JP5530916B2 - Ticketing method and ticketing device - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a ticket issuing method and a ticket issuing apparatus for issuing a voting ticket.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a ticket issuing device that issues a voting ticket having a desired voting content desired by a user and can check whether or not the issued voting ticket is correct is known (for example, Patent Document 1). reference). Patent Document 1 discloses a mark card reading unit that reads a mark card that describes application details, a ticket issuing unit that issues voting tickets based on the application details read by the mark card reading unit, and a voting that reads voting tickets. A ticket issuing device is disclosed that includes a ticket reading unit and a determination unit that determines whether or not a voting ticket is hit based on the voting contents read by the voting ticket reading unit.

  In this ticketing device, a voucher with the desired voting content is issued after registering the content described in the application form in the host computer by inserting the application form describing the application content by the user. Is done. Here, the reason for issuing the voting ticket after registering with the host computer is to ensure the consistency between the information possessed by the host computer and the issued voting ticket. By adopting this method, the voting ticket is issued to the host computer. Printing with unregistered information is not performed, and voting tickets such as genuine tickets are not issued. Therefore, it is a highly secure ticketing method without worrying about misuse of voting tickets such as the above-mentioned genuine tickets. In addition, higher ticketing speed leads to an increase in sales of voting tickets, which also leads to user comfort. Therefore, improvement in ticketing speed is always desired. In particular, since there are devices that issue tickets continuously in recent years, the above tendency has become stronger.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 11-149508

  According to the above-described conventional example, the betting ticket can be printed only after information is exchanged with the host computer, so that only the information written in the host computer is surely printed. Yes. However, in the above method, the apparatus does not move during the time of exchanging information with the host computer in order to maintain high security. Information exchange and device movement can be done separately. If parallel processing is performed, the overall processing time can be shortened, but security must be emphasized. It took a long time to issue a ticket, because the time required for the device and the time for the device to move were added together.

  An object of the present invention is to issue a ticket that can be issued at a higher speed while maintaining a high security system that prevents incomplete sales of incomplete voting tickets and maintains information integrity between the voting ticket and the host computer. It is to provide a method and a ticket issuing device.

  In order to achieve the above-described object, the present invention provides a ticketing method performed by a ticketing device connected via a network to a host computer that supervises information relating to voting tickets, and an application form on which application details are described is provided. A reading step of reading the application information described in the application form inserted from the insertion slot to be inserted; and when the application form is read in the reading step, the reading information and the reading information on the voting ticket A first printing step for printing a predetermined print information for printing in common with the voting ticket together with the read information; and from the host computer to the voting ticket managed by the host computer. Host print information, which is predetermined print information for display, and finally sent to the user sent from the host computer. A communication step of receiving ticket issue information relating to the voting ticket, a determination step of checking whether the print information and the host print information are matched, and determining whether the two match, and after determining that the two match The read information, the print information, and the ticket issuing information are printed on the voting ticket, and the read information, the print information, and the ticket issuing information are printed in the second print step. Issuing a voting ticket.

  Moreover, this invention is a ticket issuing apparatus using the said ticket issuing method.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a ticket issuing method and a ticket issuing apparatus that do not take time for ticketing while maintaining high security.

It is a schematic diagram of the ticket issuing apparatus concerning this Embodiment. It is an internal block diagram of the ticket issuing apparatus and host computer concerning this Embodiment. It is a flowchart at the time of the ticket issuing apparatus concerning this Embodiment issuing a ticket. It is an image figure of an application form. It is a figure which shows the reading information which a ticket issuing apparatus reads from an application form. It is a figure which shows the printing information which a ticket issuing apparatus produces | generates from reading information. It is a figure which shows the ticket issue information which a host computer produces | generates from the read information received from the ticket issuing apparatus. It is a figure which shows the ticket surface of the voting ticket in the middle of being printed using an application form. It is a figure which shows the betting ticket which printed using the application form.

  Embodiments of a ticket issuing method and a ticket issuing apparatus according to the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the following description, the case where the ticketing device and the ticketing method are applied to a device for issuing voting tickets such as a number selection type lottery or a horse race is described. Never happen.

  FIG. 1 is an external configuration diagram of a ticket issuing apparatus 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a connection diagram between the internal configuration of the ticket issuing device 100 and the host computer 150. A schematic structure will be described with reference to the external configuration diagram, the internal configuration diagram, and the connection diagram.

  The ticket issuing device 100 is a device that is installed in a lottery ticket counter, a racetrack, etc., and issues a ticket by the operation of a salesperson or a customer. As shown in FIG. 1, a ticket issuing device 100 is a device that issues a voting ticket according to the contents of an application form inserted by a user, and has an application form insertion slot 1 and a voting ticket discharge slot 2. . As shown in FIG. 2, the ticket issuing device 100 is connected to the host computer 151 via the wide area line 150 by the communication unit 8, and the application form insertion port 1, the betting ticket discharge port 2, the application form transport device 3, the vote It includes a ticket transport device 4, a medium reading unit 5, a printing unit 6, a control unit 7, and a communication unit 8. The control unit 7 includes a hardware configuration such as a CPU and a memory, and a software configuration such as a program and data, and controls various processes and transactions. Hereinafter, various tickets such as a lottery ticket issued at the lottery ticket counter and a winning horse voting ticket issued at a racetrack or the like are collectively referred to as a voting ticket.

  Each part will be described below. The application form insertion slot 1 is a part where the user inserts an application form. In consideration of the maintenance of the ticket issuing apparatus 100, the shape of the application paper insertion slot 1 is preferably a shape that does not allow insertion of paper or media other than the standard of the paper to be inserted.

  The voting ticket discharge port 2 is an outlet for discharging printed voting tickets, and has a shape for holding a plurality of voting tickets and a mechanism for preventing voting tickets from popping out. The application form conveying device 3 has a function of conveying the inserted application form to the medium reading unit 4. The voting ticket transport device 4 has a function of transporting the printed voting ticket paper to the voting ticket discharge port 2 and issuing a voting ticket when printing of the pre-printed voting ticket paper is completed.

  The medium reading unit 5 has a function of reading the contents described in the application form conveyed by the application form conveying device 3. The printing unit 6 has a function of printing the print information generated in the ticket issuing device on the betting ticket sheet transported by the betting ticket transport device 4. The print information is generated by the control unit 7 from information (read information) read from the application form by the medium reading unit 5 and data stored in the ticket issuing device 100 or received from the host computer 151. As an example of the print information, there is information to be used in common for all the voting tickets, such as the lottery date of the voting ticket, the payment deadline, and the payment amount, in addition to the reading information. In the present embodiment, the print information is stored in the ticket issuing device 100 and the host computer 151, and the former is called print information and the latter is called host print information.

  The communication unit 8 has a function of performing communication between the ticket issuing device 100 and the host computer 151. As will be described later, the printing unit 6 prints the read information on the voting ticket before the communication with the host computer 151.

  On the other hand, the host computer 151 connected to the ticket issuing device 100 is connected via the communication unit 8 of the ticket issuing device 100 and the wide area line 150 and read from various information described in the application form received from the ticket issuing device 100. Reading information (for example, information such as an application number for uniquely identifying a user application, how to buy a voting ticket, number of units, number of times, etc.) is stored.

  The host computer 151 finally uses the read information and host print information (information similar to the print information stored in the ticket issuing device 100) stored in a storage medium (not shown) such as a memory in advance to make the user Issuance information (for example, information obtained by adding a voting ticket ID for uniquely identifying a voting ticket to read information and printing information) is transmitted to the ticketing device 100. To do. Further, the host computer 151 may transmit / receive other information (for example, ticket issue date / time) to / from the ticket issuing device 100. Specific examples of the above-described read information, print information, and ticket issuing information will be described later.

  Although not particularly illustrated, the host computer 151 is a storage unit configured by a storage medium such as an HDD (Hard Disk Drive) or a memory for storing read information and host print information, like the ticket issuing device 100. A control unit composed of a calculation device such as a CPU (Central Processing Unit) for generating ticket issuing information from the read information and host print information, and a communication device such as a NIC (Network Interface Card) for communicating with the ticket issuing device 100 It is assumed that a communication unit composed of

  FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure of ticket issuing processing using the ticket issuing device 100 and the host computer 151. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of filling in an application form used by the user of the ticket issuing device 100 at the time of ticketing.

  As shown in FIG. 4, the application form includes a mark field indicated by numerical values 0 to 9 indicating purchase contents, a mark field indicating the purchase form and purchase method (how to purchase) of the voting ticket, and a mark field indicating the number of units. And are included. In the example shown in FIG. 4, the numerical values “8”, “8”, “9”, and “7” are marked, the buying method is “A”, and the number is “1”.

  FIG. 5 is a diagram showing reading information that the ticket issuing device 100 reads from the application form shown in FIG. In the example shown in FIG. 5, the read information includes an application number, how to buy, the number of applications, and the number of times, and these pieces of information are marked by the user.

  FIG. 6 is a diagram showing print information generated by the ticket issuing device 100 from the read information of FIG. In the example shown in FIG. 6, the print information includes information on the lottery date, payment deadline, and total amount in addition to the above-described read information. These pieces of information are set or calculated in advance or automatically in a storage medium (not shown) such as a memory or HDD of the ticket issuing device 100.

  FIG. 7 is a diagram showing ticket issue information scheduled to be printed on a voting ticket according to ticket issue information, read information, and print information received by the host computer 151 from the ticket issuing device 100. In the example shown in FIG. 7, in addition to the print information described above, a voting ticket ID for identifying a voting ticket is included as ticket issuing information. The voting ticket ID is set in advance or automatically in a storage medium (not shown) of the host computer 151.

  FIG. 8 is a view showing the face of a voting ticket printed using the application form shown in FIG. FIG. 9 is a view showing a voting ticket printed using the application form shown in FIG. These voting tickets will be described in the flow described later.

  Next, the operation flow in the ticket issuing apparatus when the user issues a voting ticket with the ticket issuing apparatus 100 using the application form of FIG. 4 will be described with reference to FIGS. In the following, it is assumed that the ticket issuing apparatus 100 is in a standby state in which the application form can be inhaled from the application form insertion slot 1.

  In FIG. 3, when the user inserts the application form shown in FIG. 4 into the application form insertion slot 1, a sensor (not shown) arranged near the application form insertion slot 1 detects the application form (step A-0). The ticket issuing device 100 reads the contents described in the application form sucked / conveyed by the application form conveying apparatus 3 by the medium reading unit 5 (step A-1). The information read here becomes the read information of FIG. Hereinafter, the ticket issuing device 100 and the host computer 151 operate in parallel. First, operation | movement of the ticket issuing apparatus 100 is demonstrated.

  First, when an application form is detected, the printing unit 6 of the ticket issuing apparatus 100 starts (standby) the printing process (step B-0). The printing unit 6 of the ticket issuing device 100 reads the reading information read from the application form by the medium reading unit 5 and the printing information (not shown) set in advance in the storage medium (not shown) of the ticketing device 100 (FIG. 6). ) Are printed on the face of the ticket, and the fact that the voting ticket being printed is not genuine is printed, and the voting ticket is output in a temporary state (step B-1, FIG. 8).

  After that, after the printing is completed, the voting ticket transport device 4 rolls the voting ticket back to the position before printing that it is not a genuine ticket (step B-2). Simultaneously with the operations (step B-1) and (step B-2) by the voting ticket transport device 4, the communication unit 8 transmits the read information to the host computer 151 (step A-2). The operation of the ticket issuing apparatus 100 after step A-2 is performed after the process of receiving a reply from the host computer 151 (step A-3). Next, the movement of the host computer 151 performed in parallel with the movement of the ticket issuing device 100 will be described.

  When the host computer 151 receives the read information from the ticket issuing device 100 (step C-1), the host computer 151 generates ticket issue information from the received read information and the host print information set in the storage medium, and the generated ticket issue information is displayed. It transmits to the ticket issuing apparatus 100 (step C-2). The ticket issuing information includes information that is supposed to be printed on the voting ticket by the ticket issuing device 100 (printing information on the ticket issuing device 100 side) and a voting ticket ID set in this flow.

  When receiving the ticketing information from the host computer 151, the communication unit 8 of the ticketing device 100 collates the received ticketing information with the printed information printed on the voting ticket in Step B-1 (Step A-3). Specifically, the control unit 7 of the ticket issuing device 100 collates both, and for example, the print information shown in FIG. 6 matches information other than the voting ticket ID in the ticket issuing information shown in FIG. If it is determined, the printing unit 6 prints the voting ticket ID and cancels the printing indicating that it is not a genuine ticket, and the voting ticket transport device 4 officially issues a voting ticket (step B-3). FIG. 9 shows the face of the voting ticket printed at this time. A symbol A shown in FIG. 9 represents a betting ticket ID such as a barcode. When the process shown in step B-3 ends, all the processes shown in FIG. 3 end.

  In this way, by performing the processing as described above, there is no need to wait for a reply from the host computer to start the ticket issuing unit, and information that occupies most of the ticket surface is printed in advance, and the voting ticket ID is printed Can be left. Also, before receiving a reply from the host computer, it is printed that it is a fake ticket, and the voting ticket ID is not printed, so the voting ticket may be recognized as a genuine ticket when viewed by the user. In addition, it is possible to prevent an incomplete voting ticket from being sold by mistake, and to maintain a high security system that maintains the integrity of information of the voting ticket and the host computer.

  In this embodiment, in step B-2, the voting ticket transfer device 4 rewinds the voting ticket paper until it is printed that it is not a genuine ticket. By providing the second printing unit in the traveling direction, the second printing unit may print the voting ticket ID in Step B-3, and perform cancellation printing indicating that it is not a genuine note.

  Further, after the medium reading unit 5 detects the application form and before the communication with the host computer 151 is started, the control unit 7 operates the betting ticket transport device 4 to be in an idling state. Also good. In this case, it is possible to perform processing from voting ticket printing to ticketing more promptly.

  The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments as they are, and can be embodied by modifying the constituent elements without departing from the scope of the invention in the implementation stage. In addition, various inventions can be formed by appropriately combining a plurality of constituent elements disclosed in the above embodiments. For example, some components may be deleted from all the components shown in the embodiment. Furthermore, constituent elements over different embodiments may be appropriately combined.

100 ... Voting ticket issuing device, 150 ... Wide area line, 151 ... Host computer,
1 ... Application form insertion port, 2 ... Voting ticket discharge port, 3 ... Application form transport device, 4 ... Voting ticket transport device,
5 ... medium reading unit, 6 ... printing unit, 7 ... control unit, 8 ... communication unit.

Claims (6)

A ticketing method performed by a ticketing device connected via a network to a host computer that supervises information related to voting tickets,
A reading step of reading the reading information which is the application content described in the application form inserted from the insertion slot into which the application form describing the application content is inserted;
When the application form is read in the reading step, predetermined print information for printing the voting ticket together with the read information and the read information together with the voting ticket, and information indicating printing in a temporary state A first printing step for printing
Transmits the read information together with the printing on the host computer, based on the host print information is a predetermined print information for commonly displayed on the voting card which the host computer and transmitted the read information is managed ticketing information on voting card to be issued to the final user generated Te, and a communication step of receiving from said host computer,
A determination step of comparing the print information and the ticket issuing information to determine whether or not both match;
A second printing step for printing the ticket issuing information on the voting ticket and printing information for canceling the information indicating printing in the provisional state after determining that the two match;
A ticket issuing step for issuing the voting ticket printed with the ticket issuing information and the information to be canceled in the second printing step;
Ticketing method characterized by including. In the first printing step, the voting ticket is printed in a tentative state by printing that the voting ticket is a fake ticket as information indicating printing in the tentative state,
In the second printing step, the print information and the host print information are collated, and after it is determined that they match each other, the information indicating the printing in the temporary state is performed by painting the fact that it is the fake bill Print the information to cancel ,
The ticket issuing method according to claim 1. After detecting the application form in the reading step, and before starting communication with the host computer, further includes an operation step of operating a ticket issuing unit that issues the voting ticket to an idling state.
The ticket issuing method according to claim 1, wherein the ticket issuance method. A ticket issuing device connected via a network to a host computer that supervises information relating to voting tickets,
An insertion slot into which an application form with application details is inserted,
A reading unit that reads the reading information that is the application content described in the application form inserted from the insertion port;
The reading information and predetermined printing information for printing in common with the voting ticket together with the reading information, information indicating printing in a temporary state, information canceling information indicating printing in the temporary state, or a printing unit for printing the ticketing information regarding voting card to be issued to the final user, which is transmitted from the previous SL host computer to said voting card,
A ticket issuing unit for issuing the voting ticket printed with the ticket issuing information and the information to be canceled by the printing unit;
Transmits the read information together with the printing on the host computer or from the host computer, and a communication unit that receives the front Symbol ticketing information,
When the reading unit reads the application form, the voting ticket has the reading information, the print information, and information indicating printing in a temporary state printed on the printing unit or transmitted to the host computer. The ticket issuing information generated based on the read information and host print information that is predetermined print information to be displayed in common with the voting ticket managed by the host computer is received from the host computer, and the print A controller that prints information for canceling information indicating printing in the provisional state and printing the ticket issuing information on the voting ticket after determining that the information and the ticket issuing information match.
A ticket issuing apparatus comprising: The control unit causes the voting ticket to be printed in a tentative state by printing the fact that the voting ticket is a fake ticket as information indicating the printing in the tentative state, and the printing information and the the grain Succoth coating to the effect that the false ticket after it is determined that they match by matching the host print information, print the information to cancel the information indicating the printing state of the temporary, the said ticket issuing unit To issue a voting ticket,
The ticket issuing apparatus according to claim 4. The control unit, after the reading unit detects the application form, and before starting communication with the host computer, operates the ticket issuing unit to be in an idling state.
The ticket issuing apparatus according to claim 4 or 5, wherein

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