COMPOSITE DEVICE AND APPLICATION PROCESS AND APPARATUS THEREOF

摘要

A composite device comprising a human-readable target device and a verification device in machine-readable (or non-human-readable) encoding in which the verification device is related to the target device by a predefined scheme of operation, the target device may comprise a plurality of human readable symbols. For example, the human readable symbols may be arranged into a string of symbols which is also referred to as a ‘token’ herein. The composite device is useful for applications such as authentication, automated Internet access etc.

主权项

1. An apparatus comprising a processor and an image acquisition device, wherein the apparatus is to acquire an image of a target object, to process the image of the target object to extract a human readable target device by optical recognition and to extract a verification device which is embedded in non-human readable encoding, to verify the target device with respect to the extracted verification device, and to utilize the extracted target device when verification is satisfactory.