A mobile identity-card issuing system
AN IDENTITY-CARD with a unique individual citizen code could be of immense use
for security purposes especially in
checking border infiltration and impersonation, as also during elections. With
these specifications in mind, security
systems specialists at the Bombay-based
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre have
designed a cost-effective computer laser
1-card printing system for issuing multipurpose 1-cards.
The primary emphasis in this system
is on digitisation of images for low-cost
reproducibility and retrieval of pictures
with clarity adequate for identification purposes.
Mounted on a mobile van, the system consists of a black and white video
camera, image monitor, personal computer with frame grabber, paper cutter
and laminator. The video signals from
the camera are fed into the video capture board of a frame grabber which
digitises and records the image. Then the video display board generates the output for display on the image monitor, which can be scaled and stored on a
hard disk. The 1-card information is formatted so that 4 1-cards can be printed
simultaneously.
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