Patent ID: 7526107

Claim:
A card issuing system, comprising: a personal card reading unit operable to read a face image and personal information from a personal card; an image capturing unit operable to take a face image of a user; a similarity computing unit operable to compute a degree of similarity between the face image read by said personal card reading unit and the face image taken by said image capturing unit; a display unit operable to display the face image read by said personal card reading unit, the face image taken by said image capturing unit, and the degree of similarity computed by said similarity computing unit side-by-side; a new card creation approving unit operable to approve a creation of a new card when it is judged that the face image read by said personal card reading unit and the face image taken by said image capturing unit are images of the same person; and a new card creating unit operable to print the personal information read by said personal card reading unit and the face image taken by said image capturing unit on the surface of the new card and also store the information and the image on a memory provided in the new card in order to create the new card when being approved by said new card creation approving unit, wherein said new card creating unit further stores the face image read by said personal card reading unit and the degree of similarity computed by said similarity computing unit on the memory provided in the new card.