JPH05314294A - Input medium - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Abstract] [Purpose] To obtain an inexpensive input medium that can easily input data in a short time and has a small occupied area per information amount. [Structure] Data 2 such as a name, a company name, and an address are printed on the surface of a card, and spots 3 for digitizing the data 2 are printed.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an input medium having data such as name, company name and address printed on a card-shaped surface.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional input medium, such as a business card, has a name, company name,
Data 2 such as an address is printed.

Next, when digitizing the data 2 of the business card 1, a method of manually reading the data 2 of the business card 1 and inputting it into a personal computer or the like, or a method of inputting the business card 1 as a pattern, or a barcode on the back surface of the business card 1 There is a method of printing the.

[0004]

In the conventional input medium, the method of manually reading the data 2 of the business card 1 and inputting it into a personal computer or the like is time-consuming and troublesome. In addition, the method of inputting the business card 1 as a pattern requires a lot of time for inputting, and the cost of the input device is also high, and the data input to the device has meaning of information as the data 2 of the business card 1. No, it is inferior in terms of data application. Furthermore, the method of printing a barcode on the back surface of the business card 1 has a problem that the amount of information on the business card 1 is unexpectedly large and the space occupied by the amount of information is large, so that the space for printing is insufficient.

The present invention has been made in consideration of the above problems of the prior art, and its purpose is to input data such as name, company name and address to an input medium and It is an object of the present invention to provide an inexpensive input medium in which input from an input medium to a device such as a personal computer can be easily performed in a short time, and an occupied area per information amount is small.

[0006]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the input medium of the present invention prints data such as name, company name and address on the surface of a card and digitizes the data. It is a print of spots.

[0007]

The input medium of the present invention configured as described above is
Since data such as name, company name, and address, and spots that digitize the data are printed, the data and spots can be printed at the same time, making it easy to input data on an input medium and a device such as a personal computer in a short time. It is possible to obtain an inexpensive input medium that can be performed at a low cost and has a small occupied area per information amount.

[0008]

[Embodiment] FIG. 1A, FIG. 1B, and FIG.
This will be described with reference to (c) and FIG. In those drawings, the same reference numerals as those in FIG. 3 denote the same or corresponding ones,
The spots 3 for digitizing the data 2 are printed in the space 4 on the side of the data 2 such as the name, company name, and address of the business card 1.

Next, FIG. 2 will be used to describe the printing of the spots 3 on an input medium, for example, a card-shaped business card 1. Selection of data 2 to be printed on a business card one character (S _1), and selects the spots 3 corresponding to the selected character (S _2). Next, the characters are printed out (S ₃ ) to the printing device, and the spots 3 corresponding to the characters are output so as to be printed at a fixed position on the business card 1 (S ₄ ).

It is preferable to perform character selection (S ₁ ) and spot selection (S ₂ ) together, and to print character print output (S ₃ ) and spot print output (S ₄ ) at the same time. Is desirable.

Next, when reading the spots 3, for example, the difference in brightness between the spots 3 is used.

The printing surface of the spots 3 is not limited to the one shown in the figure, and may be the back surface of the business card 1.

Further, as shown in FIG. 1 (c), the spots 3 may be printed continuously, and the spots 3 may be round dots or corner dots.

[0014]

Since the present invention is configured as described above, it has the following effects. Since the input medium of the present invention is printed with the spots 3 for digitizing the data 2 such as name, company name, and address, it can be easily input to a personal computer in a short time and the amount of information The occupying area can be reduced, and pretreatment such as application of magnetic powder for digitizing the data 2 is not required, and the inexpensive input medium 1 can be obtained. In addition to printing the data 2 and the spots 3 simultaneously, the spots 3 corresponding to the data 2 can be selected at the same time when the data 2 to be printed is selected by a personal computer or the like.

[Brief description of drawings]

1A, 1B, and 1C are a plan view, a partially enlarged view, and a partially enlarged view of another state of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart at the time of creating FIG.

FIG. 3 is a plan view of a conventional example.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 input medium 2 data 3 spots

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Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An input medium in which data such as a name, a company name, and an address are printed on a card-like surface, and spots for digitizing the data are printed.