Patent ID: 7143942
Filing Date: 2006-12-05
Classification: G06K,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A card processing apparatus for processing a card containing magnetic data and image information inclusive of card number on a surface of the card comprising: a magnetic data reader for reading magnetic data from the card; an image scanner for imaging image data from the surface of the card containing the image information; an image data storage memory for storing the image data captured by the image scanner; a control unit for controlling the operation of the magnetic data reader and the image scanner; a reading evaluator under the control of the control unit for determining if the magnetic data reader has successfully read the magnetic data from the card; a computer under the control of the control unit which includes said reading evaluator for determining if magnetic data has been read and decoded successfully; and a card information extraction unit including an OCR processor under the control of said control unit for extracting the card number from the surface information on the card by OCR processing of the image data when the reading evaluator in said computer determines that the magnetic data reader has failed to successfully read the magnetic data.