CN204031367U - Payable Set Top Box - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model provides a kind of payable Set Top Box, comprises in this Set Top Box: POS unit; The first communication unit coupled with this POS unit, this first communication unit is used for communicating with transaction processing server; The second communication unit coupled with this POS unit, this second communication unit is for receiving user's payment information; And the display unit be integrated on the shell of this Set Top Box, for display payment related information.

Description

Payable Set Top Box

Technical field

The utility model relates to a kind of Set Top Box, particularly relates to a kind of payable Set Top Box.

Background technology

Outside pay-us-you-go plan traditionally, Web bank's payment that having developed at present swipes the card pays and carry out with the mobile device of mobile phone and so on.Compared to traditional mode paid down, these two kinds of means of payment, without the need to carrying with buckets of cash, carry with short of cash embarrassment when it also avoid payment.

Conventional swiping the card pays the various POS terminal of use usually, such as, similar POS payment terminal of drawing OK a karaoke club and so on usually in the POS, convenience store of trade company's use etc.But this kind of POS terminal is not often of portable form, even the hand-hold type POS terminal used as some trade companies, be also that volume is comparatively large, be not easy to carry.And traditional POS terminal mostly needs user card punching to settle accounts.Consumer still must carry or remember that payment account is to carry out payment of swiping the card, and this also makes transaction payment be restricted.

Compared to payment of swiping the card, the payment way of mobile phone is used to seem convenient, also without the need to carrying Payment Card.But along with drawing attention gradually of network security problem, people are more and more worried to the safety of this " on the line " means of payment using mobile phone.

By contrast, swipe the card and pay the means of payment under this line and embody the advantage in fail safe.But in view of the above shortcoming discussed about existing POS terminal, constrain its development.

Visible light communication technology is a kind of novel radio optical communication technique grown up in LED technology.Communicated by the flicker of the high-frequency of LED light source, have light to represent 1, unglazedly represent 0, the transmission rate of visible light communication is up to gigabit per second.Visible light communication has quite abundant frequency spectrum resource, and this is that to comprise the general radio communication of microwave communication incomparable.Meanwhile, visible light communication can be suitable for any communication protocol, be applicable to any environment, and the erection of the equipment of visible light communication is convenient, with low cost flexibly, is applicable to extensive popularization and application.Visible light communication system utilizes visible ray to carry out short-range communication, and the directive property of visible ray is high, can not penetrate barrier, has higher fail safe than use communication.

Acoustic communication is the Novel Communication technology with voice signal transmission of information.Such as, encoded to data by unifrequency voice signal, then play these unifrequency sound, recipient, after receiving sound, identifies frequency, then decodes data according to frequency.

Along with the development of technology, the multimedia function of mobile terminal has been that standard is equipped with, and such as a lot of mobile terminal all has photoflash lamp or loud speaker.Therefore, if it will be extremely easily that the visible light communication of mobile terminal or acoustic communication can be utilized to realize transaction payment.

Utility model content

In order to overcome above-mentioned defect, the utility model aims to provide a kind of payable Set Top Box.

According to one side of the present utility model, provide a kind of payable Set Top Box, comprise in this Set Top Box: POS unit; The first communication unit coupled with this POS unit, this first communication unit is used for communicating with transaction processing server; The second communication unit coupled with this POS unit, this second communication unit is for receiving user's payment information; And the display unit be integrated on the shell of this Set Top Box, for display payment related information.

In one example, this second communication unit is optical receiver, this user's payment information that this optical receiver is sent by visible ray for receiving user.

In one example, this optical receiver comprises optical-electrical converter for light signal being converted to the level signal representing this user's payment information, wherein, the shell of this Set Top Box has window to expose this optical-electrical converter.

In one example, this optical-electrical converter comprises the one in laser diode, photodiode and phototriode.

In one example, this optical receiver also comprises decoder, and this decoder is used for this level signal being decoded as the digital signal representing this user's payment information.

In one example, this optical receiver also comprises decipher, and it is this user's payment information that this decipher is used for the deciphering of this digital signal.

In one example, this second communication unit is acoustic receiver, this user's payment information that this acoustic receiver is sent by sound wave for receiving user.

In one example, this acoustic receiver comprises decoder, and this decoder is used for acoustic signals being decoded as the digital signal representing this user's payment information.

In one example, this acoustic receiver also comprises decipher, and it is this user's payment information that this decoder is used for the deciphering of this digital signal.In one example, this first communication unit can comprise any one in the following: GPRS module, TD-SCDMA module, W-CDMA module, E-UTRA module, UMB module, IEEE802.11 module, IEEE802.16 module, IEEE802.20 module, satellite communication module, bluetooth module, Zigbee module, cable interface, telephone line interface, optical fiber interface and CATV cable interface.

According to payable Set Top Box of the present utility model, be integrated with POS unit and can by the communication unit of light and sound wave Signal reception user payment information, volume compact, is easy to carry, and thus achieves miniaturization and the portability of POS.In this way, user uses this payable Set Top Box can perform comparatively safe " under line " payment with card easily.

Accompanying drawing explanation

After the detailed description of reading embodiment of the present disclosure in conjunction with the following drawings, more can understand above-mentioned feature and advantage of the present utility model better.

Fig. 1 shows the structural representation of conventional set-top box;

Fig. 2 shows the block diagram of the internal structure of the payable Set Top Box according to one side of the present utility model;

Fig. 3 a shows the block diagram coordinating the payment terminal used according to the payable Set Top Box of the first embodiment of the present utility model;

Fig. 3 b shows the block diagram of the optical receiver of the payable Set Top Box according to the first embodiment of the present utility model;

Fig. 4 a shows the block diagram coordinating the payment terminal used according to the payable Set Top Box of the second embodiment of the present utility model; And

Fig. 4 b shows the block diagram of the acoustic receiver of the payable Set Top Box according to the second embodiment of the present utility model.

For clarity sake, the brief description of Reference numeral is below provided:

100: Set Top Box

102: set top box main chip

104: modulator-demodulator

106: memory

200: payable Set Top Box

202:POS unit

204: the first communication units

206: second communication unit

208: display controller

210: display unit

300,300a, 300b: payment terminal

400: transaction processing server

302a, 302b: encryption equipment

304a, 304b: encoder

306a: optical transmitting set

306b: sonic generator

206a: optical receiver

2061a: optical-electrical converter

2062a: decoder

2063a: decipher

206b: acoustic receiver

2061b: decoder

2062b: decipher

Embodiment

Below in conjunction with the drawings and specific embodiments, the utility model is described in detail.Note, the aspects described below in conjunction with the drawings and specific embodiments is only exemplary, and should not be understood to carry out any restriction to protection range of the present utility model.

Fig. 1 shows the general structured flowchart of conventional set-top box 100.As shown in Figure 1, Set Top Box 100 roughly comprises set top box main chip 102, modulator-demodulator (MODEM) 104 and memory 106.

Master chip 102 accessible site has CPU, decoder, demodulation multiplexer, graphic process unit and video-audio processor etc. assembly.The flag information that master chip 102 can transmit according to transport stream carries out demultiplexing to the transport stream received, and then carries out descrambling to program stream, and the transport stream after descrambling is decoded, and is reduced into AV signal and exports.The effect of modulator-demodulator 104 is the modulated digital signal demodulation transmitted to be reduced into transport stream.The difference of modulator-demodulator 104 type just constitutes different top box of digital machines, such as the satellite set top box (DVB-S) of QPSK demodulation, the wired digital set-top box (DVB-C) for QAM demodulation and the terrestrial transmission top box of digital machine (DVB-T) for OFDM demodulation etc.In addition, memory 104 can the systems soft ware of memory machine top box, drive software, application program and some user profile etc.

Fig. 2 shows the schematic diagram of the internal structure according to the utility model payable Set Top Box 200 on the one hand.This payable Set Top Box 200 can comprise the general components for conventional set-top box function in the Set Top Box 100 in Fig. 1.But in order in order to not desalinate content of the present utility model, these and the incoherent assembly of essence theme of the present utility model are removed in fig. 2, and assembly closely-related with content of the present utility model is only shown.

As shown in Figure 2, POS unit 202 can be comprised, the first communication unit 204 coupled with this POS unit 202 and second communication unit 206 in Set Top Box 200.POS unit 202 can perform the conventional POS function performed by POS terminal, such as, pay according to obtaining accounts information from user.Therefore, this POS unit 202 can be integrated with any POS chip with the POS terminal of payment function.In addition, POS unit herein can omit some miscellaneous functions, such as printing function etc., to simplify framework, thus realizes the miniaturization of equipment.

In the utility model, this POS unit 202 carries out communication to realize payment process by the first communication unit 202 with transaction processing server.According to concrete payment application, such as different bank cards, credit card, this transaction processing server can be Unionpay's server, bank server, the paying server with the payment mechanism paying qualification etc.

First communication unit 204 can perform the communication with transaction processing server 400 by various cordless communication network.Such as, cordless communication network here can be such as GPRS, CDMA, TDMA, FDMA, OFDMA, SC-FDMA and other networks.Cdma network can realize such as radiotechnics such as universal terrestrial radio electricity access (UTRA), cdma2000 etc.UTRA comprises wideband CDMA (W-CDMA) and other CDMA variants.In addition, cdma2000 contains IS-2000, IS-95 and IS-856 standard.TDMA network can realize the radiotechnicss such as such as global system for mobile communications (GSM).OFDMA network can realize such as evolved UTRA (E-UTRA), Ultra-Mobile Broadband (UMB), IEEE802.11 (Wi-Fi), IEEE802.16 (WiMAX), IEEE802.20, deng and so on radiotechnics.Cordless communication network also can comprise satellite communication network via satellite.In addition, cordless communication network also can comprise short-range communication agreement, such as bluetooth, Zigbee etc.Such as, first the first communication unit 204 can pass through this short-range communication and other neighbouring portable sets, and such as mobile phone etc. connect, then carry out the communication with transaction processing server 400 via this mobile phone.Further, the first communication unit 204 can comprise wired communication interface, such as, and cable interface, telephone line interface, optical fiber interface and CATV cable interface, thus perform the communication with transaction processing server 400 by cable network.Typically, the first communication unit 204 can be any one in TD-SCDMA module, W-CDMA module, E-UTRA module, UMB module, IEEE802.11 module, IEEE802.16 module, IEEE802.20 module, satellite communication module, bluetooth module, Zigbee module, cable interface, telephone line interface, optical fiber interface and CATV cable interface.

Traditionally, the POS unit in POS obtains the payment card information such as card number by the mode of swiping the card.Current Payment Card mainly contains magnetic card or IC-card two kinds.In order to obtain card information, need in POS body to be provided with long and narrow draw-in groove with the use of " brush " card, or in order to obtain IC payment card information, in POS body, need the draw-in groove being provided with certain depth with " insertion " this IC Payment Card.No matter which kind of mode, be all not easy to the miniaturization of POS.

Correspondingly, according to one side of the present utility model, in Set Top Box 200, be provided with second communication unit 206 for reception user payment information.This user's payment information can be received from payment terminal 300.Such as, this user's payment information can comprise payment card account, such as bank card (such as debit card, credit card etc.) account, consumption card account etc.By directly account information being sent to second communication unit 206 by payment terminal 300 and then passing to POS unit 202, make it possible to no longer need to arrange the larger draw-in groove that takes up room, greatly can reduce the volume of POS terminal.

More preferably, user's payment information also can comprise Payment Card password, the bank card password be such as associated with bank card account number, consumption card password of being associated with accounts of consumption etc.Like this, also no longer need the keypad for inputting password, thus also can reduce the volume of POS terminal further.

Second communication unit 206 can be realize optical communication with payment terminal 300 to obtain the optical receiver of user's payment information, or also can be realize acoustic communication with payment terminal 300 to obtain the acoustic receiver of user's payment information.

In a first embodiment, second communication unit 206 is optical receivers.Correspondingly, payment terminal 300 can be the terminal equipment with optical communication ability.Here terminal equipment can be any suitable equipments with optical communication ability such as mobile phone, personal digital assistant (PDA), panel computer, computer (such as, notebook computer).

For the ease of understanding, first composition graphs 3a is introduced payment terminal 300a.Payment terminal 300a in Fig. 3 a can be an embodiment equipment with optical communication ability of payment terminal 300 in Fig. 2.

As shown in Figure 3 a, payment terminal 300a can comprise encryption equipment 302a, encoder 304a and optical transmitting set 306a.More preferably, consider the fail safe of user's payment information of transmission, first encryption equipment 302a can be encrypted the communication data that will transmit.Common cryptographic algorithm has DES, 3DES, IDEA etc.

Communication data after encryption is encoded via encoder 304a.Common coding can comprise nrz encoding, nrzi encoding, RZ step-by-step counting coding, NRZI reversion counting coding etc.Nrz encoding represents 1 with high level, and low level represents 0.Nrzi encoding is with the saltus step of the upset of signal and low and high level for representing a logic such as 1 (0), and signal low and high level remains unchanged and represents another logic such as 0 (1).RZ step-by-step counting coding is one group by raw information with n bit, is provided with between group the time interval, often the interior information representing n bit in this group signal with the number of pulse of group between two adjacent groups signal.Such as work as n=2, when being namely one group with two bits, represent 00,01,10 and 11 with 1,2,3 and 4 pulse respectively.NRZI reversion counting coding is also be one group by raw information with n bit, is provided with between group the time interval between two adjacent groups signal.Be different from RZ step-by-step counting coding, NRZI is the information representing n bit in this group signal in often organizing with high level to the reversion number of times of low level (or low level is to high level) respectively.Such as work as n=2, when being namely one group with two bits, represent 00,01,10 and 11 with 1,2,3 and 4 reversion number of times respectively.

After encoding to communication data, with not luminous, optical transmitting set 306a such as can represent that the coded signal received sends with the form of visible ray by low level by representing high level signal with luminescence.Thus, optical transmitting set 306a is by passing on significant signal with the luminescence of certain rule high frequency flicker.Optical transmitting set 306a can be light-emitting diode (LED) etc.

Fig. 4 a is the structure chart of the optical receiver 206a illustrated according to the first embodiment.This optical receiver 206a can be used as the second communication unit 206 of Fig. 2.As shown in fig. 4 a, this optical receiver 206a can comprise optical-electrical converter 2061a, decoder 2062a and decipher 2063a.

(such as, from the payment terminal) light signal received can be converted to digital signal by optical-electrical converter 2061a.Such as, for the high-frequency flicker that LED produces, there is light to represent high level, unglazedly represent low level, otherwise or, thus the visible light signal of reception can be converted to the signal of telecommunication.Optical-electrical converter 2061a can comprise such as laser diode, photodiode, phototriode etc.

Utilize the signal of telecommunication of photodiode or phototriode and the characteristic of light signal, will electric impulse signal be formed by opto-electronic conversion.Relative position due to transmitting terminal and receiving terminal in practice is different, and namely each payment terminal is transmitted into the light signal strength of receiving terminal is different, so its signal of telecommunication power is also different, so need to carry out commutating ratio comparatively to formed electric current.For photodiode, as the current value that passes through when diode higher than certain certain threshold value time, the voltage level values of output is adjusted to high level by optical-electrical converter; When the current value by photodiode is lower than a certain threshold value, the voltage level values of output is adjusted to low level by optical-electrical converter.The setting of this threshold value is set according to different environment by a Mathematical Modeling, and as time distant, threshold value may reduce; May relatively raise apart from threshold value time near.By above process, can level be adjusted in certain limit, ensure correct pulse shape with this, to ensure the accuracy of sampling as far as possible.This is well-known to those skilled in the art, does not repeat them here.

Obtaining representing with high level 1, low level represent 0 (otherwise or) electric impulse signal after, decoder 2062a can use the decoding algorithm corresponding with encoder 304a, such as, NRZ decoding, NRZI decoding, RZ step-by-step counting decoding, NRZI reversion meter decoding code etc., this digital signal is decoded, to be represented the digital signal of user's payment information accordingly.

This digital signal may carry out encryption, and therefore, decoder 2063a can use corresponding decipherment algorithm to be decrypted to obtain final user's payment information to this digital signal.

Especially, be in the first embodiment of optical receiver at second communication unit, the shell of Set Top Box can be provided with window to expose optical-electrical converter 2061a.Such as, this window can open the side of the shell in Set Top Box.

In a second embodiment, second communication unit 206 is acoustic receivers.Correspondingly, payment terminal 300 can be the terminal equipment with acoustic communication ability.Here terminal equipment can be any suitable equipments with optical communication ability such as mobile phone, personal digital assistant (PDA), panel computer, computer (such as, notebook computer).

For the ease of understanding, first composition graphs 3b is introduced payment terminal 300b.Payment terminal 300b in Fig. 3 b can be an embodiment equipment with acoustic communication ability of payment terminal 300 in Fig. 2.

As shown in Figure 3 b, payment terminal 300b can comprise encryption equipment 302b, encoder 304b and optical transmitting set 306b.More preferably, consider the fail safe of user's payment information of transmission, first encryption equipment 302b can be encrypted the communication data that will transmit.Common cryptographic algorithm has DES, 3DES, IDEA etc.

Communication data after encryption is encoded via encoder 304b.Encoder 304b can adopt various coding method to carry out acoustic coded to communication data.Such as, encoder 304b can encode to communication data with unifrequency acoustic signals, such as, numeral 0 corresponding first frequency (such as, sinusoidal sound wave 1500Hz), sinusoidal sound wave of numeral 1 corresponding second frequency (such as, 1600Hz) etc.After being encoded as acoustic signals, sonic generator 306b sends significant acoustic signals with the frequency of sound wave that rule changes.

Fig. 4 b is the structure chart of the acoustic receiver 206b illustrated according to the second embodiment.This acoustic receiver 206b can be used as the second communication unit 206 of Fig. 2.As shown in Figure 4 b, this sound wave sheet 206b can comprise decoder 2061a and decipher 2062a.

Decoder 2061a can identify the frequency of the acoustic signals received, and thus acoustic signals is decoded as the digital signal representing user's payment information.More preferably, this digital signal may be encrypted, and thus, decipher 2062a can be decrypted to obtain user's payment information to this digital signal.

Get back to Fig. 2, Set Top Box 200 also can comprise display unit 210, and this display unit 210 can be integrated on the shell of Set Top Box, for display payment related information.Correspondingly, display unit 210 is undertaken controlling and driving by display controller 208.

Use according to payable Set Top Box of the present utility model, can pay easily.Such as, when paying, payment terminal can be used (such as, mobile phone) with the form of light signal or acoustic signals directly by accounts information, such as account sends to payable Set Top Box, and performs payment flow by POS unit wherein by the first communication unit and transaction processing server 400.When needs input password, also directly with the form of light signal or acoustic signals, password can be sent to payable Set Top Box by payment terminal.

Can bind multiple Payment Cards in payment terminal, and user's payment information to the payable Set Top Box that specific Payment Card occurs as required pays.

According to payable Set Top Box of the present utility model, be integrated with POS unit and can by the communication unit of light and sound wave Signal reception user payment information, volume compact, is easy to carry, and thus achieves miniaturization and the portability of POS.In this way, user uses this payable Set Top Box can perform comparatively safe " under line " payment with card easily.

The various illustrative logic plates, module and the circuit that describe in conjunction with embodiment disclosed herein can realize with general processor, digital signal processor (DSP), application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) (ASIC), field programmable gate array (FPGA) or other programmable logic device, discrete door or transistor logic, discrete nextport hardware component NextPort or its any combination being designed to perform function described herein or perform.General processor can be microprocessor, but in alternative, and this processor can be the processor of any routine, controller, microcontroller or state machine.Processor can also be implemented as the combination of computing equipment, the combination of such as DSP and microprocessor, multi-microprocessor, with one or more microprocessor of DSP central cooperation or any other this type of configure.

Description before providing is to make any technical staff in this area all can put into practice various aspects described herein.But should be appreciated that, protection range of the present utility model should be as the criterion with claims, and should not be defined to concrete structure and the assembly of above explained orally embodiment.Those skilled in the art, in spirit and scope of the present utility model, can carry out various variation and amendment to each embodiment, and these variations and amendment also drop within protection range of the present utility model.

Claims (10)

1. a payable Set Top Box, is characterized in that, comprises in described Set Top Box:

POS unit;

The first communication unit coupled with described POS unit, described first communication unit is used for communicating with transaction processing server;

The second communication unit coupled with described POS unit, described second communication unit is for receiving user's payment information; And

Be integrated in the display unit on the shell of described Set Top Box, for display payment related information.

2. payable Set Top Box as claimed in claim 1, is characterized in that, described second communication unit is optical receiver, described user's payment information that described optical receiver is sent by visible ray for receiving user.

3. payable Set Top Box as claimed in claim 2, it is characterized in that, described optical receiver comprises optical-electrical converter for light signal being converted to the level signal representing described user's payment information, wherein, the shell of described Set Top Box has window to expose described optical-electrical converter.

4. payable Set Top Box as claimed in claim 3, is characterized in that, described optical-electrical converter comprises the one in laser diode, photodiode and phototriode.

5. payable Set Top Box as claimed in claim 3, is characterized in that, described optical receiver also comprises decoder, and described decoder is used for described level signal being decoded as the digital signal representing described user's payment information.

6. payable Set Top Box as claimed in claim 5, is characterized in that, described optical receiver also comprises decipher, and it is described user's payment information that described decipher is used for described digital signal deciphering.

7. payable Set Top Box as claimed in claim 1, is characterized in that, described second communication unit is acoustic receiver, described user's payment information that described acoustic receiver is sent by sound wave for receiving user.

8. payable Set Top Box as claimed in claim 7, is characterized in that, described acoustic receiver comprises decoder, and described decoder is used for acoustic signals being decoded as the digital signal representing described user's payment information.

9. payable Set Top Box as claimed in claim 8, is characterized in that, described acoustic receiver also comprises decipher, and it is described user's payment information that described decoder is used for described digital signal deciphering.

10. payable Set Top Box as claimed in claim 1, it is characterized in that, described first communication unit can comprise any one in the following: GPRS module, TD-SCDMA module, W-CDMA module, E-UTRA module, UMB module, IEEE802.11 module, IEEE802.16 module, IEEE802.20 module, satellite communication module, bluetooth module, Zigbee module, cable interface, telephone line interface, optical fiber interface and CATV cable interface.