JP2000247070A - Information recorded matter and information recording method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To effectively prevent personal identification information from being altered by another person by readably recording optically a code image of the personal identification information on the surface of a base material. SOLUTION: Information recorded matter 1 such as a passport, and an ID card has a resin-made or paper flat base material 2, and the surface of the base material 2 includes personal identification information characters, a face photographic image and so on recorded thereon by color ink. Also, the code image 4 of a personal identification information 3 is readably recorded optically on the surface of the base material 2, and a place being different from a recording place of the personal identification information. The code image 4 comprises a dot code 5 being a kind of records indicating information by a collective group of dots, and the code image 4 is formed such that the same information as the personal identification information 3 can not be reproduced if it is not readout by means of a reading device corresponding to the form of the code data.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an information recording material and an information recording method, and more particularly, to personal identification information such as a character or a face photograph image on a surface of a base material such as a passport or a driver's license based on the recorded data. The present invention relates to an information record to be recorded and an information recording method.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, personal identification information such as characters and face photograph images is recorded on the surface of a base material as an information record for identifying an individual such as a driver's license, an identification card, a passport, an ID card, and a credit card. The recorded information record was used.

In general, the information recording material is formed by thermally transferring and recording a heat-meltable or sublimable ink on the surface of a flat substrate made of plastic or paper based on recording data such as characters and photographs. Was formed by

Further, in order to prevent the personal identification information from being tampered with by others, various information recording methods for security have been adopted in the information recorded matter. For example, once the character information and the face photographic image are recorded on the surface of the base material by the hot-melt ink or the heat-sublimable ink, the upper layer of the recording is subjected to overprinting with a transparent ink or lamination processing with a transparent film sheet. By doing so, the falsification of the personal identification information was prevented.

[0005]

However, even in the conventional information recorded matter and information recording method, false recording can be performed on the transparent ink or the lamination process, thereby preventing falsification by another person. However, it was not necessarily suitable.

The present invention has been made in view of such a problem, and by recording a code image of the personal identification information together with the personal identification information on the surface of the base material, the same information as the personal identification information is recorded. It is an object of the present invention to provide an information recording material and an information recording method capable of reproducing the reproduced information from the code image and collating the reproduced information with the record of the personal identification information.

[0007]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided an information recording material, wherein the information recording material is provided on a surface of the base material which is different from a recording portion of the personal identification information. The code image of the personal identification information is recorded optically readable.

[0008] By adopting such a configuration, the same information as the personal identification information can be confirmed by optically reading the code image and reproducing the information.

A feature of the information recording method according to a second aspect is that a code image of the personal identification information is optically readable recorded on a surface of the base material which is different from a recording region of the personal identification information. Is to do.

By employing such a method, the same information as the personal identification information can be confirmed by optically reading the code image and reproducing the information.

[0011]

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of an information recording material and an information recording method according to the present invention. FIG.

As shown in FIG. 1, an information recording material 1 according to the present embodiment has a flat base material 2 made of resin such as plastic or paper.

On the surface of the base material 2, personal identification information 3 such as a character or a face photograph image is recorded with colored ink.

Further, a code image 4 of the personal identification information 3 is optically read by a reading device such as an image scanner on a portion of the surface of the base material different from the recording portion of the personal identification information 3. Recorded as possible.

The code image 4 is a dot code 5 as a kind of recording that represents information by a group of dots.
The dot code 5 is composed of the personal identification information 3
Is recorded on the basis of code data obtained by digitally encoding the recording data in a predetermined format.
The structure of the code image 4 and its recording device are known as described in JP-A-6-231466, and a description thereof will be omitted.

Since the code image 4 composed of the dot code 5 is digitally encoded according to a predetermined format, the personal identification information 3 and the personal identification information 3 must be read by a reading device corresponding to the code data format of the code image 4. The same information cannot be reproduced. For this reason, another person may use the code image 4
Cannot be easily tampered with.

Next, the recording device 7 for recording the information recording material will be described.

As shown in FIG. 2, the recording apparatus 7 has a substantially columnar platen roller 8 for supporting a recording portion of the substrate 2 (FIG. 1). Further, a thermal head 9 in which a plurality of heating elements (not shown) are arranged in the vicinity of the platen roller 8 is arranged so as to be able to contact and separate from the platen roller 8. The thermal head 9 thermally transfers the ink of the ink ribbon 6 shown in FIG. 3 on which the cyan C, magenta M, and yellow Y ink layers 6 a are continuously formed in the longitudinal direction to the surface of the base material 2. Desired recording is performed on the surface of the substrate 2. The thermal head 9 has a control unit 1 that performs various controls such as a control of energizing the thermal head 9.
0 is connected.

Next, an information recording method according to the present invention, which is a method for recording the information recorded matter, will be described.

First, as shown in FIG. 4, the substrate 2 is conveyed onto the platen roller 8, and the thermal head 9 is applied to the substrate 2 on the platen roller 8 by applying the desired colored ink of the ink ribbon 6. Pressure contact is made via the ink layer 6a.

The heating element of the thermal head 9 is caused to generate heat based on the recording data of the personal identification information 3 and the code data of the dot code 5 under the control of the control unit 10, so that the heat is applied to the surface of the substrate 2. Thermal transfer of ink. Then, while the substrate 2 is conveyed in the conveying direction and the ink ribbon 6 is wound up and the above-described operation is sequentially performed on colored inks of different colors, character information, a face photograph image, and the like are formed on the surface of the substrate 2. And the code image 4 are recorded.

Thus, the code image 4 of the personal identification information 3 is recorded on the surface of the base material 2 together with the personal identification information 3. The recording area of the code image 4 is different from the recording area of the personal identification information 3 so that the code image 4 can be properly read by the reading device.

Although the code image 4 is visible to the naked eye only as a group of dots, the code image 4 is optically read by a predetermined reading device, and is decoded according to a predetermined procedure. Information can be reproduced. Therefore, it is possible to easily detect falsification of the personal identification information 3 by checking the recorded personal identification information 3 with the colored ink and the reproduced information.

Therefore, in the present embodiment, since the same information as the personal identification information 3 can be reproduced from the code image 4, the reproduced information is compared with the personal identification information 3 to obtain the information. Falsification of the personal identification information 3 can be easily confirmed.

It should be noted that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, but can be variously modified as needed.

For example, in the present embodiment, the code image 4 is recorded with colored ink, but the present invention is not limited to this. For example, the code image 4 may be recorded with ultraviolet or infrared ink.

[0027]

As described above, according to the information record according to the first aspect and the information recording method according to the second aspect of the present invention, falsification of personal identification information by another person can be effectively prevented. .

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an embodiment of an information recorded matter according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing a recording apparatus for recording the information recorded matter in the embodiment of the information recorded matter according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an ink ribbon used for recording the information recorded matter in the embodiment of the information recorded matter according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a recording state of the information recording material in the embodiment of the information recording method according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Information record 4 Code image 5 Dot code

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. An information recording material in which personal identification information such as a character and a face photograph image is recorded on a surface of a base material based on recording data, wherein the personal identification information is recorded on the surface of the base material. An information recording material, wherein a code image of the personal identification information is optically readable and recorded in a part different from the part. 2. An information recording method for recording personal identification information such as a character or a face photograph image on a surface of a base material based on recording data, wherein the personal identification information is recorded on the surface of the base material. An information recording method, wherein a code image of the personal identification information is optically readable and recorded in a part different from the part.