Patents by Inventor Kae Shimokawa

Kae Shimokawa has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Card processing apparatus and system, POS terminal for card processing, and credit card processing control method
    Patent number: 7143942
    Abstract: To reliably process a card such as a credit card to acquire accurate card information in accordance with the present invention without lowering job productivity, magnetic data is read from the card and in the same operation the front of the card is scanned to secure an image of data information such as the card number. The resulting image data is stored in memory. A control unit in conjunction with a reading evaluator such as a computer determines if the magnetic data has been successfully read or not. If reading the magnetic data is not successful, an OCR unit extracts the card number from the card by OCR processing of the scanned image data. The card number extracted by the OCR unit is then used for a card C authorization check.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2006
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yukiko Yamanaka, Kae Shimokawa, Motofumi Shiraiwa
  • Card processing apparatus and system, POS terminal for card processing, and credit card processing control method
    Publication number: 20050087598
    Abstract: To reliably process a card such as a credit card to acquire accurate card information in accordance with the present invention without lowering job productivity, magnetic data is read from the card and in the same operation the front of the card is scanned to secure an image of data information such as the card number. The resulting image data is stored in memory. A control unit in conjunction with a reading evaluator such as a computer determines if the magnetic data has been successfully read or not. If reading the magnetic data is not successful, an OCR unit extracts the card number from the card by OCR processing of the scanned image data. The card number extracted by the OCR unit is then used for a card C authorization check.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2004
    Publication date: April 28, 2005
    Inventors: Yukiko Yamanaka, Kae Shimokawa, Motofumi Shiraiwa