JP3524705B2 - Medium processing system, automatic ticket gate system, and medium processing device used in medium processing system - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a media processing system and an automatic ticket gate system for processing a valuable value medium such as a ticket used on a bus or a railway .
The present invention also relates to a medium processing device used in the medium processing system .

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art For example, in an automatic ticket gate for station affairs, when a ticket processed by a ticket is released, a passenger may forget to take it and pass by. This forgotten ticket is normal 1
The second-use ticket (ticket) is separately collected in a separate collection unit that is different from the collection unit that collects it, so that when the user later comes to receive the forgotten ticket, it can be taken out from the separate collection unit.

When a customer comes to pick up the forgotten ticket, if there are a small number of automatic ticket gates, such as one or two,
Since users can specify the automatic ticket gates, it is easy to search for forgotten tickets. However, if there are a dozen or more ticket gates installed, which automatic ticket gate was used? The person himself becomes ambiguous, and even after a long time has passed, it becomes particularly difficult to find the relevant forget-to-take ticket.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention, when a medium such as a forgotten ticket as described above is collected in a collecting unit of a medium processing device such as an automatic ticket gate, the medium can be easily searched. comprising media processing system and an automatic ticket gate system, parallel
Another object of the present invention is to provide a media processing device used in a media processing system .

[0005]

Means for Solving the Problems The invention of claim 1, wherein the present invention is read-out information recorded in the receiving medium by the reading means, enable the media received on the basis of the information
Alternatively, the medium processing device may include a plurality of medium processing devices that collect the medium in the collecting unit or discharge the medium to the discharging unit after the invalidity determination process, and a display unit that is connected to the devices by a transmission unit and displays information. In the system, the plurality of medium processing devices store unique identification information for identifying the respective devices, and a second recovery unit is provided separately from the recovery unit.
When processed media in the device corresponds to a specific condition, the said medium to recover control in the second recovery unit, information and the instrumentation used in the determination processing of the recovered medium read by the reading means <br / > The unique identification information stored in the storage device is transmitted to the display unit by the transmission means to associate the information of the recovery medium with the identification information.
The control means for controlling the display on the display unit by the device or /
And a display unit and a medium processing system provided separately from them.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the medium processing system according to the first aspect, the medium processing device is an automatic ticket gate system comprising an automatic ticket gate for ticketing a ticket. To do.

According to the invention of claim 3 of the present invention, in addition to the structure of the invention of claim 1 or 2, the medium or the ticket released from the device is extracted within a predetermined time in accordance with the specific condition. It is characterized in that it is a medium processing system or an automatic ticket gate system in which a medium or a ticket is not used.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in addition to the configuration of the second aspect of the invention, the specific condition is
It is characterized by an automatic ticket gate system that uses a ticket to get off the train.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, the contract
Media processing device used as the configuration of the invention according to claim 1
Is characterized in that.

[0010]

According to the medium processing system of the present invention, when the medium corresponds to a specific condition, for example, a medium which has been forgotten, the medium is collected in the second collecting unit and the collected medium is collected. Since the information used for the determination process and the unique identification information of the medium processing device that has collected the medium are displayed on the display unit in association with each other, when searching for the collected medium, based on the information displayed on the display unit. A media processing device of a plurality of such devices
Since the medium can be specified from the inside and the medium can be specified, the retrieval of the collected medium becomes extremely easy.

Further, according to the automatic ticket gate system of the present invention, if the ticket is a specific condition, for example, a ticket that has been forgotten or a ticket that has been dropped off midway, these tickets are sent to the second collection unit. Collecting and determining the collected ticket
Since the ticket information used for and the unique identification information of the automatic ticket gate are displayed on the display unit, when searching for the above-mentioned ticket, the automatic ticket gate is selected from a plurality of ticket gates based on the information displayed on the display unit. Since the ticket can be specified and the ticket can also be specified, the retrieval of the collected ticket becomes extremely easy.

[0012]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings. The drawing shows an automatic ticket gate system used for station affairs. In FIG. 1, a plurality of automatic ticket gates 10 ... Are provided at the ticket gate of the station, and these automatic ticket gates 10 ... Can communicate with a monitoring device 11. Once connected, the operation of the ticket gate processing of each automatic ticket gate 10 is monitored by the monitoring device 11.

FIG. 2 shows the automatic ticket gate 10 described above. The automatic ticket gate 10 is provided with a direction indicator 13 at the end of the front surface of the base 12 for indicating the passing direction, and further the front surface of the base 12. An opening 14 for inserting a ticket is formed in the upper part, and an emission port 15 for discharging the ticket is formed on the upper surface of the rear part, and a guide display 16 formed of, for example, a plasma display and displaying guidance items for passengers. Further, a plurality of human sensors 18 for detecting the passing direction of the passenger are provided on the aisle side surface of the base 12 and the aisle side surface of the frame 17, and the aforesaid side surface of the base 12 is provided. Gate doors 19 and 19 are provided at the front and rear positions.

Among the human sensors 18 ..., The detection signals of the upper and lower sensors 18a, 18a on the exit side of the passage are:
It is used to confirm that the customer has entered the automatic ticket gate 10.

FIG. 3 shows the transportation path of the ticket A formed inside the above-mentioned base 13, and has an inlet 14 and an outlet 15.
Is connected by a conveyance path 20 including a conveyance belt, a conveyance roller, a conveyance guide plate, and the like.
A magnetic processing unit 21 including a magnetic head is disposed in the first half of the above, and a recovery path 23 is connected to the front stage of the discharge port 15 via a first flapper 22.
The second collection box 25 and the second collection box 25 through the second flapper 24.
It is connected to the recovery box 26.

The above-mentioned first collection box 25 collects and collects single-use tickets (tickets), and the second collection box 26 collects tickets for a stopover that is still valuable and is still worthless. In addition, when the ticket released to the outlet 15 is forgotten, the forgotten ticket is collected. When collecting the forgotten ticket, the transportation route 20 is once reversed to take the forgotten ticket to a position beyond the internal collection route 23, and then the transportation route 20 and the collection route 23 are normally rotated. The flappers 22 and 24 are switched and driven to collect in the second collection box 26.

FIG. 4 shows a control circuit block of the automatic ticket gate 10 described above. The CPU 30 drives and controls each circuit device in accordance with a program stored in the ROM 31, and the RAM 3
In addition to storing data necessary for operation, 2 also stores a machine number set in the automatic ticket gate 10 as data for identifying the ticket gate.

The clock device 33 measures the present time by ticking the time, and the date is also calculated from this present time. The display drive unit 34 controls the display drive of the direction display 13 and the guide display 16 described above. The transportation driving unit 35 connects the above-mentioned loading port 14 and discharging port 15 with the transportation route 20 for the ticket.
And the recovery path 23, and the first and second flappers 2
2, 24 are driven and controlled, and the magnetic processing unit 21 is provided in the above-mentioned transport path 20 and is configured by a magnetic head to perform magnetic processing such as reading of ticket data magnetically recorded on a ticket and writing of update data. The gate door drive unit 36 is a valid ticket
Opening and closing drive control of the gate door 19 based on the determination of invalidity,
The communication device 37 is communicably connected to the monitoring device 11 and transmits data.

FIG. 5 shows the control circuit block of the above-mentioned monitoring device 11, in which the CPU 40 drives and controls each circuit device in accordance with the program stored in the ROM 41, and the RAM 42.
Stores data necessary for operation.

The display 43 displays the display-controlled data, and in particular, the second collection box 2 of each automatic ticket gate 10 ...
The history data of the ticket to be collected is displayed in 6. The communication device 45 is communicably connected to each automatic ticket gate 10 to transmit data.

In the thus constructed automatic ticket gate system, the processing operation of the CPU 30 when the ticket A is forgotten to be taken out from the outlet 5 of the automatic ticket gate 10 will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. Slot 14 of automatic ticket gate 10
When the ticket A is inserted into the vehicle, the ticket A is taken in and the ticket data of the ticket A is read by the magnetic processing unit 21 (steps n1 and n2).

When the ticket A is issued, the date of issue, departure station, arrival station, adult / children, discount ticket / ordinary ticket type, and transit station data are recorded. When the above ticket A enters the automatic ticket gate 10, the automatic ticket gate 4
At 0, it is checked whether or not the ticket is valid with the above ticket data, and then the following data is recorded for the valid ticket A. Boarding date, boarding time, boarding station, entry / exit bit, and when entering the automatic ticket gate 10, its validity is determined based on the above ticket data (step n).
3).

As a result of the above-mentioned determination processing, when it is determined to be invalid (step n4), the gate door drive unit 36 closes the gate door 19, and the inserted ticket A is discharged to the discharge port 15 and the ticket gate. The process ends (steps n5 and n6).
After that, it will be handled by the staff.

If the result of the determination in step n4 is that the ticket A is valid, the gate door drive unit 36
Opens the gate door 19 to allow passage of passengers (step n7).

When the ticket gate processing is the exit processing, it is judged from the ticket data whether or not the inserted ticket A is an intermediate stop (step n8). If it is an intermediate stop, the data is processed in the step described later. The ticket is collected in the second collection box 26. Furthermore, if it is a one-time use ticket such as a ticket, the first
Collected in the collection box 25 of
5 (step n9). Note that such a transportation process is executed by the ticket transportation drive unit 35.

If the ticket inspection process is the entrance process, the ticket A which is determined to be valid is discharged to the discharge port 15 (step n9).

In the above-described ticket gate processing, the passenger ticket A is discharged from the outlet 15 and then the passenger is confirmed by the human sensor 18a on the exit side, and then the passenger is discharged by a set time such as 2 seconds. When the withdrawal of the ticket A is detected (for example, the withdrawal detection sensor provided in the portion of the discharge port 15 or the like, not shown), the normal ticket inspection process ends.

However, if the withdrawal of the ticket A is not detected even after the elapse of the above set time, it is determined that the ticket A has been forgotten (step n10), and the following processing is executed. In addition,
The same applies to the case of a ticket for a stop on the way.

That is, the CPU 30 controls the ticket transport drive unit 35.
Drive control to collect the ticket A in the second collection box 26,
Further, the time and date and the current time of the day are calculated by the clock device 33, the machine number of the automatic ticket gate 10 set in the RAM 32 is read, the data of the ticket type is extracted from the ticket data, and the monitoring device 11 side is provided. The history data to be transmitted is edited and transmitted to the monitoring device 11 via the communication device 37, and the process is completed (steps n11, n).
12).

When the above-mentioned history data is transmitted to the monitoring device 11, the monitoring device 11 stores it in a predetermined area of the RAM 42 and displays it on the display 43 as shown in FIG. After the ticket processing, when the customer requests the ticket attendant to forget the ticket or return the ticket for the stopover,
The date and time of the forget-to-take day, the forget-to-take time, the applicable automatic ticket gate 1
By inputting the No. 0 number and the ticket type of the boarding ticket A as keywords from the input unit 44, the RAM 44 is searched, the corresponding history data is read and displayed on the display unit 43. In addition, if the user forgets to take it and is immediately after that, the history data displayed on the display unit 43 is confirmed.

Then, based on the data displayed on the display 43, the second collection box 26 of the automatic ticket gate 10 corresponding to the data is displayed.
By searching for the ticket A collected inside, the search becomes extremely easy.

As another example, instead of the monitoring device 11, a monitoring panel having a display is formed, the history data of the second collection box 26 is stored in the RAM 32 of the automatic ticket gate 10, and the CPU 30 The history data may be displayed on the monitoring panel under the control of.

In the correspondence between the configuration of the present invention and the above-described embodiment, the medium processing system corresponds to the automatic ticket gate system, and hereinafter, similarly, the medium corresponds to the ticket A and the medium processing device corresponds to the automatic ticket gate A. Corresponding to the ticket gate 10, the reading means corresponds to the magnetic processing section 21, the collecting section corresponds to the first collecting box 25, the second collecting section corresponds to the second collecting box 26,
The emission unit corresponds to the emission port 15, and the display unit is the monitoring device 1.
1 corresponds to the display device 43 and the control means is the automatic ticket gate 10
And corresponding to the CPUs 30 and 40 of the monitoring device 11,
The present invention can be applied in accordance with the technical idea disclosed in the claims, and is not limited to the configurations of the above-described embodiments.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an automatic ticket gate system.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of an automatic ticket gate.

FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram showing a configuration of a transfer path inside a base.

FIG. 4 is a control circuit block diagram of the automatic ticket gate.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram of a control circuit of the monitoring device.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart of a processing operation of a forgotten ticket.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing vote self-excitation.

[Explanation of symbols]

10 ... Automatic ticket gate 11 ... Monitoring device 14 ... Input port 15 ... Release port 21 ... Magnetic processing unit 25, 26 ... Collection box 43 ... Indicator 30, 40 ... CPU

─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Takahiro Suzuki, No. 10 Hanazono Dodo-cho, Ukyo-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture Omron Co., Ltd. (72) Masayuki Maeda No. 10 Hanazono Todo-cho, Ukyo-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture (56) References JP-A-53-30399 (JP, A) JP-A-63-136176 (JP, A) Actual development Sho-57-69055 (JP, U) (58) Fields investigated (Int.Cl. ⁷ , DB name) G07B 15/00

Claims (5)

(57) [Claims] 1. A read-out information recorded in the receiving medium by the reading means, chromatic media accepted based on the information
A medium provided with a plurality of medium processing devices for collecting the medium in the collecting unit or discharging the medium to the discharging unit after the determination of effectiveness or invalidity , and a display unit connected to the devices by transmission means and displaying information. A processing system, wherein each of the plurality of medium processing devices stores unique identification information for identifying the respective device, and a second recovery unit is provided separately from the recovery unit, and is processed by the device. when in the medium corresponds to a specific condition, the said medium to recover control in the second recovery unit, stored in the information and the instrumentation <br/> location used for the determination processing of the recovered medium read by the reading means The unique identification information is transmitted to the display unit by the transmission means to associate the information of the recovery medium with the identification information.
A media processing system including control means for controlling display on a display unit. 2. The automatic ticket gate system according to claim 1, wherein the medium processor comprises an automatic ticket gate for ticketing a ticket. 3. The medium processing system or the automatic ticket gate system according to claim 1, wherein the specific condition is a medium or a ticket from which the device or the ticket is not extracted within a predetermined time. 4. The automatic ticket gate system according to claim 2, wherein the specific condition is a ticket for getting off the train. 5. The medium processing system according to claim 1,
Media processing device.