Patent ID: 7337957

Claim:
A certification system for identifying an individual person and certifying that the individual person is a right person, comprising: two dimensional photo printing means for printing visible information for directly distinguishing said individual person as a two dimensional photograph; data conversion processing means for converting said visible information into data which can be printed as a hologram or a holographic stereogram; hologram or holographic stereogram manufacturing means for making said holograph or said holographic stereogram in accordance with said data obtained by conversion by said data conversion processing means; information storage means for storing various kinds of information including at least said visible information; information recording means for recording connection information to connect to said information storage means and read said visible information stored therein, in a designated recording member which is capable of recording various kinds of information; certification medium manufacturing means for making a certification medium by integrating at least said recording member having said connection information recorded therein by said information recording means, said two dimensional photograph obtained by printing by said two dimensional photo printing means and said hologram or said holographic stereogram made by said hologram or holographic stereogram manufacturing means in a condition that said two dimensional photograph and said hologram or said holographic stereogram are visible, and presentation means to be connected to said information storage means in accordance with said connection information which is recorded in said recording member by said information recording means and for receiving and presenting said visible information corresponding to said connection information among the information stored in said information storage means.