Patent ID: 7309019
Filing Date: 2007-12-18
Classification: G06Q,G07D

Abstract:
1. A system for determining authenticity of an object carrying visible information therein, said system including an authenticity determining unit and a memory unit, said object including an electronic circuit chip having no rewritable function and which stores a unique number, and said memory unit storing said unique number and information carried in common by said object and a plurality of objects of a same species as said object, and also storing a correlation between the common information of said same species and the unique number stored by said object, wherein said object and each of the plurality of objects carries the same said common information, said common information identifies said objects carrying said common information as being of said same species, and said common information is visible information as carried by said object and the plurality of objects, wherein said authenticity determining unit reads out said stored unique number from said electronic circuit chip; obtains from said memory unit the stored common information correlated with said unique number which is stored in said memory unit; acquires the visible information from said object by measuring or scanning; and compares said obtained stored common information with the visible information acquired by measuring or scanning said object to determine whether said object is authentic or not.