Registers – Systems controlled by data bearing records – Credit or identification card systems
Reexamination Certificate
2001-05-10
2002-10-08
Lee, Michael G. (Department: 2876)
Registers
Systems controlled by data bearing records
Credit or identification card systems
C235S382000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06460764
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to an information exchange technique and, more particularly, to a technique for smoothly performing business talks and the like after card exchange when cards are exchanged with plural persons in a portable electronic card exchange device.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Conventional electronic card exchange devices or methods are constituted so as to exhibit effects on solving the inconvenience in management after business talks, troubles in searching, or erroneous inputs on the electronization, which are demerits of the card exchange by means of paper mediums, or on manpower saving. For example, there are already disclosed a device which uses an IC card in Japanese Published Patent Application No. Hei. 11-232196, and a device which uses a radio technique in Japanese Published Patent Application No. Hei. 8-329017. Since data are electronified and exchanged in an electronic way, it is certainly possible to automatically insert more abundant various data such as face image data or the date of card exchange, as compared with the case of paper mediums. Further, when URL information on the Internet is included in data, more detailed and enormous amounts of information can be obtained.
However, the conventional electronic card exchange device or method has for its primary object to easily obtain a large amount of information and simplify the subsequent management, and does not consider the use of data in business talks or the like at the card exchange. When the business talk is made with one person, electronically received data corresponds to that person in a one-to-one relationship. However, in a case where the business talk is made with plural persons, when data are only received, the data and the persons do not correspond to each other and thus the user has to memorize the names of all the persons at the card exchange to make the business talk smoothly.
Further, it is commonly possible to remember a certain number of names for a while from greetings at the card exchange, but thereafter they may be forgotten. Even when the face image data are received at the card data exchange time, it is difficult to display the face image data and names of many persons simultaneously on a small portable display part, and thus it is difficult to make a smooth business talk while the face image data and information such as names are being successively displayed and learned.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention is made to solve the above-mentioned problems and has for its object to provide a card exchange device and a card exchange method, which can easily carry out electronic card exchanges with plural persons, simplify the storage and management of a large amount of card data, and smoothly carry out the card exchange itself as well as a business talk after the card exchange.
According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a card exchange device which exchanges card data with plural devices in an electronic way comprising: a card data display means for simultaneously displaying part or all of the received card data of each person by plural persons on a display screen, at a time of card exchange; and a specification means for specifying an order and a position of the card data displayed by the card data display means.
According to the present invention, the seating state after the card exchange and the display of the card data positionally correspond to each other, whereby disagreement between a person and his card data can be prevented, and business talks can be made smoothly under correct recognition.
According to a card exchange device of a second aspect of the present invention, the card exchange device according to the first aspect comprises: a card data receiving means for receiving card data at the time of card exchange; a card data storage means for storing the card data received by the card data receiving means by the number of persons with whom cards have been exchanged; a specification means for specifying required data to be displayed among the card data which are stored in the card data storage means as well as specifying an order and a position of displaying the required card data to be displayed; and a card data display means for displaying the data to be displayed, which are specified by the specification means, on the display screen.
According to the present invention, the positional correspondence between the seating state after the card exchange and the display of the card data are automatically made, whereby disagreement between a person and his card data can be prevented, and business talks can be made smoothly under correct recognition.
According to a card exchange device according to a third aspect of the present invention, the card exchange device according to the second aspect comprises: a card data receiving means for receiving attribute data information about a person himself, such as a name, an address, a division, a telephone number, a name of a belonging group, and a post, as well as face image data as card data, at a time of card exchange; a seating state image taking means for taking an image of a seating state of partners with whom cards have been exchanged for the number of times not exceeding the number of partners with whom cards have been exchanged, after the card exchange, so as to include the face images of all the card exchange partners; a judgement means for judging a seating position of a card exchange partner from the face image data received by the card data receiving means and the face images taken by the seating state image taking means; and a means for making the seating position of the card exchange partner judged by the judgement means and a display position of the card data to be displayed on the display screen correspond to each other.
According to the present invention, the seating state after the card exchange and the display of the card data are automatically made correspond positionally to each other to reduce the operation after the card exchange, whereby business talks can be made more smoothly with concentration.
According to a card exchange device of a fourth aspect of the present invention, the card exchange device according to the second aspect comprises: a seating state image taking means for taking an image of a seating state of partners with whom cards have been exchanged for the number of times not exceeding the number of partners with whom cards have been exchanged, after the card exchange, so as to include face images of all the card exchange partners; a face image taking means for taking face images of the card exchange partners at the time of card exchange; a judgement means for judging a seating position of a card exchange partner from the face image taken by the face image taking means and the face images taken by the seating state image taking means; and a means for making the seating position of the card exchange partner judged by the judgement means and a display position of the card data to be displayed on the display screen correspond to each other.
According to the present invention, in a person judgement process for automatically making the positional correspondence between the seating state after the card exchange and the display of the card data, not a complicated judgement means for feature extraction and pattern recognition and the like but a simple and high-accuracy judgement means for mere normalization and comparison of the agreement amount can be realized.
According to a card exchange device of a fifth aspect of the present invention, the card exchange device according to the second aspect comprises: a card-unexchanged mark display means for, when there is a partner whose card data to be displayed does not exist because cards are not exchanged, displaying a mark indicating that cards are not exchanged yet on the display screen correspondingly to a seating position of the partner.
According to the present invention, even when there is a partner with whom cards are not exchanged this time on the ground that card exchange was already
Abe Yumiko
Hosoe Yoshinori
Imai Misora
Sakanashi Tatsuya
Kim Ahshik
Lee Michael G.
Matsushita Electric - Industrial Co., Ltd.
Wenderoth , Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.
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