TWI575466B - Support for third parties to pay the parking fee system - Google Patents

Description

Support for third-party paid parking payment systems

The present invention is a method of paying for parking, and in particular, a parking payment system that supports third party payment.

In view of the current large-scale toll parking lot, the method of verifying the vehicle before charging is to identify the vehicle by means of no ticket card to control the entry and exit of each vehicle in the parking lot. However, due to the information management of the parking lot, the entry of the vehicle into the parking lot is The verification time is significantly shorter than before, and the correctness and efficiency of vehicle verification are greatly improved. However, for parking driving, payment is still made through the payment device in the parking lot. The payment method is mostly cash, credit card, Financial deposit cards and other methods to pay parking fees, although the above methods are not too inconvenient, but because of parking, I have encountered some unforeseen factors, such as: without cash, credit card machine failure, etc., can not complete the payment quickly and smoothly And the process of leaving the exit, even if the payment process is successful and successful payment, but this type must be settled at the moment to pay the parking fee. When the parking lot is large, the queue payment becomes one of the troubles of parking driving. In addition, the receipts obtained after payment are all paper notes. If you want to check the parking payment records and related information in the future, the problem of paper papers being difficult to keep is also a problem to be solved after parking driving.

In addition to the global financial digitalization, the Jinliu channel is very different from the past. The wars of digital finance are becoming increasingly hot, and the Internet is produced through electronic trading mode. The digital flow of life directly impacts the relationship between banks, operators and consumers, especially for various industry players, how to develop a fast and efficient digital business model of business, in this consumer and The era in which the industry is embarrassed by the e-commerce transaction model is an issue that all industries are eager to solve.

As a result, the concept of "third-party payment" has become a hot topic in emerging business opportunities in recent years, and industry players believe that they are actively engaged in cross-sector alliances, and the "action payment" trading behavior model developed by information technology is In the era of fast and competitive digital financial transactions, the market has the opportunity to take the lead. In addition, for consumers, third-party payment platforms can effectively help users process transaction flows; users can cooperate with third-party payment platforms to save The trouble of going through multiple types of transactions does not require opening different accounts in different banks. Therefore, for the parking operators, the information of the parking lot and the effective information of the third-party payment platform service providers and consumers are available. Parking owners have better quality information services. For consumers, the parking payment process is more efficient and safer.

The object of the present invention is to provide a parking payment method for supporting third party payment, comprising a toll parking lot, the parking lot comprising: a vehicle reading unit for reading a vehicle identification data to enter or leave the parking lot; Unit for the control of vehicles entering and leaving the parking lot; a communication unit for receiving and transmitting signals. A collaboration platform, comprising: a processing unit for processing the vehicle identification data; a memory unit for storing vehicle identification data, vehicle admission and playing time, payment information materials; a first application; a billing unit for Calculate the parking fee; a communication unit for receiving and transmitting signals. One hand The electronic device comprises: a second application program for the vehicle owner to perform a parking payment procedure; and a display unit for displaying the parking payment information inquiry. A third-party payment mechanism includes a third-party payment platform for the owner to pay by using a multi-payment means; wherein the collaboration platform is separately connected to the toll parking lot, the handheld electronic device, and the third-party payment mechanism via the Internet. In addition, the collaboration platform provides opening and closing of the entrance and exit of the instruction parking lot, and sending parking payment related information to the charging parking lot and the handheld electronic device.

In addition, the vehicle reading unit may be an image capturing device or an electronic tag reading device. The collaboration platform can operate as a cloud server. In addition, the memory unit may be an associated database system. Specifically, the associated database system shall include at least the above fields such as account, account data, parking lot number, license plate number, parking record, and payment history. The payment means provided by the third-party payment mechanism can be used for payment by a financial card, payment by a credit card, and payment by a third party. The access blocking unit may further comprise a switching device for instructing the accessing and discharging unit by a manual operation switching device when the vehicle cannot be successfully identified. If the parking payment method is faced with unexpected factors in the operation, such as: parking hardware failure, poor Internet connection, etc., the access to the collaboration platform is not received within a threshold time. Any instruction of the blocking unit can directly instruct the entering and leaving the blocking unit to open or close the blocking lever through a manual operation mode, so as to avoid delay of the vehicle entering and leaving the parking lot, and increase the efficiency of the parking control operation.

Therefore, the present invention provides a complete vehicle access control system, and is not only perfected by the parking owner's handheld electronic device, the collaboration platform and a third-party payment mechanism. More convenient parking payment function.

1‧‧‧Parking

11‧‧‧ Vehicles

12‧‧‧In and out of the discharge unit

13‧‧‧Vehicle reading unit

14‧‧‧First communication unit

15‧‧‧Switching device

2‧‧‧Handheld electronic devices

21‧‧‧Second application

22‧‧‧Display unit

3‧‧‧Collaboration platform

31‧‧‧First application

32‧‧‧Processing unit

33‧‧‧ memory unit

34‧‧‧ Billing unit

35‧‧‧Second communication unit

4‧‧‧Banking system

5‧‧‧ Third-party payment mechanism

51‧‧‧ Third-party payment platform

52‧‧‧First payment means

53‧‧‧second payment means

54‧‧‧ Third payment means

[Fig. 1] is a schematic diagram of the entrance and exit control of the parking lot.

[Fig. 2] is a structure diagram of the entrance and exit control of the parking lot.

[Fig. 3] A diagram showing the relationship between the payment of parking fees by a third party.

[Fig. 4] is a structural diagram of a collaboration platform.

[Fig. 5] is a diagram showing an example of a memory unit.

FIG. 6 is a structural diagram of a handheld electronic device.

[Fig. 7] is a schematic diagram of a third party payment mechanism.

The present invention is a parking payment method that supports third party payment. Please refer to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 together, which is a registration process of a vehicle to enter a parking lot according to a first embodiment of the present invention. When the vehicle 11 arrives at the parking lot 1, it is provided by a vehicle reading unit 13 (in this embodiment, it is a vehicle image capturing device disposed at a high place for a long distance, and may also be an electronic tag reading device). The license plate image of the vehicle 11 is obtained as identification data of the vehicle 11, and is transmitted to a first communication unit 14 together with the entry time of the vehicle 11.

Next, please refer to Figure 2 and Figures 3 and 4 together. The identification information of the vehicle 11 (in this example, the license plate image and possibly the electronic tag data) is transmitted to the collaboration platform 3 in the Internet through the first communication unit 14, and the collaboration platform 3 is connected by a second communication. The unit 35 transmits the license plate image to a processing unit 32, performs license plate image recognition, and obtains the license plate of the vehicle 11 The number is compared with the owner account data corresponding to the license plate number in a memory unit 33, and finally the entry time of the vehicle 11 and the license plate number are stored in the corresponding field of the memory unit 33, and the memory unit 33 can In the case of an associated database, if the license plate of the vehicle 11 has been successfully identified and stored in the memory unit 33, the processing unit 32 will transmit the release signal to the parking lot 1 through the second communication unit 35. Unit 12 allows the vehicle 11 to enter the parking lot 1.

Please refer to Figures 4, 5 and Figure 6 together. The invention provides a parking owner with the function of performing parking payment and parking information inquiry through one of the handheld electronic devices held by the owner. First, the owner needs to log in to the first application 31 in the collaboration platform 3 via the Internet to obtain an account. The second owner of the handheld electronic device 2 can log in to the collaboration platform 3 through a specific registered account for payment. In addition, the owner can also display the display unit 22 in the handheld electronic device 2. Inquire or edit the owner's relevant information, such as: account information (name, phone, address, email...), parking lot number, license plate number, parking record (time of entry and exit, accumulated parking time...), payment history, etc. And payment details inquiry...).

Please refer to Figure 3 and Figures 6, 7 together. After the owner completes the registration on the collaboration platform 3 by using the handheld electronic device 2, the collaboration platform 3 is connected to the banking system 4 provided by the specific bank and the third-party payment platform 51 through the Internet, wherein the The three-party payment platform 51 can be a network platform that the market or the bank has currently established and operated, such as: Oufubao allPay, ezPay, Zhifubao Pay2go, and the like. Then, with the consent of the owner, the cooperation platform 3 provides the owner's account information and related registration information to the banking system. 4 and the third party payment platform 51 is authenticated. If the information is correct, an electronic financial account is jointly established in a designated transaction. The electronic financial account may be a temporary account or a permanent account. As the target account for the owner to pay the parking fee later.

In the second embodiment of the present invention, please refer to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 together for a charging process in which a vehicle wants to leave the parking lot. When the vehicle 11 arrives at the parking lot 1, it is provided by a vehicle reading unit 13 (in this embodiment, it is a vehicle image capturing device disposed at a high place for a long distance, and may also be an electronic tag reading device). The license plate image of the vehicle 11 is obtained as the identification data of the vehicle 11, and is transmitted to a first communication unit 14 together with the departure time of the vehicle 11.

Please refer to Figure 2 and Figures 3 and 4 together. The identification information of the vehicle 11 (in this example, the license plate image and possibly the electronic tag data) is transmitted to the collaboration platform 3 in the Internet through the first communication unit 14, and the collaboration platform 3 is connected by a second communication. The unit 35 transmits the license plate image to a processing unit 32, performs license plate image recognition, obtains the license plate number of the vehicle 11, and compares the owner account data corresponding to the license plate number in a memory unit 33, and confirms the license plate number. After the vehicle owner account is correctly matched, the entry and exit time of the vehicle 11 and its parking fee are calculated through a billing unit 34, and the designated financial account and the parking payable amount are first passed through the collaboration platform 3 The application 31 transmits the parking information and the payment notice of the owner to the handheld electronic device 2, and may also transmit the notification by the collaboration platform 3 according to the mobile phone number of the owner. Thereafter, the processing unit 32 transmits a release signal to the entry and exit blocking unit 12 of the parking lot 1 through the second communication unit 35, and causes the vehicle 11 to leave the parking lot 1.

Please refer to Figures 4, 5 and Figure 6 together. The invention provides a parking owner with the function of performing parking payment and parking information inquiry through one of the handheld electronic devices held by the owner. First, the vehicle owner receives the push information of the payment notice from the collaboration platform 3 through the second application 21 in the handheld electronic device 2, and logs in to the collaboration platform 3 for the payment information inquiry by using the specific registered account ( Inquiries such as parking amount and payment details...).

Please refer to Figure 3 and Figures 6, 7 together. The owner can pay the specified electronic financial account by means of a payment method provided by a third-party payment mechanism 5, and after the payment is completed, the bank system 4, the collaboration platform 3 and the third-party payment platform 51 are established. The designated electronic payment account is deducted for the purpose of completing a parking payment procedure. Among the payment means provided by the third-party payment mechanism 5, the first payment means 52 can be a financial card payment, the second payment means 53 can be a credit card payment, and the third payment means 54 can be a third party. Collection of payment, such as: convenience store operators. After the payment is completed, the collaboration platform 3 pushes a payment success message to the handheld electronic device 2 of the owner by the first application 31, and can also notify the owner by sending a short message.

In the third embodiment of the present invention, please refer to FIG. 1 to FIG. 3 together, when the vehicle 11 that wants to enter or leave the parking lot 1 arrives before the shift lever, and when the vehicle reading unit 13 transmits the identification information of the vehicle 11 to After the collaboration platform 3, due to unforeseen factors, such as: parking hardware failure, poor Internet connection conditions and other unpredictable factors, resulting in a period of time, did not receive the collaboration platform 3, any instruction to enter and exit the blocking unit 12, through a manual operation mode, directly instructing the access blocking unit 12 to open or close the blocking lever by a switching device 15, so as to avoid delaying the time of entering and leaving the parking lot of the vehicle. And increase the parking tube Work efficiency.

The invention has been described above in terms of the preferred embodiments, and it should be understood by those skilled in the art that the present invention is not intended to limit the scope of the invention. It should be noted that variations and permutations equivalent to those of the embodiments are intended to be included within the scope of the present invention.

1‧‧‧Parking

2‧‧‧Handheld electronic devices

3‧‧‧Collaboration platform

4‧‧‧Banking system

5‧‧‧ Third-party payment mechanism

Claims (6)

A parking payment system supporting a third party payment is applicable to a toll parking lot. The third party paid parking payment system includes: an image capturing device installed in the toll parking lot for reading a vehicle to be entered and to be seen. a license plate image; an entry and exit blocking unit disposed in the toll parking lot for controlling the entry and exit of the toll parking lot; a first communication unit disposed in the toll parking lot to transmit the license plate of the vehicle to be entered and to be played Video; and a collaboration platform, connected to the payment platform and the banking system, and for the owner of the vehicle to register an account and establish an electronic financial account, the collaboration platform comprises: a billing unit; a memory unit for storing the registered account owner Account information; a second communication unit that receives the license plate image transmitted by the first communication unit; and a processing unit that identifies a license plate number of the vehicle to be entered according to the license plate image received by the second communication unit, And storing the entry time of the vehicle and the license plate number in the memory unit, and the vehicle is going to appear The license plate number of the vehicle to be played by the image is compared with the owner account data in the memory unit. After the comparison is correct, the parking unit calculates the parking of the vehicle according to the admission time and the exit time. The fee is to pay the parking fee to the electronic financial account via a third-party payment mechanism, and transmit the release signal to the access-blocking unit via the second communication unit to allow the vehicle to leave the toll parking lot. For example, the third-party paid parking payment system described in claim 1 is a cloud server. For example, the third-party paid parking payment system described in claim 1 is wherein the memory unit is an associated database system. For example, the third-party paid parking payment system described in claim 3, wherein the associated database system includes at least an account, account information, a parking lot number, a license plate number, a parking record, and a payment history. The parking payment system for supporting third party payment according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the third party payment mechanism pays for the payment of the financial card, the payment by the credit card, and the collection by the third party. The parking payment system supporting the third party payment according to the first aspect of the patent application, wherein the access blocking unit further comprises a switching device for instructing the access control device to be manually operated by the switching device. unit.