JP3380773B2 - Automatic toll payment device - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an automatic fee settlement apparatus that is used in a facility that enters and exits such as a parking lot and is accompanied by fee settlement.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 15 shows payment of charges in a conventional flap type parking lot. When a vehicle crosses the flap in the parking space at the time of entry, the vehicle detector activates and the flap rises, the vehicle is fixed, and the parking space number is supplied to the fare adjustment machine in the parking lot. Parking fee calculation will start automatically.

At the time of entry, if the number of the parking space is entered in the charge adjustment machine in the parking lot, the parking charge is calculated and the amount is displayed. When that amount of cash is put into the fare adjustment machine, the flaps will drop and the vehicle will be able to participate. In this case, you cannot pay with a payment card such as a credit card. FIG. 16 shows a charge settlement for a conventional multi-storey parking lot.

When a car is put in the multi-storey parking tower under the guidance of the manager, a parking ticket comes out from the fare adjustment machine in the parking lot. The parking ticket records the entry time and the parking pallet number.
At the time of participation, the charge will be displayed if you put a parking ticket in the charge adjustment machine. If you put cash into the toll checkout machine, the pallet will be called up and the car will be able to participate. In this case, when paying a fee with a payment card such as a credit card, the manager is requested to perform the processing at another dedicated credit processing terminal. This work is performed by the administrator, and the processing time is long, which causes trouble to other customers.

FIG. 17 shows settlement of charges in a conventional bar-gate type parking lot. An entrance gate and an exit gate are installed separately, and when entering, take a parking ticket at the entrance gate position, and when paying with a payment card such as a credit card other than cash, ask the manager and process with another credit processing terminal To be done. This work is performed by the administrator, and the processing time is long, which causes trouble to other customers.

[0006]

As described above, in the past, payment by a credit card could not be made, or if it could be done, it was necessary to manually perform payment processing, which took time. There is also a method of automatically reading the credit card and making payment, but it takes time, for example, 3 to verify that the credit card is authentic.
It took about 0 seconds and the exit of the parking lot might be jammed.

[0007]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention is an automatic fee settlement apparatus for a facility that enters and exits and involves fee settlement, wherein invalid data and authentication data are stored in a settlement data storage unit,
These data are updated online or offline at appropriate times, the data of the payment card such as credit card, cash card, debit card, etc. is read by the payment card reading unit, and the read payment card data is the payment data storage unit. Data is verified by the authentication unit, and if it does not match any of the invalid data or matches any of the authentication data, it is determined to be passed, and if it is passed, the payment data is transmitted to the financial institution.

[0008] Also, if the applicant passes, it is possible to enter or exit as required.

[0009]

FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of the present invention.
This example is a case of a flap type parking lot, and moreover, a plurality of flap type parking lots CP1 to CPn are provided and each parking lot CPi
Parking spaces PS1 to PS for (i = 1, 2, ..., N)
m, and flaps PF1 to PFm are provided in the parking spaces PS1 to PSm, respectively. A payment card settlement machine PRi is provided in each parking lot CPi.
Central management device 11 is commonly used for each of these parking lots CPi.
Is provided, and each payment card settlement machine PRi makes a payment of the parking fee with the payment organization 12 via the central management device 11.

As shown in FIG. 2, each parking lot CPi can send and receive data to and from each other via the central management unit 11 and its modem 34 via the modem 413. Are capable of mutually transmitting and receiving data via the modem 35 and the modem 23, respectively. The invalid data portion 14 and the authentication data portion 15 in the payment data storage portion 13 of the parking lot store the invalid data 21 and the authentication data 22 in the settlement organization 12 in advance via the central management device 11.

The invalid data 21 is data indicating an invalid card such as a discarded card, a lost card, a stolen card, an expired card, etc., and is negative data for unspecified large number of authentications, that is, a valid card if it does not match this negative data. It is to recognize as. The authentication data 22 is authorization data for specific authentication such as a member of a parking lot, and is for validating the card if it matches the authentication data.

The car 16 is in the parking space P in the parking lot CPi.
When entering Sj (j = 1, 2, ..., M), the vehicle detector 4
The vehicle 16 is detected by 2 and the flap control unit 43 raises the flap PFj to fix the vehicle 16. The flap control unit 43 inputs the parking space number as the entry completion data to the processing control unit 402 via the interface unit 401. The processing control unit 402 acquires the entry time from the clock 403, and stores the parking space number and the entry time in the memory 404.

At the time of entry, when the parking space number is input through the input operation section 405, the processing control section 402 acquires the entry time from the clock 403. Further, the entrance time is called from the parking space number stored in the memory 404, the parking charge is calculated by the charge calculation unit 406 from the entrance time and the exit time,
It is displayed on the display unit 408. The charge is confirmed, and the payment card reading unit 409 reads the payment card data. The processing control unit 402 inquires the invalidation data unit 14 or the authentication data unit 15 about the payment card data, and the authentication unit 410 authenticates and confirms. That is, it is confirmed that it does not match the invalid data or that it matches the authentication data.

If the authentication is successful, the processing control unit 402 lowers the flap PF1 via the interface unit 401 and the flap control unit 43. You can now participate. If it is not certified (failed), an alarm is issued. After that, the processing control unit 402 causes the settlement unit 415 to execute the central management device 1.
The payment data is sent to the payment institution 12 via 1. In this way, by storing the invalid data 21 and the authentication data 22 in the invalid data unit 14 and the authentication data unit 15 in advance, the authentication and the payment can be quickly processed without cash. Normally, it takes about 30 seconds to acquire data from the clearing house 12. Therefore, a traffic jam will occur at the exit of the parking lot that directly authenticates with the settlement organization 12.

When there are a plurality of parking lots, each parking lot C
Invalid data 21 by the distribution instruction unit 31 of the central management unit 11 to P1～CPn, it is possible to distribute the toll table of authentication data 22 and the fee table unit 33. Also,
Since the invalid data 21 and the authentication data 22 are personal information and are important in terms of privacy, they are stolen in the parking lot.
It needs to be protected against destruction. Therefore, as a hardware, a payment data storage unit 13 is provided and fixed to, for example, the underground, and a portion other than the payment data storage unit is provided on the ground (processing control unit 402, clock 403, charge calculation unit 406, etc.).
It is divided and installed as. At this time, these are one
To ensure that, by attaching the integral detector 411
An alarm is sent when the invalid data section 14 or the like is separated such as theft or destruction.

In terms of software, the encryption unit 412 encrypts and stores the invalid data 21 and the authentication data 22. In this case, when the authentication unit 410 is operated, the decryption unit 416 decrypts and performs the authentication process. The payment card reader 4
09 and the display unit 408 may be provided near each parking space. When performing the payment data storage process online,
As shown in FIG. 3, the payment institution 12 transmits the invalid data 21 and the authentication data 22 to the central management device 11. In the central management device 11, the invalid data 21 and the authentication data 22 are sent to the processing control unit 402 of each parking lot by the encryption unit 412, and the invalid data 21 and the authentication data 22 are sent to the invalid data unit 14 and the authentication data unit 15 of the payment data storage unit 13. Store.

FIG. 4 shows an example of entry processing at the flap type parking lot. When the vehicle detector 42 detects a vehicle (S1), the flap is raised to fix the vehicle (S2), and the entry completion data, that is, the parking space number is sent to the processing control unit 402 (S).
3). The entry time is acquired (S4), and the parking space number and the entry time are stored in the memory 404 (S5). An example of the participation process in this case is shown in FIG. First, when the parking space number is input from the input operation unit 405 (S1), the processing control unit 402 reads the entry time from the input parking space number by referring to the memory 404 (S2), and further the exit time from the clock 403. (S3), the charge calculation unit 406 calculates a parking charge from the entry time and the exit time,
The parking fee is displayed on the display unit 408 (S4), the payment card data is read (S5), the payment card data is authenticated by the authentication unit 410 (S6), and if the result is acceptable, the flap of the parking space number is lowered. (S7), settlement organization 1
The payment data is transmitted to 2 (S8). If the authentication fails, an alarm is generated (S9).

FIG. 6 shows an example of a process suitable for parking a plurality of cars as the entrance process to the flap type parking lot. First, when a car is detected as in the case of FIG. 4 (S
1) Raise the flap to fix the vehicle (S2), send the parking space number to the processing control unit 402 (S3), the processing control unit 402 acquires the entry time (S4), and the memory 40
The parking space number and the entry time are stored in 4 (S5).
Further, by inputting the parking space numbers for a plurality of vehicles through the input operation unit 405 (S6), the payment card data is read (S7), and the payment card data is authenticated (S8).
If it passes, the payment card data is linked with the parking space number (S9). If the payment data fails, an alarm is generated (S10).

FIG. 7 shows an example of participation processing in this case. The payment card data is read (S1), the payment card data is authenticated (S2), and if passed, the payment card data is referred to the memory 404 to call the entrance time (S3),
The entry time is acquired (S4), the parking charge is calculated by the charge calculation unit 406 and displayed on the display unit 408 (S5), and the flap of the parking space number is lowered from the payment card data (S).
6) The payment data is transmitted to the payment institution (S7). If the authentication result is unacceptable, an alarm is issued (S8).

In the case of a multi-storey parking lot, the manager enters the pallet of the multi-storey parking tower according to the instructions. Next, the user swipes the payment card with the payment card reading unit 409 to read the data. Then, the payment card is authenticated by the invalid data unit 14, the invalid data of the authentication data unit 15, the authentication data and the authentication unit 410, and if the authentication is successful (pass), the payment card data is stored in the memory 404. If it is not certified (failed), an alarm is issued. The payment card data, the pallet number, and the entry time from the clock 403 are linked and stored in the memory 404.

At the time of participation, when the payment card data is read by the payment card reading unit 409, the payment card data stored in the memory 404 is collated / authenticated by the authentication unit. The calculation unit 406 calculates the charge and displays it on the display unit 408. After confirmation, you can call up the pallet of the multi-storey parking tower and participate. Clearing house 1
Send the payment data to 2.

In the above description, the payment card reading unit 409 is only one place, but in the bar-gate type parking lot, the display unit 408 and the payment card reading unit 409 are provided at the entrance gate, and the display unit 413 and the payment card reading unit 414 are provided at the exit gate. Are separately provided. Fig. 8 shows an example of the entrance process for a three-dimensional mechanical parking lot. In this case, first read the payment card data (S
1) Authenticate the payment card data (S2), and if the payment is successful, link the payment card data and the pallet number (S)
3) The entrance time is acquired (S4), and the payment card data, the pallet number, and the entrance time are stored in the memory 404 (S).
5). If the payment card is not authenticated when it is authenticated, an alarm is generated (S6).

An example of the participation process in this case is shown in FIG. First, the data of the payment card is read (S1), the payment card data is authenticated (S2), and if the payment is successful, the entry time is called from the payment card data by referring to the memory 404 (S3) and the exit time is acquired. (S4), charge calculation unit 40
The parking charge is calculated in 6 and displayed on the display unit 408 (S
5), call the pallet from the payment card data (S
6) Send the settlement data to the settlement organization (S7). If the authentication fails, an alarm is issued (S8).

Next, FIG. 10 shows an example of entrance processing of a bar-gate type parking lot. First, read the payment card data (S
1) Authenticate the payment card data (S2), and if successful, obtain the entrance time (S3), store the payment card data and the entrance time in the memory 404 (S4), and open the bar gate (S5). If the authentication fails, an alarm is issued (S
6).

FIG. 11 shows an example of participation processing in this case. The payment card data is read (S1), the payment card data is authenticated (S2), and if passed, the payment card data is referred to the memory 404 to call the entrance time (S).
3) The entry time is acquired (S4), the parking charge is calculated by the charge calculation unit 406, displayed on the display unit 408 (S5), the bar gate is opened (S6), and the payment data is transmitted to the payment institution (S7). ). If the authentication fails, an alarm is generated (S8).

Another processing example of the bar-gate type parking lot will be shown.
At the time of entrance, as shown in FIG. 12, the payment card data is read (S1), the entrance time is acquired (S2), the payment data and the entrance time are stored in the memory 404 (S3),
Open the gate (S4). Authentication of the payment card data is performed as shown in FIG. 13 during parking (S1). If the authentication is successful, the memory 4 indicates that the payment card data has passed the authentication.
It is stored in 04 (S2), and if it is not passed, an alarm is generated (S3).

At the time of participation, the payment card data is read (S1) and the payment card data is authenticated (S1).
2) If it passes, the entry time is called from the payment card data (S3), the entry time is acquired (S4), the parking charge is calculated by the charge calculation unit 406, and displayed on the display unit 408 (S5), and the gate (S6), and the payment data is transmitted to the payment institution (S7). If the authentication fails, an alarm is generated (S8).

In the case of the flap type parking lot, as described above, when a car enters the parking space, the car detector detects this and raises the flap to fix the car, and the parking starts. Therefore, it is not necessary to read the payment card data first, but in this case as well, the payment card data may be read as shown in FIG. 6, and in any case, the payment card data authentication is It may be carried out once at the time of entry, at the time of entry, or during parking, or may be carried out each time. Invalid data part 1
4. The data of the authentication data unit 15 is updated once a half month or once a month online via the central management device 11 or by storing the data in a portable storage medium and making the storage medium compatible. You can go. When performing online, particularly invalid data and authentication data that may have a great influence may be added or deleted at any time. The fee table section 33 can be modified online from a remote location.

Although the present invention is applied to the charge settlement of the parking lot in the above description, the present invention can be applied to the charge settlement of the facility which requires entrance and exit and requires the charge settlement.

[0030]

As described above, according to the present invention, the data of a payment card such as a credit card, a cash card, and a debit card is read, and the invalid data and authentication data stored in advance in the facility are read. By comparing, the validity of the payment card can be known in a short time, for example, about 1 second, and the cashless payment processing at the facility can be quickly performed.

Also, if the payment card passes,
Admission or participation is permitted. Unmanned management can be performed and operating costs can be reduced. It is possible to save resources without issuing tickets such as parking tickets, and the cost is reduced. The part that stores the payment data and the other part are divided, but they are combined, and if the connection is separated due to theft or destruction, it is detected and an alarm is issued to ensure a highly secure payment. It can be a device.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a flap-type parking lot to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a functional configuration of an embodiment in which the present invention is applied to an automatic fee settlement device for a parking lot.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a processing procedure for storing payment data.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a procedure of entrance processing of a flap-type parking lot.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a procedure of entry processing in a flap-type parking lot.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing another procedure of entrance processing of the flap type parking lot.

7 is a diagram showing a procedure of participation processing corresponding to FIG.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a procedure of entrance processing of a three-dimensional mechanical parking lot.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a procedure of entry processing in a three-dimensional mechanical parking lot.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a procedure of entrance processing of a bar-gate type parking lot.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing a procedure of entry processing in a bar-gate type parking lot.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing another procedure of the entrance processing of the bar gate type parking lot.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing a procedure of processing during entrance of a bar-gate type parking lot.

FIG. 14 is a diagram showing a procedure of participation processing corresponding to FIGS. 12 and 13;

FIG. 15 is a diagram showing a flap-type parking lot.

FIG. 16 is a diagram showing a three-dimensional mechanical parking lot.

FIG. 17 is a diagram showing a bar-gate type parking lot.

─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor, Koji Ishikawa, 1-221, Dogenzaka, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo Within Japan Aviation Electronics Industry Co., Ltd. (72) Fusao Mori, 1-21, Dogenzaka, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo No. 2 Nihon Aviation Electronics Industry Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Tsubasa Oshima 2-1, Udagawa-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 1205 Shibuya Homes Co., Ltd., Parking Lot General Research Institute (56) Reference JP-A-4-339972 (JP, A) JP 54-98300 (JP, A) JP 56-108186 (JP, A) JP 10-134214 (JP, A) Actual development JP 57-88265 (JP, U) (JP 58) Fields investigated (Int.Cl. ⁷ , DB name) G07B 15/00

Claims (7)

(57) [Claims] 1. An automatic fee payment device for a facility that enters and exits and is accompanied by fee payment, and stores invalid data and authentication data sent from a financial institution via a central management device, and stores the data at an appropriate time. The payment data storage unit for updating the payment data, the payment card reading unit for reading the data of the payment card, the read payment card data and the data for the payment data storage unit are collated, and the data does not match the invalid data. or some, an authentication unit to pass to coincide with the authentication data set, on the pass to when the above-mentioned financial institutions at the time of participation, the central
An automatic fee payment device comprising: a payment unit that transmits payment data via a management device . 2. A method according to claim 1 Symbol <br/> mounting automatic toll payment apparatus characterized in that it comprises means enabling admission or compete to be the acceptance by the authentication unit. 3. The payment data storage section and the other section are separately configured and connected to each other, and a detector is provided to detect the disconnection of the connection and give an alarm. The automatic fee payment device according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that. 4. An encryption unit that encrypts and stores the invalid data and the authentication data when storing them in the payment data storage unit, and extracts from the payment data storage unit when authenticating by the authentication unit. The automatic fee payment device according to any one of claims 1 to 3, further comprising a decryption unit that decrypts data. 5. The facility is a flap-type parking lot that detects when a car enters a parking space and raises a flap to fix the car. When the car is fixed by the flap, the parking space number is sent. A means for storing the parking space number and the entry time in the memory, and a method for calling the entry time from the parking space number when the parking space number is input and calculating the parking charge from the entry time and the exit time. 5. The automatic fee settlement apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the means for enabling the entrance or the exit is means for lowering the flap. 6. The facility is a three-dimensional mechanical parking lot in which a car is mounted on a pallet, and when the entry is read by the payment card reading unit and the authentication unit passes, the payment card data and the pallet number are entered. A means for linking the entry time with the entry time and storing it in the memory, and when the payment card is read at the time of entry and the authentication section passes, the entry time is called from the payment card data, the entry time is acquired, and parking is performed. 5. The automatic fee settlement apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising means for calculating a fee, wherein the means for allowing entry or exit is a means for calling a pallet having the pallet number. 7. The facility is a bar-gate type parking lot, which is read by the payment card reading unit at the entrance of the parking lot at the time of entry, and when the authentication unit passes, the payment card data and the entry time are stored in a memory. A means for storing and a means for enabling the entrance or the exit is a means for opening a bar gate at the entrance of the parking lot, and when the payment card reading unit at the exit of the parking lot is read at the time of entry, if the certification unit passes, It is characterized in that it comprises means for calling the entry time from the payment card data, acquiring the entry time, and calculating the parking charge, and the means for enabling the entry or exit is means for opening a bar gate at the exit of the parking lot. The automatic fee payment device according to claim 2.