JP4375714B2 - Non-contact automatic ticket gate - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a non-contact automatic ticket gate, and in particular, when entry / exit is refused, it is possible to prevent inconvenience at the time of so-called turning processing when a user touches or holds a non-contact ticket again on the antenna. It relates to what was made.
[0002]
[Prior art]
In recent years, a boarding ticket or SF card (stored fair card) is a non-contact ticket made up of an IC card having a wireless communication function, and an automatic ticket gate is used to process a non-contact ticket in the main body of the automatic ticket gate. A non-contact type automatic ticket gate incorporating a reader / writer equipped with an antenna is used (see Patent Document 1).
[0003]
The control operation of entry / exit (meaning entry or exit) in this non-contact type automatic ticket gate will be described using the sequence (transmission control procedure) of FIG. 5 (a). From the antenna of the main body (hereinafter referred to as “ticket gate main body”), a predetermined range from the antenna is a communication range (this range is usually several centimeters to several tens of centimeters so as not to affect other electronic devices etc. A polling signal is transmitted. Therefore, when a non-contact ticket enters within the communication range of this antenna, that is, when a non-contact ticket possessed by a user (passenger) is lightly touched or held over the antenna (hereinafter described as touch). The non-contact ticket can transmit a predetermined response signal to the ticket gate main body in response to the polling signal from the ticket gate main body.
[0004]
When the ticket gate main body receives a predetermined response signal from the contactless ticket, it makes a request to read the predetermined card data such as commuter pass data and SF data stored in the contactless ticket to the contactless ticket. The non-contact ticket transmits predetermined card data to the ticket gate body in response to the read request. Upon completion of the reading from the contactless ticket, that is, when the predetermined data indicating that the transmission of the card data has been completed is received from the contactless ticket, the ticket gate main body receives a predetermined entry and exit based on the received card data. Performing the above calculation process, the entrance / exit determination is performed. If entry / exit is permitted in this determination, new entry / exit data (entrance / exit station data, entry / exit time data, new balance data, etc.) must be written (stored) in the contactless ticket. The writing data composed of the new entry / exit data is transmitted to the contactless ticket side.
[0005]
By the way, if the non-contact ticket goes out of the communication range of the antenna before the writing to the above-mentioned non-contact ticket is completed, naturally the writing is not performed completely, that is, the writing has not been completed. The entry process is interrupted. In this case, the door of the ticket gate body is closed to prevent the user from passing through the ticket gate passage. Of course, even when entry / exit is not permitted as a result of the above-described entry / exit calculation processing, the door is closed and entry / exit is rejected. In this case, guidance such as payment processing is performed via the display screen or the speaker. As a result of this calculation processing, when entry / exit is rejected, new data is not written to the contactless ticket.
[0006]
If entry / exit is permitted and the contactless ticket is outside the antenna communication range and the door is closed, the user will take the action of touching the contactless ticket to the antenna again in a turnaround state in the ticket gate The non-contact ticket becomes the communication range of the antenna again, and a predetermined response is sent from the non-contact ticket to the ticket gate body in response to polling from the ticket gate body. In the ticket gate body, predetermined data for specifying a non-contact ticket included in a response signal from the non-contact ticket, for example, a non-contact ticket that has been read from a non-contact ticket whose card ID is interrupted in the writing process When the data (card ID) match, predetermined write data (new entry / exit data) is transmitted toward the contactless ticket. When the transmitted write data is written in the memory of the contactless ticket and the predetermined data indicating the completion of the writing is received by the ticket checker main body, a series of entrance / exit processing for the contactless ticket is completed.
[0007]
[Patent Document 1]
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2003-6684
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
However, in the conventional non-contact automatic ticket gate, the non-contact ticket is out of the communication range of the antenna before the writing of new entry / exit data to the non-contact ticket is completed, and then other than the ticket gate main body. New entry / exit data is written at the counter processing machine installed at the ticket gate clerk corner, and then processed at the ticket gate itself. The inconvenience of being overwritten occurs.
[0009]
This will be further described with reference to the sequence of FIG. 5B. The sequence is the same as that of FIG. “Writing with another device” in the sequence when writing is not completed means that the user whose door is closed because writing has not been completed is considered to have an abnormality in the contactless ticket, and that the contactless corner staff This means that a predetermined new entry / exit data is written on the non-contact ticket by the staff at the counter at hand.
[0010]
In this way, when a non-contact ticket in which new entry / exit data is written on another device is touched to the antenna again, the non-contact ticket becomes the communication range of the antenna again and polls from the ticket gate body. The response is made to the ticket gate main body. In the ticket gate main body, the predetermined data (card ID) for specifying the non-contact ticket included in the response signal from the non-contact ticket is the predetermined for identifying the non-contact ticket read from the non-contact ticket for which the writing process is interrupted. When the data (card ID) matches, predetermined write data (new entry / exit data) is transmitted to the contactless ticket. The transmitted write data is written in the memory of the contactless ticket, and when the ticket gate main body receives the predetermined data indicating the completion of the writing, it is written in the contactless ticket and a series of entrance / exit processing ends. However, this writing is already written on the window processor. Therefore, in the case where the new entry / exit data written in the window processing machine is an increase in the amount of money, or in the case of SF data reduction processing, the data written in the window processing machine is changed. appear. In addition, since the window processing machine and the ticket gate main body are connected to a host device consisting of a host computer installed in a predetermined center such as a railway company headquarters in order to manage contactless tickets in an integrated manner, For one entry / exit process, data is sent to the host device from two locations of the window processing machine and the ticket gate main body, and there is a disadvantage that management data is complicated in the host device.
[0011]
Accordingly, the present invention has been made to solve the above-described drawbacks, and its purpose is a non-contact type automatic operation that allows normal processing to be performed after the incomplete writing to the non-contact ticket occurs. The purpose is to provide a ticket gate.
[0012]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
In order to achieve the above object, a non-contact automatic ticket gate according to claim 1 of the present invention provides:
Between the main body and the non-contact ticket contactless automatic ticket gate, without contact, to a card data stored in the non-contact ticket, read request card data by noncontact automatic ticket gate, a non-contact Offers Data exchange consists of sending card data, sending and writing entry / exit data to / from contactless tickets by contactless automatic ticket gates, and sending completion of entry / exit data from contactless tickets to contactless ticket gates. In a non-contact automatic ticket gate that performs entrance and exit processing,
Data exchange between the body and the non-contact ticket contactless automatic ticket gate machine, a new including entrance and exit station data and entry and exit time data for the non-contact tickets from the body of the non-contact automatic ticket gate entrance and exit data writing is performed, and, interrupted before the the new entry and exit data indicates to data of the completion of the writing from the contactless tickets received by the body of the non-contact automatic ticket gate, Thereafter, when the data exchange is resumed, the card data read again from the contactless ticket does not match the card data read before the data exchange resumes, and the card data read from the contactless ticket is If the entry / exit data for the contactless ticket from the main body of the contactless automatic ticket gate does not match before the data transfer is resumed , entry / exit processing is performed on the contactless ticket by another device. It was determined that It is characterized by having a processing means for entrance and exit processing based on the entrance and exit data written in the device.
[0013]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a perspective view of one casing G1 of a pair of casings constituting a ticket gate main body G according to an embodiment. Note that the other casing (not shown) is provided so as to face the one casing G1 with the ticket gate P interposed therebetween.
[0014]
In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a ticket entry slot made of a magnetic ticket provided on the entrance (entrance) side in the passing direction of the ticket gate passage P of the housing G 1, and 2 denotes a ticket gate passage P on the upper surface of the housing G 1. An exit provided on the advance (exit) side of the door 3 is for guiding predetermined contents by letters to a user provided on the advance side of the ticket gate P in the vicinity of the exit 2 It is a display screen. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 4 denotes a speaker that guides predetermined contents to the user by voice. Further, in FIG. 1, reference numeral 5 denotes a variable color lamp provided at the upper part on the exit side of the ticket gate passage P of the sensor mounting box B described later.
[0015]
A card handler (not shown) is provided in the housing G1 between the inlet 1 and the outlet 2. This card handler is configured so that a boarding ticket inserted from the insertion slot 1 can be transported to an outlet 2 or a collection box (not shown) provided in the housing G1. During the transfer, it reads the data recorded on the ticket consisting of the magnetic ticket inserted in the slot 1, writes new data, punches and prints as necessary, and returns it to the user The ticket that needs to be discharged is discharged to the exit 2 and the ticket that needs to be collected in the housing G1 can be collected in the collection box.
[0016]
In FIG. 1, a is an antenna connected to a reader / writer 15 which will be described later, and is provided on the upper surface of the housing G1 on the side of the slot 1 and is a non-contact ticket C comprising an IC card having a wireless communication function. It is configured to be able to communicate with.
[0017]
In FIG. 1, B is a sensor mounting box, which is provided on the upper surface of the housing G1, opposite to the ticket gate passage P, and along the ticket gate passage P. In this sensor mounting box B, human detectors S1 to S3 made up of reflective sensors are built in the entrance side, the central part and the exit side of the ticket gate passage P, respectively. It is comprised so that it can detect. That is, the human detectors S1 to S3 composed of the reflection type sensors have a light emitting element that emits light from the floor surface of the ticket gate passage P toward a predetermined height, and the irradiated light strikes an object (user). It is comprised by the light receiving element which light-receives the reflected light ray (reflected light).
[0018]
In FIG. 1, S10 to S15 are human detectors composed of transmissive sensors composed of photoelectric elements, which are provided at a predetermined interval on the ticket gate path P side between a pair of housings. It is comprised so that the user position in can be detected. Among these human detectors S10 to S15, the human detector S10 is at the entrance side of the ticket gate passage P, the human detector S15 is at the exit side of the ticket gate passage P, and the human detectors S12 and S13 are at the center of the ticket gate passage P. The human detector S11 is provided in the middle between the entrance side and the central portion of the ticket gate passage P, and the human detector S14 is provided in the middle between the outlet side and the central portion of the ticket gate passage P. The human detectors S10 to S15 composed of these transmissive sensors have a light emitting element on the side surface of one housing and a light receiving element on the side surface of the other housing. And when it detects with human detectors S10-S15 which consist of these transmission type sensors, and is not detected with human detectors S1-S3 which consist of the above-mentioned reflective type sensor, the user is a child (child) user. It is determined. The pair of human detectors S12 and S13 provided in the central part of the ticket gate passage P detects that the user has reached the central part of the ticket gate passage P, and the users in the ticket gate passage P according to the detection order. It is used to determine the direction of movement.
[0019]
In FIG. 1, D1 and D2 are doors for opening and closing the ticket gate passage P. Of these doors D1 and D2, the door D1 is provided on the exit side of the ticket gate passage P, and the door D2 is provided on the entrance side thereof. Yes. The doors D1 and D2 are configured to be driven by a controller 6 (to be described later) that comprehensively controls the ticket gate body G. The other housing (not shown) is also provided with a door at a position corresponding to the doors D1 and D2 of the housing G1. The door D2 is a door that is closed when the ticket gate main body G stops its operation. Further, when the ticket gate main body G is a normally open type or a bidirectional type, the door D2 is shown in FIG. It becomes a door on the exit side of the ticket gate passage P for the user entering from the direction opposite to the arrow direction.
[0020]
The ticket gate body G is a dual-purpose type that can process both a boarding ticket made of a magnetic ticket and a non-contact ticket, but it can also be a dedicated type that processes only a non-contact ticket. In this case, a card handler including a magnetic head for processing a magnetic ticket from the ticket gate body G is omitted, and the insertion slot 1 and the outlet 2 are also omitted.
[0021]
As shown in FIG. 2, the controller 6 has a central processing unit (CPU) 11 that performs a predetermined entrance / exit operation process using the system program and working data stored in the memory 10. The CPU 11 of the controller C includes a card handler 12 that processes a boarding ticket made of a magnetic ticket via an I / O unit (not shown), a door driver 13 that drives and controls the doors D1 and D2, and a human detection device (S1 to S3). , S10 to S15), a human detector unit 14 for processing signals from the reader, a reader / writer 15 for reading data recorded on the non-contact ticket via the antenna a, and writing new data, An audio unit 16 that drives and controls the speaker 4 is connected. Note that a device such as a display driver that drives and controls the display screen 3 is also connected to the CPU 11, but is omitted here.
[0022]
The non-contact ticket C is composed of an IC card having a wireless communication function in the same manner as a known non-contact ticket, and although not shown, a ticket processing machine body G and a window processing machine corresponding to another processing machine of the present invention (not shown), etc. A communication control unit having an antenna for communicating with other devices, a CPU for comprehensively controlling the non-contact ticket C, and system program data and card data (commuter pass data, SF data, card ID,...) Are stored. The memory includes a power generation circuit that receives a power wave transmitted from a device such as the ticket gate body G and generates driving power for the contactless ticket C.
[0023]
The control operation will be described below using the sequence (transmission control procedure) in FIG. Since this sequence is the same until the writing of the sequence of FIGS. 5A and 5B is not completed, the subsequent processing will be described. That is, when entry / exit by the non-contact ticket C is permitted and writing of new entry / exit data for the non-contact ticket C is outside the communication range of the antenna a and writing has not been completed. The user touches the antenna a again with the non-contact ticket C. As a result, the non-contact ticket C is within the communication range of the antenna a, and a predetermined response signal is transmitted from the non-contact ticket C to the ticket gate body G in response to polling from the ticket gate body G.
[0024]
Upon receiving a predetermined response signal from the non-contact ticket C, the ticket gate body G makes a transmission request (reading request) for card data to the non-contact ticket C, and the card data from the non-contact ticket C in response to the request. Is transmitted to the ticket gate body G. The CPU 11 of the ticket gate body G compares the data transmitted from the non-contact ticket C with the data read last time, that is, the read data before the completion of writing, and both read data match in the same card ID. If it is, the contactless ticket C touched by the antenna again is determined to be the previous contactless ticket C, and new ticket entry data is written from the ticket gate body G to the contactless ticket C. Done. When the ticket gate body G receives predetermined data indicating completion of writing of the new entrance / exit data from the non-contact ticket C, the series of entrance / exit processing ends normally, and the door D1 is opened and used. The person is allowed to pass through the ticket gate passage P.
[0025]
FIG. 3B shows that the above-mentioned incomplete writing has already been written on the non-contact ticket C side, and that the non-contact ticket C is connected to the antenna before the predetermined data indicating the completion of the writing is transmitted to the ticket gate body G. A sequence in which the entrance / exit processing is interrupted after going out of the communication range of a is shown.
[0026]
In this case, the door D1 is closed when the entrance / exit process is interrupted, so that the user touches the non-contact ticket C to the antenna a again. As a result, the non-contact ticket C is within the communication range of the antenna a, and a predetermined response signal is transmitted from the non-contact ticket C to the ticket gate body G in response to polling from the ticket gate body G.
[0027]
Upon receiving a predetermined response signal from the non-contact ticket C, the ticket gate body G makes a transmission request (reading request) for card data to the non-contact ticket C, and the card data from the non-contact ticket C in response to the request. Is transmitted to the ticket gate body G. The CPU 11 of the ticket gate body G compares the data transmitted from the non-contact ticket C with the data read last time, that is, the read data before incomplete writing, and the read data does not match in the same card ID. If the data to be written by the ticket gate main body G exists in the read from the non-contact ticket C, it is determined that the non-contact ticket C has already been written and a series of The entrance / exit processing is terminated, the door D1 is opened, and the user is allowed to pass through the ticket gate passage P.
[0028]
FIG. 4 shows that the non-contact ticket C is out of the communication range of the antenna a before the completion of writing on the non-contact ticket C side in the same manner as in FIG. Shows the sequence.
[0029]
In this case, since the door D1 is closed because the entrance / exit process is interrupted, the user assumes that the non-contact ticket C is abnormal and gives the non-contact ticket C to the attendant. The clerk performs a predetermined process that also serves as a check of the non-contact ticket C at a window processing machine (not shown) installed at a predetermined place such as a clerk corner or a station office. In this process, data processing for entry / exit that the user intends to perform is usually performed in the ticket gate body G. That is, new entry / exit data is written in the non-contact ticket C at the window processing machine. Next, when the user touches the antenna a again with the contactless ticket C processed by the window processing machine, the contactless ticket C becomes within the communication range of the antenna a, and polling from the ticket gate body G is performed. In response to this, a predetermined response signal is transmitted from the non-contact ticket C to the ticket gate body G.
[0030]
Upon receiving a predetermined response signal from the non-contact ticket C, the ticket gate body G makes a transmission request (reading request) for card data to the non-contact ticket C, and the card data from the non-contact ticket C in response to the request. Is transmitted to the ticket gate body G. The CPU 11 of the ticket gate body G compares the data transmitted from the non-contact ticket C with the data read last time, that is, the read data before incomplete writing, and the read data does not match in the same card ID. When the data to be written by the ticket gate main body G does not exist in the read from the non-contact ticket C, the CPU 11 again calculates the entry / exit based on the data read this time. Is performed and a determination process is performed. However, in this judgment, the entrance / exit at the time of the first judgment and the entrance / exit of this judgment are not paired. That is, a normal cycle in which entrance / exit → enter / exit alternately appears → Since the entry or entry → exit, the judgment is NG, the door D1 is closed and the passage through the ticket gate passage P is rejected, the staff process is guided through the display screen 3 and the speaker 4, and the lamp 5 is lit. The staff will be informed. The clerk knows that the current judgment NG is due to the fact that it has already been processed by the window processing machine. In this case, the gate D1 is opened by operating a monitoring panel (not shown). The processing of the non-contact ticket by the main body G is omitted and the user is allowed to pass. Thereby, overwriting by the ticket gate body G with respect to the non-contact ticket C is prevented.
[0031]
More specifically, the above example is used to perform entry / exit calculation processing using the card data (1) read from the first contactless ticket C, to generate predetermined new write data (2), It is assumed that this is transmitted to the non-contact ticket C side. At this time, since the writing is interrupted, it is assumed that new write data {circle around (3)} is generated and written to the non-contact ticket C by the predetermined arithmetic processing by the window processing machine.
[0032]
In this case, the data {circle around (3)} read when the contactless ticket C processed by the window processing machine is touched by the antenna does not naturally match the data {circle around (1)} read first. Also, the data (2) and (3) do not match. At this time, entrance / exit determination processing using the latest read data (3) is performed. In this determination, when the entrance data is written in the counter processing machine, the user is trying to enter and the entrance data is written in the counter processing machine. If an entry process is attempted using 3 ▼, the entry is changed from entry to entry, and the validity of entry / exit is not obtained. Similarly, when the user tries to participate, the cycle is determined to be abnormal and becomes NG. As described above, when the determination is NG, passage of the non-contact ticket C by the ticket gate body G is permitted without processing by the clerk process as described above.
[0033]
In addition, if the above-mentioned counter processing machine performs the process of increasing or decreasing the amount without writing the entry / exit data, the entry / exit determination is OK, and in this case, it is omitted in the sequence of FIG. However, new data is written to the contactless ticket by the entrance / exit calculation process using the data (3) written by the window processing machine.
[0034]
In the above-described example, the contact processing machine corresponding to the non-contact ticket installed in the clerk corner as another device is used. However, the processing machine corresponding to the non-contact ticket installed in the station office or the like may be used.
[0035]
【The invention's effect】
Non-contact automatic gate according to claim 1 of the present invention, ticket gate body and the data exchange is new predetermined entrance and exit data for the non-contact tickets from the ticket gate body between the contactless tickets Is interrupted before the ticket checker body receives the new data indicating the completion of the writing of the new predetermined entrance / exit data from the non-contact ticket, and then the data transfer is resumed. Thus, the predetermined card data read from the non-contact ticket is inconsistent with the predetermined card data read before the data exchange is resumed, and the predetermined card data read from the non-contact ticket is the data. If it does not match the new specified entry / exit data for the contactless ticket from the ticket gate before the transfer, the specified entry / exit processing is performed on the contactless ticket on other devices. Other Because it has a processing means for entrance and exit processing based on a predetermined entrance and exit data written in vessel, it is possible to resume efficiently successfully processed even when interrupted entrance and exit processing.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of one of a pair of housings constituting a ticket gate main body according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a controller.
FIG. 3 is a sequence showing a control operation.
FIG. 4 is a sequence showing a control operation.
FIG. 5 is a sequence showing a control operation of a conventional non-contact automatic ticket gate.
[Explanation of symbols]
G Main body of non-contact type automatic ticket gate (main gate)
G1 housing D1, D2 door P ticket gate passage B sensor mounting box S1 to S3, S10 to S15 human detector 1 inlet 2 outlet 6 controller a antenna

Claims (1)

Between the main body of the non-contact automatic ticket gate and the non-contact ticket , the non-contact card data stored in the non-contact ticket, the card data read request by the non-contact automatic ticket gate, Transmission of the card data by a contactless ticket, transmission and writing of entry / exit data to the contactless ticket by the contactless automatic ticket gate, entry / entry data from the contactless ticket to the contactless automatic ticket gate In a non-contact automatic ticket gate that performs entry and exit processing by exchanging data consisting of sending completion of writing ,
Wherein the data transfer between the body of the non-contact automatic ticket gate said non-contact ticket, the entrance and exit station data and entry and exit time data for the non-contact tickets from the body of the non-contact automatic ticket gate new write of the entering played data is performed including, and, before the new entry indicates the completion of the contestants data writing to data from the contactless tickets received by the body of the non-contact automatic ticket gate interrupted, then at the resumption of the data transfer, the card data is read again from the contactless tickets in the card data and discrepancies read before resuming the data transfer, and, from the contactless tickets when a mismatch with the entrance and exit data made to the contactless tickets the card data read was from its non-contact automatic ticket gate machine body before resumption of the data transfer, for the contactless tickets input on other devices Determining that field processing is performed, a non-contact automatic gate, characterized in that it comprises a processing means for entrance and exit processing based on other of the entrance and exit data written by the device.

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