US3728521A - Encoded card employing fiber optic elements - Google Patents

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US3728521A
US3728521A US00076523A US3728521DA US3728521A US 3728521 A US3728521 A US 3728521A US 00076523 A US00076523 A US 00076523A US 3728521D A US3728521D A US 3728521DA US 3728521 A US3728521 A US 3728521A
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    • G02B6/00—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings
    • G02B6/24—Coupling light guides
    • G02B6/42—Coupling light guides with opto-electronic elements
    • G02B6/43—Arrangements comprising a plurality of opto-electronic elements and associated optical interconnections
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    • G06K—GRAPHICAL DATA READING; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
    • G06K19/00—Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings
    • G06K19/06—Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings characterised by the kind of the digital marking, e.g. shape, nature, code
    • G06K19/08—Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings characterised by the kind of the digital marking, e.g. shape, nature, code using markings of different kinds or more than one marking of the same kind in the same record carrier, e.g. one marking being sensed by optical and the other by magnetic means
    • G06K19/083—Constructional details
    • G06K19/086—Constructional details with markings consisting of randomly placed or oriented elements, the randomness of the elements being useable for generating a unique identifying signature of the record carrier, e.g. randomly placed magnetic fibers or magnetic particles in the body of a credit card
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    • G06—COMPUTING OR CALCULATING; COUNTING
    • G06K—GRAPHICAL DATA READING; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
    • G06K19/00—Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings
    • G06K19/06—Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings characterised by the kind of the digital marking, e.g. shape, nature, code
    • G06K19/08—Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings characterised by the kind of the digital marking, e.g. shape, nature, code using markings of different kinds or more than one marking of the same kind in the same record carrier, e.g. one marking being sensed by optical and the other by magnetic means
    • G06K19/10—Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings characterised by the kind of the digital marking, e.g. shape, nature, code using markings of different kinds or more than one marking of the same kind in the same record carrier, e.g. one marking being sensed by optical and the other by magnetic means at least one kind of marking being used for authentication, e.g. of credit or identity cards
    • G06K19/14—Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings characterised by the kind of the digital marking, e.g. shape, nature, code using markings of different kinds or more than one marking of the same kind in the same record carrier, e.g. one marking being sensed by optical and the other by magnetic means at least one kind of marking being used for authentication, e.g. of credit or identity cards the marking being sensed by radiation
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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  • FIG. 2 is a view similar to FIG. 1, showing a card in which the light-transmitting ability of certain fibers has been impaired or modified in several alternate ways;
  • the card may be manufactured by any suitable laminating process. This is not part of the present invention so will not be described in detail. Briefly, and referring to FIG. A,. asheet 44 having light-transmitting fibers 30 in a body or matrix 46. may be laminated by conventional hot pressure or adhesive techniques between cover sheets 48 and 50. The cover sheets and the matrix 46 may be of the same plastics v mitting fibers 30. This is merely by way of illustration and not by way of limitation because in actual practice each card may have from 10 to 600 fibers, each comprising a separately readable information channel.
  • the card is encoded by individually I I cutting, darkening, partially removing, or otherwise impairing the light-transmitting ability of selected fibers.
  • FIG. 1 52 indicates a fiber which is continuous and capable of transmitting light from one edge of the card to the other; 54 is a fiber which is discontinuous in the area 56 and therefore incapable of transmitting full intensity light.
  • This area 56, as well as area 42 in FIG. 7, may be filled with opaque material if desired to completely block light transmission for maximum contrast.
  • FIG. A shows a modified card 81 in which fibers 83 extend in non-parallel, random arrangement between the input edge 85 and the output edge 87.
  • the light source and reader could be reprogrammed several times during the month, daily if necessary, to verify bona fide cards and reject expired and counterfeit cards.
  • the light source 74 could be programmed by illuminating only the first, third, seventh and llth lamps, at the same time, the reader 76 could be programmed to verify the card only if it senses the third, fourth, ninth and l5th lighted fiber ends while all other positions are unlighted.
  • the light source and reader could be reprogrammed, if necessary, to verify other combinations of fibers in the same card.
  • FIGS. 3 and 10 One way of storing information is shown in FIGS. 3 and 10, in which the various combinations of lighted and unlighted fiber ends correspond to data in a memory bank. Each combination read from card 68 or 72 may correspond to a differentnumber, name, or other information. The number of possible usable combinations of lighted and unlighted fibers is determined by the following formula:
  • said core sheet having a layer of a plurality of elongated light-transmitting fibers disposed in side-byside planar relationship at least at the light receiving and emitting edge of the card and extending between said light-receiving and light-emitting edge surfaces and having their opposite ends exposed at said light-receiving and light-emitting edges for transmitting light from an external light source means edgewise through said body to an external light sensing means;

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US20070270203A1 (en) * 2006-05-16 2007-11-22 Konami Gaming, Incorporated Gaming machine and gaming system
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