Which country first proposed IC card?

The original idea of IC card was put forward by the Japanese. 1969 65438+February, Kunitaka Arimura of Japan proposed a method of making a safe and reliable credit card, and obtained a patent in 1970, which was then called an identification card. 1974, Roland Moreno of France invented the plastic card of integrated circuit chip and obtained the patent right, which is the early ic card. 1976, French Bull Company developed the world's first IC card. 1984, French PTT (postal service, telegraph and telephone) used IC card as calling card, which achieved unexpected success because of its good security and reliability. Subsequently, the Joint Technical Committee of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) formulated a series of international standards and specifications, which greatly promoted the research and development of IC cards. Compared with previous identification cards, IC cards have the following characteristics: First, they are highly reliable-IC cards have the abilities of anti-magnetism, anti-static, anti-mechanical damage and anti-chemical damage, the information can be stored for more than 100 years, and the reading and writing times are more than 100000 times, and they can be used for at least10 years; Second, the security is good; Third, the storage capacity is large; Fourth, there are many types. From a global perspective, the application scope of IC card is no longer limited to the early communication field, but widely used in finance, social insurance, transportation and tourism, medical and health care, government administration, commodity retail, leisure and entertainment, school management and other fields.