WO2001065478A2 - Library system with electronic identification and locking of compact disks - Google Patents
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- WO2001065478A2 WO2001065478A2 PCT/NL2001/000172 NL0100172W WO0165478A2 WO 2001065478 A2 WO2001065478 A2 WO 2001065478A2 NL 0100172 W NL0100172 W NL 0100172W WO 0165478 A2 WO0165478 A2 WO 0165478A2
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- G—PHYSICS
- G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
- G06K—GRAPHICAL DATA READING; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
- G06K19/00—Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings
- G06K19/06—Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings characterised by the kind of the digital marking, e.g. shape, nature, code
- G06K19/067—Record carriers with conductive marks, printed circuits or semiconductor circuit elements, e.g. credit or identity cards also with resonating or responding marks without active components
- G06K19/07—Record carriers with conductive marks, printed circuits or semiconductor circuit elements, e.g. credit or identity cards also with resonating or responding marks without active components with integrated circuit chips
- G06K19/077—Constructional details, e.g. mounting of circuits in the carrier
- G06K19/07749—Constructional details, e.g. mounting of circuits in the carrier the record carrier being capable of non-contact communication, e.g. constructional details of the antenna of a non-contact smart card
- G06K19/07758—Constructional details, e.g. mounting of circuits in the carrier the record carrier being capable of non-contact communication, e.g. constructional details of the antenna of a non-contact smart card arrangements for adhering the record carrier to further objects or living beings, functioning as an identification tag
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- G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
- G06K—GRAPHICAL DATA READING; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
- G06K17/00—Methods or arrangements for effecting co-operative working between equipments covered by two or more of main groups G06K1/00 - G06K15/00, e.g. automatic card files incorporating conveying and reading operations
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- G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
- G06K—GRAPHICAL DATA READING; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
- G06K7/00—Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers, e.g. for reading patterns
- G06K7/0008—General problems related to the reading of electronic memory record carriers, independent of its reading method, e.g. power transfer
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- G—PHYSICS
- G08—SIGNALLING
- G08B—SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS
- G08B13/00—Burglar, theft or intruder alarms
- G08B13/22—Electrical actuation
- G08B13/24—Electrical actuation by interference with electromagnetic field distribution
- G08B13/2402—Electronic Article Surveillance [EAS], i.e. systems using tags for detecting removal of a tagged item from a secure area, e.g. tags for detecting shoplifting
- G08B13/2428—Tag details
- G08B13/2434—Tag housing and attachment details
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- G—PHYSICS
- G08—SIGNALLING
- G08B—SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS
- G08B13/00—Burglar, theft or intruder alarms
- G08B13/22—Electrical actuation
- G08B13/24—Electrical actuation by interference with electromagnetic field distribution
- G08B13/2402—Electronic Article Surveillance [EAS], i.e. systems using tags for detecting removal of a tagged item from a secure area, e.g. tags for detecting shoplifting
- G08B13/2428—Tag details
- G08B13/2437—Tag layered structure, processes for making layered tags
- G08B13/2445—Tag integrated into item to be protected, e.g. source tagging
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- This invention relates to a system for automating the lending service of a library, whereby the borrowers themselves take care of checking out the materials to be borrowed.
- libraries it is customary for the counter personnel to take care of registering or checking out the materials to be borrowed.
- This typically involves reading the barcode of the library pass into the computer, so that it can thereupon be coupled to the barcodes of the objects to be borrowed, such as books or compact disks (CDs) with music, computer software or videos.
- a slip stating the lending period is printed, and an antitheft label present in the object is deactivated, so that no alarm is produced at the exit.
- this antitheft label mostly consists of a magnetizable strip of soft-magnetic amorphous metal, on which one or more strips of hard-magnetic material are provided.
- the soft-magnetic material By magnetizing the hard-magnetic material, the soft-magnetic material is biased, so to say, and drawn into saturation, so that no signaling occurs anymore at the gates at the exit.
- the respective label By demagnetizing the hard- magnetic material again upon return of the borrowed objects, the respective label can be made active again.
- CDs are stored separately from the boxes, or a so-called CD-safer is employed, in which the CD is stored with box and all and is subsequently locked with a lock.
- the respective CD matching the box must be found again, and in the latter case the CD-safer must be removed and stored.
- the present invention aims to provide a solution to all these problems and will be described in the following, with reference to a few drawings.
- Fig. 1 shows a CD box as used in the library system according to the invention.
- Fig. 2 shows a double CD box as used in the library system according to the invention.
- the library system instead of utilizing a barcode, use is made of a non-contact electromagnetic radiofrequency identification label, as described in applicant's Dutch patent No. 176404, or a label based on the same principle, having a higher operating frequency, for instance 13.56 MHz as described in the international standard ISO 15693.
- the labels according to this standard are provided with a so-called multi-label protocol, which makes it possible for several labels in the field to be read and/or programmed in succession.
- these non-contact electronic identification labels are programmable, so that they can contain information which can be activated and deactivated, and also have a relatively great readout distance, the antitheft function can also be taken over by these labels. This last is done with the aid of an antitheft system disposed at the exit of the library, which system, via the same non-contact electromagnetic radiofrequency communication medium, is activated or not, depending on whether check-out is incorrect or correct.
- the non-contact electronic identification label is provided in or on all objects to be lent, such as, for instance, books and CDs, and can contain, in addition to an identification number for the object, other information, such as, for instance, dimensions of the object, weight, location, genre, summary, impression, lending period, library, date of purchase, and logistic information for the purpose of the production process.
- the library pass is also provided with the same non-contact electromagnetic radiofrequency identification label, which can be read and/or programmed with the same transmitter/receiver as that used for reading and/or programming the object to be borrowed.
- use can be made of the above- described multi-label protocol, so that the library pass together with the objects to be borrowed can be concurrently read out in succession in the field and optionally be written.
- one or more objects to be borrowed can be coupled to a library pass by passing the identification codes of all objects to be borrowed, as well as the identification code(s) of the library pass, to a library computer.
- the library computer records this coupling and via the library computer these couplings can be modified.
- a borrower can be identified not only by way of the library pass, but also on the basis of biometric features, such as, for instance, a fingerprint.
- biometric features such as, for instance, a fingerprint.
- a special CD box which is lockable and which takes the place of the normal box in which the CD was packaged when purchased.
- This lockable box which is depicted in Fig. 1, has the same dimensions as a standard CD box, so that it fits into storage systems intended therefor.
- the CD box is provided with the same type of non-contact electromagnetic radiofrequency identification label as described above and which is also provided in the books.
- This label is provided in the box at a position which is not covered, and hence screened, by the metallized CD, so that the identification and the antitheft function continue to function and are not limited in performance by the CD. Due to the fact that this label is not provided on the CD disk itself, it is possible to separate the disk and the box and to exchange either of them, which can be obviated by providing a non-contact electromagnetic radiofrequency identification label not only in the box but also around the opening of the disk at a position suitable therefor in connection with the CD player.
- this label Due to the metal layer on the CD, this label will to some extent be screened and it will not be possible to read out this label at a large distance. However, this label, which is provided on the CD itself, can be read out at the check-out terminal and the check-in terminal where, before the box is locked or unlocked, it can also be determined whether the correct CD is in the correct box or has possibly got lost.
- the lockable CD box consists, as depicted in Fig. 1, of a hinged lid (1) attached to an outer box (2) in which a slidable CD carrier (3) can move back and forth, being capable of taking two positions under the influence of a spring (4) and two pawls (5, 6).
- the CD box In the position which is locked by the pawls (5, 6), the CD box can be opened, and in the other position, in which the spring (4) relaxes to some extent, the CD box is locked in that a number of projections (7), which are provided on the slidable CD carrier (3) around the CD, ensure that, corresponding with these projections (7), corresponding projections (8) on the hinged lid (1) and corresponding projections (9) on the outer box (2) are locked, so that the hinged lid (1) cannot be opened anymore.
- the above-described lockable CD box has the same dimensions as a standard CD box and can be provided with the same promotional material, such as a printed inlay sheet under the slidable CD carrier or a booklet with, for instance, lyrics, behind the projections (10) in the hinged lid (1).
- promotional material such as a printed inlay sheet under the slidable CD carrier or a booklet with, for instance, lyrics, behind the projections (10) in the hinged lid (1).
- a so-called double CD with two, instead of one, CDs disposed in the box, can be fitted with the same locking mechanism, as shown in Fig. 2, with the slidable CD carrier (3) being also hingedly fitted in the outer box (2).
- the pawls (5, 6) in this case are attached to an additional sliding part (11), in which also the slidable CD carrier (3) hinges on the pivots (12, 13).
- the locking of the lockable CD box is done with the aid of two strong magnets (14, 15) which unlatch the pawls (5, 6), so that the slidable CD carrier (3), under the influence of spring (4), slides into the locking position.
- the pawls (5, 6) enter into engagement again with the projections (16, 17) corresponding with these pawls, so that the lockable CD box cannot, for instance by striking the rear side, be opened again.
- the pawls (5, 6) are uncoupled from the projections (16, 17) again with the aid of the two magnets (14, 15), and also with the aid of the two magnets (14, 15), via the pawls (5, 6), the slidable CD carrier (3) is pulled, against the action of spring (4), back into the unlocked position again.
- the two strong magnets (14, 15) can be arranged under an unlocking position on the check-out terminal and, for instance via an electric motor, be driven at the time when in the computer the lockable CD box has been coupled as a borrowed object to a library pass.
- a special memory location which can consist of just one bit of information, in the non-contact electromagnetic identification label is written or erased.
- an alarm signal is generated, or is not, to thereby prevent objects to be borrowed from being taken out without having been checked out by the borrower via the check-out terminal.
- An environmentally more friendly method is the use of a, for instance thermally, reprintable layer on the library pass, which can each time be erased and reprinted again, so that the borrowed objects can be specified on the library pass.
- the number of printable lines on the library pass then naturally constitutes a limitation, which can be obviated by indicating the remaining number of items in the last line. In view of the average amount of borrowed objects, however, this will be necessary only for a very limited group of borrowers.
- Cards with reprintable layers are state of the art and are offered by various suppliers.
- the library system By fitting the labels in the books and other lending objects at corresponding positions, and by the possibility of successively reading out several labels concurrently present in the field of the transmitter/receiver, the library system according to the invention provides the possibility of making an inventory of all objects in the library in a simple manner, or to determine that objects are located in a wrong location. Use can be made here of a portable hand-held transmitter/receiver with a datalog function, or a transmitter/receiver which, for instance with the aid of a radio connection, is wirelessly connected with the library computer.
- the borrowed objects are again read out contactlessly, for the date and optionally the time to be recorded.
- This can be done in the library by the borrower on a check-in terminal, which has the same functionality as the check-out terminal.
- the CD boxes are thereby locked again and the antitheft function of the non-contact electronic labels connected with the objects, is activated again.
- the reprintable text on the library pass can be modified, whereby the returned objects are removed from the library pass.
- the check-in function can also be automated, for instance by returning the objects via a letterbox provided with a transmitter/receiver, with which the non-contact electronic labels are read and with which, after registration of the borrowed objects, the antitheft function is activated again.
- the CD boxes may thereby be locked again with the aid of magnets in the above-described manner.
- the automatic check-in terminal can also be provided with a printer to erase the library pass or to reprint it with up-to-date information.
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AU2001242854A AU2001242854A1 (en) | 2000-03-02 | 2001-03-02 | Library system with electronic identification and locking of compact disks |
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