JP4773604B2 - Bidding status display device and method - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a technique for displaying a situation in which a participant is operating a bidding terminal device to make a bid.
[0002]
[Background Art and Problems to be Solved by the Invention]
In recent years, a system has been introduced in many auction venues. For example, a bidder terminal device that is operated by a participant installed for each seat, a bidder operation panel for a bidder to proceed with a bid, and a coordinator adjusts a price during a bid. The control panel for the coordinator, the control device that accepts the bidding by the participant operating the terminal device for bidding, and notifies the coordinator control panel etc. It consists of a slide status display panel that displays prices and the like. The bidding status display device is mounted on an adjuster operation panel or the like. As a result, in that system, the participant operates the terminal device for bidding while looking at the sliding status display board, and the coordinator adjusts the price while checking the bidding status displayed on the bidding status display device. I do. By introducing such a system, it is possible to drastically shorten the time required for a product per product as compared to before introducing the system, so that more products can be applied.
[0003]
FIG. 12 is a diagram for explaining a conventional bidding status display method, and FIG. 13 is a diagram for explaining an arrangement of pixels on a display panel provided in a conventional bidding status display device. With reference to these drawings, how the conventional bidding status display device displays the bidding status will be described in detail.
[0004]
The display panel 120 shown in FIG. 12 is mounted on the bidding status display device. For example, one LED is set as one pixel (dot) 121, and as shown in FIG. 1024 (= 32 × 32) pieces are arranged side by side. Each pixel 121 is associated with a bidding terminal device installed on the seat. Accordingly, the conventional bidding status display device displays the bidding status by turning on the pixel 121 corresponding to the bidding terminal device used by the participant for bidding. If there are two bidders, as shown in FIG. 12, the two pixels 121 are lit. For this reason, when the number of bidders is reduced, the number of pixels 121 to be lit is also reduced, which makes it difficult to check the bidding status.
[0005]
An object of the present invention is to provide a bidding status display device that displays a bidding status so that confirmation can always be easily performed.
[0006]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
. Tender status display device of the present invention assumes that the bid terminal device multiple, and participants used auction system having an auction controller for accepting bids performed by operating the bid terminal device, the following These means are provided.
[0007]
That is , display means having pixels more than the number of bid terminal devices, first recognition means for recognizing the total number of bid terminal devices used by participants in the bid terminal devices, A second recognition means for recognizing the number of bidding terminal devices operated by a participant in order to cause the control device to accept bids among the total number of bidding terminal devices recognized by the recognition means; Based on one of the total number recognized by the recognizing means and the number recognized by the second recognizing means , the participant changes the correspondence relationship between each bidding terminal device and the pixel and causes the control device to accept the bidding. Display control means for driving the bidding terminal apparatus operated by the display means to drive the pixels corresponding to the bidding terminal apparatus.
[0008]
Incidentally, in the above configuration, the display control means, in the case where the number of the second recognition unit has recognized is equal to or less than a predetermined value, to change the correspondence relationship with該台number, it is desirable.
[0010]
The bidding status display method of the present invention is used for a bidding system having a bidding terminal device and a bidding system that accepts bidding performed by a participant operating the bidding terminal device and the participant performs bidding. a method for displaying a situation where there was placed a display means having a number or more pixels of the bidding for the terminal device, is specified by the auction controller, the bidding terminal apparatus participants are using Set the number of pixels used to represent one bidding terminal device according to one of the total number and the number of bidding terminal devices operated by the participant in order to allow the bidding control device to accept bidding , The bidding terminal device operated by the participant in order to cause the control device to accept the bidding is driven on the display unit by driving the pixels having the set number of pixels under a predetermined driving condition.
[0012]
In the present invention, the setting of the number of pixels used to represent one bidding terminal device is dynamically changed according to the number of participants (the number of bidding terminal devices used by the participant). Then, the bidding terminal device used by the participant for bidding is displayed using a dynamically changing number of pixels. Thus, the bidding terminal device is displayed with more pixels, in other words, with a larger display area, according to the number of participants. As a result, according to the number of participants, the bidding status is displayed so that confirmation can be easily performed.
[0013]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of a sliding system that employs a bidding status display device according to the present embodiment.
[0014]
The system was introduced in a venue where, for example, a car is used as a product (auction), and as shown in FIG. 1, the information about the product, the current price, etc. are displayed to the participants. Display board 1, next exhibition display board 2 for displaying the exhibition number of the next item to be exhibited, sender operation panel 3 operated by a person, adjuster operation panel 4 operated by a coordinator, an exhibitor (exhibitor) An exhibition store display panel 5 for displaying the current price and bidding status, and a bidding terminal device for participants (purchasing stores) to participate in the event by operating, and a plurality of installations installed for each seat. A purchase shop operation panel 6 and a server 7 for storing information on the result of the sale and information on exhibited products (exhibited vehicle information) are connected to a control device 8 for controlling the entire system. The bidding status display device according to the present embodiment is mounted on the exhibitor display board 5 in addition to the adjuster operation board 4.
[0015]
FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an external appearance of the adjuster operation panel 4 equipped with the bidding status display device according to the present embodiment.
As shown in FIG. 2, the adjuster operation panel 4 includes an operation panel 11 having various switches and a display panel 12 having various display units. The bidding status display unit 13 for displaying the bidding status is provided as one display unit constituting the display panel 12. For example, as shown in FIG. 6, the bidding status display unit 13 includes LEDs (pixels) 61 arranged in a total of 1024 (= 32 × 32) in 32 rows and 32 columns. As the LED, an LED having at least two light sources having different emission colors is employed. The display panel 12 is provided with a number of display units in addition to the bidding status display unit 13. The display number of the item currently being displayed, the next item, and the next item to be displayed next. Number, desired price, current price, final bidding price, etc. are displayed.
[0016]
The switch constituting the other operation panel 11 is not specifically described in detail, but various switches for adjusting the start price, a switch for instructing the start of the glue, and an instruction for interrupting the glue. Switch, a switch for instructing a compulsory bid for a product, various switches for setting a speed for raising the price, a numeric keypad, and the like.
[0017]
FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a configuration of the adjuster operation panel 4. As shown in FIG. 3, the operation panel 4 includes a control unit 21 that performs overall control, the operation panel 11, the display panel 12, and a communication control unit 22 for communicating with the slide control device 8. , And is configured. The control unit 21 and the communication control unit 22 are mounted on the same substrate (printed wiring board).
[0018]
The operation of the above configuration will be described.
In the system described above, the sage person operates the sage person operation panel 3 to manage the progress of the sword, and sequentially changes the product to be slid. Each time the sage control device 8 operates the sage control panel 3 to change the product that is the subject of the sword, the seri control device 8 requests the server 7 to transmit the exhibition vehicle information corresponding to the product and receives it from the server 7. Then, the received exhibition vehicle information is displayed on the sliding status display panel 1. The next exhibition display panel 2 displays the exhibition number of the next product.
[0019]
The participant is, for example, a person who belongs to a purchasing store or the like that has registered as a member on the side of the event. The organizer issues a card in which data such as a member ID is written to the registered member, and stores the member data including the member ID and the like in the control device 8. The purchasing store operation panel 6 is provided with an insertion slot for the card. For this reason, the purchase shop operation panel 6 is used by a participant by inserting a card into the insertion slot.
[0020]
When the card is inserted into the insertion slot, the purchase shop operation panel 6 reads out the data written in the card and transmits it to the control device 8. The control device 8 checks whether or not the card holder is a regular member by checking whether or not there is data that matches the received data among the member data stored in advance. . By transmitting the confirmation result to the purchase shop operation panel 6 that has transmitted the data, only authorized members can use the purchase shop operation panel 6.
[0021]
The purchase store operation panel 6 is provided with a bid button (not shown). For example, when the button is operated (pressed), the purchasing store operation panel 6 notifies the slider control device 8 that the participant has bid, and when the button is released, the participant selects Notify that you got off. These notifications are made with identification data (ID, etc.) assigned to itself. Thus, the bid control device 8 can accept a bid by operating (pressing) a bid button for each participant.
[0022]
The control device 8 that receives the notification from the purchasing store operation panel 6 identifies (recognizes) the operating panel 6 that the participant uses for the bid in the purchasing store operation panel 6 based on the notification. As a result, data representing the operation panel 6 identified as being used by the participant for bidding (hereinafter referred to as operation panel data for convenience) is displayed as the data representing the bidding situation. Send to board 5 etc. as needed.
[0023]
The coordinator operation panel 4 receives the data transmitted from the slide control device 8 via the communication control unit 22. When the operation panel data is received from the control device 8, the control unit 21 specifies the pixel 61 corresponding to the store operation panel 6 represented by the operation panel data, and displays the driving (lighting) of the specified pixel 61 on the display panel 12. To instruct. Thereby, the bidding status is displayed on the bidding status display unit 13.
[0024]
The coordinator increases the price by operating various switches provided on the operation panel 11 while confirming the bidding status displayed on the bidding status display unit 13. The price is raised until there is only one bidder. If the price raised in this way is equal to or higher than the desired price set by the exhibitor (exhibition store), the bidder is determined as the successful bidder, and if not, the bid is rejected. If no bidder appears, it is meaningless to raise the price, so when it is determined that the bidder does not appear, the raising is terminated and a bid is made.
[0025]
The control unit 21 of the adjuster operation panel 4 raises the price stepwise according to instructions given by the adjuster operating various switches, and displays the current price on the corresponding display unit of the display panel 12. On the other hand, every time the price is raised, the current price is sent to the communication control unit 22 and transmitted to the control device 8. By displaying the current price received from the adjuster operation panel 4 on the slide status display panel 1 by the slide control device 8, the participant can make a bid while watching the slide status display panel 1.
[0026]
FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the flow of the slide. This shows the flow when the start price is adjusted to be smaller than the desired price and the price is raised until the bidder becomes one person (guidance lift type), focusing on one product. . Here, with reference to FIG. 4, the flow of the slide in the system will be described in detail.
[0027]
When the product (exhibited vehicle) has been connected, the user first operates the user's control panel 3 to shift the target of the display to the next product (exhibited vehicle) and displays the corresponding information on the displayed vehicle. It is displayed on the display panel 1 (step S1). After adjusting the start price of the product, the adjuster instructs the start of the bid (step S2). Thereafter, the adjuster operation panel 4 raises the price according to the instruction of the adjuster, and the current price displayed on the slide status display board 1 is updated as needed.
[0028]
After starting the bid, the coordinator determines whether or not there is a bidder from the bid status displayed on the bid status display section 13 (step S3). If there is no bidder, the bid is not established, that is, the product (exhibited car) is selected. The tag is used as a tag (step S4), and the result is transmitted to the control device 8 to terminate the command (steps S5 and S6). The slip control device 8 that has received the slip result stores it in the slip server 7 in association with the exhibition number of the product.
[0029]
On the other hand, if there are a plurality of bidders, the price is raised until there is only one bidder (repeat from step S7 to step S8). When the bidder becomes one person, it is determined whether or not the current price is greater than or equal to the desired price (step S9). If it is determined that the current price is greater than or equal to the desired price, the bid is established and the last remaining bidder is determined. It decides as a successful bidder (Step S10). Thereafter, the process proceeds to step S5, and the result of transmission is transmitted. If the current price is not equal to or higher than the desired price, the process proceeds to step S4, the signal is not established, and processing corresponding to that is performed.
[0030]
FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining an example of a change in the number of bidders over time. In FIG. 5, each “◯” represents one bidder, and a solid line extending from the start price with an arrow represents the time change of the price raised by the coordinator .
In the example shown in FIG. 5, until the price exceeds the desired price, the coordinator causes the coordinator operation panel 4 to raise the price even if there is only one bidder, and bids the product at the desired price. Represents that. In this way, in practice, the coordinator raises the price while taking into consideration that as little as possible merchandise that will become a popular tag is not put out .
The bidder operation panel 4 displays the bidding status confirmed by the coordinator to perform the raising as follows. The display method will be described in detail with reference to the explanatory diagrams shown in FIGS.
[0031]
As described above, when the card is inserted into the insertion slot, the purchase shop operation panel 6 used by the participant reads out the data written in the card and transmits it to the control device 8 to join the card. Check whether the person is a regular member. When the card is removed, it is recognized and transmitted to the control device 8 to that effect. For this reason, the sliding control device 8 is in a position to grasp which of the operation consoles 6 installed in the venue is in use and how many operation panels 6 are in use. is there. Paying attention to this, in the present embodiment, the bidding status is displayed as follows.
[0032]
FIG. 6 shows the bidding situation when the number of participants is more than ½ of the maximum number of people (the maximum number of people that can be represented by the bidding situation display unit 13 (the number of installed shop operation panels 6), which is 1024 here). It is a figure explaining a display method.
[0033]
When the number of participants is more than ½ of the maximum number of people, each pixel 61 is associated with one participant (the purchase store operation panel 6 used for bidding) as in the past. However, as shown in FIG. 6, not only the pixel 61 corresponding to the bidder is lit, but the pixels 61 located in the vicinity thereof are lit in a different state (dummy lighting). Here, the LED 61 having at least two light sources having different emission colors is used for the pixel 61 so that the color is changed. Thereby, the bidder is represented by a plurality of pixels 61. Each bidder is represented by a larger display area compared to the conventional case where the number of pixels (usually one pixel) allocated for display of one bidder (one purchasing store operation panel 6) is fixed. ing. For this reason, even if the number of bidders is small or the corresponding pixel 61 is far away from the other pixels 61, the person viewing the bidding status display unit 13 immediately recognizes how many people are bidding. It can be done.
[0034]
In this embodiment, the dummy lighting and the lighting that is not so are performed with different colors. However, the lighting may be performed with different amounts of light instead of different colors. Or you may make it differ by lighting any of them intermittently. Various other driving conditions for the pixel 61 can be employed.
[0035]
FIG. 7 is a diagram for explaining a bidding status display method when the number of participants is more than 1/16 of the maximum number of people and less than or equal to 1/2. In FIG. 7, the bidding situation shows a situation where two participants are bidding.
[0036]
As shown in FIG. 7, in this case, the number of pixels 61 used for displaying one bidder is set to 4, and the four pixels 61 corresponding to the bidders are lit. Thereby, each bidder is represented by a larger display area than in the past. As a result, as in FIG. 6, in any bidding situation, a person who views the bidding situation display unit 13 can immediately recognize how many people are bidding.
[0037]
In this embodiment, bidders also becomes 1/16 or less of the maximum number, to allow the confirmation of the bidding conditions more easily, have changed the number of pixels 61 used for displaying the one of the bidders. As shown in FIGS. 9 to 11, as the number of bidders is reduced, and stepwise increasing the number of pixels 61 assigned to one bidder. As a result, depending on the number of bidders, and to display the bid situation in an easy form performs more confirmation. Incidentally, FIG. 11, since bidders are when two people following a bidding status display unit 13 two display areas (the number of each pixel is 512 (= 1024/2)) is divided into, two This means that all the pixels 61 in those display areas are lit.
[0038]
For example, each time the number of participants changes, in other words, each time the number of participants increases or decreases, the control device 8 adjusts the number of participants (the number of purchasing operation panels 6 in use). It transmits to the operation panel 4. The operation panel data representing the purchase shop operation panel 6 operated by the participant to bid is changed, for example, when the participant newly bids or gets off the bar, in other words, the bidding situation has changed. In this case, the data is transmitted to the adjuster operation panel 4, the exhibitor display panel 5, and the like.
[0039]
The coordinator operation panel 4 receives the data transmitted from the slide control device 8 via the communication control unit 22 and sends it to the control unit 21. If the data received from the communication control unit 22 is data representing the number of participants, the control unit 21 sets the number of pixels to be allocated for display of one bidder according to the number of people, and matches the setting. Then, the correspondence between each purchasing store operation panel 6 and the pixel 61 is changed. If the data is display panel data, the display panel 12 is instructed to drive (turn on) the pixel corresponding to the store operation panel 6 that it represents, or the pixel and its surrounding pixels. The bid state is displayed on the part 13. Thereby, the display of the bidding status as shown in FIGS. 6 to 11 is realized. The same applies to the exhibition store display board 5.
[0040]
In this embodiment, an LED is used as the pixel 61, but the display element used for the pixel 61 is not limited to the LED. Other than that may be adopted.
[0041]
In the present embodiment, the setting of the number of pixels to be assigned to one purchasing store operation panel 6 is changed in six stages according to the number of participants as shown in FIGS. Is at least good. It is sufficient that there are at least two stages. However, if there are many participants, the number of pixels cannot be increased. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 6, it is not possible to light up the pixels corresponding to the shop operation panel 6 and the pixels located in the vicinity thereof. It is desirable to combine with the setting of the number of pixels.
[0042]
Alternatively, the setting of the number of pixels may not be changed by lighting the pixels corresponding to the purchase store operation panel 6 and the pixels located in the vicinity thereof. Even if the setting of the number of pixels is changed according to the number of participants, the pixels located around the pixels corresponding to the purchase shop operation panel 6 may be lit. The lighting of the pixels located in the vicinity thereof may be performed only while the number of pixels is relatively small. In this way, various modifications can be made. Depending on the content of the modification, the bidding status can be displayed so that it can be confirmed more easily.
[0043]
Although the present embodiment is mounted on the coordinator operation panel 4, the exhibitor display panel 5, etc., the devices that can be mounted are not limited thereto. The bidding status display unit 13 and a display device including the driving circuit thereof, a control device that transmits data to the display device and displays the bidding status, and the like can also be configured separately. For this reason as well, the bidding status display apparatus to which the present invention is applied can be realized in various forms.
[0044]
【The invention's effect】
As described above, according to the present invention, the bidding terminal device used for bidding by the participants of the sari is displayed by driving the corresponding pixels and the pixels located around the pixels. Thereby, the terminal device is displayed in a more conspicuous state. For this reason, it is possible to display the bidding status so that confirmation can always be easily performed.
[0045]
The present invention dynamically changes the setting of the number of pixels used to represent one bidding terminal device according to the number of participants (the number of bidding terminal devices used by the participant). Then, the bidding terminal device used by the participant for bidding is displayed using a dynamically changing number of pixels. Thus, the bidding terminal device is displayed with more pixels, in other words, with a larger display area, according to the number of participants. For this reason, according to the number of participants, the bid situation can be displayed so that confirmation can be easily performed.
[0046]
When they are combined, the bidding status can be displayed so that confirmation can always be performed more easily.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of a sliding system that employs a bidding status display device according to the present embodiment.
FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an external appearance of an adjuster operation panel equipped with a bidding status display device according to the present embodiment.
FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a configuration of an adjuster operation panel equipped with a bidding status display device according to the present embodiment.
FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a flow of a slide.
FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining an example of a change over time in the number of bidders.
FIG. 6 is a diagram for explaining a bidding status display method when the number of participants is more than ¼ of the maximum number of people.
FIG. 7 is a diagram for explaining a bidding status display method when the number of participants is more than 1/16 of the maximum number of people and less than ¼.
FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating a bidding status display method when the number of participants is more than 1/64 of the maximum number of people and 1/16 or less.
FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating a bidding status display method when the number of participants is more than 1/256 of the maximum number of people and 1/64 or less.
FIG. 10 is a diagram for explaining a bidding status display method when the number of participants is more than 1/512 of the maximum number of people and 1/256 or less.
FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating a bidding status display method when there are two or less participants.
FIG. 12 is a diagram for explaining a conventional bidding status display method.
FIG. 13 is a diagram illustrating an arrangement of pixels on a display panel.
[Explanation of symbols]
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Sled state display panel 3 Sled person operation panel 4 Coordinator operation panel 5 Exhibition store display panel 6 Purchasing store operation panel 7 Seri server 8 Slip control device 11 Operation panel 12 Display panel 13 Bid state display section 21 Control section 22 Communication control section 61 pixels (LED)

Claims (3)

In a device for displaying a situation in which a participant is bidding, used in a sliding system having a bidding terminal device and a bidding system having a bidding control device that accepts bidding performed by a participant operating the bidding terminal device,
Display means having pixels equal to or greater than the number of terminal devices for bidding;
First recognition means for recognizing the total number of bidding terminal devices used by participants among the bidding terminal devices;
Second recognition means for recognizing the number of bidding terminal devices operated by a participant in order to cause the sliding control device to accept bidding among the total number of bidding terminal devices recognized by the first recognition means. When,
The first total number recognizing means recognizes, and based on one of the second number recognition means recognizes, changes the correspondence between the tender terminal device and the pixel, bidding before Shiruseri controller Display control means for causing the display device to display the bidding terminal device operated by the participant to accept the bidding terminal device by driving pixels corresponding to the bidding terminal device;
A bidding status display device characterized by comprising: Said display control means, when the number of the second recognition unit has recognized is equal to or less than a predetermined value, to change the correspondence relationship with該台number,
The bidding status display device according to claim 1, wherein: In a method for displaying a situation in which a participant is bidding used in a bidding terminal device and a sliding system having a bidding control device that accepts bidding performed by a participant operating the bidding terminal device ,
Installing display means having pixels more than the number of terminal devices for bidding,
Specified by the auction controller, participants are being the total number of bidders for the terminal device, and the number of the auction controller bids terminal apparatus participant manipulated to make accept bids for the use on the other hand, depending on, sets the number of pixels to use the bids terminal device one, to represent,
The bidding terminal device operated by the participant in order to have the bidding control device accept bids is displayed on the display means by driving the pixels with the set number of pixels under a predetermined driving condition.
Bid status display method characterized by this.

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