JP2000353259A - Entrance/exit management system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an entrance/exit management system to be used mainly for the ticket examination system of a bicycle parking lot, a car parking lot, an amusement park, and a railroad station, the autolock system of a mansion or the like. SOLUTION: A gate opening and closing managing means is compared of an entrance time card reading device 1 set at an entrance 4 side outside a bicycle parking lot P for reading information capable of entrance recorded in a magnetic recording card K carried by a user himself or herself, an exit time card reading device 2 set at an exit 5 side in the bicycle parking lot P for reading information capable of exit recorded in the magnetic recording card K carried by the user himself or herself, and a card issuing device 3 equipped with a printing function for a rewrite card for operating printing for the reuse of the magnetic recording card K carried by the user himself or herself and the update of the recorded information contents. The gate opening and closing managing means adopts the two - dimensional code reading system readable in a non-contact state from all directions of the magnetic recording medium K.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

The present invention relates to a bicycle parking lot,
The present invention relates to an entrance / exit management system used for a parking lot, an amusement park, a ticket gate at a railway station, an automatic lock system for an apartment, and the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventional entry / exit management systems for users in a bicycle parking lot or the like include, for example, a coin management system for managing the entry / exit of users by inserting a necessary amount of money at the time of use, and a disposable having a prepaid function. Prepaid card management system that manages user entry and exit using a card-type magnetic recording medium, using a card-type magnetic recording medium with a rewritable and reusable card printing surface with a prepaid rewrite function There is a prepaid rewrite card management system for managing entry and exit of users, and the content of the system is gradually changing.

[0003]

In the above-mentioned conventional example, the coin management system is inconvenient because information such as when the bicycle was kept, who took the bicycle, and how long the bicycle was kept is unknown. In the above-described prepaid card management system, although the problem of the coin management system has been almost solved, the magnetic recording medium used for the prepaid card management system is about 200 yen, while the bicycle temporary storage fee is about 1 day. Because it was about 300 yen, it was extremely expensive and practically unusable as a recording medium for temporarily storing bicycles. Further, even when a magnetic recording medium of about 200 yen is used in a bicycle parking lot where the regular bicycle storage fee is about 2000 yen per month, the magnetic recording medium itself is still unsuitable because it is expensive. In order to deal with such a situation, a prepaid rewrite management system was developed next, and the problems that occurred in the coin management system and the prepaid card management system were solved.

[0004] However, in the prepaid rewrite card management system, a method of coping with busy times in the morning and evening in a bicycle parking lot, particularly, inserting a magnetic recording card into a card reader (card reader) in the morning hours,
The response time until the gate opens is very long, the work of inserting the magnetic recording card into the card reader (card reader) is troublesome, and the magnetic recording card is frequently sent to the card reader (card reader) a day. Unnecessary friction occurs in the card reader (card reader) because it is used in and out of the card reader, and it takes time and money to maintain the card reader, and new problems such as many failures of the card reader (card reader) occur. And the need to resolve them arose.

In view of the above, the present invention has been made in view of the above-described problems, and comprises a magnetic recording card formed of an inexpensive recording medium, and a gate for reading the magnetic recording card is opened. The time required for reading the magnetic recording card, that is, inserting the magnetic recording card into a card reader (card reader), is shortened, and the magnetic recording card is frequently taken in and out. Reader) can be prevented from generating unnecessary friction, and the time and cost required for maintenance can be minimized, and the failure of the card reader (card reader) can be almost eliminated.
It is an object of the present invention to provide an entrance / exit management system using a two-dimensional code rewrite card method.

[0006]

Therefore, according to the present invention, the present invention is applied to an entrance / exit management system used for a bicycle parking lot P, a parking lot, an amusement park, a ticket gate of a railway station, an automatic lock system of an apartment, and the like. Is a non-contact type and readable from all directions of the magnetic recording medium (K) carried by the user.
The above-described problem has been solved by providing a gate opening / closing management unit at the time of entrance / exit using a dimensional code reading method.

Further, the above-mentioned problem has been solved by enabling the magnetic recording medium (K) to be updated by a two-dimensional code rewritable rewritable card system.
The gate opening / closing management means includes an entry-time card reading device 1 installed on the entrance 4 side outside the bicycle parking lot P for reading information that can be entered, which is recorded on a magnetic recording card K carried by the user himself / herself, Exit card reader 2 installed at exit 5 in bicycle parking lot P for reading information that can be exited recorded on magnetic recording card K carried by the user himself / herself, and magnetic recording card carried by the user himself / herself K
Card issuance device 3 having a rewrite card printing function for printing for reusing a card and updating recorded information contents
The above-mentioned problem has been solved.

Further, the two-dimensional code is of a stack barcode type, a checkerboard type, a binary code type (BCD code) or the like, thereby solving the above-mentioned problem.

In the entrance / exit management system according to the present invention, when entering a bicycle parking lot P, a parking lot, an amusement park, a ticket gate at a railway station, an automatic lock system for an apartment, etc., a card at the time of entry as a gate opening / closing management means is read. In device 1, 2
The magnetic recording card K recorded with the dimensional code is read in a non-contact manner, and if this is a card storing recordable information, an entrance gate is opened to allow a user to enter. In addition, at the time of exit, the exit card reading device 2 as a gate opening / closing management means reads the magnetic recording card K recorded in a two-dimensional code in a non-contact manner, and stores the recordable information. If it is a card, the exit gate opens to allow the user to leave. Further, the card issuance device 3 having the rewrite card printing function performs printing for reusing the magnetic recording card K carried by the user himself and updates the recorded information content.

[0010]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. The entrance / exit management system according to the present invention is a non-contact type of a magnetic recording medium (K) carried by a user himself / herself in a bicycle parking lot P, a parking lot, an amusement park, a ticket gate of a railway station, an automatic lock system of an apartment, and the like. By two-dimensional code reading method that can read from all directions,
It has a gate opening / closing management unit when entering and exiting.

As shown in FIG. 1, the gate opening / closing management means includes, for example, a card reader at the time of entry (card reader) 1, a card reader at the time of exit (card reader) 2, and a card issuing device installed at a bicycle parking lot P or the like. And 3.

A card reader for entry (card reader) 1 is installed at the entrance side outside the bicycle parking lot P, and is a magnetic recording medium carried by the user, for example, information that can be entered and recorded on a magnetic recording card K. Is a device that reads the
The leaving card reader (card reader) 2 is a device that is installed at the exit side in the bicycle parking lot P, and reads information that can be exited recorded on the magnetic recording card K carried by the user himself. The card issuing device 3 is a device having a printing function for reusing the magnetic recording card K carried by the user and a printing function for a rewritable card for updating the recorded information content of the magnetic recording card K.

The magnetic recording medium (K) can be updated by a two-dimensional code rewritable write card system. As the two-dimensional code, for example, a code representing information by a combination of two symbols of a vertical axis direction and a horizontal axis direction is adopted. There is a checkerboard type (matrix type) that represents information with the arrangement pattern of the squares arranged in a matrix, a binary code type (BCD code), and the like. The entry card reader 1 and the exit card reader 2 read the contents of the two-dimensional code using a dedicated scanner, an exposure device, a system including a personal computer, or the like, and furthermore, read the two-dimensional code. A two-dimensional code reading mechanism for the magnetic recording card K that enables processing when code reading is impossible is adopted.

Further, the card reader for entry 1 and the card reader for exit 2 do not need to insert (put in and out) the magnetic recording card K in the devices 1 and 2, for example, to place the magnetic recording card K in a predetermined position. It is possible to read the so-called non-contact recording information, which only needs to be passed or held up.

As shown in FIG. 4, the checkerboard type (matrix type) as a two-dimensional code has various high-speed processes such as ultra-high-speed omnidirectional reading, space-saving multi-data representation, data rewriting and restoration, and the like. , A so-called quick response code (QR code) can be adopted. In this case, the size and inclination of the code are detected by arranging the position detection pattern 12 as a cutout symbol for detecting the position of the code at three vertices in the margin M area having a width of 4 cells or more in the vertical and horizontal directions. This symbol enables 360 ° omnidirectional reading and ultra-high speed reading. Further, timing patterns 13 for obtaining the center coordinates of each cell are arranged at two locations, that is, on the upper side and the lateral side across each position detection pattern 12, which may cause a code distortion or a cell pitch. This is for correcting the center coordinates of the data cell when an error occurs. Further, a data cell 14 is arranged at the center of the margin M area, and data is coded in this data cell 14 area. The input data is mainly binary-coded and converted into white / black cells. It is what is placed in the code.

The reading speed of the two-dimensional code reading mechanism is set to about 1 second or less in order to shorten the response time from reading of the magnetic recording card K to opening of the gate. In addition, 3 which is a characteristic of the two-dimensional code
The reading angle can be read from any angle of 360 ° by utilizing the reading point in the square determination of the point, reading by optical processing, and the like. In addition, non-contact reading at a distance of about 20 cm is possible, and reading is possible even if the magnetic recording card K itself is damaged by about 30%, thereby improving convenience in various applications. ing.

More specifically, as shown in FIG.
The two-dimensional code reading mechanism is capable of reading at a distance of about 20 cm and reading from all directions of 360 °, and has a two-dimensional code reading part with a reading speed of about 1 second or less.
A dimensional code reading device 6, a control device 7 having two-dimensional code reading control, magnetic data reading control, data control, and inter-device control; a magnetic data reading function;
A magnetic data reading device 8 provided with a two-dimensional code failure backup function. FIG.
As shown in (b), the card issuing device 3 having the two-dimensional code reading / writing function by the rewrite card method can read at a distance of 20 cm and read from all directions at 360 °, and the reading speed is about 1 A two-dimensional code reading device 9 provided with a sub-second two-dimensional code reading unit; a control device 10 having two-dimensional code reading control, magnetic data reading / writing control, data control, and inter-device control;・ Write function,
A magnetic data reading / writing device 11 is provided which has functions of reading old magnetic recording data and writing newly updated information to a magnetic portion and a printed portion on the surface of a card, and simultaneously updating two-dimensional code information. . As shown in FIG. 3, the card issuing device 3 issues an old magnetic recording card K, prints the magnetic recording card K, erases already stored magnetic recording data, and updates the recording data. A series of operations for inputting information and writing the magnetic portion and the print portion of the update recording data are performed based on sequence control in the central processing unit.

Next, an example of use of this embodiment will be described. For example, as shown in FIG. 1, when entering a bicycle parking lot P, a parking lot, an amusement park, a ticket gate of a railway station, an automatic lock system of an apartment, or the like, the entrance card reading device 1 of the gate opening / closing management means has a two-dimensional The magnetic recording card K on which predetermined information is recorded by the code is read in a non-contact state.
If the magnetic recording card K stores the recordable information, the entrance 4 gate is opened to allow the user to enter. On the other hand, at the time of exit, the exit card reader 2 of the gate opening / closing management means reads the magnetic recording card K on which predetermined information is recorded in a two-dimensional code in a non-contact state. If the magnetic recording card K stores recordable information, the exit 5 gate is opened to allow the user to leave. In addition, after leaving, the magnetic recording card K is inserted into the card issuing device 3 having the rewrite card printing function, so that the user can use the magnetic recording card K carried by himself / herself for printing and updating the contents of the recorded information. This has improved the convenience of using the card.

Although the entrance / exit management system according to the present embodiment is applicable to various gate systems, it can be applied to, for example, transportation, in particular, use of regular buses and tickets. . Further, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and all improvements, modifications, and the like within a range that can achieve the object of the present invention are included in the present invention.

[0020]

As described above, according to the present invention, in the entrance / exit management system used for a bicycle parking lot P, a parking lot, an amusement park, a ticket gate at a railway station, an automatic lock system for an apartment, etc. Portable magnetic recording medium (K)
Has a gate opening / closing management means at the time of entrance and exit by a non-contact type and two-dimensional code reading method capable of reading from all directions, so that predetermined information recorded on the magnetic recording medium (K) can be read smoothly and quickly. be able to. As a result, the response time from the reading of the magnetic recording medium (K) to the opening of the gate in the bicycle parking lot P or the like is reduced. Also, the labor of inserting the magnetic recording card K into the card reader and reading the recorded information can be saved. Further, in reading the magnetic recording medium (K) by the gate opening / closing management means, the reading can be performed from any angle of 360 °, and the magnetic recording information can be read from a further distant place.
Since a so-called non-contact type is adopted, operability and usability in the entrance / exit management system are extremely excellent.

On the other hand, the magnetic recording medium (K) can be updated by a two-dimensional code rewritable rewritable card system.
Can be changed and updated at any time.
As a result, for example, even when the bicycle parking period in the bicycle parking lot P or the like is extended by one month, the recording information of the magnetic recording medium (K) can be changed and updated easily and quickly without going through complicated procedures. Also, the updated information is transferred to a magnetic recording medium (K).
The magnetic information that was invisible to the user can be viewed whenever necessary.

Further, the gate opening / closing management means is a card reader at the time of entry installed on the entrance 4 side outside the bicycle parking lot P for reading the information which can be entered recorded on the magnetic recording card K carried by the user himself / herself. 1, a leaving card reading device 2 installed at the exit 5 side in the bicycle parking lot P for reading information that can be exited recorded on the magnetic recording card K carried by the user himself / herself, Since the card issuance device 3 is provided with a printing function for reusing the magnetic recording card K and a printing function for a rewritable card for updating the contents of the recorded information, the gate for reading the magnetic recording card K is opened. Response time up to As a result, the user can put the bicycle in and out smoothly, and the efficient use of the bicycle parking lot P has been realized.

In addition, according to the present invention, unnecessary friction generated in the card reader due to frequent insertion and removal of the magnetic recording card K is prevented, and time and cost required for maintenance are minimized. It is possible to provide an entrance / exit management system using a two-dimensional code rewritable card system that can almost eliminate the failure of the reader.

In addition, since the two-dimensional code is of a stack barcode type, a checkerboard type, a binary code type (BCD code) or the like, high-speed processing such as high-speed omnidirectional reading and high-speed data rewriting is possible. To

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIGS. 2A and 2B are block diagrams of a two-dimensional code reading / writing mechanism, wherein FIG. 2A is a two-dimensional code reading mechanism, and FIG.
3 shows a writing mechanism.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an operation procedure of the card issuing device.

FIG. 4 is a plan view showing contents of a matrix type two-dimensional code.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Card reader at the time of entrance 2 ... Card reader at the time of exit 3 ... Card issuing device 4 ... Inlet 5 ... Exit 6, 9 ... Two-dimensional code reading device 7, 10 ... Control device 8 ... Magnetic data reading device 11 ... Magnetic data Read / write device 12 Position detection pattern 13 Timing pattern 14 Data cell M Margin P Bicycle parking K Magnetic recording card

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. An entry / exit management system used for a bicycle parking lot, a parking lot, an amusement park, a ticket gate at a railway station, an automatic lock system for an apartment, etc. An entrance / exit management system characterized by having a gate opening / closing management means at the time of entrance / exit by a two-dimensional code reading system readable from a direction. 2. The entrance / exit management system according to claim 1, wherein the magnetic recording medium can be updated by a two-dimensional code rewritable rewritable card system. 3. The entrance / exit card reading device installed at the entrance side outside the bicycle parking area for reading information that can be entered, which is recorded on a magnetic recording card carried by the user, wherein the gate opening / closing management means includes: Exit card reader installed on the exit side of the bicycle parking lot to read the information that can be exited recorded on the magnetic recording card carried by the user, and to reuse the magnetic recording card carried by the user himself 3. The entrance / exit management system according to claim 1, further comprising a card issuing device having a rewrite card printing function for performing printing of the information and updating of the recorded information content. 4. The entrance / exit management system according to claim 1, wherein the two-dimensional code is a stack barcode type, a checkerboard type, a binary code type (BCD code), or the like.