JPH0448269B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a voting ticket issuance and refund device in a so-called totalizer system for horse racing, bicycle racing, etc., and an object of the present invention is to prevent duplicate refunds and the like.

In the above competitions, athletes or horses may be unable to participate due to an accident or illness, or due to sudden changes in weather, etc.
A race for a particular year, race, or day may be canceled midway through and be held again at a later date. In this case, for example, even if races 1 to 10 are scheduled to be held on the regular event day, but are held up to the 5th race, and the 6th race and subsequent races are canceled and re-held at a later date, the 1st to 10th races will be held again on the re-held date. It will be held as races 1 to 5. On the other hand, it is customary for the calendar year (year, month, day) to be displayed on the face of the voting ticket, but not for the year, period, and day. Therefore, even though different races were actually held on different dates, there were voting tickets with the same date and race number, and there was a risk of confusion.

The present invention aims to solve such problems, and will be explained below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is an example of display of the voting ticket surface in one embodiment of the present invention, where 1 is the voting ticket, 2 is the year, 3 is the year,
4 is the daily number, 5 is the race number, 6 is the voting group number and race type, 7 is the voting amount, 8 is the secret code, 9 is the issuing serial number for one issuing terminal, 1
0 is a distinguishing mark provided by the present invention, and in this example is the serial number of the year.

FIG. 2 is a schematic block diagram of the system configuration, in which 20 is a ticket issuing terminal, 30 is a refund terminal (both may be used in common), and 40 is a host computer.

At the time of ticket issuance, the operator sets semi-fixed information such as annual number, and then inputs the voter's desired voting details (input means not shown).The data is sent to the host computer and used for purposes such as odds calculation. As the data is accumulated, a ticket issuing instruction is attached to the ticket issuing machine and the data is returned. Tickets are issued at the ticket issuing terminal 20 based on the returned data. At this time, the host side has a serial number counting means 41, and each time the date of the event changes, the serial number is incremented by one, and the data is sent back with the serial number attached to it and displayed on the face of the ticket. If the back of the ticket has a magnetic coating, the energization will also be recorded there.

Since the refund period is usually one year, the host computer stores the refund information 42 of all races for at least one year in the form of a list. In this embodiment, this list 42 is organized in correspondence with the serial number 421 of each race, and the payout amount 422 of each group number of each race on that day is stored. Based on the voting ticket brought by the voter who desires a refund, the operator inputs the data from 2 to 10 above. The input data is checked on the host side (checking secret code 8 and other ticket information), the list 42 is searched to determine whether or not there is a hit, and the payout amount in the case of a hit, and the results are displayed. It is sent to the refund terminal 30 and displayed on the display 31.
Since the list 42 is classified by race number, voting tickets with the same year, race, and day race numbers will not be mixed up.

As described above, in the present invention, by displaying a certain symbol on the face of the ticket to distinguish between the original event date and the rescheduled date, and obtaining refund information using that symbol when making a refund, fraud due to confusion between the two can be avoided. Mistakes are prevented.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an example of a voting ticket surface in one embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a schematic system block diagram in one embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, 1 is a voting ticket, 10 is an event serial number, and 42 is a refund information list.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. In a voting ticket issuing/refunding device that issues voting tickets displaying voting details and refunds winning voting tickets, there is a serial number counting system that counts the event serial number each time the event date changes. means for storing correct voting information for each group number of each race on each event date using the event serial number of each event day as its address; A ticket issuing terminal that prints on the voting ticket along with other voting information and issues a voting ticket for the re-opening date, and a ticket issuing terminal that reads the holding serial number of the voting ticket issued on the re-holding date, and reads the read holding serial number and the voting ticket on the surface of the voting ticket. A voting ticket issuance/refund device comprising: a refund terminal that performs a refund process by comparing the other voting information with the storage contents of the storage means.