JPH06119520A - Lot selling system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a lot selling system capable of simply purchasing lots only by using one mark sheet even in the case of purchasing many betting tickets such as 10 or 20 lotteries. CONSTITUTION:A number specification column 42 and a point specification column 41 are prepard on a mark sheet 40, and in the case of purchasing 100 betting tickets from the number 100001 to the number 100100, '100001' is marked on respective columns A to F of the number specification column 42 and the parts 41b, 41k of the point specification column 42 are marked. Consequently 10 betting tickets each of which enters 10 forecasting numbers are ejected.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a lottery sales system, and more particularly to a lottery sales system using a mark sheet.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a lottery sales system for predicting an unknown result and selling a voting ticket based on this prediction has been known, for example, there is a lottery.

Now, to briefly describe this lottery, the lottery can arbitrarily predict, for example, a 6-digit number, and if the predicted number becomes a winning number, a predetermined dividend can be paid. Is.

Therefore, the six-digit number is "00000
There are 10 ⁶ numbers from "0" to "999999", so if you predict only one point, it is a lottery with a probability of 1/10 ⁶ .

By the way, in a lottery sales system for selling such a voting ticket (hereinafter referred to as a lottery voting ticket), the following is required. 1) Anyone can easily get the information necessary to purchase this kind of lottery at any time. 2) The procedures and operations required to purchase this kind of lottery are easy. 3) The system can be expanded and expanded according to demand. 4) When operating the system, security measures are prepared against fraud and forgery. 5) The system can flexibly deal with how to apply lottery and change the target lottery. 6) The sales situation of lottery voting tickets can be accurately and quickly totaled.

[0006]

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention]
There was no lottery sales system that could satisfy the above requirements.

Conventionally, there are lottery tickets issued by local governments as lottery-like lottery tickets (though lottery tickets do not predict winning numbers by themselves), but lottery tickets, like lottery tickets, have a low probability of winning. Therefore, the purchaser can buy 10 or 20 at a time (hereinafter referred to as 10 or 20).
It is not uncommon to buy in bulk. This is also the case with Lotteli.

However, Lottery does not buy pre-printed lottery tickets like a lottery ticket, but expects a winning lottery to apply. Two
It is troublesome to apply the expected number of 0 points on the mark sheet by the point-by-point method.

In addition, even if a large number of voting tickets are purchased,
Magnetic lottery tickets that use mark sheets are thick when issued as one lottery ticket like a lottery ticket, and possession of a large number of tickets is troublesome.

Also, since the lottery has a low winning probability, most of the voting tickets are out-of-range tickets and are subject to garbage disposal, but if one point-by-point voting ticket was issued, the out-of-range tickets will also expand. Therefore, there is a problem in that the waste disposal becomes troublesome.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned conventional problems, and an object thereof is also to purchase a large number of voting tickets of 10 points or 20 points at a time like Lotteli. An object of the present invention is to provide a lottery sales system that can be easily purchased by using only one mark sheet, can easily hold a voting ticket, and can easily process an outlier ticket.

[0012]

In order to achieve the above object, the invention of claim 1 sells a lottery voting ticket consisting of a plurality of digits by reading a mark written on a mark sheet for purchasing a lottery. In the lottery sales system, there is a means for detecting the number of the lottery marked on the mark sheet and a means for detecting the desired purchase number of lottery, and when a lottery of a plurality of points is purchased, the detected lottery is performed. It is characterized in that lottery is continuously issued by the number of purchases detected as described above, starting from the number of.

Further, in the invention of claim 2, in the lottery sales system according to claim 1, when a lottery with a plurality of points is purchased, one lottery voting ticket describes a lottery with a plurality of points. Is characterized by.

[0014]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, there is provided means for detecting the number of lottery marks marked on the mark sheet and means for detecting the number of points purchased, and in the case of purchasing a plurality of points, the number marked on the mark sheet is used. As a starting number, you can purchase lots of desired points, so you can buy lots of dozens of points with one mark sheet.

Further, in the invention of claim 2, when lots for 10 points and 20 points for the mark sheet according to claim 1 are applied at one time, a plurality of expected numbers are described on one voting ticket. As the number of voting tickets issued is small,
Possession of voting tickets is easy, and disposal of scrap tickets is easy.

[0016]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of a lottery sales system according to the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

In the following description, the case of selling lottery called lottery already described as a lottery will be described.

FIG. 1 shows the schematic construction of an embodiment of the lottery sales system of the present invention. The lottery sales system of this embodiment includes a lottery sales management host device 10 and N
The lottery sales terminal devices 30-1 to 30-N are provided, and the ISDN (digital integration) is provided between the lottery sales management host device 10 and the N lottery sales terminal devices 30-1 to 30-N. It is connected through a digital public line network 20 such as a line network).

Here, the lottery sales management host device 10 is
For example, it manages the operation of selling lottery voting tickets in N lottery sales terminal devices 30-1 to 30-N installed in a convenience store or the like, the details of which are shown in FIG.

In FIG. 2, a lottery sales management host device 1
Reference numeral 0 denotes a host computer 11 that manages lottery, a data storage unit 12 that stores various data necessary for managing lottery of the host computer 11, and lottery sales terminal devices 30-1 to 30.
Communication control unit 13 for exchanging data with N
The communication control unit 13 is provided with a digital public line network 20 shown in FIG.
Connected to.

In the data storage unit 12 of the lottery sales management host device 10, for example, the date when the lottery ticket sales are started, the content of the lottery vote, the date when the lottery is established (lottery date), and others. Various information necessary for lottery management is stored, and the host computer 11 performs various arithmetic processes necessary for lottery management based on various information stored in the data storage unit 12,
Also, for the lottery sales terminal devices 30-1 to 30-N,
Information necessary for selling betting tickets for lottery is transmitted through the communication control unit 13, and lottery sales terminal devices 30-1 to 30-.
The lottery ticket sales information from N is received through the communication control unit 13, and the information for permitting this is sent through the communication control unit 13 when necessary, through the communication control unit 13 as lottery sale terminal devices 30-1 to 30-.
Send to N.

FIG. 3 shows the lottery sales terminal device 3 shown in FIG.
The detailed configuration of 0-1 to 30-N is shown, and in FIG. 3, one of the plurality of lottery sales terminal devices 30-1 to 30-N is representatively shown as the lottery sales terminal device 30. . The lottery sales terminal devices 30-1 to 30-N have the same configuration.

In FIG. 3, the lottery sales terminal device 30 is
C that controls the entire operation of the lottery sales terminal device 30
A PU (Central Processing Unit) 31, an optical reading device 33 connected to a bus 32 of the CPU 31, a voting ticket vending device 34, a RAM (random access memory) 35, an RO
It is configured by including an M (read only memory) 36, a display unit 37, and a communication control unit 38, and the communication control unit 38 is connected to the digital public line network 20 shown in FIG.

Here, the optical reading device 33 reads desired information from a mark sheet which is put in for purchasing a voting ticket of a desired lottery, and FIG. 4 is referred to for a concrete example of the mark sheet. It will be detailed later.

The voting ticket vending device 34 sells a predetermined voting ticket corresponding to the information from the mark sheet read by the optical reading device 33. A specific example of the voting ticket sold by the voting ticket sales device 34 will be described later in detail with reference to FIG. This voting ticket sales device 34
Has a function of ejecting a voting ticket printed in a prescribed format when a prescribed sales condition is satisfied. Here, the operator may separately receive the fee for this voting ticket. The ticket vending device 34 may be provided with a payment device, and the voting ticket may be automatically discharged on the condition that the payment device is used.

The RAM 35 stores the lottery sales terminal device 30.
Stores various rewritable data necessary for the processing of the above, and the ROM 36 stores various data fixedly used in the lottery sales terminal device 30 and the CPU 31.
The control program and the like are stored.

The display unit 37 displays the lottery sales terminal device 30.
Display various data required for lottery ticket sales in.

The communication control unit 38 receives various kinds of information relating to the lottery ticket sales from the lottery sales management host device 10 via the digital line 39 and the digital public line network 20, and also transmits to the lottery sales management host device 10. It is for doing.

FIG. 4 shows the lottery sales terminal device 3 shown in FIG.
The specific example of the mark sheet loaded into the optical reading device 33 of 0 is shown.

The mark sheet 40 shown in FIG. 4 is used for a lottery voting application called a lottery, and one of the numbers 0 to 9 should be marked in each of the columns A to F of the number designation column 42. Vote by.
In this example, there are 10 choices for each of the columns A to F, so there are 10 ⁶ prediction methods.

In the specific example shown in FIG. 4, the digit A is 3, the digit B is 2, the digit C is 6, the digit D is 0, and E is E.
Since the number of 7 is selected and the number of 5 is selected for F, it indicates that a 6-digit number “326075” is expected as a whole.

Further, in FIG. 4, reference numeral 41 designates a purchase score designation column, a designation column 41a for one point purchase, a designation column 41b for two or more points purchase, and a score designation column 41c for two or more points purchase. Has ~ 41k.

In the specific example shown in FIG. 4, since the designation columns 41b for purchasing two or more points are marked with the score designation columns 41f and 41g of 5 and 10, a plurality of points are purchased and the total number of them is totaled. It indicates that the number of purchase points is 15.

Further, in this embodiment, when there are a plurality of purchase points, the number designated in the number designation column 42 is used as a starting number, and the voting tickets are issued by the number designated in the point designation column 41. Therefore, in this example, “326075-
Voting tickets including numbers up to 326089 will be issued.

When only one point is purchased, only the voting ticket consisting of the number "326075" designated in the number designation column 42 is issued.

In the figure, bar marks 43a ...
Reference numeral 43e is for allowing the optical reading device 33 shown in FIG. 3 to recognize the data area, and the bar mark group 44 is for synchronizing when the optical reading device 33 shown in FIG. 3 reads data. It is a thing.

Next, FIG. 5A shows a specific example of the voting ticket sold from the voting ticket vending device 34 of the lottery vending terminal device 30 shown in FIG. 3 by inserting the mark sheet 40 shown in FIG. It is a thing.

As shown in the figure, in the voting ticket 50, the lottery type 51a of the voting ticket 50, the issue date 51b, the lottery lottery date 51c, the expected lottery number 51d, the total amount e, the lottery issuer 51f, etc. Is printed.

As shown in FIG. 5 (a), only one lottery number 51d can display up to 10 lottery tickets. Therefore, when purchasing a 15-vote ticket like this example,
As shown in FIGS. 5A and 5B, the document is divided into two sheets and issued.

The lottery voting ticket 50 is merely an example, and the number of lottery tickets displayed on one voting ticket and the format thereof can be arbitrarily changed. Further, the lottery voting ticket 50 is used later for receiving the payment of the dividend. Therefore, it is necessary to devise various means so that the lottery ticket 50 cannot be easily forged.

FIG. 6 shows a lottery sales terminal device 3 of this embodiment.
It is a flow chart for explaining the lottery ticket sales operation by 0, and the operation of the present embodiment will be described below with reference to the figure.

The optical reading device 33 shown in FIG.
When the mark sheet 40 as shown in (1) is inserted (step 101), the information of the mark sheet 40 is read by the optical reading device 33, and the inserted mark sheet 40 is a mark sheet that can be accepted by the lottery sales terminal device 30. That is, it is determined whether or not the inserted mark sheet 40 is correct (step 10).
2).

If it is determined that the inserted mark sheet 40 is correct, the communication control unit 38 shown in FIG. 3 is driven and the lottery sales management host device 10 is called (step 103). That is, the communication control unit 38 shown in FIG. 3, the digital line 39, the digital public line network 20 shown in FIG. 1, the digital line 14 shown in FIG.
The lottery sales management host device 10 is called via the communication control unit 13. As a result, predetermined data is exchanged between the lottery sales terminal device 30 and the lottery sales management host device 10.

Next, the lottery sales management host device 10
It is determined whether or not the information on the mark sheet 40 sent from the lottery sales terminal device 30 enables the sale of lottery voting tickets (step 104), and for example, the information set in the lottery sales management host device 10. If it is a sales request after the sale start date of the lottery, a sales request before the formation of the lottery, and a sales request that satisfies a predetermined condition, the lottery sales management host device 10 causes the lottery sales terminal device 30 to perform. In response, the information that permits the lottery to be sold is transmitted.

Then, the desired purchase number is detected from the mark in the purchase number designation field 41 (step 105),
In the case of purchasing only one point, a one-point voting ticket as marked in the number designation field 42 is issued (step 10).
7).

In the case of purchasing two or more points, the desired purchase score is judged by reading the marks in the score designation columns 41c to 41k (step 106), and the number designated in the number designation column 42 is counted as a numerical value. A voting ticket containing the expected number of desired points will be issued (step 10).
7).

As described above, the voting ticket price may be separately received by the operator of the lottery sales terminal device 30. Alternatively, the voting ticket sales device 34 may be provided with a payment acceptance device. The device may be configured to automatically eject the voting ticket on condition that the price is accepted.

On the other hand, if it is determined in step 102 that the inserted mark sheet is not correct, this mark sheet is returned (step 109). Further, if the sale is not permitted in step 104, the sale is not permitted is displayed on the display unit 37 shown in FIG. 3 (step 108), and this processing is ended.

As described above, in this embodiment, the mark sheet 40 is provided with the number designation column 42 and the point designation column 41, and when one wants to buy one voting ticket, the expected winning number is entered in the number designation column 42 and the score is given. If you want to purchase one piece in the designated field 41, and if you want to buy multiple voting tickets, enter the minimum number to be the starting number in the number designated field 42 and the desired number in the point designated field 41. Since there is no need to do so, there is an advantage that even if one wants to purchase a multipoint voting ticket, only one mark sheet needs to be used.

Further, as shown in FIG. 5, a maximum of 10 expected numbers can be written in a voting ticket issued using such a mark sheet, so that, for example, similar to this kind of lottery ticket. 1 lottery ticket for each number
It has the advantage of being able to write a large number of expected numbers on a small number of sheets compared to issuing one sheet, which contributes to the convenience of possession, resource saving, and prevention of dust generation due to the generation of enormous scrap tickets. It will be useful.

[0051]

As described above, the invention of claim 1 has means for detecting the number of the lottery marked on the mark sheet and means for detecting the number of points purchased, and in the case of wishing to purchase a plurality of points. Allows you to purchase lots of desired points starting from the number marked on the mark sheet, so you can buy lots of dozens of points with one mark sheet, like lottery 10 points at a time Alternatively, even when purchasing a large number of voting tickets of 20 points, it is possible to easily purchase them by using only one mark sheet.

Further, in the invention of claim 2, since a plurality of lottery numbers can be described in one voting ticket, possession and storage of the voting ticket are easy, or dust generated by the misaligned ticket is reduced. It has the effect of being able to.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of an embodiment of a lottery sales system of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a detailed configuration of a lottery sales management host device shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a detailed configuration of the lottery sales terminal device shown in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a specific example of a mark sheet used in this embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a specific example of a lottery voting ticket adopted in this embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart for explaining the basic operation of the lottery sales terminal device shown in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10 lottery sales management host device 20 digital public line network 30, 30-1 to 30-N lottery sales terminal device 11 host computer 12 data storage unit 13 communication control unit 14 digital line 31 CPU (central processing unit) 32 bus 33 optical Reader 34 Voting ticket vending machine 35 RAM (random access memory) 36 ROM (read only memory) 37 Display section 38 Communication control section 39 Digital line 40 Mark sheet 41 Point designation field 42 Number designation field 50 Lottery voting ticket

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A lottery sales system for selling lottery voting tickets consisting of a plurality of digits by reading a mark written on a lottery purchase mark sheet, and detecting a lottery number marked on the mark sheet. When a lottery with multiple points is purchased, a lottery number is continuously detected from the detected lottery number. A lottery sales system characterized by issuing. 2. The lottery sales system according to claim 1, wherein when a plurality of lottery tickets are purchased, a single lottery voting ticket describes a plurality of lottery tickets. .