DE29603451U1 - Ticket machine with electronic timetable - Google Patents

Description

Company HELICOM Development Company for Telecommunications and Media Technology mbH, An der alten Ziegelei, 48157 Münster

"Ticket machine with electronic timetable"

The innovation concerns an arrangement according to the preamble of claim 1.

Such arrangements are known as ticket machines from the

Area of inner-city or regional bus or rail connections known. A visual display, for example in the form of a printed list, lists a number of destinations with each destination being assigned a specific price, with several destinations in turn being linked to a common

price group. After selecting the destination, the fare to be paid is shown on the optical display.

The disadvantage of the well-known ticket machines is that

Apart from the price information, no further information about the destination is provided, so that the traveller, after initially queuing in front of the ticket machine, may have to queue a second time to receive information about the travel times.

The innovation is based on the task of improving a generic arrangement so that it can also provide information about the departure and arrival times for the desired destination.

This problem underlying the innovation is solved by an arrangement having the features of claim 1.

In other words, the innovation proposes an electric

mechanical memory either in the ticket machine

or externally provided, in any case to be assigned to the ticket machine, so that after entering the desired destination the user not only receives information about the fare to be paid, but also information about the next connection leading to the desired destination

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Simplified user guidance can be made possible by designing the optical display as an input device at the same time, namely in the form of a touch screen, so that

a large number of input keys can be dispensed with and instead the touch screen creates touch-sensitive key areas that have a changing function, whereby this function can be shown on the display area and is therefore immediately apparent to the user

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A real-time clock can be provided advantageously so that the information on the connection to the destination always only takes into account the next or a few subsequent connections.

viewed and displayed. In this way, the access time to the memory can be shortened, so that when several ticket machines are connected to a common memory, the system's reaction times that are visible to the user can be shortened. In addition,

By limiting the information provided to the user in this way, the clarity for the user is increased. Finally, by reducing the information output to the most frequently used and urgent information in this way, the space required for the information

information display is significantly reduced. This can be used, for example, to not only display the information visually, but also to print it out, e.g. on the ticket issued by the ticket machine.

In addition to the information mentioned above, further information can be provided, e.g. at train stations, information about the departure platform or whether it is a direct connection or a transfer connection.

In addition to the existing ticket information, which is limited to the fare for regional or local connections, it can be advantageously provided that the memory contains information about connections to all

stops within a state. In this way, train tickets for journeys across the state in question can be purchased and the necessary travel information can be obtained at the same time. The tickets themselves can be electronically readable, e.g. by means of a barcode print, so that

the tickets can contain a lot of information in a very small space. For example, the tickets can contain the entire journey route with expected departure and arrival times, including the necessary transfer stations, in an electronically readable format.

In particular, when designing such an electronically readable ticket in the form of a chip card, it can be provided that this chip card can be used for an electronic billing system within the vehicle, for example at Zü

for the use of televisions, telephones, food vending machines etc.

Advantageously, an electronic reading device can be provided in the vehicle, for example a railway carriage, which can evaluate the information contained on the ticket. These reading devices provided in the vehicles can be effectively connected to a memory for data transmission, so that these devices contained in the vehicle always have up-to-date information about changes in the timetable, for example.

due to delays. The user can therefore

insert their ticket into the reader in the vehicle and contain information that, for example, if their vehicle is delayed, a different route than the one originally planned would be advantageous.
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Finally, the ticket machine can include an electronic circuit that enables the reservation of seats. A data connection between the ticket machine and the vehicle, e.g. a railway carriage, can be established immediately after the reservation has been made on the ticket machine.

The ticket machine in the vehicle itself displays the occupancy of the seats, so that the current status of the seat reservation can be displayed at any time.

Claims (9)

HABBEL &&EEgr;&Agr;&Bgr;&Bgr;&Egr;&Ggr;'*··' ""'-aiPi"-^. h.-q. habbel PATENT ATTORNEYS DIPL.-INQ. LUTZ HABBEL , , _&Lgr; EUROPEAN PATENT ATTORNEYS PO Box 3429 ♦ 48019 Münster DIPL.-QEOQR. PETER HABBEL TELEPHONE (0251) 535 780 ♦ FAX (0251) 531 OUR FILES; angebcnj H176/18710 1 u/Sc Münster 23 February 1996 Company HELICOM Development Company for Telecommunications and Media Technology mbH, An der alten Ziegelei 28, 48157 Münster "Ticket machine with electronic timetable" Protection claims: 1. Arrangement for issuing tickets, with input devices for entering the destination, and with a visual display, wherein these parts of the arrangement accessible to a user are referred to as a "ticket machine", and with a memory which contains fare information for all destinations, characterized by a memory which contains the information of a timetable in the form of departure time and arrival time, where the departure time of the stop closest to the ticket machine and the arrival time 4M K^JslijNf NQRaIsN 11 *1>-48151 MÜNSTER · · ···· · * are stored in memory at the destination. 2. Arrangement according to claim 1, characterized in that the optical display is designed as a touch screen, which enables the input of information. 3. Arrangement according to claim 1 or 2, characterized by an electronic circuit which interacts with a clock and, starting from the current time, calculates the next and, if necessary, subsequent time. Further travel options to the destination on the optical display. 4. Arrangement according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the memory contains information about the connections to all the stops within a State includes. 5. Arrangement according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the ticket machine comprises a printer and an electronic circuit which The information read from the memory is transmitted to the printer. 6. Arrangement according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the tickets contain electronically readable information. 7. Arrangement according to claim 6, characterized in that the tickets are designed as chip cards. 8. Arrangement according to one of the preceding claims, characterized by a data connection to a display device within a carriage in the vehicle for which the ticket machine issues a ticket, the ticket machine having means for booking specific seats seats and the display device is designed to display reserved seats. 9. Arrangement according to claim 6 or 7, characterized in that in the vehicle for which the ticket machine issues a ticket, an electronic reading device is arranged, to which a memory is assigned which contains current information about the journey booked with the ticket, wherein the reading device is assigned a display device which is used for
Display updated information.