CN102509364B

CN102509364B - Automobile fee payment system and method capable of barrier-free access

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Publication number: CN102509364B
Application number: CN201110288822.0A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 张忠义
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2011-08-29
Filing date: 2011-08-29
Publication date: 2020-09-22
Anticipated expiration: 2031-08-29
Also published as: CN102509364A; CN111899355B; CN111899355A

Abstract

The system and the method for paying the automobile fee can realize the binding of a parking lot, an expressway and the like with a registered account number of a specific payer in a third party based on a license plate recognition technology and a wireless internet technology, avoid on-site payment, further realize the barrier-free access of the automobile in the parking lot, the expressway and other import and export and improve the passing efficiency of the automobile. By the invention, the payment of the fee is advanced from the export to the import-export period, and the payment is changed from a time point to a time period. Although the final payment is still at the exit, the final payment is now only an electronic signal, the time of which is very short. The method has important significance for reducing outlet congestion and realizing barrier-free access of automobiles.

Description

Automobile fee payment system and method capable of barrier-free access

Technical Field

The invention relates to an internet payment technology.

Background

The payment of the automobile fee relates to parking lots, expressways and the like, and has the common characteristic that an import and an export exist, the automobile needs to be registered with a 'card taking' at the import, and needs to pay by a 'card swiping' at the export. In the existing car fare payment system, a 'card' is a very important technical means. In the present invention, the term "card" is an obstacle to the entrance and exit of the automobile. By unobstructed access, it is meant that the "card pick-up" and "card swipe" operations are disabled at the entrance and exit.

In general, "cards" can be classified as "secondary cards" and "non-secondary cards," secondary cards "being valid next time, non-secondary cards" being valid this month or year. The import congestion is caused by the fact that a lot of users need to take cards and use secondary cards at the import. The user needs to stop the vehicle for 'card swiping' in the exit, namely 'secondary card' and 'non-secondary card', so that the exit congestion is more frequent. At the exit, parking the car "swipes" always takes a certain time, so that under the condition that the traffic has a peak value and no "non-secondary card" users exist, and a large number of "secondary card" users need to pay on site, if a plurality of cars need to leave the exit at the same time, the cars are always jammed.

In the prior art mode, the entrance and exit congestion is reduced, a card mode is replaced, and the license plate recognition technology or the radio frequency technology and the like can be adopted. The functions of registering vehicles at the entrance and settling accounts at the exit can be realized by adopting the license plate recognition technology and the radio frequency technology. However, in the payment link after settlement, the wireless radio frequency device and the credit card reading device can be bound with the payment account number of a specific payer, so that off-site payment is realized. For the license plate recognition, because of no interaction function with the automobile, the account binding information of a specific payer cannot be acquired, and the off-site payment cannot be realized, so that the cash payment link of the automobile at an outlet cannot be omitted. Thus, exit congestion still exists. On the premise of establishing a database in advance and having a user list, the license plate recognition is applied to replace a card, so that users in the user list can be released, and users outside the user list are forbidden. When the number of users outside the user list is far greater than the number of users in the user list, the way of distinguishing the users inside and outside the user list will cause a large number of users to be prohibited by the system, which is obviously not feasible.

The wireless radio frequency device is used for being additionally provided with a credit card reading device to realize the binding with the payment account number of a specific payer, and the payer is required to have a credit card. For each internet account registered at a particular website, it is unreadable by such devices, which limits the scope of applications for such devices and technologies.

In conclusion, the card can be replaced to realize the automobile barrier-free access with license plate recognition, wireless radio frequency technology and the like. In the technology, the license plate recognition is used for replacing a card to realize barrier-free access of the automobile, wireless interaction with the automobile must be solved, binding with a payment account number of a specific payer is realized, and the automobile is prevented from carrying out on-site payment at an outlet.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention provides a novel automobile expense payment system and a novel automobile expense payment method, which can realize the binding of a parking lot, an expressway and the like with a registered account number of a specific payer in a third party based on a license plate recognition technology and a wireless internet technology, avoid on-site payment, further realize the barrier-free access of an automobile in the parking lot, the expressway and the like, and improve the passing efficiency of the automobile.

The car fee payment system of the invention includes:

the system comprises a card taking device, an inlet speed reducing device, a ground sensor, an inlet camera, an inlet barrier gate, a control computer, an outlet speed reducing device, a ground sensor, an outlet camera, a card swiping device, an outlet barrier gate, a mobile phone and a server, wherein the card taking device, the speed reducing device, the ground sensor, the camera, the barrier gate, the card swiping device and other equipment play a role under the control of the control computer, are used for charging a car owner in a parking lot, a highway and the like, and are also responsible for exchanging information with the server at regular time; the mobile phone is a program which can be operated on the smart phone and is provided by a third party, the operation of the program firstly requires that a holder of the mobile phone, namely a car owner, binds a license plate of the car with a registered account number of the car owner in the third party, and then the program is constantly compared with the server for car information during the operation of the program; the server is a service program established by a third party on the Internet and is used for carrying out fund transfer service on the vehicle owner, the parking lot, the highway and the like;

the method for realizing fee payment is as follows:

1. the automobile is decelerated through an inlet deceleration device, a ground sensor is triggered, a computer is controlled to identify the license plate of the automobile through an inlet camera and collect inlet information, the automobile with failed license plate identification needs to enter through a card taking device, and after the license plate is identified or the card is taken, an inlet barrier is opened, and the automobile enters;

2. for the vehicles with successfully recognized license plates, the control computer uploads the license plates and the incoming information to the server, and the server updates the vehicle information table containing the license plates and the incoming information in real time;

3. after the mobile phone program is started by the vehicle owner, if the vehicle license plate bound with the vehicle owner registration account number is in the real-time vehicle information table of the server, the vehicle owner is informed, and the vehicle owner decides whether to carry out fee deduction authorization according to the vehicle license plate, and the fee deduction authorization feeds back the program operated on the mobile phone to the server;

4. in the information exchange process of the control computer and the server, the control computer obtains the fee deduction authorization of the vehicle owner in real time;

5. when the automobile leaves, the automobile is decelerated through the exit deceleration device, the ground sense is triggered, the computer is controlled to recognize the license plate of the automobile through the exit camera, and information is acquired;

6. for the car without license plate, directly switching to the manual charging link, and carrying out on-site card swiping charging;

7. for the vehicle with the license plate, the control computer can discriminate whether the vehicle needs on-site payment by comparing with the fee deduction authorization obtained from the server, and for the vehicle without the fee deduction authorization, the control computer is shifted to a manual charging link to charge on site according to the incoming information and the outgoing information, otherwise, the control computer directly uploads the incoming information, the outgoing information and the fee deduction to the server in real time, and automatic fee deduction is realized from the registered account number of the vehicle owner in a third party through the server;

8. the related fee deduction information is also obtained by the program running on the mobile phone through the timing information exchange with the server immediately;

9. the exit barrier is opened, and the automobile drives away.

As described above in detail with reference to the drawings,

1. the entrance information refers to entrance time, entrance geographical position identification and the like;

2. the outgoing information indicates the time of the day, the geographic location of the exit, etc.

In the method for realizing the payment, the vehicle owner can not start the mobile phone program, and the unauthorized fee deduction is considered in the server, the parking lot and the highway control computer.

In the invention, the license plate identification is a key technology, an automobile can be uniquely identified through identification, and the automobile can be used for replacing a card through identification so as to realize barrier-free access of the automobile. The license plate is regulated differently in various countries, but the recognition technology tends to be mature, and the license plate recognition method can be applied to the invention. The applicant of the present invention proposes an example of a license plate recognition technology for implementing the present invention, in terms of an image quintuple simplification method (patent 200910104557.9) and a license plate positioning method based on a ternary image (patent application No. 201010623754.4) proposed by the applicant of the present invention for a chinese license plate.

Wrong license plate recognition can cause the uploaded license plate to be wrong, and the automobile information table which is stored on the server and is related to the license plate is wrong. However, the license plate recognition result may be wrong due to the dirty license plate or the influence of complex illumination. Therefore, manual error correction is also necessary when the license plate recognition technology is applied.

In terms of timeliness of license plate recognition, too strong timeliness is not needed for recognizing images of imported automobiles. Basically, the number plate recognition can be realized on the millisecond level by most of the number plate recognition in the existing number plate recognition technology, so that the imported automobile image can be recognized for a long time, and a plurality of continuous images with slightly different shooting angles can be obtained for the same automobile for recognition. This is beneficial to improving the accuracy of license plate recognition. For the identification of the exit automobile image, because the exit automobile image identification result is available, the exit automobile image identification result can be compared with the entry automobile image identification result, so that the exit automobile image identification is more favorably realized.

Although the vehicle license plate recognition is of great significance in the invention, the technical key in the invention is not the vehicle license plate recognition, but the vehicle license plate recognition

1. And a third-party server is established, and the server can receive the registration of the mobile phone by the vehicle owner and allow the vehicle owner to bind the mobile phone with the license plate.

2. And (4) allowing the license plate and the incoming information to be uploaded to a server in a parking lot, a highway and the like, and requesting the owner to authorize and automatically deduct fees so as to reduce the exit jam.

3. After the car owner starts the mobile phone program, the mobile phone can communicate with the server in real time based on the internet, so that the car owner can know fee deduction authorization requests of a parking lot and a highway in real time.

4. The fee deduction authorization request can be obtained as long as the owner starts the mobile phone program before arriving at the exit.

5. If the owner confirms the fee deduction authorization through the mobile phone, the parking lot and the highway can be automatically distinguished, so that the purpose of reducing outlet congestion by automatic fee deduction is achieved, and barrier-free access is realized.

Thus, the present invention is not limited to license plate recognition in terms of obtaining a license plate. The present invention provides an example of license plate recognition to illustrate that the present invention can be implemented. Of course, license plate identification also means easier implementation because no additional equipment is required compared to wireless radio frequency technology.

In the invention, the account number is an electronic payment mode with a prepaid fund balance opened by the owner or the holder of the mobile phone in a third party, and meanwhile, parking lots, expressways and the like also have an electronic fund transfer relationship with the third party, so that the fund transfer of the owner or the holder of the mobile phone can be realized. The problem here is that the transfer of funds must be secure, which is based on the fact that the programs run on the handset must have a secure registration and authentication mechanism. Therefore, the security of the registration and authentication of the mobile phone must be considered to implement the present invention, otherwise the present invention is not feasible because of the risk of fund transfer.

The applicant of the present invention has already proposed a patent application "method for user to register and authenticate through mobile phone on internet" for security of mobile phone registration and authentication (patent application No. 201110236464.9), which solves the security problem of third party to realize mobile phone registration and authentication. In "method for user registration and identity verification through mobile phone over internet", the applicant particularly points out: the user password generated by the server when the user registers is sent to the user through the mobile phone short message, the password adopted by the mobile phone program when the server identity is verified is the encryption form of the user password, meanwhile, the password encryption can be primary encryption or secondary encryption, and the password security of the secondary encryption is stronger than that of the primary encryption. Therefore, even if a hacker intercepts the mobile phone program and exchanges data with the server, the original code of the user password cannot be obtained. The hacker can only restore the original code of the user password by means of decryption. The user server transmits the user password to the user in a short message mode without inputting by the user, so that the length of the password and the complexity of characters can be improved, the password cracking difficulty is increased, and the password is almost impossible to crack.

In the present invention, a mobile phone generally refers to a mobile communication device having an internet connection function. Since the mobile communication device itself is still in a fast development period, the CPU processing capability, memory, and operating system of the mobile communication device will change continuously, which means that the security authentication mechanism of the mobile communication device cannot be fixed. Therefore, with the development of mobile communication technology, the registration and authentication methods of mobile communication devices are also changed. The invention relates to the registration and authentication problem, which will eventually comply with the requirements of the third party, and the core of the invention is to ensure the safety of the user fund transfer.

The invention has the beneficial effects that:

firstly, a card is replaced by license plate recognition, and the binding of a mobile phone and a license plate is combined, so that on-site payment can be avoided, the barrier-free access of automobiles to parking lots, highways and the like can be realized, and the access efficiency of automobiles can be improved. The invention provides another barrier-free automobile payment method realized by license plate recognition besides the radio frequency technology, and realizes a new non-contact payment in a simpler method. As the applicant of the present invention has pointed out in the above background art: regardless of parking lots and highways, automobiles need to be registered in an entrance by taking cards, and pay by swiping the cards in an exit. In the existing car fare payment system, a 'card' is a very important technical means. In the present invention, the term "card" is an obstacle to the entrance and exit of the automobile. The invention can get the card at the entrance and swipe the card at the exit, to realize the simple non-contact payment.

Secondly, by the invention, the payment of the fee is advanced from the export to the import and export, and the payment is changed from a time point to a time period. Although the final payment is still at the exit, the final payment is now only an electronic signal, the time of which is very short. The method has important significance for reducing outlet congestion and realizing barrier-free access of automobiles.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a view of the components of the car fare payment system according to the present invention.

In the figure, 1 card taking device, 2 inlet speed reducer and ground sensor, 3 inlet camera, 4 inlet barrier gate, 5 outlet speed reducer and ground sensor, 6 outlet camera, 7 card swiping device, 8 outlet barrier gate, 9 mobile phone and 10 server.

Detailed Description

The invention provides a novel automobile expense payment system and a method. The method of the invention realizes the barrier-free access of the automobile in the parking lot and the expressway, and improves the access efficiency of the automobile.

Taking a parking lot as an example, one specific implementation mode is as follows:

1. the car owner drives into the parking lot, stops the car in the parking lot, then leaves the parking lot, and so on, the car owner does not need to carry out any operation yet. However, the parking lot performs license plate recognition under the control of the control computer, and the license plate is uploaded to the server.

2. The owner of the vehicle will naturally think of the payment problem during parking or before preparing to drive the vehicle out of the parking lot. Therefore, the car owner starts the mobile phone program, and the mobile phone program needs to be downloaded and installed in advance. The vehicle owner binds the license plate according to the program requirement, and then the program is automatically connected with the server. And if the license plate bound by the vehicle owner is consistent with the license plate uploaded to the server in the parking lot, the mobile phone program acquires an authorization request of the parking lot from the server, displays the authorization request on a mobile phone screen, and informs the vehicle owner whether to need authorization or not in modes of sound, vibration and the like. Meanwhile, the control computer of the parking lot exchanges data with the server at all times. Once the owner authorizes, the corresponding authorization instruction can be immediately known by the control computer of the parking lot.

3. When the car owner drives away from the parking lot, the parking lot control computer can calculate related parking cost due to authorization, the cost is automatically deducted from the car owner binding account number through the server, and the exit barrier is opened to allow the car to run out without barriers. Meanwhile, the parking lot control computer uploads information such as the general situation of the parking lot, the parking starting time, the parking ending time, the parking cost and the like related to the parking to the server. The owner's mobile phone program can acquire the information in real time in the process of regularly exchanging the information with the server. Therefore, the owner can close the mobile phone program.

4. If the car owner does not start the mobile phone program in the whole parking process or the balance of the car owner binding account is insufficient, the parking payment is reduced to the manual site payment.

The core idea of the invention is as follows: parking lot management equipment such as a parking lot computer control ground sense and speed reduction device, a camera and a barrier gate obtains parking information of an automobile in a parking lot, a mobile phone is used for on-line authorization, the parking lot computer, the mobile phone and a server work cooperatively under the connection of the internet, single-time payment which is carried out after parking is finished is extended to a parking period from the beginning of parking to the end of parking, parking payment operation can be carried out in a longer time range more efficiently, the automobile is ensured to pass in and out of the parking lot without obstacles, and the management efficiency of the parking lot is greatly improved.

Although there may be a license plate recognition method and a mobile phone registration and authentication mechanism different from the applicant of the present invention, this is not essential. Therefore, the system and the method for managing the parking lot simply change the license plate recognition mechanism, the mobile phone registration mechanism and the identity verification mechanism to form infringement to the invention.

On the other hand, in the present embodiment, a license plate recognition result cannot be obtained for an automobile in which a license plate is not installed or used as specified. Parking management and charging for such vehicles can be achieved by a system alarm to inform parking lot managers to go to manual processing, or return to a card taking and card swiping mode. The proportion of the total number of such cars to the total number of car parks cannot be too great, which does not affect the proper implementation of the invention. Therefore, from another point of view, it is also possible in the present invention not to use a card taking and swiping device. However, it is infringed that the invention can be practiced without the use of card-taking and swiping devices alone, and with the same other concepts.

Claims

1. The accessible car expense payment method of business turn over, apply to accessible car expense payment system, the system includes: the system comprises a card taking device, an inlet speed reducing device, a ground sensor, an inlet camera, an inlet barrier gate, a control computer, an outlet speed reducing device, a ground sensor, an outlet camera, a card swiping device, an outlet barrier gate, a mobile phone and a server; the method comprises the following steps:

(1) the automobile is decelerated through an inlet deceleration device, a ground sensor is triggered, a computer is controlled to identify the license plate of the automobile through an inlet camera and collect the incoming information, the automobile with failed license plate identification needs to enter through a card taking device, and after the license plate is identified or the card is taken, an inlet barrier is opened, and the automobile enters;

(2) for the vehicles with successfully recognized license plates, the control computer uploads the license plates and the incoming information to the server, and the server updates the vehicle information table containing the license plates and the incoming information in real time;

(3) after the mobile phone program is started by the vehicle owner, if the vehicle license plate bound with the vehicle owner registration account number is in the real-time vehicle information table of the server, the vehicle owner is informed, and the vehicle owner determines whether fee deduction authorization is carried out or not according to the fee deduction authorization, wherein the fee deduction authorization feeds back the program operated on the mobile phone to the server;

(4) in the information exchange process of the control computer and the server, the control computer can obtain the fee deduction authorization of the vehicle owner in real time;

(5) when the automobile leaves, the automobile is decelerated through the exit deceleration device, the ground sense is triggered, the computer is controlled to recognize the license plate of the automobile through the exit camera, and information is acquired;

(6) directly switching to a manual charging link for identifying the automobile without the license plate, and carrying out on-site card swiping charging;

(7) for the vehicle with the license plate, the control computer can discriminate whether the vehicle needs on-site payment by comparing with the fee deduction authorization obtained from the server, and for the vehicle without the fee deduction authorization, the control computer is shifted to a manual charging link to charge on site according to the incoming information and the outgoing information, otherwise, the control computer directly uploads the incoming information, the outgoing information and the fee deduction to the server in real time, and automatic fee deduction is realized from the registered account number of the vehicle owner in a third party through the server;

(8) the related fee deduction information is also immediately obtained by the program running on the mobile phone through the timing information exchange with the server;

(9) the exit barrier is opened, and the automobile is driven away;

the mobile phone program is provided by a third party, the mobile phone program is operated by firstly requiring a holder of the mobile phone, namely a car owner, to bind the license plate of the car with the account number of the car owner in the third party, and then the mobile phone program is constantly compared with the server for car information during the operation of the mobile phone program.

2. The method for payment of fee for barrier-free vehicle as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

(1) the entrance information refers to entrance time and an entrance geographical position identification;

(2) the information output indicates the time of the exit and the exit geographical position identification.