AUTOMATIC HEALTH INSURANCE CARD RECOGNITION METHOD AND DEVICE AND AUTOMATIC AGED PERSON HEALTH INSURANCE CARD RECOGNITION METHOD AND DEVICE

• Main Authors: TAKADA AKIHIRO, SUGA MAKOTO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 12.11.1996
• Edition: 6
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS; HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONTECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING ORPROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTEDFOR SPECIFIC APPLICATION FIELDS; PHYSICS; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECOGNITION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

PURPOSE: To automatically confirm the health insurance cards and also the health insurance cards for the aged and to improve the business processing efficiency of these cards. CONSTITUTION: The image of a health insurance card 1 is read by a color scanner 2 in response to the operation of a keyboard 5, ana true image data are supplied to a processing part 4. The part 4 recognizes every item of the card 1. If an error message, etc., are produced when the items of the card 1 are recognized, they are shown at a display part 3. At the same time, a storage part 6 can store the data corresponding to the items of the card 1 which are recognized at the part 4. These stored data can also be printed out via an output part 7.