JPH0821046B2 - Miscalculation processing method of totalizer system - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Outline] In the totalizer system, after the sale of voting tickets has been closed for each race, it is necessary to announce the total number of votes sold before the race begins, but it is calculated in a short time. To announce the results, the computer has announced the total number of votes. Therefore, in order to ensure that the number of votes is correct,
The total amount of sales left in the voting ticket vending machine is compared with the total amount of money sold by the relevant voting ticket vending machine, and if there is a difference from the amount sent by the computer, an error will occur by pressing the specific button. The computer is notified, and the computer total is corrected based on the ticket issuing information sent from the voting ticket vending machine.

[Industrial applications]

The present invention relates to a totalizer system, and more particularly to an erroneous totalization processing method for a totalizer system that corrects an error in the total number of votes announced after the deadline for the announcement of voting tickets and before the start of the race.

In the totalizer system, it is stipulated by law that the total number of voting tickets sold for the race will be announced and displayed between the deadline of the voting ticket release and the start of the race. Therefore, the totalizer system has voting ticket vending machines at each of the multiple ticket vending machines, and the total number of voting tickets released from each voting ticket vending machine is added to the computer that centrally controls the voting ticket vending machines. And, the total number of totals has been announced.

This is to reduce customer waiting time and improve service. For this reason, the time from the end of the sale of voting tickets to the start of the race is shortened, but if there is an error in the computer count, either the customer or the solicitation source will be lost. Therefore, it is absolutely necessary to ensure that no errors occur in the computer totals.

[Conventional technology]

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing an example of a conventional totalizer system.

, 2 are connected to the line controller 3, and the line controller 3 is connected to the computer 4. The line control device 3 is based on the instruction of the computer 4,
The voting ticket vending machine 1 is called by the polling method to communicate, and when this communication is completed, the next voting ticket vending machine is called and communicates, and this operation is repeated, and finally the voting ticket vending machine 2
When the communication is completed, the voting ticket vending machine 1 is called again for communication.

The voting ticket vending machines 1, ..., 2 are installed at the counters respectively, and the voting ticket of the race desired by the customer is issued by the operation of the operator. For example, after the ticketing button (not shown) of the voting ticket vending machine 1 is pressed. When the voting ticket vending machine 1 is called by polling by the line control device 3, the control circuit 10 of the voting ticket vending machine 1
Sends the information necessary for issuing one betting ticket, such as a race number, a group number, and an amount of money, to the computer 4 via the line control device 3.

The computer 4 checks the ticket issuing information sent from the voting ticket vending machine 1, and if the check is good,
The voting ticket is aggregated as issued, and the ticket issuing permission signal is sent to the voting ticket vending machine 1 via the line control device 3. When the control circuit 10 of the betting ticket vending machine 1 receives this ticketing permission signal, the printing mechanism 5 is operated to print the necessary items on the roll paper 6 and then cut, and the cut betting ticket 9 is cut along the conveyance path 11. It is conveyed to the outlet 7 and is taken out by the operator.

At the same time, the control circuit 10 causes the memory (not shown) to store the ticketing information of the voting ticket, causes the journal printing to be performed based on the stored ticketing information, and sequentially stores the ticketing information for each voting ticket in the coupon 12 At the same time, when the sale of the voting ticket 9 in the relevant race is stopped, the total amount of money sold by the voting ticket vending machine 1 is totaled based on the ticketing information stored in the memory and printed on the ticket 12.

As described above, the betting ticket vending machine 1 prints and cuts the betting ticket 9 and conveys it to the outlet 7 after receiving the ticket issuing permission signal. In this case, since the counting of the computer 4 is incorrect, the sensor 8 is provided to detect the state in which the voting ticket 9 is conveyed to the outlet 7 and can be taken out by the operator. When the conveyance of No. is not detected, the voting ticket vending machine 1 sends a signal to the computer 4 to delete the counting of the voting tickets 9 that have already been counted.

[Problems to be solved by the invention]

As described above, conventionally, when a computer issues a ticketing permission signal in response to a ticketing request from a voting ticket vending machine, this voting ticket is processed as if it has been issued. If it is not received by the computer, the voting ticket will not be issued from the ticket vending machine due to an obstacle, etc., and the voting ticket will be counted by the computer even if the customer cannot receive the predetermined amount of money. The number of votes collected is too large.

Therefore, it is conceivable to stop the counting process at the time when the computer sends the ticketing permission signal and perform the counting process based on the signal that the sensor detects the transportation of the voting ticket.
In the totalizer system, the number of voting tickets to be processed by the computer is about 3000 per minute, and it takes time for the sensor to operate after the ticket issuance permission signal is issued, so one voting ticket is issued. Because of that computer can't go on so long.

Therefore, the ticket issuing information of the uncounted voting tickets for each voting ticket vending machine is stored in the computer memory, and the counting process is performed by the signal sent from the sensor. Generally, the number of voting ticket vending machines is There are 300 to 400 units, the memory capacity becomes large, it takes time to index the address, it is not possible to handle the signal of the sensor flooded at the deadline of the release, and if the signal of the sensor is not received, it will be too small. It cannot be adopted because it has the drawback of being tabulated.

Therefore, in order to prevent the number of total votes announced by the computer from becoming excessive, it is necessary to ensure that the computer receives the deletion request signal from the sensor, but it is absolutely impossible to guarantee that errors will be eliminated. There is a problem that it is difficult.

[Means for solving problems]

 FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the principle of the present invention.

FIG. 1 is an instruction to send to the voting ticket vending machine 1 of FIG. 3 all the relevant races of the ticketing information that logs the information for one voting ticket recorded on the ticket when the operator presses the specific button. The logging information sending instructing means 17 for performing the following is added, and the logging information storage instructing means 18 for instructing the computer 4 to log and store the ticket issuing information of each voting ticket issued by the voting ticket vending machine 15, and this The logging information correction instructing means 19 is added to sequentially compare the stored ticket issuing information with the ticket issuing information sent by the betting ticket vending machine 15 and issue an instruction to correct the mismatched portion.

The operator who operates the voting ticket vending machine 15 is required to confirm the total sales amount of the race recorded on the ticket of the voting ticket vending machine 15 after the sale of the voting ticket is stopped The total amount of money sold by the voting ticket vending machine 15 sent through the control device 3 is compared. here,
If they do not match, the operator depresses a specific button to notify the computer 16 of the occurrence of an error via the line control device 3 and activates the logging information sending instructing means 17 of the voting ticket vending machine 15 for each voting ticket. The logged ticket issuing information is sent to the computer 16 via the line control device 3.

Based on the instruction of the logging information storage instructing means 18, the computer 16 sorts each ticket issuing machine every time a ticketing permission signal is sent, and sequentially issues ticketing information for each voting ticket sent by each ticketing machine. Log and store. Then, when the error occurrence is notified from the voting ticket vending machine 15 by pressing the specific button, the logging information correction instruction means 19 is activated,
Subsequently, the ticket issuing information sent by the voting ticket vending machine 15 and the ticket issuing information stored by logging are compared for each voting ticket.

If these comparison results do not match, the computer 16 corrects the ticketing information stored by the instruction of the logging information storage instructing means 18 based on the ticketing information sent by the voting ticket vending machine 15, and by this correction, the total number of votes and the sales amount. To fix.

[Operation] With the above configuration, the logging information sending instructing means 17 causes the voting ticket vending machine 15 to send out the issued ticketing information when the operator presses the specific button, and the logging information storing instructing means 18 causes the computer 16 to operate. On voting ticket vending machine 15
The ticket issuing information for each of the voting tickets issued by is logged and stored, and the logging information correction instructing means 19 causes the logging information storage instructing means 18 to instruct and store the ticket issuing information and the voting ticket vending machine 15 Since the mismatched portion is corrected by comparing with the issued ticket issuing information, even if the signal reception from the sensor of the voting ticket vending machine 15 is erroneous and the counting is erroneous, this can be corrected.

In addition, since only the voting ticket vending machine in which an error has occurred is corrected, the processing can be completed quickly and the reliability of the counting result can be improved.

〔Example〕

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a circuit showing an embodiment of the present invention.

, Are connected to the line control device 3, and the line control device 3 is connected to the computer 16. Similarly to FIG. 3, the line control device 3 calls the voting ticket vending machine 15 by the polling method based on the instruction of the computer 16 to communicate, and when this communication ends, calls the next voting ticket vending machine to communicate. repeat.

The voting ticket vending machine 15 is the same as the voting ticket vending machine 1 shown in FIG.
Is issued and the ticket issuing information necessary for issuing one voting ticket 9 is sent to the computer 16 via the line control device 3.

The computer 16 checks the ticket issuing information sent from the betting ticket vending machine 15 and if it is good, it processes the voting ticket 9 as having been issued and processes it through the line control device 3 to issue a ticketing authorization signal. It is sent to the sale machine 15. At the same time, the computer 16 stores, in accordance with an instruction of the logging information storage instruction program 21, ticket-issuing information of voting tickets for which this ticket is permitted in a memory (not shown) separately for each voting ticket vending machine and for each voting ticket.

When the control circuit 10 of the betting ticket vending machine 15 receives the ticketing permission signal sent from the computer 16, the printing mechanism 5 is operated to print the necessary items on the roll paper 6 and then cut, and the cut betting ticket 9 is thrown. It is conveyed to the outlet 7 and taken out by the operator.

At the same time, the control circuit 10 stores the ticketing information of the voting ticket 9 in a memory (not shown), prints the journal based on the stored ticketing information, and sequentially records the ticketing information for each voting ticket on the copy 12. At the same time, when the sale of the voting ticket 9 in the corresponding race is stopped, the total amount released by the voting ticket vending machine 15 is totaled and printed on the ticket 12.

Also, when the sensor 8 of the voting ticket vending machine 15 does not detect the transportation of the voting ticket as in the case of FIG. 3, it sends a signal from the voting ticket vending machine 15 to delete the counting of the voting tickets already processed. , To the computer 16.

When the operator of the voting ticket vending machine 15 stops selling the voting ticket 9, the total sales amount of the ticket 12 and the total sales amount of the voting ticket vending machine 15 sent by the computer 16 via the line control device 3 are displayed. Compare. If they match, the process is unnecessary, but if they do not match, the operator presses a specific button (not shown).

By pressing this specific button, the control circuit 10 notifies the computer 16 of an error occurrence via the line control device 3, activates the logging information transmission instruction program 20, and stores it in the memory described in FIG. 3 based on the instruction. The ticket issuing information logged for each voted ticket is sent to the computer 16.

The computer 16 reads out the logging information correction instruction program 22 based on the error occurrence notification from the voting ticket vending machine 15 when the specific button is pressed, and the voting ticket stored in the memory is instructed by the logging information storage instruction program 21 based on the instruction. The ticket issuing information of the machine 15 is compared with the ticket issuing information sent by the voting ticket vending machine 15.

The computer 16 corrects the disagreement point obtained as a result of this comparison according to the instruction of the logging information correction instruction program 22, corrects the total number of voting tickets totaled for the presentation and display, and also corrects the sales amount.

〔The invention's effect〕

As described above, the present invention corrects the number of votes and the amount of money of the voting ticket vending machine that causes the number of votes when the deletion signal of the unissued voting tickets detected by the sensor is not received by the computer and the total number of votes is incorrect. Therefore, the correction process can be completed quickly, and the reliability of the counting result can be improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the principle of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a circuit showing an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing an example of a conventional totalizer system. In the figure, 1,2,15 are voting ticket vending machines, 3 are line control devices, 4 and 16 are computers, 5 is a printing mechanism, 6 is roll paper, 7 is an outlet,
8 is a sensor, 9 is a voting ticket, 10 is a control circuit, 11 is a transport path,
12 is a ticket, 17 is logging information sending instruction means, 18 is logging information storage instruction means, 19 is logging information correction instruction means,
Reference numeral 20 is a logging information transmission instruction program, 21 is a logging information storage instruction program, and 22 is a logging information correction instruction program.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. The ticket issuing information necessary for selling a voting ticket is sent to a computer, a ticket issuing permission signal for the voting ticket is obtained to issue a voting ticket, and the ticket issuing information for each voting ticket is stored. A plurality of voting ticket vending machines for printing the total sales amount for each race on a ticket, a line control device for sequentially calling the voting ticket vending machines and communicating with a computer, and controlling the line control device, In a totalizer system equipped with a computer that receives the ticket issuing information sent for each betting ticket vending machine, sends a ticket issuing permission signal, and totalizes the total sales voting tickets of the race based on the ticket issuing information, The ticket vending machine is provided with a logging information sending instruction means for giving an instruction to collectively send the ticket issuing information for each voting ticket stored after the error notification is sent to the computer by pressing a specific button. Provided on the computer is a logging information storage instructing means for instructing to sequentially store ticketing information for each voting ticket issued by each voting ticket vending machine, and an error notification from the voting ticket vending machine. Issue information for each voting ticket sent by the voting ticket vending machine that has notified the corresponding error, and for each voting ticket of the voting ticket vending machine stored by the logging information storage instruction means. When the voting ticket vending machine stopped selling the voting ticket, it was recorded in the above-mentioned ticket for each voting ticket vending machine when the voting ticket vending machine stopped the sale of the voting ticket by comparing the information with the logging information correction instruction means The operator compares the total sales amount with the total sales amount sold by the corresponding voting ticket vending machine, and if they do not match, the computer is notified of the error occurrence by pressing the specific button. Then, the ticket-issuing information stored in the computer according to the instruction of the logging-information storing instruction means is compared with the ticket-issuing information sent by the voting-ticket vending machine, and the ticket-issuing information sent by the voting-ticket vending machine is applied to the mismatched portion. An erroneous aggregation processing method for a totalizer system, which is characterized by making corrections based on