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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 03, 2007
Applicants:
Yasuhiro Yamada, Tokyo, JP;
Takahisa Hakoishi, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroshi Sugaya, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention has non-contact communication means () configured to read a card identifier ID stored in a memory of an IC card, a barcode generation unit () configured to generate a two-dimensional barcode of a bonus data associated with the card identifier ID read by the non-contact communication means (), and a display unit () configured to display the two-dimensional barcode of the bonus data generated by the barcode generation unit (). And, the bonus data displayed on a display unitin the two-dimensional barcode is read by a barcode reader () of a POS terminal ().