JPS62555B2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for converting character information displayed in characters on ledgers and slips (abbreviated as forms) used when using a computer into magnetic information. It is.

In general, when using a computer, the information formed on the slip serves as an input source and basic data for initial business processing by the computer, and also serves as data for use in subsequent and economic business processing. Therefore, it becomes an input to the computer at the same time as it is written (printed) on the slip, and an electrical signal (based on a so-called code) is also input to the computer.
It is often converted into magnetic information that generates information.

Furthermore, conventionally, except for special computers, ordinary computers have been equipped with printing devices, and it has not been possible for a computer to simultaneously form character information on a form and to form optical information equivalent to the character information. There is also a computer device that reads optical information on a form, converts it into text information, and displays it. In addition, magnetic stripes (of any width) are provided on the form, information is magnetically written on them, and this magnetic information is read by a computer and converted into text information whose meaning can be visually recognized. It is also being done.

However, it is technically difficult to form character information on a form using a computer and at the same time convert this information and write it as magnetic information on the magnetic stripe on the form. This is because the form must be stationary in order to be printed on it.
This is because the form must be run at a constant speed in order to magnetically write on the magnetic stripe on the form. Therefore, in order to magnetically write information on the magnetic stripe portion of a form with a magnetic stripe, the only way is to move the form stepwise, print when it is stationary, and write magnetically when it moves. As a result, the production speed of forms with magnetic information written thereon and the conversion speed of information are slow, and the mechanism is complicated.

The present invention eliminates the above-mentioned conventional drawbacks and provides a method for quickly converting information into magnetic information on a magnetic stripe on a form, and an apparatus used therein.

To explain the embodiment with reference to the drawings, character information X ₁ [characters or figures A that can be visually understood by humans] is formed on a form G by an ordinary computer K (not shown) equipped with a printing device. at the same time,
Optical information _X2 consisting of points or lines corresponding to the character information _X1 is formed on the form G.

The form G on which the above-mentioned character information _X1 and optical information _X2 are formed is introduced into the information conversion device.

This information converting device incorporates a microcomputer, and the projections of an endless feeding mechanism (B) provided in the information converting device enter holes arranged on both sides of the form G so that the form is sent out. Above this endless feeding mechanism, the running form G
An optical reading element A is fixed to the aircraft body at a position where the optical information X ₂ can be read by the microcomputer.
A magnetic writing element B, which is operated in conjunction with a microcomputer, is provided on a fixed part of the body at a position corresponding to the magnetic stripe Y attached to the form G.

In the figure, C is a magnetic reading element that reads and checks the information written on the magnetic stripe Y by magnetic writing element B, D and E are fixing plates for elements such as A and B, and F is a form. The position detecting elements detect the beginning and end of the form G to ensure the accuracy of the operations of the reading element A, the writing element B, and the reading element C.

The form G, which has magnetic striped character information X ₁ and optical information X ₂ introduced into such an information conversion device, is moved from left to right in Figure 2 by an endless feeding mechanism B. conveyed and its optical information
Information on X ₂ is read by an optical reading element A connected to a microcomputer, and at the same time, a magnetic writing element B working in conjunction with the reading element A is activated by the microcomputer to write information on the magnetic stripe Y. The optical information X ₂ is transformed to form magnetic information X ₃ .

In this invention, _character information
, and at the same time forms optical information _{X 2} corresponding to _the text information Since the conversion can be performed even in the state, there is no time loss in converting the textual information _X1 to the optical information _X2 , and the conversion can be done instantly.

When the form G, in which _the character information X ₁ has been converted into optical information At the same time as the optical information X ₂ is read, a magnetic writing element B working in conjunction with this operates to form magnetic information X ₃ , which is the converted optical information X ₂ , on the magnetic stripe Y attached to the form. . Therefore, there is no time loss in information conversion here either.
Moreover, the mechanism of this information conversion is simple.

As described above, the present invention is capable of quickly converting character information on a form into magnetic information on the magnetic stripe of the form using a simple mechanism.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is an embodiment of a form according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing a main part of an embodiment of an information conversion device of the present invention, and FIG. 3 is a perspective view of an information conversion device of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a block diagram of an embodiment. A... Printing, B... Endless feeding mechanism, A... Optical reading element (optical mark reader),
B... Magnetic writing element (magnetic stripe encoder), C... Magnetic reading element, D, E... Fixed plate, F... Form position detection element, G... Form, K
...Computer, L... Connection circuit with A, M...
...Connection circuit with B, N...Connection circuit with C, O...
... Connection circuit with F, P... Connection mechanism with form feed, Q... Form feed mechanism, R... Operation console, S...
Connection circuit with R, X ₁ ... character information, X ₂ ... optical information, X ₃ ... magnetic information, Y ... magnetic stripe, Z ... microcomputer.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1 Character information is written on a form G by a computer K.
In addition to printing X ₁ , certain optical information X ₂ corresponding to this character information X ₁ is also formed on the form G, and the form G with both information X _{1 and} At the same time, the optical information _X2 on the form G is read by the optical reading element A, and at the same time, the optical information A method of converting information on a form in which magnetic information _X3 is formed on a magnetic stripe Y provided on a document. 2 Character information is written on form G by computer K.
A form G on which X ₁ is printed and optical information X ₂ corresponding to the character information X ₁ is formed is run at a constant speed, and the optical information X ₂ on the form G is sent to an optical reading element A. An information converting device incorporating a microcomputer configured to read the data and write on a magnetic stripe Y provided on a form G by means of a magnetic writing element B that operates in conjunction with the microcomputer.