6 and a clear key 7. A telephone number is fed by keys 5 and displayed to the LCD3 and at the same time a bar code to the telephone number is displayed to the LCD2. Such a bar code display device is put on an original setting board of a copying machine with the LCD2 put downword. Then a visiting card is put into a prescribed position with the side where no name is written used as the copy paper. Thus the bar code displayed at the LCD2 can be copied.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] Technical Field of the Invention The present invention provides a means for notifying a telephone number by a card such as a business card,
Relating to a telephone number barcode display device used to record a barcode corresponding to a telephone number on a card when dialing an individual, organization, etc. to be called via a telephone line based on the broadcast information. It is.

Prior art and its problems For example, if you look at the numbers in a phone number written on a business card and try to call that person, the following inconveniences may occur. The numbers in telephone numbers listed on ``are generally small and difficult to read.Also, the number of the person being called is an organization.''

If the business is a corporation, multiple telephone numbers, such as a representative number and a direct number, may be written side by side on the business card.

In such a case, first, the user may read the telephone number incorrectly and dial the telephone, resulting in an incorrect call. Second, even if you read the phone number correctly, you may forget which part of the phone number you dialed when you look back at the digits on your business card while dialing the phone, or you may forget which part of the phone number you dialed, or if you are making multiple phone calls. When numbers are written side by side on a business card, the user may end up looking at a telephone number on a line other than the line containing the desired telephone number and lose track of the number to be dialed first.

This may result in you having to call back,
Sometimes you end up calling the wrong number.

Therefore, in order to solve the above problems, the following methods have been proposed.

The first method is to encode the telephone number, record the code on a card such as a business card by an appropriate means, and read the code recorded on the card with an appropriate reading device.
This method generates an electrical signal and sends this electrical signal to the telephone line to call the other party. However, this method has the disadvantage that the telephone itself must be modified and construction work is required. Moreover, the equipment for carrying out this method becomes expensive.

In the second method, the electric signal generated in the first method described above is not sent out to the telephone line, but the electric signal is transmitted from outside the telephone to the rotary or push-button terminal of the telephone. This method drives the dial.However, although this method does not require modification of the telephone itself, it does require a dial drive mechanism to be attached to the telephone from the outside, and the mechanism is complicated. be.

The third method is to connect a device that stores a telephone number in a memory such as a semiconductor memory to a telephone, and when calling a party whose telephone number is stored in the memory,
This method involves pressing a button on the device that corresponds to that phone number. However, this method has the disadvantage that it is necessary to replace or modify the telephone, construction work is required, and the equipment becomes expensive. Furthermore, in this method, the more phone numbers that can be stored, the more difficult it is to find the button on the device, the more expensive the device is, and the more space is required to install the device. There is a drawback that it must be done.

Purpose of the Invention The purpose of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems, to broadcast a telephone number using a card such as a business card, and to use a card such as a business card to broadcast a telephone number when dialing a telephone based on the broadcast information. To provide a telephone number barcode display device capable of surely recording a corresponding barcode with a simple operation.

Structure of the Invention The present invention is a sheet-like barcode display device having a liquid crystal display element for displaying a barcode corresponding to a telephone number.

Embodiment of the Invention FIG. 1 is a front view showing an embodiment of a barcode display device according to the invention. As shown in FIG. 1, a sheet-like main body 1 includes a barcode liquid crystal display (LCD) 2 for displaying barcodes and a numeric LCD for displaying numbers.
3, solar cell 4 as a power source, and 10 from ■ to O
5 numeric keys. A key manual section 8 consisting of an on/off key 6 for turning on and off the power and a clear key 7 are sequentially arranged in parallel.

As shown in FIG. 2, the /H code LCD 2 has /H-shaped electrodes 9 arranged vertically in parallel, and a set of multiple adjacent electrodes corresponds to one number. In such a set of multiple electrodes 9, each electrode 9 is transparent (1
3B) or opaque (as shown by IIA) to represent a number, and by connecting a plurality of such sets of electrodes 9, a telephone number is displayed. In addition,
For example, the minimum width of the electrodes 9 can be approximately 0.05 to 0.21 mm, and the minimum gap between adjacent electrodes 9 is 0.
．． It can be set to about 01 to 0 or 2+111.

The numeric LCD 3 has electrodes that are capable of displaying numbers and have a number corresponding to at least the number of digits of a telephone number.

A pressure sensitive element is used for each key in the key manual section 8.

The thickness of the barcode display of the present invention having the external structure as described above can be, for example, about 0.8 to 5 mm.

As shown in FIG. 3, output signals from each numeric key 5 are input to a shift register 11 via an encoder 10, and one output signal from the shift register 11 is input to a decoder 12.
input to the numeric LCD 3 via the numeric LCD 3.
The digits of the telephone number entered into each numeric key 5 are displayed in order on a. On the other hand, the other output signal from the shift register 11 is input to the conversion circuit 13, and the conversion circuit 13 generates a bar code corresponding to the digits of the telephone number entered into each numeric key 5, which is then sent via the decoder 14. barcode LCI] 2, and barcodes corresponding to the telephone numbers entered into each number key 5 are sequentially displayed on the CO3. If you make a mistake in entering the telephone number, press the clear key 7 to reset the shift register 11. Moreover, a space (blank) key may be added to each numeric key 5 as necessary. Furthermore, instead of the solar cell 4, for example, a lithium battery or the like may be used as a power source for each of the electric circuit components as described above.

The barcode display device configured as described above is placed, with the barcode LCD 2 facing down, at a predetermined position, for example, on the original table of a reducible copying machine, and used for example as a business card instead of ordinary copy paper. For example, insert the
If necessary, the barcode displayed on the barcode LCD 2 can be reduced and copied on the side of the business card on which the name and other information are not printed. In addition, on the main body l, there is only a barcode LCD 2, a keyboard with numeric keys 5 and a clear key 7, an encoder lo, a shift register 11, decoders 12 and 14, and a conversion circuit 1.
3 and the numeric LCD 3 may be configured independently from the main body 1, and the output signal from the decoder 14 may be inputted to the bar code LCD 2 provided on the main body 1 using an appropriate connection cord (power supply may not be solar cell 4).

FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing the outline of an example of a telephone number notification device. As shown in FIG. 4, 15 is a case of the notification device, and this case 15 includes a stand part 15A on which a telephone device is placed, a display part 15B connected to the front end of this stand part 15A, It has a business card insertion section 150 provided below the display section 15B.

The display section 15B is for displaying numbers of telephone numbers, and is a liquid crystal display element (LCD) in which a plurality of number electrodes capable of displaying 10 numbers from 1 to O are arranged in the horizontal direction.
) and its drive circuit. The size of the numbers displayed on the LCD can be, for example, 15 mm x 15 mm.

The insertion portion 15G has a horizontally long slit-shaped hole 18 with a width slightly larger than the width of the business card, and guides 17 provided on both sides of the hole 18. Therefore, the business card can be inserted into the hole 16 along the guide 17 only in a vertically long state.

As shown in FIG. 5, the case 1
5, two sets of nip rollers 18 are arranged. Each set of nip rollers 19 is provided parallel to each other and horizontally. In addition, each nip roller 18 is powered by a suitable motor (
The drive roller 18a is coupled to a drive roller 18a (not shown), and a driven roller 18b is pressed into contact with the drive roller 18a by suitable elastic means (not shown). Furthermore, the height of each set of nip rollers 18 is determined so that the contact portion of the two rollers in each set of nip rollers 18 is at the same height as the hole 18 of the insertion portion 15C.

As shown in FIG. 5, two microswitches are installed close to both sides of the two sets of nip rollers 19 so as to detect the front end of the business card inserted into the case 15 through the hole 16 of the insertion portion 15G. 20 and 21 are provided. drive roller l
Motor to drive ea and two microswitches 2
0 and 21 are controlled by the controller described above.

When the business card 18 is inserted into the case 15 through the hole 16 of the insertion portion 15G, one of the microswitches 20 is turned on.
The two drive rollers lea of the two nip rollers 18 rotate in the directions indicated by arrows in FIG. Therefore, hole 16
The business card 18 inserted into the case 15 from the insertion part 15
The case 1 is sandwiched between one of the nip rollers 19 that is closer to the
Sent into 5. The front end of the business card 18 fed into the case 15 in this way is held by the other nip roller 18.
It is then inserted into the case 15 and turns on the other microswitch 21. With this, 2
The two drive rollers 18a of the two nip rollers 18 are stopped to stop feeding the business card 18. Note that guides (not shown) are provided between the two sets of rollers 18 to guide both sides of the business card 18 so that the business card 18 fed therebetween is straight.

Furthermore, as shown in FIG.
In between, an optical reader 17 is placed close to the top surface of the business card 18. Note that when sending in the business card 18, the barcode recorded on the business card 18 is scanned by the optical reader 22.
For example, when recording a barcode on a business card 18, the position where the business card 18 is inserted into the copying machine or the position where the barcode display is placed on the document storage stand of the copying machine is Determine. The optical reader 22 has a light emitter such as a laser beam and a light receiver, and irradiates the barcode recorded on the business card 18 with light from the light emitter and receives light reflected from the business card 18. device detects the barcode on the business card 18.

The ON signals from the two microswitches 20 and 21 and the barcode detection signal from the optical reader 22 are input to a controller (not shown), and a motor drives the drive roller 1lla of the nip roller 18, and a display section. 15B LCD
and control.

The notification device configured as described above reads the barcode recorded on the business card 18 as described above, and displays the digits of the corresponding telephone number on the display section 15B. That is, first, the business card 18 is inserted into the case 15 through the hole 18 of the insertion portion 15G with the printed part of the name facing down. As a result, the front end of one business card 18 turns on one of the microswitches 2o, causing the two nip rollers 18 to rotate and feed the business card 18 into the case 15.

During this feeding, the part of the business card 18 on which the barcode is recorded passes directly under the optical reader 22, and the barcode is detected by the optical reader 22. As a result, the controller displays the numbers of the telephone number corresponding to the detected barcode on the LCD of the display section 15B, and furthermore, at the end of the detection, reverses the nip roller 18 to remove the business card 18 from the phone number 15. put it back outside. In this way, from the business card 18 on which the barcode is written, the digits of the telephone number corresponding to the barcode can be displayed on the LCD of the display section 15B having display numerals of an appropriate size.

The display section 15 is located directly in front of the telephone placed on the stand IA, and the telephone number displayed there is very easy to read. Therefore, if a barcode corresponding to the telephone number is recorded on a business card as described above, a person who wants to make a call can insert the business card with the barcode recorded into the hole 16 of the insertion portion 15G of the case 15. By inserting the bar code and displaying digits of a telephone number of an appropriate size corresponding to the bar code on the display section 15B, it is possible to dial the telephone extremely reliably while viewing the digits.

As described in detail, according to the present invention, when a card such as a business card is used to inform a telephone number and a telephone is dialed based on the information, a bar corresponding to the telephone number is provided. It is possible to provide a barcode recording device that can reliably record a code with a simple operation.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view showing an embodiment of a barcode display according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an aspect of electrode arrangement in a barcode LCD, and FIG. 3 is a front view showing an embodiment of a barcode display according to the present invention. FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing an electric circuit, FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing an example of a telephone number wisdom device H, and FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a part of the internal structure of the device. 1...Parent body, 2...Barcode feed crystal display element (LCD), 3...
・Liquid crystal display element for numbers (LC[]), 4...Solar battery, 5...Numeric keys, 6...On/off key, 7...Clear key, 8...Key human power 8B. 9... Electrode, io... Encoder, 11... Shift register, 12.14... Decoder, I3... Conversion circuit, 15... Case, 15A... Base, 15B...・Display part, 15G...insertion part, 18...hole, 17...guide, 18...business card, 18...nip roller, lea...drive roller, 19b...driven roller, 20 .21...Micro switch, 22...Optical reader, Placement...Telephone. Patent applicant: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.

Claims (1)

[Claims] A barcode display device for a telephone number, characterized in that a means for inputting a telephone number 4 and a display element for displaying a barcode corresponding to the input telephone number are arranged in a sheet-like case.