Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon Conlux

Nippon Conlux Co., Ltd.

Hiroaki Yoshida

Michihiro Ota

Koichi Yamazaki

Hiroaki Shinada

Michihiro Ohta

Kazuo Noda

Eiichi Nakamura

Yoshiyuki Ohkuma

Hiroaki Shinoda

A promotion method and a system which can realize thoughtful promotion by facilitating changing settings such as the number of points issued for each commodity, a promotion period and the like without the necessity for changing settings of target automatic vending machines all at once. A commodity code peculiar to each commodity is added to point information, and a data center selectively adds the number of points of the point information of the specific commodity on the basis of the commodity code.

Promotion method and system

Upon the sale of merchandise by a vending machine, encrypted point information expressing prescribed points is presented to a user. The user transmits the presented point information, together with identification information for the user, to a center device by means of the user's portable telephone set. The center device decrypts the transmitted and encrypted point information, stores and manages points corresponding to the point information for the user, and offers prescribed service to the user based on the points stored and managed for the user.

To send point information indicated by an automatic vending machine to a center unit by a packet communication function of a portable telephone of a user of the automatic vending machine, a free space in a single packet of the point information to be sent from the automatic vending machine to the center unit is used to send management information such as sales information, stock information, failure information and the like of the automatic vending machine to the center unit.

Promotion system and method of managing automatic vending machine by the promotion system

To provide a banknote-processing device with an IC card reader/writer function, a card reader/writer which records and reproduces information to and from the IC recording area of an IC card is fitted within the front mask where the banknote insertion slot is formed, or within a front mask cover which serves to cover this front mask.

Banknote-processing device with card reader/writer function

Method and device for controlling tracking of optical memory card

IC card reader/writer and its control method

A hybrid card and a processing device capable of rapidly identifying a read/write unit corresponding to an IC module from a plurality of read/write units and preventing fraud in respect of the IC module. Identification data identifying the type of an IC module 11a is held in for example a magnetic stripe 11b outside the IC module 11a of a hybrid card 11. Authentication data corresponding to the identification data is held in the IC module 11a. An R/W unit adapted to the IC module 11a is selected in accordance with the identification data read from the location outside the IC module 11a. The identification data read from the location outside the IC module 11a and the authentication data contained in the data read from the IC module 11a are compared and, only if the two agree, the reading from or writing into the an IC read/write unit 130 is permitted.

Card and device for processing of same

In an optical information recording and reproducing apparatus, information is recorded or reproduced by moving a recording medium relative to an optical head. In order to execute information recording onto the medium in the course of the relative movement involving acceleration and deceleration, the generation timing and intensity of a light beam to be generated in correspondence with the information to be recorded are controlled in response to a varying speed of the relative movement so that data pits to be formed in the recording medium can be standardized in pitch and size irrespective of the relative movement speed. Also, in order to permit information reproduction from the medium in the course of the relative movement involving acceleration and deceleration, reproduction timing of data read by the optical head is set in synchronism with variation in the relative movement speed so that the data can be reproduced at proper timing irrespective of the relative movement speed. With such arrangements, there can be achieved a highly increased information recording/reproduction speed, extended information recording area, reduced size and cost of the apparatus, and reduced power consumption in the apparatus.

Method of and apparatus for recording and reproducing optical information

A high-density recording medium has data tracks and guide tracks formed on both sides of each of the data tracks. Intervals between the guide tracks are set in such a manner that the outer edges of two adjacent guide tracks correspond in position to two tracking laser beam spots on the recording medium. To allow use of either of the high-density recording medium, and a conventional recording medium on which intervals between guide tracks are set in such a manner that the inner edges of two adjacent guide tracks correspond in position to two tracking laser beam spots, control is performed such that polarity of a tracking control servo is selectively inverted depending upon which of the high-density and conventional recording medium is used.

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Hiroaki Yoshida