JPH03102596A - Display system using prepaid card - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve an advertising function by making advertisement information recorded on a prepaid card capable of being read by a card using apparatus, and displaying an advertisement based on this advertisement information. CONSTITUTION:The prepaid card is provided with a code recording part in which the advertisement information is recorded by a bar code in addition to a magnetic recording surface in which various information necessary for card transaction is recorded. On the other hand, the card using apparatus is provided with a magnetic head and an optical head at a card carrying path installed closely to a card receiving port, and a magnetic head control circuit 40 and optical head control circuits 41, 42 are provided. Then, the information necessary for the card transaction and the advertisement information are read by the magnetic head and the optical head respectively, and the advertisement information is displayed by a display device through a display control circuit 46.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] Industrial application field> The present invention relates to a technology related to a prepaid card that is given a value corresponding to the prepaid amount. The present invention relates to a display system for the use of a Vrivaid card applied to an operating card-using device.

<Prior Art> Prepaid cards are currently used for various purposes such as telephone cards. For example, when a telephone card is inserted into a public phone, a call can be made depending on the monetary value (remaining power) at that time. Usually, this type of card has a printed surface on the front and a magnetic recording surface made of a magnetic coating on the back, and in addition to the necessary information, the printed side has advertising characters and designs of the company printed on it. .

Problems to be Solved by the Invention> However, with such printed advertisements, the advertisement on the card surface is only visible when the cardholder uses the card, so there is no function to draw the cardholder's attention. Moreover, after being inserted into a public telephone, the card is taken into the machine, so the advertising function is not performed at all.

This invention was made in view of the above-mentioned problem, and provides a display system for use of prepaid cards with excellent advertising functions by recording advertising information on the Vlive Card and displaying the advertisement when the card is used. The purpose is to

<Means for Solving the Problems> The present invention provides a Bripaid cart to which a monetary value has been assigned, a cart-using device that operates according to the monetary value of the card, and a display device connected to the card-using device. , the Prepaid Cart' is provided with an information recording section in which advertisement information related to advertisement display is recorded, and the card usage device is provided with a card reception slot that accepts a Buripay card, and a Prepaid Cart'. The information reading device is provided with information reading means for reading advertisement information from the information recording section, and display control means for causing the display device to display a predetermined advertisement based on the advertisement information.

<Effect>? When the rebate card is accepted at the car 11 reception desk of the card-using device, advertisement information is read from the information recording section of the prepaid card, and the contents of the advertisement are displayed on the display.

This display attracts the cardholder's attention, and since the advertisement continues even after the card is inserted into the machine, the advertising function is fully utilized.

<Embodiment> Although the drawings show an example in which the display system for use of prepaid cards according to the present invention is applied to a medal lending machine such as a slot machine, the present invention is not limited to this, and can be applied to other card use such as public telephones. Of course, it can be applied to equipment.

FIG. 1 shows the installation situation of the medal lending machine according to the present invention, in which a thin medal lending machine 1 is arranged at an intermediate position between two slot machines 2a and 2b.

The Slon machine 2a, 2b is equipped with three reels 3A to 3C with multiple symbols on the periphery, and after a medal is inserted, the three reels 3A to 3C are rotated all at once and then stopped. 1
The outcome of the game is determined by what kind of combination of patterns appears on the stop line when the ball is hit.

The medal lending machine 1 is for lending medals for this game, and as shown in FIG. 2, there is a display 5 on the front of the machine 4. Medal supply port 6. Medal Release] Ko 7, Card Reception 8. Illuminated selection button switch9. An amount display 10 and the like are arranged.

The display 5 is for displaying advertisements, which will be described later, and in addition to using cR'r as in this embodiment, an electric display board with light emitting diodes, light bulbs, etc. lined up, a liquid crystal, etc. can be adopted.

As shown in FIG. 3, the medal replenishment port 6 is used to open the door plate 1l and replenish the loaned medals to the medal delivery device l2 inside the aircraft body 4.

This medal sending device 12 includes a hopper 1 for storing medals.
3 and an auxiliary hopper 14, and a medal delivery mechanism (not shown) operates based on a command from a control circuit 37, which will be described later, to release a predetermined number of medals in the hopper 13 to the medal release port 7.

In the figure, 15 is a hopper motor that drives the medal delivery mechanism.

The card reception port 8 is a part that accepts the insertion of a prepaid card. Amount display 10 displays the monetary value (current value) of the Brivaid card. The "selection nail" switch 9 is for selecting the number (amount) of medals to be lent.

4 and 5 show the structure of the prepaid card 16 used in this embodiment.

The illustrated example of the Vliveid card 16 has a printed surface 17 on its front surface, and a magnetic recording surface 18 made of a magnetic coating on its back surface. On the printing surface I7, in addition to necessary information, letters and designs for advertisement of the vendor are printed. This printing 17
is provided with a perforation recording section 19 in which the remaining monetary value is visually recorded, and a code recording section 20 in which advertising information regarding advertisement display is recorded, and the perforation recording section 19 shows the remaining monetary value. A hole 21 is formed at the position.

In the case of this embodiment, the code recording section 20 is configured by pasting an adhesive sticker with a barcode printed thereon, and this hardcode is used to specify the content of the advertisement display. For example, advertisements for Company A, Company B, and Company C are prepared in advance, and the display data is stored in the medal lending machine 1, and which advertisement is displayed in the second card recording section 20 of each Vlivaid card 16. This is recorded using a hard code.

It goes without saying that in addition to the amount information, various kinds of information necessary for card transactions are recorded on the magnetic recording surface 18 by a magnetic method.

Returning to FIG. 2, inside the machine body 1, a card transport mechanism 22 as shown in FIG. 6 is installed inside the card reception port 8.

The card transport mechanism 22 in the illustrated example has upper and lower transport helts 23
, 24. In the figure, 2526.27.28 is the roller on which the conveyor hel l-23.24 is stretched, and 29 is the conveyor for driving the helt. It's a motor.

A magnetic head 30, two optical heads 31 and 32, three position sensors 33 to 35, and a punching mechanism 36 are arranged along this conveyance path.

The magnetic head 30 is for reading transaction information from the magnetic recording surface 18, and the first optical head 3l is for reading the transaction information from the magnetic recording surface 18.
The second optical hand 32 is used to read advertising information from a barcode from 0, and the amount information from the perforation is read from the perforation recording section 19.

The first position sensor 33 detects the insertion of a live bait card. The second position sensor 34 detects the arrival of the prepaid card to the head group.

The third position sensor 35 detects the arrival of the prepaid card at the punching mechanism 36.

The perforation mechanism 36 is for perforating a predetermined position in the perforation recording section 19, and a solenoid serves as a driving source for the perforation mechanism 36.

FIG. 7 shows a control circuit 37 incorporated in the medal lending machine 1. As shown in FIG.

This control circuit 37 is a microcomputer C P
The sensor control circuit 39.U38 is the main control body. Magnetic hend control circuit 40, optical head control circuit 41.4
．． 2. Homper motor control circuit 43, conveyance motor control circuit 44. It includes control circuits such as a solenoid control circuit 45 and a display control circuit 46.

The sensor control circuit 39, the magnetic head control circuit 40, and the optical head control circuits 41 and 42 control the respective operations of the position sensors 33 to 35 along the general transport path of the card 1, and the optical henodes 31 and 32 of the magnetic head 30. The hopper motor control circuit 43 controls the drive of the hosoba motor 15 in the medal delivery mechanism, and the transport motor control circuit 44 controls the drive of the transport motor 29 in the cart transport mechanism 22. Solenoid control circuit 4
5 controls the driving of the solenoid in the drilling mechanism 36; The display control circuit 46 controls the display operation of the display 5.

FIG. 8 shows a specific circuit configuration of this display control circuit 46.
The ROM 48 in which programs are stored and the RAM 49 as a work area are connected, and the display 5 made of a CRT is connected via a CRT interface 50.
is connected.

This display control circuit 46 includes a plurality of video memories 51 storing display data for displaying advertisements of various companies;
It includes a graphic controller I/roller processor 52 for performing drawing processing on the display device 5 at high speed.

The graphic controller processor 52 reads advertising display data from the video memory 51 corresponding to the code read from the code recording unit 20 of the prepaid card 16, and draws advertising content on the display 5 via the CRT interface 50. do.

FIG. 9 shows the control procedure by the CPU 38.

Now, when the Vrivaid card 16q 10 is inserted into the card reception slot 8, the position sensor 33 detects this and the judgment of the stent 1 (indicated by rsT1j in the figure) in the figure is "Y".
ES'', and in the next step 2, the conveyance motor 29 rotates forward and the conveyance mechanism 22 carries in the card (Step 2).While this card advances along the first general conveyance path, the magnetic hand 30 performs magnetic recording. The optical head 31 receives the transaction information from the surface 18, and the advertisement information (CoF') from the code recording section 20.
The optical hendo 32 reads the amount information (remaining amount) from the perforation recording section 19 and provides the information to the CI U 3 8 (step 3).

The CPU 38 determines the authenticity of the cart based on the transaction information, and if the card is a proper card, step 4 becomes "YES". The CPU 38 also determines the remaining amount of the card from the amount information, and if the remaining amount is zero, the step 5 will return "YES".
Then, proceed to the next step 6.

If the judgment in any of steps 4 to 5 is "No", the process advances to step 22, {the general feeding mode 29 is reversed, and the conveyance mechanism 22 returns the taken-in card 16.

Steps 6 and 7 use IVrL to determine which advertisement information is based on the read code. For example, if the code specifies advertisement display for company A, step 6 is "YES".
”, the graphic controller processor 52 reads out the display data from the corresponding video memory 51, and displays a predetermined advertisement on the display 5 (step 8).
.

If the reading code specifies the advertisement display of company B, step 7 is "YES", and if the reading code specifies the advertisement display of company C, step 17.8 is "NO゜゛". Similarly, the graphic controller processor 52 reads out the display data from the corresponding video memory 51 and displays a predetermined advertisement on the display 5 (step 910).

When the prepaid card is thus conveyed to a predetermined position, the position sensor 35 detects this and steps 1 are carried out.
1 becomes “YES”, and in step ↓2 the transport motor 2
9 stops driving and the carrying-in operation 11 12 is completed. Next, the CPU 38 lights up the selection button switch 9 corresponding to the current monetary value of the prepaid card, and waits for button operation (step 13.14).
.

If any selection button switch 9 is pressed now, step 14 becomes "YES", the process moves to step 15, and the CP
U38 performs calculation of the remaining amount.

For example, the current monetary value of Buripay Cart 16 is 100.
0 yen, and when receiving a loan of 500 yen worth of medals, the remaining amount becomes 500 yen, and in step 16 the medal sending device 12 releases 500 yen worth of medals to the medal dispensing port 7, and in step 17 A hole is not made at a position where the hole mechanism 36 operates and the remaining monetary value is 500 yen.

Next, in step 8, the transport motor 29 is reversely rotated, and the transport mechanism 22 transports the bripaid cart. When this cart reaches the card reception slot 8, the position sensor 33 detects this and the step 19 becomes "YES", the drive of the transport motor 29 is stopped at the next step 20, and the display 5
-h advertisement display is cleared (step 2]).

A plurality of medal lending machines 1 having the above structure are connected to a tallying machine 54 via a lotus 53, as shown in FIG. 10, and the tallying machine 54 is further connected to a host computer 56 via a lotus 55.

The aggregation machine 54 aggregates the card transaction data from each medal lending machine 1 and sends it to the host computer 56, and the host computer 56 collects the human data from the aggregation machine 54 and the card vending machine 57 that sells prepaid cards 16. Car 1 ~ Release data is imported and predetermined management processing is performed.
cormorant.

In the case of this embodiment, the CRT is provided as the display 5 only on the medal lending machine 1, but it is installed in other positions, for example, as shown in FIG.
A second display 58 such as an electronic display board is provided across b.
may also be provided, in which case the advertising function can be further enhanced.

Further, in this embodiment, the prepaid card 16 records a code for specifying the content of advertisement display, but the present invention is not limited to this, and display data may be directly recorded using the magnetic recording surface 18. You may also do so.

<Effects of the Invention> As described above, this invention provides a Bribay 1 cart that is given a monetary value and an IJI card that is given a monetary value.
A display system is made up of a card-using device that creates a card and a display device connected to the card-using device, and the prepaid card records advertising information related to advertising display.
The card-using device is equipped with a means for accepting prepaid cards, reading advertising information from the card, and displaying the advertising content.This advertising display arouses the cardholder's attention, and furthermore, the card is not inserted into the machine. Since the advertisement is carried out even if the invention is incorporated into the system, the advertising function is fully demonstrated, and the invention has a remarkable effect of achieving the purpose of the invention.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Fig. 1 is a front view showing the arrangement of a medal lending machine to which the present invention is applied, Fig. 2 is a front view showing the external appearance of the medal lending machine, and Fig. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing the internal mechanism of the medal lending machine. Fig. 4 is a plan view showing the printed surface of the prepaid card, Fig. 5 is a sectional view taken along the line ■-V in Fig. 4, Fig. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing the card 1 general feeding mechanism, and Fig. 7 is the control circuit. 8 is a block diagram showing an example of the structure of the display control circuit, FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing the control procedure of the CPU, and FIG. 10 is a block diagram showing the overall structure of the card transaction system including the medal lending machine. FIG. 11 is a block diagram showing the overall structure and a front view showing another embodiment of the present invention. ■・・・Medal lending machine 5, 58・・・Display 8
... Card reception port 16 ... Prepaid card 20 ... Code recording section 31 ... Optical head 46 ... Display control circuit

Claims (1)

[Claims] A system comprising a prepaid card to which a monetary value has been assigned, a card-using device that operates according to the monetary value of the card, and a display connected to the card-using device, comprising: The prepaid card is provided with an information recording section in which advertisement information related to advertisement display is recorded, and the card usage device includes a card reception slot for accepting prepaid cards and information for reading advertisement information from the information recording section of the prepaid card. A display system using a prepaid card, comprising a reading means and a display control means for causing the display to display a predetermined advertisement based on advertisement information.