JP3636092B2 - Electronic voting device - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to an electronic voting apparatus used for an election, and more particularly, to an electronic voting apparatus of a type in which a candidate name or an item to be voted is displayed on a display unit and a voter selects.
[0002]
[Prior art]
In national and local government elections, electors have traditionally entered the names of candidates (also referred to as candidacy candidates) on the ballot at the polling place and put them in the ballot box. However, the burden on the election manager was great, and it took a lot of time and effort to cast and vote. As a method for solving such a problem, an electronic voting terminal using the latest electronic technology has been proposed. The present applicant has already developed an electronic voting terminal and has applied for a patent (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2000-40111). Various electronic voting terminals have already been patented (Japanese Patent No. 2747171, Japanese Patent No. 2885657).
[0003]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
However, in these conventional electronic voting terminals and electronic voting devices, a candidate name, an image of the candidate's face, and the like are displayed, and the voter selects a candidate to vote from a plurality of displayed candidates using a touch panel or a button. Since it is a method to select by, etc., guides or supporters can guide while watching the same screen as the voter so that voters who are unfamiliar with the operation and voters who need nursing care can smoothly vote Conceivable. However, if the same content is also displayed on the screen for the guide or the helper, the guide or the helper may know the content that the voter has chosen to keep secret about which candidate he or she has chosen. is there. That is, if an image having the same content as the image content presented to the voter is also shown to the guide or the assistant, the secret of the vote content cannot be kept. The fact that the contents of the vote are known to third parties in this way is not only a problem in the Public Office Election Law, but also the voter himself has a sense of disgust and may become an obstacle to the spread of electronic voting. Conceivable.
[0004]
Accordingly, in the present invention, when selecting candidates displayed on the electronic voting apparatus, a guider or an assistant (also referred to as a guider) can be used so that a voter who is unfamiliar with the operation or a voter who needs care can smoothly vote. It is an object of the present invention to provide an electronic voting apparatus configured such that an operation can be guided while viewing a screen similar to that of a voter, and the name of a candidate for voting cannot be recognized by the guide.
[0005]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
In order to achieve the above object, in the present invention, in selecting a candidate displayed on an electronic voting apparatus, a voter display unit can smoothly vote for a voter who is unfamiliar with the operation or who needs care. In addition to the above, a guide display unit is provided for the guide, and the guide display unit is controlled so as to display a guide for excluding candidate names or items to be voted for.
[0006]
That is, according to the present invention, in the electronic voting apparatus for accepting a vote, the candidate name or the voting target item that can be voted is displayed on the voter display unit and the voter selects it.
A guide display unit; and a control unit configured to control display content so that the guide display unit performs display for guidance excluding the candidate name or voting target item, and the control unit includes the guide unit. A punching signal generating means for generating a punching signal for masking the display part of the candidate name or voting target item to be voted based on the coordinates on the screen of the display unit for the person and the synchronization signal of the video signal; A video signal to be given to the voter display unit and a video signal for masking the display part of the candidate name or voting target item to be voted are switched and supplied to the guide display unit by the punching signal. There is provided an electronic voting apparatus comprising switching means .
[0008]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a control unit used in a preferred embodiment of an electronic voting apparatus according to the present invention. FIG. 2 is a front view in which the display of the guide display unit 20 is controlled by the control unit of FIG. 1 and the screen of the voter display unit 18 is displayed side by side. The control unit in FIG. 1 includes a punching signal generation unit 10, a data selector 12, and signal conversion units 14 and 16. The signal conversion unit 14 converts the display data to generate a video signal to be given to the voter display unit 18, which is a conventional one. A signal converter 16 having a circuit configuration similar to that of the signal converter 14 converts the output data of the data selector 12 to generate a video signal to be given to the guide display unit 20. The voter display unit 18 and the guide display unit 20 receive a video signal and display a screen, and a CRT or LCD can be used. The voter display unit 18 is attached to the touch panel screen so as to accept input instructions such as voter voting and cancellation.
[0009]
The punch signal generation unit 10 includes a counter 10A, a row / column register 10B, and a comparator 10C. A horizontal synchronization signal H SYNC, a vertical synchronization signal V SYNC, and a display clock signal DOT CLOCK of a video signal are supplied to the counter 10A. In the row / column register 10B, the coordinates of the upper left and lower right on the quadrangular screen determined as an area to be masked so that the predetermined display cannot be recognized are designated and stored by the row and column. The storage of the coordinates can be performed via a bus line (BUS) of a CPU of a computer executing display software.
[0010]
The counter 10A counts the horizontal synchronization signal H SYNC, the vertical synchronization signal V SYNC, and the display clock signal DOT CLOCK, and presents the image displayed on the voter display unit 18 and the guide display unit 20 in the raster. A signal indicating the scanning position (dot position on the screen) at the time is sent to the comparator 10C. Coordinate data stored in advance from the row / column register 10B is sent to the comparator 10C and compared with the scanning position at the current time point. Before the current scanning position reaches the upper left on the quadrangular screen defined as the area to be masked, the signal level of the A / B switching signal as the punching signal is set to L level so as to select A, and when reaching the upper left of the square The signal is switched from A to B (H level), and when it reaches the lower right corner of the square, the signal is switched to A again (L level).
[0011]
The A / B switching signal is applied to the switching signal terminal A / B of the data selector 12. When the A / B switching signal is at the L level, the display data input to the input terminal A is output from the output terminal OUT and given to the guide display unit 20 via the signal conversion unit 16, and the A / B switching signal is At the H level, the masking color display data input to the input terminal B is output from the output terminal OUT and provided to the guide display unit 20 via the signal conversion unit 16. As a result, as shown in FIG. 2, the rectangular portion of the candidate name in the guide display unit 20 is masked, and the candidate name cannot be recognized even by visual inspection. At this time, the candidate names on the voter display unit 18 are displayed as they are without being masked, so that the voter can perform an operation for voting without anybody knowing the contents of the vote. .
[0012]
In the above embodiment, masking color display data is given to the guide display unit 20 via the signal conversion unit 16 in a time-selective manner, but each of the voter display unit 18 and the guide display unit 20 is provided. Two controllers may be provided so as to separately generate the given video data from the beginning. In addition, the same content as the voter display unit 18 is displayed on the guide display unit 20, but transparent on the screen so as to physically mask the candidate name portion to be voted to be secret. It is also possible to control the display member so as to be opaque only when it is masked.
[0013]
In the above embodiment, the case where the display part of the candidate name is masked has been explained. However, the object of the election is the national examination of the Supreme Court judge, or the vote is made by the party unit like the proportional representative election. Therefore, as a target to be masked in the present invention, not only candidate names but also voting target items are widely applicable. In addition, information related to a candidate's face image, candidate, political party, and the like can also be viewed as part of the voting target item.
[0014]
【The invention's effect】
As described above, according to the present invention, in addition to the voter display part of the electronic voting apparatus, a guider display part is provided for the guider, and the candidate name to be voted is displayed on the guide display part. Since items other than are controlled so that they are displayed with the same content as the display section for the voter, the voter is not familiar with the operation or needs care in selecting the displayed candidate Also, it is possible to smoothly vote while receiving advice from the guide, and there is an effect that the name of the voted candidate and the secret of the item to be voted are not known to the guide or other people.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a control unit used in a preferred embodiment of an electronic voting apparatus according to the present invention.
2 is a front view in which the display is controlled by the control unit of FIG. 1 and the screen of the guide display unit 20 is arranged side by side with the screen of the voter display unit 18. FIG.
[Explanation of symbols]
10 Punching signal generator (Punching signal generator)
12 data selector (switching means: constituting control means together with punching signal generating means)
14, 16 Signal conversion unit 18 Voter display unit 20 Guider display unit

Claims (1)

In an electronic voting apparatus that accepts a vote by displaying a candidate name or a voting target item that can be voted on a voter display unit and allowing the voter to select it,
A guide display unit; and a control unit configured to control display content so that the guide display unit performs display for guidance excluding the candidate name or voting target item, and the control unit includes the guide unit. A punching signal generating means for generating a punching signal for masking the display part of the candidate name or voting target item to be voted based on the coordinates on the screen of the display unit for the person and the synchronization signal of the video signal; A video signal to be given to the voter display unit and a video signal for masking the display part of the candidate name or voting target item to be voted are switched and supplied to the guide display unit by the punching signal. An electronic voting device comprising switching means .

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