Data processing: generic control systems or specific application – Specific application – apparatus or process – Product assembly or manufacturing
Reexamination Certificate
2003-01-16
2004-10-05
Picard, Leo (Department: 2125)
Data processing: generic control systems or specific application
Specific application, apparatus or process
Product assembly or manufacturing
Reexamination Certificate
active
06801829
ABSTRACT:
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to a technique for supporting a registration procedure of information necessary to make a key.
BACKGROUND OF ART
Many kinds of keys are used in the modern society such as for houses, rooms, safes, cases, cars, machines, and the like whether we like it or not. Therefore, when a key is lost, inconvenience can occur inevitably such that we cannot enter a room, open a safe, get in a car, and operate a machine.
DISCLOSURE OF INVENTION
In this respect, as the conventional countermeasure, arrival of a person who has a duplicate key is waited for or a service company about a key is called to have the key unlocked or destroyed depending on the situation.
However, in case of waiting for a person having a duplicate key, generally it takes unexpected time and it maybe often imprecision. While, in case of calling a service company, it costs a great deal. Furthermore, in case of having a key destroyed, there is a problem of fixing a new key.
To avoid the above problems, it would be convenient to previously register the information necessary to make a key somewhere in case of losing a key and, if necessary, and ask for manufacture of the duplicate key based on the information. However, a key has a complicated shape and it is very difficult for general public to identify a key. Therefore, it is hard to convey properly the information necessary to make a key to a key manufacturer. Further, it would be troublesome and inconvenient to carry a key and visit a key manufacturer in order to register the information of the key. Therefore, it is expected to develop a system capable of registering the information necessary to make a key easily by using a personal computer at home and the like.
An object of the present invention is to provide a technique for supporting the information registration procedure necessary to make a key, in order to perform the same at ease.
In order to solve the above problem, a system for supporting the registration procedure of the information necessary to make a key, according to the present invention, is characterized by comprising: means for storing image data for key information input including an image indicating a shape of a key plate, an area display image indicating an area where a key groove concerned about the shape needs to be formed, and a key groove shape display image indicating a plurality of key groove shapes, in relation to key plate specification information for specifying the shape of the key plate; means for accepting an input of the key plate specification information for specifying a key plate; means for retrieving the image data for key information input about a key plate specified by the accepted the key plate specification information; means for outputing the image data for key information input found by the above retrieval; and means for accepting an input of information including a specified key groove shape indicated by the key groove shape display image and a specified area indicated by the area display image, as for the supplied image data for key information input.
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Frank Elliot
Kawai Shokai Kabushiki Kaisha
Picard Leo
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