JP2006245954A - Copy system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a copy system that provides effects such that sponsors can obtain advertisement information and a burden of a utility charge can be relieved for users. <P>SOLUTION: The copy system is characterized by including: a means for verifying whether or not the users of small-sized storage media and electronic apparatuses have an access right; a means that registers personal information of the users which the sponsors desire, a contribution rate by each information when the sponsors charge part of the utility charge of the users in return for the acquisition of the personal information, and advertisement information to be provided to a server network-connected to the electronic apparatuses; a means for displaying the personal information of the users which the sponsors desire on a display unit; a means for selecting personal information items the disclosure of which the users admit from a displayed personal information group of the users which the sponsors desire; a means or the like for reading the selected personal information items from the small-sized storage media and the mobile electronic apparatuses; and a means for calculating/requisitioning the utility charge burdened by the sponsors from the personal information items the disclosure of which the users admit and a contribution rate information group of the sponsors by each registered information. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention provides advertising information to the user and a part of the usage fee instead of providing the user's personal information to the advertiser when paying the usage fee for the copy installed at a convenience store or public facility. The present invention relates to a copy system having a function of reducing the burden on the user himself / herself by paying the advertiser.

For example, instead of reading personal information on an IC card and providing advertisement information corresponding to the information, a technique in which the advertisement provider bears a part of the usage fee of the user is known (for example, Patent Document 1). In this invention, the user information such as the user ID, password, and telephone number registered on the IC card registered in another device is read and transmitted to the advertisement provider, and the advertisement is displayed or printed instead. Part of the usage fee is borne by the advertising provider, and it is not possible to filter personal information that the advertising provider does not want to be known or to enter new personal information requested by the advertising provider. There is a problem that it cannot be used for the next use.
JP 2000-357071 A

  The problem to be solved by the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems and to activate consumption activities by exchanging information.

  Also, in order to realize integrated administrative services in e-government / e-government, it is expected that multi-function IC cards equipped with functions such as national identification functions and digital celebrities will be popularized. It is also possible to record various user information in the user area of the multi-function IC card to be used, and to provide services that are beneficial to both users by using them for matching the needs of both users and advertisers using convenience stores. It is a problem.

The copy according to the present invention has at least the following configuration as means for solving the above-described problems.
1. A means for data communication by connecting to a network.
2. Data access means for small storage media such as IC cards and memory cards.
3. A means for an advertisement provider to register advertisement information and a group of personal information desired to obtain.
4). A means of displaying a group of personal information desired by the advertisement provider.
Means for selecting an item that may be provided from the personal information group displayed by means of 5.4.
Means for requesting input of personal information when there is information in the personal information group selected in 6.5 that is not included in the personal information group read from the IC card by means of 2.
Means for inputting information requested in 7.6.
Means for storing the information input in 8.7 on the IC card.
Means for determining a usage fee to be borne by the advertisement provider according to the contents of the personal information that can be provided determined by the operations of 9.4 to 7.
Means for charging the user and the advertisement provider for the burden determined by 10.9.
11. A means of sending the requested personal information to the advertisement provider who bears part of the usage fee.
12 A means for sending advertisement mail or printing advertisement according to personal information disclosed by the advertisement provider.

  In more detail, the present invention can solve the above problems by the following configuration.

(1) A copy system having a display function, a communication function, a document reading function, and a printing function,
Means for data communication over a network;
Data access means with small storage media such as IC cards and memory cards, and portable electronic devices such as mobile phones and electronic notebooks;
Means for verifying whether a user of the above-mentioned small storage medium or portable electronic device has access authority;
On the server connected to the network with the above-mentioned electronic device, the personal information of the user that the advertiser wants, and the burden rate for each information when paying a part of the user's usage fee in exchange for the acquisition of the information Means for registering advertising information to be
Means for displaying personal information of a user desired by the advertiser on a display device;
Means for selecting personal information items that may be disclosed from the personal information group of the user who wants the displayed advertiser;
Means for reading the selected personal information item from the small storage medium means or the portable electronic device;
If the selected personal information item does not exist on the small storage medium means or the portable electronic device, means for inputting it,
Means for storing the inputted additional personal information on the small storage medium means or the portable electronic device;
Means for calculating a usage fee to be borne by the advertiser from the personal information items that may be disclosed and the advertiser's burden rate information group for each registered information;
Means for charging a usage fee for each according to the calculated share,
A copy system comprising:

  As shown in the description of the embodiment of the present invention, according to the present invention, the copy user provides only useful personal information, thereby obtaining useful advertisement information and reducing the burden of the usage fee. As a result, the advertiser can obtain advertising means with a high advertising effect, and the convenience store having a copy can obtain the merit of increasing the number of users by reducing the usage fee of the user. Moreover, the effect of increasing the sales of consumables can be obtained on the copy sales side.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating the configuration of a printing system according to an embodiment of the present invention. The copy system 3 includes an interface 10, an input control unit 100, a scanner device 111, a touch panel keyboard 112, and an IC card reader 113. , A caching device, a printing control unit 300, a printing device main body 307, and the like. The input control unit 100 and the print control unit 300 are connected via an internal connection cable 200.

  The interface 10 on the copy system accesses the user & advertiser matching station 1 via the network connection device 2 and the public line, thereby transmitting user information, receiving advertisement information and billing information, and Connect and perform caching.

  In the figure, reference numeral 101 denotes a communication controller which controls reception and transmission of various data via the interface 10.

  Reference numeral 102 denotes a central processing unit (CPU) in the form of a microprocessor, which includes, for example, a sequential circuit having a clock pulse generating circuit, a delay circuit, a gate circuit, and other logic circuits (not shown).

  Reference numeral 103 denotes a read-only memory (ROM) in which an OS (operating system), various control software, and the like are built in. When the CPU supplies a control signal to each unit, a microinstruction group for sequentially informing the CPU of the control signal is provided. It is remembered.

  Reference numeral 104 denotes a readable / writable random access memory (RAM) having an area for storing the operation status of each apparatus and a storage area for storing data transmitted through the network connection apparatus.

  Reference numerals 105 to 109 denote a scanner controller, a touch panel keyboard controller, an IC card reading device controller, a caching device controller, and a printer controller, which control each device.

  Reference numeral 110 denotes a bus line, which electrically connects the CPU 102, the ROM 103, the RAM 104, and various controllers 105 to 109 to transfer memory addresses and data.

  Reference numeral 301 denotes a CPU on the print control unit side, which has the same configuration and functions as the CPU 102 described above.

  Reference numeral 302 denotes a readable / writable random access memory (RAM) having an area for storing the operation status of each apparatus and print bitmap image data developed on a page memory described later.

  Reference numeral 303 denotes a read-only memory (ROM), which stores a microinstruction group for sequentially informing the CPU of the control signal when the CPU supplies a print control signal to each unit.

  An input buffer 304 is a storage device that stores print data transmitted from the printer controller.

  A page memory 305 stores a print bitmap image, and the created print bitmap image is transferred to the printing unit main body 307 via the engine interface 306.

  FIG. 21 is a cross-sectional view showing an output device to which the present invention can be applied. For example, a color laser beam printer (color LBP) is shown.

  In the figure, reference numeral 740 denotes an LBP main body which inputs and stores print information (character code, etc.) supplied from an externally connected host computer, and corresponding character patterns, graphic patterns, etc. according to the information. And forms an image on a printing paper or the like as a recording medium. Reference numeral 700 denotes an operation panel on which an LCD and a keyboard are arranged, which corresponds to 9 in FIG. Reference numeral 701 denotes a printer control unit (corresponding to the print control apparatus shown in FIGS. 1 to 7 in FIG. 1), which controls the entire LBP main body 740 and analyzes character information supplied from the host computer. The printer control unit 701 mainly converts the video signal into a character pattern corresponding to character information and outputs the video signal to the laser driver 702.

  The laser driver 702 is a circuit for driving the semiconductor laser 703, and switches on / off the laser light 704 emitted from the semiconductor laser 703 in accordance with the input video signal. The laser beam 704 is shaken in the horizontal direction by the rotary polygon mirror 705 to scan and expose the electrostatic drum 706. As a result, an electrostatic latent image of a character pattern is formed on the electrostatic drum 706. The latent image is developed by a developing unit 707 disposed around the electrostatic drum 706 and then transferred to a recording sheet. A cut sheet is used as the recording paper. The cut sheet recording paper is stored in a paper cassette 708 mounted on the LBP main body 740, and is taken into the apparatus from the paper feed roller 709 by the transport roller 710 and the transport roller 711. It is supplied to the electrostatic drum 706. Then, the toner image attached on the electrostatic drum 706 by the developing unit 707 is transferred to the conveyed recording paper. Thereafter, the recording paper is conveyed in the direction of the fixing device 712, the toner is fixed, and is finally guided to the outside by the paper discharge roller 713 and discharged to the outside. The developing unit 707, the electrostatic drum 706, and the like are configured to perform color printing by performing processing for each of C (cyan), M (magenta), Y (yellow), and K (black) pigments, for example.

  Hereinafter, as an embodiment of the present invention, golf ID as a hobby in the user area, with administrative ID information of “40-year-old male teacher working in a prefectural high school in Kawasaki City, 77 Imaiue-cho, Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa” A procedure for paying a usage fee when a user who registers mountain climbing, tennis, and shogi uses a convenience store copy will be described with reference to the reference drawings of FIGS. 1 to 19 and the flowchart of FIG.

  First, when the power is turned on in the copy system shown in FIG. 1, the internal state is initialized in step S1 in the flowchart of FIG. 20, and then the process proceeds to step S2 to check the state of the caching device 114 in FIG. In addition to checking whether or not the usage fee can be deducted, the IC card reader 113 is checked, and a security check such as user authentication of the inserted IC card is performed (user authentication is directly related to the gist of the present invention). It is not relevant and will not be discussed further here).

  The cashing device 114 is a device that accepts the user's usage fee payment, in addition to the insertion of cash such as coins and banknotes, cashing by a prepaid card, 113 IC car reading device, bank linked with the network connection device It is assumed that a function capable of supporting various fee payment forms such as an immediate settlement from an account is provided, but details are not described in the present specification because they are not directly related to the gist of the present invention.

  Then, if the above check is passed, the process proceeds to step S3, and the initial menu shown in FIG. 6 is displayed on the touch panel keyboard and waits until the selection of whether or not to use the discount copy use service is performed.

  Here, when the “No” display part on the touch panel keyboard is touched, the discount mode with advertisement is not selected, and the process proceeds to steps S4 and S11. Then, since the copy menu display as shown in FIG. 7 is performed, the process proceeds to step S12 by selecting a desired copy parameter and touching the “start” button display. However, since it is not the discount mode with advertisement, step S14 is performed. In this case, the copy is executed, and although the details are not described here, the usage fee is paid according to the fee payment mode selected by the user.

  On the other hand, when the “Yes” display portion in FIG. 6 is touched, the discount copy usage service mode is selected, so that the process proceeds to steps S4 and S5 and the menu screen shown in FIG. 8 is displayed. Here, a selection button group of information that the advertiser wants to disclose to the user is displayed in the lower row, and a message that the copy usage fee is discounted if the requested disclosure information is notified is displayed. Therefore, a user information item that can be disclosed is selected by touching on the touch panel. In the display example of FIG. 8, a state where gender, age, and occupation are selected is displayed.

  When the confirmation button display is touched, the process proceeds from step S5 to step S8, and the disclosed user information is displayed as shown in FIG. When the edit button display is selected here, the process proceeds from step S8 to step S9, and the edit mode shown in FIG. 10 is displayed. After touching the edit location, key input is performed from the keyboard display in the lower display, from the IC card. Called registration information can be edited. Then, by touching the end button display without changing anything here, the process proceeds to step S5, and the display shown in FIG. 9 is performed again.

  In FIG. 9, when the selection button display is touched, the process proceeds from step S5 to step S6, where it is checked whether or not all the user information items selected here are registered, but in this embodiment, all are displayed on the IC card. Since it is registered, the process proceeds to step S10.

  In the system configuration diagram of the present invention shown in FIG. 3, the personal information of the user on the IC card read by the 32 convenience store copies + card reader and selected on the menu screen on the copy is the user & 31 in FIG. When transmitted to the advertiser matching station, it is received by 47 user disclosure information receiving / transmitting means and stored in a storage device (not shown).

  In the user & advertiser matching station, the advertiser bears for each information acquisition among the advertiser and advertisement content information transmitted from 33 advertiser terminals, the user information that the advertiser wants to acquire, and the copy usage fee The ratio information to be received is received by the 45 advertisement / advertiser information registration means and registered in each of the information databases 41 and 42 (hereinafter referred to as database = DB). Further, the convenience store copy + card reader information is registered in the 40 convenience store copy information DB on the user & advertiser matching station by 44 convenience store copy information registration means. These technologies such as DB construction and search are based on existing technologies, and detailed description thereof is omitted.

  Therefore, in step S10, an information group on the usage fee burden calculation information DB 42 in FIG. 3 is searched from the personal information of the user received and stored, and each advertiser assigned to each disclosure information is searched. The burden ratio is calculated, the burden ratio of the user is determined, and the display as shown in FIG. 11 is performed. Here, when the return button display is touched, the process proceeds from step S10 to step S5, and the display shown in FIG. 9 is performed again. Then, when the lower e-mail address button display is touched and the selection button display is touched, the process proceeds from step S5 to step S6, where it is checked whether all the items selected here are registered, but the e-mail address is not registered. Therefore, the process proceeds to step S7, and the display requesting the input of the mail address information shown in FIG. 12 is performed. After touching the lower keyboard display and inputting the mail address as shown in FIG. When the save button display is touched, the added mail address information is stored on the IC card together with other user personal information, so that the user area on the IC card is changed as shown in FIG.

  Thereafter, when the end button display is touched, the process proceeds to step S5 and the display shown in FIG. 14 is performed. Then, when the selection button display is touched, the process proceeds to step S6 and it is checked whether or not all the user information items selected here are registered. However, since they are already registered, the process proceeds to step S10 and the same as above. Processing is performed, and the usage fee share ratio of the user shown in FIG. 15 is displayed.

  Next, when the return button display is touched, the process proceeds to step S8 and the display shown in FIG. 14 is performed. Then, when the “currently desired” button display is touched and the selection button display is touched, the same processing as described above is performed, and the process proceeds to step S8, step S6, and step S7, and the display shown in FIG. Is called. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 16 and FIG. 17, when the end button display is touched after selecting a car and a wall-mounted TV from the pull-down menu, the process proceeds to step S8 and the display shown in FIG. When the display is touched, the process proceeds from step S8 to step S10, and the display of FIG. 19 is performed. Therefore, when the OK button display is touched, the process proceeds to step S11 and the display shown in FIG. 7 is performed, and the copy parameter setting and start button selection standby state is entered. Therefore, when the start button display is touched, the process proceeds to step S12 and discount with advertisement is performed. Whether the mode is selected or not is determined. Since the discount mode with advertisement is selected, the process proceeds to step S13.

  Since the mail address is selected and registered in this embodiment, the advertisement information registered on the advertisement / advertiser information DB 41 in FIG. 3 is transmitted to the designated mail address, and then step S14. After copying and executing the copy, as shown in FIG. 19, a 50% discounted usage fee is charged to the user, and the remaining 50% is charged to each advertiser according to the calculated burden rate ratio. After the caching process is performed, charging information for the user and each advertiser is stored on the charging log information DB 43 in FIG.

  If the e-mail address, address, and name are not disclosed, the advertisement image stored in the advertisement / advertiser information DB in the user advertiser matching station is read in step S13, and is copied and printed in step S14. It will be printed.

1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a copy system main body showing an embodiment of the present invention. It is a figure explaining the memory map of the storage medium which stores the various processing programs on the copy system by this invention. 1 is a block diagram illustrating the overall configuration of a copy system showing an embodiment of the present invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the user profile data stored in the IC card. It is a figure which shows the example of the user profile data stored in the IC card. It is a figure which shows the example of a display on the touchscreen display apparatus on the copy system of the Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of a display on the touchscreen display apparatus on the copy system of the Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of a display on the touchscreen display apparatus on the copy system of the Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of a display on the touchscreen display apparatus on the copy system of the Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of a display on the touchscreen display apparatus on the copy system of the Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of a display on the touchscreen display apparatus on the copy system of the Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of a display on the touchscreen display apparatus on the copy system of the Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of a display on the touchscreen display apparatus on the copy system of the Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of a display on the touchscreen display apparatus on the copy system of the Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of a display on the touchscreen display apparatus on the copy system of the Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of a display on the touchscreen display apparatus on the copy system of the Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of a display on the touchscreen display apparatus on the copy system of the Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of a display on the touchscreen display apparatus on the copy system of the Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of a display on the touchscreen display apparatus on the copy system of the Example of this invention. 5 is a flowchart for explaining an operation flow of the copy system according to the present embodiment. FIG. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of a printing apparatus main body in the copy system shown in FIG. 1.

Explanation of symbols

101 communication control controller 102 CPU
103 OS / various control software built-in ROM
104 RAM
105 Scanner Controller 106 Touch Panel Keyboard Controller 107 IC Card Reading Device Controller 108 Caching Device Controller 109 Printer Controller 110 Input Control Unit System Bus 111 Scanner Device 112 Touch Panel Keyboard 113 Card Reading / Writing Device 114 Caching Device 200 Internal Connection Cable 301 CPU
302 RAM
303 Program ROM
304 Input buffer 305 Page memory 306 Engine interface 307 Printer main body 310 Print control unit system bus

Claims (1)

A copy system having a display function, a communication function, a document reading function, and a printing function,
Means for data communication over a network;
Data access means with small storage media such as IC cards and memory cards, and portable electronic devices such as mobile phones and electronic notebooks;
Means for verifying whether the user of the above-mentioned small storage medium or portable electronic device has access authority;
On the server connected to the network with the above-mentioned electronic device, the personal information of the user that the advertiser wants, and the burden rate for each information when paying a part of the user's usage fee in exchange for the acquisition of the information Means for registering advertising information to be
Means for displaying personal information of a user desired by the advertiser on a display device;
Means for selecting personal information items that may be disclosed from the personal information group of the user who wants the displayed advertiser;
Means for reading the selected personal information item from the small storage medium means or the portable electronic device;
If the selected personal information item does not exist on the small storage medium means or the portable electronic device, means for inputting it,
Means for storing the inputted additional personal information on the small storage medium means or the portable electronic device;
Means for calculating a usage fee to be borne by the advertiser from the personal information items that may be disclosed and the advertiser's burden rate information group for each registered information;
Means for charging a usage fee according to the calculated burden ratio,
A copy system comprising:

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