JPH06282709A - Communication ticket issuing machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide the communication ticket issuing machine which can easily and speedily find out where to make contact of the user of a communication ticket without fail and can considerably reduce time and labor required for the retrieval. CONSTITUTION:This machine issues the communication ticket according to input data from an operator corresponding to the described contents of an application form 30, the image data of the application form 30 are read by an application form reading part 6, and those read image data are stored in a magnetic disk device 12 corresponding to the input data. The input data in this magnetic disk device 12 become keys for retrieving the correspondent image data. By inputting these keys, the correspondent image data are retrieved and read from the inside of the same magnetic disk device 12, and the read image data are displayed on a CRT display part 7.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a commuter ticket issuing machine for issuing commuter tickets for use in transportation, for example.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art When purchasing a commuter pass, a user fills out the necessary information on an application form provided at the station and presents it to a counter with a staff member. The clerk operates the operation unit while checking the contents of the application form, inputs data such as the boarding section, usage period, commuting / commuting, adult / children, and sets the application form in the name transfer unit.

When the data input is completed, a commuter pass is issued according to the input data, and the name portion of the application form set in the name transfer section is read as image data and is transferred to the issued commuter pass. It

Although the commuter pass is issued in this way, it often arrives at the station as a found item. At the station's sales office, the application forms used for purchase are collected and stored for each issue date, and the applicable application form is searched for based on, for example, the issue date and issue number of the found commuter pass. When the applicable application form is found, the contact information written there will be notified that the application form has been found.

[0005]

The number of commuter passes issued per day is large, and a large amount of used application forms exist. Finding one application form out of them requires a great deal of time and effort and is a great burden for the staff.

The present invention takes the above circumstances into consideration,
The aim is to provide a commuter ticket issuing machine that can easily and quickly find out the contact information of the commuter ticket user, etc., and can greatly reduce the time and labor required for the search. To provide.

[0007]

A commuter pass issuing machine according to the present invention issues a commuter pass in accordance with input data according to the description contents of an application form, and a reading means for reading image data of the application form, A storage unit that stores the image data read by the reading unit in association with the input data, a search unit that searches the image data in the same storage unit using the input data in the storage unit as a search key, and the search Display means for displaying the image data retrieved by the means.

[0008]

In the commuter pass issuing machine of the present invention, the image data of the application form is read, and the image data and the input data from the operator are stored in the storage means in association with each other.
The input data in the storage means is used as a key for searching the corresponding image data, and the image data in the storage means is searched by the actual input of the key. The retrieved image data is displayed.

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

In FIG. 2, reference numeral 1 denotes a commuter ticket issuing machine, which is installed in a counter at a commuter ticket section of a station. The commuter pass issuing machine 1 is provided with a display input unit 2, a condition setting unit 3, and a boarding section setting unit 4 as operation units. The display input unit 2 has a touch panel for inputting a part of purchase information. The condition setting unit 3 is for setting various conditions related to the operation of the issuing machine. The boarding section setting unit 4 has a plurality of station buttons arranged vertically and horizontally.

An application name transfer section 5 is provided adjacent to the condition setting section 3. The name transfer section 5 reads the image data (image pattern data) in the name entry field of the application sheet set in the sheet insertion port 5a by CCD or the like. Further, an application form reading unit 6 is provided inside the name transfer unit 5. This application paper reading unit 6 has a paper insertion slot 5
The entire image data (image pattern data) of the application form set in a is read.

A CRT display unit 7 is provided next to the boarding section setting unit 4, and a customer display 8 is provided above the boarding section setting unit 4. The CRT display unit 7 displays data input by an operator (station staff) and image data read by the application paper reading unit 6. Customer display 8
Displays the commuter pass fee and change.

A commuter pass issuing unit 9 is provided next to the condition setting unit 3 and the CRT display unit 7. The commuter pass issuing unit 9 issues a new commuter pass at the point where the commuter pass is actually issued.
Start from a.

A card reading unit 1 is provided on the commuter pass issuing unit 9.
0 is provided. The card reading unit 10 reads magnetic data (ID number or personal identification number) of a credit card or a bank card inserted into the insertion slot 10a.

A journal printer 11 and a magnetic disk device 12 serving as a storage unit are provided beside the application paper reading unit 5. The journal printer 11 prints a transaction result regarding the sale of the commuter pass in a journal. The magnetic disk device 12 stores various data relating to commuter pass issuance, such as the transaction results, fare data, release record data, and application sheet image data, on a magnetic disk. FIG. 3 shows the configuration of the control circuit.

The memory 20 is added to the CPU 20 which is the main control unit.
1, communication control unit 22, image processing unit 23, display input unit 2,
Condition setting unit 3, boarding section setting unit 4, name transfer unit 5, application paper reading unit 6, CRT display unit 7, customer display 8, commuter ticket issuing unit 9, card reading unit 10, journal printer 1
1 and the magnetic disk device 12 are connected.

The memory 21 stores a control program and character patterns for issuing a commuter pass. The communication control unit 22 performs data transmission with an external device using a communication line such as LAN. The image processing unit 23 performs image processing of reducing or enlarging the image data read by the application paper reading unit 6 to match the resolution of the CRT display unit 7. The CPU 20 has the following main functional means.

[1] Issue a commuter pass in accordance with input data from an operator (person in charge), and issue image data in the name entry field of the application form (shown in FIG. 4) read by the name transfer section 5 Ticketing processing means to transfer to. [2] Means for storing the image data read by the application paper reading unit 6 in the magnetic disk device 12 in association with the input data from the operator during the ticket issuing process. [3] Search means for searching image data in the same magnetic disk device 12 using the input data in the magnetic disk device 12 as a search key. [4] Display means for displaying the image data retrieved by the retrieval means on the CRT display section 7 together with the corresponding input data.

On the other hand, an application form 30 shown in FIG. 4, for example, is prepared at a commuter pass sales place at a station. That is, from the top to the bottom of the application form 30, the name entry field, address entry field, work entry field, boarding section entry field, transit station / route entry field, commuting / commuting condition specification field, adult / child It has a condition specification column and a validity period entry column. Next, the operation of the above configuration will be described with reference to the flowcharts of FIGS.

The purchaser of the commuter pass fills in the necessary information on the application form 30 and sends it to the staff at the counter. The clerk operates the touch panel of the display input unit 2 or the station button of the boarding section setting unit 4 while viewing the content of the application form 30 to input predetermined data. Then, the clerk inserts the application form 30 into the insertion port 5 a of the name transfer unit 5.

When the application form 30 is set in the insertion slot 5a, the image data in the name entry field of the application form 30 is read. At the same time, the entire image data of the application form 30 is read, and the image processing unit 23 performs image processing on the image data.

When the clerk performs a ticketing start operation in the condition setting section 3 (turning on the start key), a series of ticketing processing such as route processing, fare calculation processing, ticket surface processing and encode editing processing is executed according to the input data. A new commuter pass is printed and issued. At this time, the image data (name) read by the name transfer unit 5 is transferred to the issued commuter pass.

In this ticketing process, the image data that has already been read by the application paper reading unit 6 and image-processed by the image processing unit 23 is stored in the magnetic disk device 12 in association with the input data from the operator. . In this case, as shown in FIG. 1, the release record data in which the issue number and the fare are added to the input data is created, and the release record data and the image data are concatenated to create one data item. It
This is sequentially stored for each ticket issuing process.

The issued commuter pass jumps out from the issuing port 9a. At this time, the commuter pass fee is displayed on the customer display 8. At the same time, the transaction result is printed on the journal in the journal printer 11, and the transaction result is stored in the porcelain disk device 12.

The clerk receives the commuter pass fee displayed on the customer display 8 from the purchaser, and hands the commuter pass out from the issuing port 9a to the purchaser. It should be noted that the payment of the purchase fee is not limited to cash, and the payment can be made by a credit card or a bank card inserted into the insertion slot 10a.
In this case, a receipt on which the transaction result is printed is issued together with the commuter pass by the commuter pass issuing unit 9.

By the way, the commuter pass may be lost and delivered to the station as a found item. In this case, the staff at the station tries to look up the owner's contact information from the commuter pass that was delivered in order to contact the owner.

In order to check the contact information, the search mode is set in the condition setting section 3, any data is selected from the data written on the commuter pass, and the selected data is used as a search key in the display input section 2 Or from the boarding section setting unit 4.
The data to be input may be any of the boarding section, the valid period (start date or end date), the issue number, or the like.

When the data is input, it is searched whether or not the same one as that in the release record data in the magnetic disk device 12. The same data is recorded on the magnetic disk unit 12
If it exists in the sale record data in the above, both the sale record data and the image data linked thereto are read out. The read-out sale record data and image data are displayed on the same screen of the CRT display unit 7, as shown in FIG. That is, the left side area 71 of the screen of the CRT display unit 7
The sale record data is displayed in and the image data is displayed in the right area 72.

The image data to be displayed is the content described on the application form 30 itself, and includes the address and telephone number of the owner's contact information. The clerk can contact the owner while looking at this display and inform that the commuter pass has arrived.

As described above, by simply inputting the input data for the ticket issuing process as a search key, the application form 3
The image data of 0 can be searched easily, quickly, and without fail, and the time and labor required for the search can be greatly reduced as compared with the conventional case where the used application form is manually searched. Moreover, since it is not necessary to store a large amount of used application forms, there is also an advantage that the storage space becomes unnecessary.

In the above embodiment, the application form 3
The form of 0 and the contents to be entered are not limited, and can be set appropriately according to the type of commuter pass. Further, although the magnetic disk device is used as the storage means, for example, an optical disk device may be used, or an external storage device may be used through the communication control unit 22. If an external storage device is used, it is possible to perform similar searches for commuter tickets sold at other stations, which further improves serviceability. Besides, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and various modifications can be made without departing from the scope of the invention.

[0032]

As described above, according to the present invention, the image data of the application form is read and the image data and the input data are stored in the storage means in association with each other.
Since the input data in the storage means is used as a search key to search for the corresponding image data, the contact information of the user of the commuter pass can be easily, quickly, and definitely searched for. It is possible to provide a commuter ticket issuing machine that can significantly reduce the time and labor required for.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing formats of sales record data and image data created in an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing the overall configuration of the same embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a control circuit of the same embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of an application form related to the embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart for explaining ticket issuing processing according to the embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart for explaining a search process of the embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a display example of a CRT display unit in the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... communication ticket issuing machine, 2 ... display input section, 3 ... condition setting section,
4 ... Boarding section setting unit, 5 ... Name transfer unit, 6 ... Application paper reading unit, 7 ... CRT display unit, 8 ... Customer display unit, 9 ... Commuter ticket issuing unit.

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A commuter pass issuing machine for issuing a commuter pass according to input data according to the contents of an application form, a reading unit for reading image data of the application form, and the image data read by the reading unit are inputted as the input. Displaying the image data retrieved by this retrieval means, a storage means for storing the data in association with the data, a retrieval means for retrieving the image data in the same storage means using the input data in this storage means as a retrieval key A commuter pass issuing machine, characterized by comprising display means. 2. The commuter pass issuing machine according to claim 1, wherein the display means displays the read image data together with the corresponding input data.