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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2007
Hiroshi Sako, Shiki, JP;
Tatsuhiko Kagehiro, Kokubunji, JP;
Hiroto Nagayoshi, Kokubunji, JP;
Satomi Baba, Kokubunji, JP;
Hiroshi Sako, Shiki, JP;
Tatsuhiko Kagehiro, Kokubunji, JP;
Hiroto Nagayoshi, Kokubunji, JP;
Satomi Baba, Kokubunji, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A goods genuineness/counterfeit discrimination method using a plurality of IC tags each having functions of storing genuineness/counterfeit discrimination information and transmitting the genuineness/counterfeit discrimination information and a genuineness/counterfeit discrimination equipment for receiving the genuineness/counterfeit discrimination information from the IC tags to use it for genuineness/counterfeit discrimination, the method including: reading, by means of the genuineness/counterfeit discrimination equipment, information stored in one or more IC tags mounted on goods on which a first predetermined number of IC tags are mounted; and discriminating genuineness/counterfeit of the goods by determining, by means of the genuineness/counterfeit discrimination equipment, whether or not partial information is identical to each other among genuineness/counterfeit discrimination information read from IC tags equal to or more than a second predetermined number of IC tags mounted on the goods, the second predetermined number being smaller than the first predetermined number.