MONITORING SYSTEM FOR BROWSING STATE OF BOOK AND BOOK INFORMATION INTEGRATION SYSTEM

摘要

PPROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To grasp not only a book a customer is interested in but also the page of the book the customer is interested in. PSOLUTION: IC tags 53a, 53b, etc. are stuck to pages of a book. Each IC tag includes a memory storing a book ID for specifying the book with the IC tag and the page number of the page to which the IC tag is stuck, and an optical sensor generating a signal upon receiving light of a light quantity of a predetermined value or more. When opening of a page is detected by the optical sensor, a browsing signal including the book ID and the page number is transmitted and received by antennas 52a-52d connected to a processor 50. PCOPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI