JPH0778277A - Automatic ticket examining device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To perform the admission and leaving of party travelers even if a ticket is not issued for each of the party travelers. CONSTITUTION:When persons passing a gate after a right party ticket is entered are detected by a person passing check sensor 13b, the number of the persons is counted by a passing number of persons counter 13c. A means closing a gate when the count number becomes a preliminarily set number of persons is provided.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an automatic ticket gate apparatus capable of monitoring and controlling entrance / exit of group guests.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, for example, in railways, for the purpose of labor saving in ticket gates, it is provided at an entrance or exit of a facility such as a railroad, and when a user who uses the facility enters or exits the facility, When transferring to a facility, an automatic ticket gate that captures the ticket carried by the user and inspects it, permits the passage of the user if the ticket is appropriate, and blocks the passage of the user if the ticket is inappropriate Has been introduced.

This automatic ticket gate apparatus reads magnetic information (for example, an entrance station and a valid fare) which is magnetically recorded on a ticket inserted by a user at the time of entering, exiting or changing trains, and reads the magnetic information. It decides whether to allow or block the passage of the user based on the information.

[0004]

It is also known to deal with staff members or issue tickets to all group guests so that they can pass through the gate in the case of group travel. In this way, a group ticket is issued to each group customer,
There is also a method to let the passenger pass, but there is a problem that it takes time to issue a ticket if there are many group passengers.

On the other hand, it is conceivable that all the staff members can visually check the group ticket without issuing the group ticket to each group customer, but in this case, it is difficult to confirm the number of staff members when passing through the staff passage. There is a problem that it is not accurate.

The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and an object thereof is to provide an automatic ticket gate apparatus which eliminates ticketing for entrance and exit of group customers and can perform entrance / exit processing promptly and accurately. To do.

[0007]

An automatic ticket gate apparatus according to a first aspect of the present invention has a plurality of gates, and judges the validity of tickets read by ticket information reading means corresponding to each gate. Then
When the ticket is valid, in the automatic ticket gate system that opens the corresponding gate to allow passengers to pass through, ticket information reading means for reading ticket information recorded on a ticket such as a group ticket, The group ticket determining means for determining whether the tickets read by the reading means are group tickets, the detecting means for detecting whether a person has passed through the gate, and the group ticket determining means reading the group ticket. Counting means for counting the number of passing people based on the detection signal of the detection means after determining,
When the count value counted by this counting means determines whether the number of groups reaches a preset number of groups, and the count value of the counting means by this number of groups determining means reaches the preset number of groups When it is judged, it comprises a means for closing the gate.

An automatic ticket gate according to a second aspect of the present invention is provided with a changeover switch for changing over a specific gate to a group. When this changeover switch is changed over to a group, the panel display corresponding to the gate is changed to a group. I am trying to switch to.

The automatic ticket gate apparatus according to claim 3 has a plurality of gates, judges the validity of the ticket read by the ticket information reading means corresponding to each gate, and when the ticket is valid In the automatic ticket gate apparatus which controls the opening of the corresponding gate to allow passengers to pass through, the ticket information reading means for reading ticket information recorded on a ticket such as a group ticket and the reading means. Group ticket judging means for judging whether the read tickets are group tickets, detecting means for detecting whether a person has passed through the gate, and after judging that the group ticket has been read by the group ticket judging means. Counting means for counting the number of passing people based on the detection signal of the detecting means, designating means for designating a division of an adult group or dwarf group, and the counting means until the division is designated by the designating means, Adult or dwarf A means for counting the number of excessive persons and counting the number of passing children or adults after the division is designated by the designating means, and a total of the count values of the adults and dwarfs counted by the counting means are preset. And a means for closing the gate when the count value of the counting means is judged to have reached a preset number of groups by the group number judging means. It consists of and.

[0010]

The number of people who have passed through the gate after the correct group ticket is inserted is counted, and the gate is closed when the counted number reaches a preset number.

[0011]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A first embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. 1 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a system configuration of the present invention, FIG. 3 is a diagram showing devices around a gate, and FIGS. 4 and 5 are gate entrances, respectively. 6 and 7 are flow charts for explaining the operation when a group customer is handled, and FIG. 8 is a view for explaining the operation when a group customer is handled. .

As shown in FIG. 1, the automatic ticket gate apparatus has a monitoring / control unit 11 for monitoring and controlling the automatic ticket gate apparatus, a gate approach direction display unit 12 for displaying a gate approach direction, and a passage of passengers. Alternatively, it is composed of a gate portion 13 for blocking.

The monitor / control unit 11 is composed of, for example, a host computer. The monitoring / control unit 11 switches the entrance direction panel display of the entrance direction guide plate from normal entry / exit status to group exclusive use or group exclusive use → normal entry / exit status, and a gate for instructing waiting for the entry of the group ticket gate at the gate. Control operation unit 11a, gate passage number information display unit for displaying group ticket information contents such as number of adults / children read at gate, departure / arrival station name, amount of money, and status of number of adults / children passing through gate 11b is provided.

Further, the gate approach direction display unit 12 is a display unit for showing the information about the gate accessible direction and the group exclusive state to the gate user according to an instruction from the gate control operation unit 11a.

Further, the gate unit 13 reads the inserted ticket information, a ticket information reading unit 13a, a person passage check sensor 13b for monitoring the passage of a person through the gate, and a person passage check sensor 13b for detecting the person passage. Passage counter 13 that is incremented when a passage is detected
c, receiving the group ticket insertion waiting instruction, the clear instruction of the number counter 13c and the normal gate processing instruction sent from the monitoring / control unit 11, or the ticket information reading unit 13
The information transmission / reception unit 13d is configured to transmit the ticket information and the number-of-gates status information read in a to the monitoring / control unit 11.

Next, the system configuration of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. In FIG. 2, the monitoring / control unit 11
Is mainly composed of a CPU (central processing unit) 21, and a system bus 21a has a ROM (read only memory) 21b for storing control programs and a RAM for storing various data. (Random access memory) 21c, display 21d, keyboard 21e,
The disk device 21f is connected. Keyboard 21
In addition to ten keys, various keys, an "adult" switch 23 operated when recognizing a person who has passed a specific lane as an adult, and a person who has passed the specific lane is recognized as a dwarf. A "child" switch 24 that is operated in some cases and a changeover switch 25 that changes the display panel for groups are provided. further,
The system bus 21a has an I / O (input / output) port 2
6 is connected.

The gate approach direction display unit 12 is a CPU.
The system bus 31 consists mainly of 31
In a, a ROM 31b storing a control program, a RAM 31c storing various data, and gate panels 32 _{1 to} 32 installed for each gate for displaying traffic information corresponding to each gate, etc. _n are connected. Further, an I / O port 33 is connected to the system bus 31a.
The I / O port 26 and the I / O port 33, and the I / O port 26 and the I / O port 43 are respectively connected to the communication line 4.
They are connected at 5, 46.

The gate entrance direction display section 12 is provided with, for example, three gates at the gate entrance and the gate exit, and each gate corresponds to each gate. A gate that indicates the approach direction
The entrance direction guide plates 51 and 52 are provided. The gate approach direction guide plates 51 and 52 are a panel showing an enterable state as shown in FIG. 4 (A), an inaccessible state as shown in FIG. 4 (B), and as shown in FIG. 5 (A). It is possible to display a display "It will soon be unusable" and a "Group only" panel as shown in FIG. 5 (B).

The gate unit 13 is mainly composed of the CPU 41, and the system bus 41a has a ROM 41b for storing control programs, a RAM 41c for storing various data, and a ticket information reading unit. 13a, a person passage check sensor 13b, a passing person counter 13c, and a buzzer 42 for issuing an alarm sound are connected. Further, an I / O port 43 is connected to the system bus 41a.

Next, the operation of the embodiment of the present invention constructed as above will be described. In this embodiment, FIG.
When entering or leaving a group consisting of multiple adults and children as shown in Figure 2, secure two gates exclusively for the group, allow one adult to enter or leave, and the other gate to enter. -The number of adults and children is counted by allowing children to enter and exit from G.

By the way, the group ticket issued by the railway company stores the group ticket ID, boarding date, boarding section, the number of adults and children, etc. as magnetic information. Since the entry and exit operations are the same, the entry operation will be described as an example. First, when the staff member knows that there is an entrance to the group, the changeover switch 25 is operated from the keyboard 21e of the monitor / control section 11 to display the panel display shown in FIG. 4 (A) or (B). First, as shown in FIG. 5 (A), the display is switched to "I will soon be unable to use", and then, as shown in FIG. 5 (B), it is switched to "dedicated to group". In this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 8, the 1st gate and the 2nd gate are designated and the display panel is displayed as "group only" display. Here, at the time of setting from the keyboard 21e described above, the first gate is set for adults and the second gate is set for children.

Next, the group ticket is inserted into the gate by the group attendant (step S2), and it is determined whether the ticket inserted by the ticket information reading section 13a is a group ticket (step S3). This is because general customers enter the gate set for exclusive use by groups and prohibit the insertion of tickets other than group tickets.

If the result of this determination in step S3 is "YES", the communication line 46 in which the magnetic information stored in the group ticket is read by the ticket information reading section 13a.
It is sent to the monitor / control unit 11 via and is written in the RAM 21c. Further, the face information stored in the group ticket is transmitted to the monitoring / control unit 11 through the communication line 46 and displayed on the display as shown in FIG. 9 (step S
5). Next, a ticket insertion shutter (not shown) provided in the ticket insertion opening is closed, and processing for prohibiting the insertion of tickets is performed (step S6).

The preprocessing is completed as described above, and thereafter,
Adults enter through the 1st gate and children through the 2nd gate, and move to the stage where people pass (step S).
7).

When the passage of a person is detected by the person passage check sensors 13b of the first gate and the second gate, the passage number counter 13c is incremented by the detection signal (step S8). And the first gate and the second gate
The number of passing adults and the number of passing children counted by the passenger passing counter 13c are monitored via the communication line 46.
It is sent to the control unit 11 and displayed on the display 21d. In other words, information about the number of passing adults and the number of passing children of children sent from different gate units 13 is displayed on the display 21.
will be displayed on d. FIG. 8 shows the display state of the display 21d at the time when all the people have passed, but until all the people have passed, the number of people passed by adults and dwarfs is displayed in real time as the passing status. .

Then, the monitoring / control section 11 calculates the total number of passing people of adults and dwarfs at the present time, detects that the total number of people matches the total number of passing people stored in the group ticket, It is determined whether all the people have passed (step S10).

If it is determined "NO" in this step S10, the processing from step S7 is repeated.
The counting process of the number of passing people is counted. Then, when all the people have passed the 1st gate or the 2nd gate and judged "YES" in step S10, the gate is closed (step S11). Then, the display 21 shows whether the ticket information and the number of passing passengers are the same for each of the adult and child categories.
Confirm on d (step S12).

Then, in step S12, when it is determined that the ticket information and the number of passing passengers are equal for each of the adult and child categories, the monitoring / control section 11 sends the information to the gate section 12 via the communication line 45. Outputs a control signal, and gates 1 and 2
The display panel for the gate is returned to the normal state shown in FIG.

By the way, when the result of the determination in step S3 is "NO", in the gate unit 13, the fuser 42 is driven and an alarm sound is output (step S14). Then, the gate containing the non-group ticket is closed (step S15), and the ticket is ejected (step S16).

As described above, according to the first embodiment, an adult is passed through one gate of the automatic ticket gate apparatus, a child is cut through the other gates, and each gate is passed through. The total number of adults and dwarfs is displayed on the display 21d of the monitor / control unit 11, and the number of adults and dwarfs read from the previously entered group ticket is discriminated on the screen. Therefore, it is not necessary to issue a ticket to each group customer, so ticketing work can be eliminated.

In the above-mentioned first embodiment, the adult and the dwarf pass the gates separately, but when the gates are crowded, the adult and the dwarf are smaller than one gate. People need to enter or leave. In such cases,
The flow chart shown in FIGS. 10 and 11 may be performed. The flow charts of FIGS. 10 and 11 are the same as the flow charts of FIGS. 6 and 7 except that step S6a is added.

That is, in the second embodiment, first, the dwarf is passed from one gate, and when the dwarf is finished passing through, the changeover switch 25 is operated to display the contents of the counter on the display 21d. At the same time, the contents of the counter are reset so that the number of adults passing through the gate after that is counted.

The gate is closed when all the people pass by. As described above, according to the second embodiment, one gate can distinguish between adults and dwarfs, which is effective when the gate is crowded. As a matter of course, since it is not necessary to issue a group ticket to each person, ticketing work can be eliminated.

When one of the members of the group, for example, the number of dwarfs is small, only adults pass through one gate, and dwarfs use the staff-correspondence passage to keep the staff small. The number of people may be counted. In such a case, the group-specific display of only one gate may be performed by the process of step S1 of FIG. 6 of the flowchart of the first embodiment. It should be noted that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and various modifications can be made without departing from the spirit of the present invention.

[0035]

As described above in detail, according to the present invention, since it is possible to save the time and trouble of issuing a ticket to each group customer, ticketing work can be significantly reduced, and the number of people who pass the ticket accurately can be reduced. It is to provide an automatic ticket gate device that can count

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the system configuration of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a view showing a device around the gate.

FIG. 4 is a view showing the gate approach direction guide plate.

FIG. 5 is a view showing the gate approach direction guide plate.

FIG. 6 is a part of a flowchart for explaining an operation when handling a group customer of the first embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a part of a flowchart for explaining an operation when handling a group customer of the first embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a diagram for explaining the operation of the first embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a display state of the display.

FIG. 10 is a part of a flowchart for explaining the operation of the second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 11 is a part of a flowchart for explaining the operation of the second embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

11 ... Monitoring / control unit, 12 ... Gate approach direction display unit, 1
3 ... Gate part, 13b ... Person passage check sensor, 13c
... Passing person counter, 13d ... Information transmitting / receiving unit.

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A ticket having a plurality of gates, the validity of the ticket read by the ticket information reading means corresponding to each gate is judged, and when the ticket is valid, the corresponding gate is determined. In an automatic ticket gate that controls opening to allow passengers to pass, ticket information reading means for reading ticket information recorded on a ticket such as a group ticket, and the tickets read by the reading means are group tickets Based on the detection signal of the above-mentioned detection means after determining that the group ticket has been read by the above-mentioned group ticket determination means, the group ticket determination means for determining whether or not a person has passed through the gate Counting means for counting the number of people passing by, counting means for judging whether the counted value counted by this counting means has reached a preset number of groups, and counting value of the counting means by this counting means for groups. Is the preset number of groups An automatic ticket gate, comprising means for closing the gate when it is determined that the gate has been closed. 2. A switch for switching a specific gate to a group only, and when the switch is switched to a group, the panel display corresponding to the gate is switched to a group only. The automatic ticket gate apparatus according to claim 1. 3. A ticket having a plurality of gates, the validity of the ticket read by the ticket information reading means corresponding to each gate is judged, and if the ticket is valid, the corresponding gate is selected. In an automatic ticket gate that controls opening to allow passengers to pass, ticket information reading means for reading ticket information recorded on a ticket such as a group ticket, and the tickets read by the reading means are group tickets Based on the detection signal of the above-mentioned detection means after determining that the group ticket has been read by the above-mentioned group ticket determination means, the group ticket determination means for determining whether or not a person has passed through the gate Counting means for counting the number of passing people, specifying means for designating the division of an adult group or dwarf group, and the counting means for counting the number of passing adults or dwarf until the dividing means is designated by the designating means. Count and specify the above After the division is specified by the step, a means for counting the number of passing children or adults and a judgment as to whether the total of the count values of the adults and children counted by the counting means has reached the preset number of groups And a means for closing the gate when it is determined that the count value of the counting means reaches a preset number of organizations. Automatic ticket gate.