JPH064730A - Card type entrance processing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To perform entrance processings corresponding to various tickets for a facility of amusements or the like by one data format of a magnetic card which a visitor carries for entrance. CONSTITUTION:A magnetic card 1 is provided with respective data areas of a date of entrance or the period of availability 111, an entrance flag 112, a number of days of availability 113, and a permitted frequency in entrance 114. One is preliminarily written in the area of the permitted frequency of entrance 114 in the case of a normal entrance ticket for only one entrance, and the number of days is preliminarily written in the area of the number of effective days 113 in the case of a two-day ticket, a three-day ticket, or the like with which the visitor can enter for the number of effective days after the first entrance day, and the limit data and one are preliminarily written in the area of the date of the effective period 111 and the area of the permitted frequency in entrance 114 respectively in the case of a ticket for only one entrance in the effective period, and the permitted frequency is preliminarily written in the area of the permitted frequency of entrance 114 in the case of a coupon ticket with which the visitor can enter with the permitted frequency of entrance, and thus, this card is read and written by the same entrance processing device to perform various entrance processings.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a device which uses a magnetic card or the like to perform entrance processing at an exhibition, a theme park, an amusement facility, or the like. In the drawings below, the same reference numerals indicate the same or corresponding parts.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as is well known in this type of entrance processing, in addition to an admission ticket that allows only one entry by manual processing, within two or three days after the first admission day, etc. There are used 2-day tickets, 3-day tickets, tickets with an expiration date such as a session, and coupon tickets that allow a predetermined number of entrances.

Recently, entry processing using a magnetic card has begun to be performed. As the entry processing using a conventional magnetic card, the entry completion is stored in the card at the time of one entry, and the second and subsequent entries are invalidated. I was doing.

[0004]

As described above, in the conventional entrance processing using the magnetic card, the card is invalidated once the entrance is performed, but the labor-saving effect is not sufficient. For this reason, it is desired to process cards corresponding to 2-day tickets, 3-day tickets, etc. by the same processing device, a card with an expiration date, and a card equivalent to a coupon ticket.

Therefore, it is an object of the present invention to provide a card type entrance processing device which enables such various kinds of entrance processing.

[0006]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the card type entrance processing device according to claim 1 writes a date (111 etc.) in a card (magnetic card 1 etc.) brought by an attendant. A first area to be filled in, a second area to write entry data (e.g., entry flag 112) indicating whether or not the entry has been made once, and a third area to write valid days (113, etc.) after the first entry date. An area and a fourth area for writing the number of times of entry (114, etc.) are provided, and a card reader / writer (22, etc.) for reading and writing the card and a clock (24
Etc.) and a judgment result output means (judgment lamp 26 etc.) for outputting the admission judgment result, and based on the insertion of the card into the card reader / writer, the data contents of the respective areas in the card. The first admission process that allows only one entry, the second admission process that allows entry within the valid days after the first admission date, 1 within the expiry date
Either the third admission process that allows only one entry, or the fourth admission process that allows as many admissions as possible. 1
Admission processing for one or a plurality of combinations is performed, and the admission availability for the card is output to the determination result output means.

Further, in the card type entrance processing device according to claim 2, the card type entrance processing device according to claim 1 is the first
In the entry processing of, the number of times of entry of at least the fourth area is determined based on the first insertion of a card in which the number of times of possible entry is written in advance in the fourth area into the card reader / writer for the first time. Subtract 1 and output that the admission is possible to the determination result output means,
Based on the second and subsequent insertions into the writer, it is determined that the number of possible entrances is zero, and the decision result output means outputs the entry rejection.

Further, in the card type entrance processing device of claim 3, the card type entrance processing device according to claim 1 or 2 is configured such that the number of valid days is previously set in the third area in the second entrance process. Based on the first insertion of the written card into the card reader / writer, at least the entry date of the entry in the first area is written and the entry result is output to the determination result output means, Based on the second and subsequent insertions into the card reader / writer, the current date indicated by the clock is written from the entry date written in the first area to the valid date written in the third area. If it is within the range, the admission is allowed, and if not, the admission is output to the determination result output means.

Further, in the card type entrance processing device according to claim 4, the card type entrance processing device according to any one of claims 1 to 3 is set in advance in the first area in the third entrance process. Based on the first insertion of the card in which the expiry date is written and the number of times of possible entry into the fourth area is written into the card reader / writer for the first time,
If the current date indicated by the clock is within the expiration date written in the first area, at least the number of admissions in the fourth area is decremented by 1 to enter the determination result output means. As a result, it is determined that the number of possible entrances is zero based on the second and subsequent insertions of the card into the card reader / writer, and the entry result is output to the decision result output means. To do.

Further, in the card type entrance processing device according to claim 5, the card type entrance processing device according to any one of claims 1 to 4 is set in advance in the fourth area in the fourth entrance process. Every time a card in which a predetermined number of times of admission is written is inserted into the card reader / writer, 1 is subtracted from at least the number of times of admission in the fourth area, and the number of times of admission becomes 0. Up to the above, the entry permission is output to the determination result output means.

[0011]

[Function] On the data format of the card brought by the visitor for entry, an area for storing the date of entry or expiration date, an area for storing whether or not the entry has been made,
An area for storing the number of valid days such as a two-day ticket and an area for storing the number of valid entrances are provided. The processing corresponding to a day ticket, a three-day ticket, etc., the processing of a card with an expiration date, the processing corresponding to a coupon ticket, etc. are performed.

[0012]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. FIG. 3 is a system configuration diagram as one embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, reference numeral 1 is a magnetic card that an attendee purchases in advance to bring in, and 2 is an entrance processing device provided at the entrance of this entrance facility. Further, in the admission processing device 2, 21 is an arithmetic unit which is the main body of control, 22
Is a card reader / writer for giving the read contents of the inserted magnetic card 1 to the arithmetic unit 21 and writing the data given from the arithmetic unit 21 to the magnetic card 1, 23 is a memory belonging to the arithmetic unit 21, and 24 is a year A clock that informs the arithmetic unit 21 of the current time including the date, and 26 is a determination lamp that displays the determination result of admission by the arithmetic unit 21 by reading the card.

FIG. 1 shows a data format of a magnetic card as an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, reference numeral 11 denotes a magnetic area in the magnetic card 1 in which the data 111 to 114 described below are written. That is, 111 is the date of entry written in this area or the date when it becomes the expiry date (in the case of a card with an expiry date), 112 is the admission flag indicating whether or not the admission has been performed once, and 113 is the same. The number of valid days that indicates how many days are valid from the date of the first entry (However, in this example, if the value of the number of valid days is n, the numerical value of n-1 will be written. 2 is written on a card equivalent to a 3-day ticket),
Reference numeral 114 also indicates the number of times of entry that can be entered (therefore, in the case of a card equivalent to a coupon ticket, the number is written in this example, and "1" is written in a card other than the coupon equivalent card). It is rare).

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure (of the arithmetic unit 21) of the entrance processing apparatus 2 as an embodiment of the present invention, and S0 to S17 show steps in the figure. The procedure of this Figure 2 is for a card that can be entered only once, a card that can be entered once within the expiry date, a card that is valid for several days from the date of entry, and a card that can be entered a predetermined number of times. All the processes are shown.

Next, FIG. 2 will be described with reference to FIGS. (1) In the case of a card (normal card) that can be entered only once: In the normal card, no data is written in the magnetic area 11 except that "1" is written in the maximum number of times of admission 114 Therefore, based on the first insertion of the magnetic card 1 into the card reader / writer 22, (S0 → S1,
No branch), first write the entry flag 112 (S
2) Next, refer to the clock 24 and enter date (current date)
111 is written (S7, no branch → S3), and “1” is subtracted from the number-of-times data 114 to obtain OK (OK1),
The determination lamp 26 indicating this is turned on (S4, branching present → S5 → S6).

In the case of the second and subsequent card insertion (S0),
The entry completed flag 112 and the entry date 111 have been written (S1, with branch → S11, with branch → S12, without branch), and since there is no number of times data 114, it is set to NG (NG4) (S13, branch N), The judgment lamp 26 indicating that entry is not possible is turned on. (2) Cards that can be entered once within the valid period: If the event can be entered only during a certain period, the date 111 of the last day of the event must be written on the card in advance. Therefore, at the first entry, after writing the entry flag 112 (S0 to S2), the date data 111 and the clock 24
From the current date (S7 → S8), and if the date data is later than the current date (S8, branch N), the count data 1
"1" is subtracted from 14 (S9) to be OK (OK2) (S10), and if it has passed (S8, branch Y), NG
(NG2).

After the second time, the entry flag 112 and the date data 111 are present and the other data 113 and 114 are not present (S0 → S11 to S13, branch N), so NG (NG
4). (3) Cards that are valid for a few days from the day you enter (2-day pass,
In the case of a 3-day ticket or the like): For a 2-day ticket or the like, data indicating the number of valid days (for example, "1" for a 2-day ticket and "2" for a 3-day ticket) is written in advance in the area of the valid day 113. I shall.
In this case, when entering the first time, the same processing as a normal card is performed. From the second time onward, it is checked whether or not there is an admission flag 112 and date data 111, and then there is effective date data 113 (S0 → S1 → S11 → S12).
In this case, since it exists (S12, with branch), the date obtained by adding the number of valid days to the date data is compared with the current date (S12).
16) If the former is later than the current date (branch Y), it is OK (OK4) (S17), and if it is past (S16, branch N), it is NG (NG3).

(4) In the case of a card that can be entered a predetermined number of times (a card equivalent to a coupon ticket):
The number-of-times data is written in advance in the number-of-allowed-admissions area 114, and the same processing as the normal card is performed at the time of the first entrance. In this case, the count data 114 is subtracted (-1). After the second time, it is judged whether there is a number of times (S0
→ S1 → S11 to S13), while the number of times remains (S
13, branch Y), the count data 114 is subtracted (S1
4), OK (OK3), and if the number of times is 114 or "0" (S13, branch N), NG (NG4).

[0019]

According to the present invention, an area for storing the date of entry or expiration date, an area for storing whether or not the user has entered once, on the data format of the card brought by the visitor for entry, An area for storing the number of valid days such as a two-day ticket and an area for storing the number of valid entrances are provided. Since the processing corresponding to daily tickets, three-day tickets, etc., processing of cards with an expiration date, processing corresponding to multiple tickets, etc. are performed, various card issuance operations can be performed in admission processing at amusement facilities, etc. .

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a data format of a magnetic card according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing an operation procedure of the entrance processing device.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a system configuration of an entrance processing device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 magnetic card 2 admission processing device 11 magnetic area 21 arithmetic unit 22 card reader / writer 23 memory 24 clock 26 judgment lamp 111 admission or expiration date 112 admission flag 113 valid days 114 valid number of admissions

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A first area in which a date is written in a card brought by a visitor, a second area in which entry data indicating whether or not a person has entered once is written, and an effective number of days after the first entry date. A third area for writing and a fourth area for writing the number of times of admission are provided, and a card reader / writer for reading and writing the card, a clock, and a judgment result output means for outputting a result of admission judgment. According to the data content of each area in the card based on the insertion of the card into the card reader / writer, the first entrance processing that enables only one entrance, after the first entrance date A second admission process that enables admission within the valid days, a third admission process that allows only one admission within the expiry date, and a fourth admission process that enables admission as many times as possible. Admission of any one or more combinations of Performs management, card type entry processing unit and outputs whether admission relating to the card on the determination result output unit. 2. The card type admission processing device according to claim 1, wherein in the first admission processing, the card reader / writer of a card in which the number of possible admissions is once written in advance in the fourth area. Based on the first insertion into the card, at least 1 is subtracted from the number of admissions in the fourth area, and the admission is output to the determination result output means, and the second or later entry of the card into the card reader / writer. The card type entrance processing device is characterized in that the number of possible entrances is determined to be non-existent based on the insertion of, and the entry result is output to the decision result output means. 3. The card-type entrance processing device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein in the second entrance processing, the card reader / card of a card in which a valid number of days is written in advance in the third area. Based on the first insertion into the writer, at least the entry date of the entry in the first area is written and the entry result is output to the determination result output means, and the entry of the card into the card reader / writer after the second entry is completed. If the current date indicated by the clock is within the range of the valid days written in the third area from the date of entry written in the first area, the entry is permitted. If not, the card type entrance processing device is characterized in that the entry result is output to the determination result output means. 4. The card type entrance processing device according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the expiration date is written in advance in the first area in the third entrance processing, and The current date indicated by the clock is written in the first area based on the first insertion of the card in which the number of times of possible entry is written in the fourth area into the card reader / writer for the first time. If it is within the expiration date, at least 1 is subtracted from the number of admissions in the fourth area, and the admission is output to the judgment result output means, and the card is read to the card reader / writer for the second time. A card type entrance processing device, characterized in that the number of possible entrances is judged to be non-existent on the basis of the subsequent insertion, and whether or not the entrance has been made is output to the judgment result output means. 5. The card type entrance processing device according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein in the fourth entrance processing, a predetermined number of times of possible entry is written in advance in the fourth area. Every time the inserted card is inserted into the card reader / writer, at least 1 is obtained from the number of admissions in the fourth area.
Is subtracted and the admission possible is output to the determination result output means until the admissible number of times becomes 0.