Point card management system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10216463-B2
Application number	US-201715609059-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 31, 2017
Priority date	May 31, 2016
Publication date	Feb 26, 2019
Grant date	Feb 26, 2019

Abstract

A point card management system includes a multifunction peripheral that processes an image and a server that is connectable to the multifunction peripheral via a network. The multifunction peripheral includes a read request receiving unit, an image read control unit, and a description information acquisition unit. The description information acquisition unit acquires description information of the point card from the image of the point card read by the image reading unit. The server includes a server hard disk and an extraction unit. The extraction unit extracts the accumulation information of the point card from pieces of information of the point card, which have been stored in the server hard disk, based on the description information of the point card, which has been received.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A point card management system that manages information of a point card, the system comprising:
an image processing device that processes an image; and
a storage device that is connectable to the image processing device via a network,
wherein the image processing device includes
a mounting table on which, when an image of a document is read, the document is placed,
an image reading unit that reads the image of the document placed on the mounting table,
a printing unit that forms an image and prints the image on a sheet of paper,
a read request receiving unit that receives a request for a read of an image of the point card placed on the mounting table from the user,
an image read control unit that performs a control such that, when the request for a read is received by the read request receiving unit, an image of the point card is read by the image reading unit,
a description information acquisition unit that acquires description information of the point card from the image of the point card read by the image reading unit,
an image processing device transmission control unit that performs a control such that the description information of the point card, which has been acquired from the description information acquisition unit, is transmitted to the storage unit via the network,
an image processing device reception control unit that performs a control such that the description information of the point card, which has been transmitted from the storage unit, is received via the network,
a layout generation unit that generates a layout of a print image of accumulation information of the point card, which has been received, and
a print control unit that controls the printing unit in accordance with the layout of the print image, which has been generated by the layout generation unit, such that the accumulation information of the point information is printed,

the storage device includes
a storage unit that stores information of the point card,
a storage device reception control unit that performs a control such that the description information of the point card, which has been transmitted from the image processing device, is received via the network,
an extraction unit that extracts the accumulation information of the point card from pieces of information of the point card, which have been stored in the storage unit, based on the description information of the point card, which has been received, and
a storage device transmission control unit that performs a control such that the accumulation information of the point card, which has been extracted by the extraction unit, is transmitted to the image processing device and
the mounting table is a table on which the plurality of point cards is arrangeable.

2. The point card management system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the image processing device further includes
an authentication unit that authenticates the user from whom the request for a read has been received by the read request receiving unit, and
the image read control unit performs a control such that, if authentication of the user, which was performed by the authentication unit, has not been successful, the image of the point card is not read by the image reading unit.

3. The point card management system according to claim 2 ,
wherein the authentication unit is performed by authenticating an image of a face of the user.

4. The point card management system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the image processing device further includes
a storage unit that stores the information of the user from whom the request for a read has been received by the read request receiving unit, and
a determination unit that determines whether or not the user from whom the request for a read has been received by the read request receiving unit had made a request for a read which was received by the read request receiving unit in the past, and
if the determination unit has determined that the user had made a request for a read which was received by the read request receiving unit in the past, the extraction unit extracts the accumulation information of the point card, based on the information of the user, regardless of the description information of the point card, which has been acquired by the description information acquisition unit.

5. The point card management system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the description information of the point card includes information of a management company that issued the point card, information of the user who owns the point card, and information of the number of the point card.

6. The point card management system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the accumulation information of the point card includes information of the point number indicating accumulated points and information of an expiration date of the points.

7. The point card management system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the description information acquisition unit includes an optical character recognition (OCR).

8. The point card management system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the storage device includes at least one of a storage unit on a server and a storage unit on cloud computing.

Assignees

• Kyocera Document Solutions Inc

Inventors

• Akimoto Tadaaki

Classifications

• H04N1/00244

  with a server, e.g. an internet server (fax-servers or the like for store and forward H04N1/324) · CPC title

• H04N1/442

  using a biometric data reading device · CPC title

• G06F21/32

  using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints · CPC title

• G06Q30/0226

  Incentive systems for frequent usage, e.g. frequent flyer miles programs or point systems · CPC title

• G06F3/1239

  Restricting the usage of resources, e.g. usage or user levels, credit limit, consumables, special fonts · CPC title