JPH08161535A - Ticket vending machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To enable even a visually handicapped person to purchase a correct ticket easily and conveniently with a safe conscience. CONSTITUTION: With a speech guide button 25 pressed, the total amount of money which is thrown in a coin slot 20 and a paper money slot 21 is vocalized by a speaker part 26. When one of plural amount buttons 16 is pressed, the fare of the train ticket corresponding to the depressed button is vocalized by the speaker part 26. When one of plural amount buttons 16 is pressed once and then pressed again after the fare is vocalized, i.e., pressed twice, the train ticket corresponding to the fare is issued.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a ticket vending machine which prints and issues a ticket such as a ticket for a vehicle in accordance with a user's operation.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, for example, in the railway industry, ticket vending machines for printing and issuing a ticket by a user's operation have become widespread due to labor saving in station operations. This type of ticket vending machine automatically prints and issues change tickets as needed when the user inserts a money or monetary value card and selects and presses the destination or fare button. Is supposed to do.

However, when a physically handicapped person (hereinafter, especially for visually impaired persons) purchases the correct ticket by himself, the conventional ticket vending machine displays the amount of money to be inserted and the pressed button lights up. There was only a function to do so, it was difficult to confirm whether it was purchased correctly.

[0004] Further, although there is a ticket vending machine which provides voice guidance as an additional item, since voice guidance is given to anyone, it may be rather annoying. In addition, there are some that display the amount in Braille near the button on the ticket vending machine, but it is a hassle for blind people to read Braille, and if there is no Braille, it is necessary to check whether the correct amount button was pressed or not. It was often very difficult to find out if the amount was sufficient.

[0005]

As described above, when a blind person purchases the correct ticket by himself at the ticket vending machine, the troublesomeness of reading the Braille in the vicinity of the amount button and the correct Braille are correct. There was a problem that there were many difficulties, such as whether you could press the amount button or whether the amount of money was sufficient.
Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a ticket vending machine that enables even blind people to purchase correct tickets easily and conveniently.

[0006]

The ticket vending machine of the present invention has a receiving means for receiving money, a judging means for judging the amount of money received by the receiving means, and a sound for the amount judged by this judging means. A first voice guidance means for giving guidance, a designating means for designating the amount of the ticket to be issued, and a voice when the amount of the ticket to be issued is designated by the designating means. And the issuing means for issuing the ticket of the designated amount when the amount of the ticket voice-guided by the second voice guiding means is designated again by the designating means. There is.

The ticket vending machine of the present invention receives the card by a receiving means, a reading means for reading the remaining amount of money recorded on the card received by the receiving means, and a voice guide for the amount of money read by the reading means. A first voice guidance means,
Designating means for designating the amount of the ticket to be issued, second voice guidance means for guiding the designated money amount by voice when the amount of the ticket to be issued by the designating means is designated, and the second voice guidance means. When the amount of the ticket voice-guided by the voice guidance means is designated once again by the designation means, the issuing means for issuing the ticket of the designated amount and the acceptance amount of the ticket issued by the issuing means are accepted. It comprises rewriting means for subtracting the remaining amount of the card received by the means to rewrite the remaining amount of the card, and discharging means for discharging the card whose remaining amount has been rewritten by the rewriting means.

The ticket vending machine of the present invention has a receiving means for receiving money, a first judging means for judging the amount of money received by the receiving means, and the amount of money judged by the first judging means by voice. A first voice guidance means for giving guidance, a designating means for designating the amount of the ticket to be issued, and a voice when the amount of the ticket to be issued is designated by the designating means. When the price of the ticket voice-guided by the voice guidance means and the voice guidance means of the second voice guidance means is designated again by the designation means, the designation with respect to the price of the voice guidance given by the first voice guidance means. Second judging means for judging whether the amount of the ticket designated by the means is excessive or insufficient, and when the second judging means judges that the amount is insufficient, the insufficient amount of money is calculated and the insufficient amount of money is guided by voice. Third voice guide means and this third voice guide When the accepting means accepts the insufficient amount of money that is voice-guided by, or when the second determining means determines that the money is not insufficient, a ticket with the amount specified again by the specifying means is issued. It is composed of issuing means for issuing.

The ticket vending machine of the present invention receives the card by a receiving means, a reading means for reading the remaining amount of money recorded on the card received by the receiving means, and a voice guide for the amount of money read by the reading means. A first voice guidance means,
Designating means for designating the amount of the ticket to be issued, second voice guidance means for guiding the designated money amount by voice when the amount of the ticket to be issued by the designating means is designated, and the second voice guidance means. When the amount of the ticket voice-guided by the voice guidance unit is designated again by the designation unit, the amount of the ticket designated by the designation unit with respect to the amount voice-guided by the first voice guidance unit The judgment means for judging the excess or deficiency, the third voice guidance means for calculating the deficiency amount by voice when the deficiency is judged by this determination means, and the third voice guidance means. When the voice-supplied shortage amount is supplemented with a card or money, or when it is determined by the determination means that there is no shortage, an issuing means for issuing the ticket of the amount once again designated by the designation means. It consists of

[0010]

When the present invention accepts money, judges the amount of money, guides the judged amount by voice, designates the amount of the ticket to be issued by the designating means, and designates the amount of the ticket to be issued. The amount of the designated ticket is voice-guided, and when the amount of the voice-guided ticket is designated again by the designation means, the ticket of the designated amount is issued.

According to the present invention, a card is accepted, the remaining amount recorded on the card is read, the read amount is announced by voice, the amount of the ticket to be issued is designated by the designating means, and the amount of the ticket to be issued is determined. When designated, the amount of the designated ticket is announced by voice. When the amount of the voice-guided ticket is designated again by the above-mentioned designation means, the designated amount of ticket is issued and issued. The amount of the ticket is subtracted from the remaining amount of the card received by the receiving means, the remaining amount of the card is rewritten, and the card with the remaining amount rewritten is discharged.

According to the present invention, the money is accepted by the receiving means, the amount of money is judged, the judged amount is voice-guided by the first voice guiding means, the amount of the ticket to be issued is designated by the designating means, and issued. When the amount of the ticket to be specified is designated, the designated amount of the ticket is voiced, and when the amount of the voiced ticket is designated again by the designating means, the first voice guiding means is used. The second judgment means judges whether the amount of the ticket specified by the above-mentioned specification means is excessive or insufficient with respect to the amount of voice-guided money, and when the second judgment means judges that the amount is insufficient, the shortage amount is calculated. When the receiving means receives the insufficient amount of money that is voice-guided by the receiving means, or when the second determining means determines that the money is not insufficient, another one is given by the specifying means. The ticket of the designated amount is issued.

The present invention receives a card, reads the remaining amount recorded on the card, voice-guides the read amount by the first voice guiding unit, and designates the amount of the ticket to be issued. When the amount of the ticket to be issued is designated by the designating means, the amount of the designated ticket is announced by voice. When the amount of the ticket which is voice-guided is designated again by the designating means, the first When the judgment means judges whether the amount of the ticket designated by the designation means is excessive or insufficient with respect to the amount of voice guidance by the voice guidance means, and when the judgment means is insufficient,
When the shortfall is calculated and this shortfall is announced by voice, when the shortage is voice-guided and supplemented with a card or money,
Or when it is judged by the above judgment means that there is no shortage,
The above-mentioned designating means issues a ticket of the designated amount once again.

[0014]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows a schematic configuration of a ticket vending machine according to the present invention. That is, the ticket vending machine 1 is
And a display section 11 for displaying the input amount, an attendant call button (push button switch) 12, a cancel button (push button switch) 13 for canceling the purchase, the section fare of the release route is lit up and displayed based on the input amount of money, and the amount A plurality of amount buttons 1 that light up and display the purchaseable contents based on the remaining amount of the card (card having monetary value such as a prepaid card)
6. The condition button (push button switch) 17 for specifying the number of purchased tickets, children's tickets, and discount tickets, the amount card A, and the card slot 19 from which the amount card A is ejected and coins are inserted. Coin slot 20, banknote slot 21 into which banknotes are inserted and banknotes are ejected, boarding ticket issuing slot 22 to issue boarding tickets, coins and ejection slot 23 to eject banknotes, issued boarding ticket, and change Is provided with a saucer 24 from which the sound is emitted, a large voice guidance button 25 for a physically handicapped person (blind person), and a speaker unit 26 for outputting a voice guidance voice to the user of the ticket vending machine 1. There is.

The plurality of money amount buttons 16 are arranged in upper and lower two stages, and the amount of a ticket issued by pushing from the button on the left side of the upper stage to the right side of the upper stage increases. The lower left button is higher than the ticket issued by the upper right button, and the ticket issued by pressing it toward the lower right is higher.

When the voice guidance button 25 is pressed, the operation for guiding the purchase of the ticket by voice is started. Normally, when the voice guidance button 25 is not pressed, the voice guidance is not performed, and accordingly the voice guidance is performed. People who do not need guidance are not given the sometimes annoying audio guidance. That is, the voice guidance of the present invention can be selected.

FIG. 2 shows a schematic configuration of the control unit of the ticket vending machine 1, in which the card slot 19 is connected to the card unit 30. The card unit 30 is for reading or rewriting the magnetically recorded remaining amount of money of the amount A inserted into the card slot 19.

The bill insertion slot 21 is connected to the bill processing unit 31. The banknote processing unit 31 receives and inspects banknotes inserted from the banknote insertion slot 21 or ejects banknotes as fishing tags from the ejection slot 23. Also,
The coin slot 20 is connected to the coin inspection unit 32, and the coin inspection unit 3
A change unit 33 is connected to 2. As a result, the coins discriminated by the inspection section 32 are stored in the change section 33 as change and can be discharged from the discharge port 23.

The change section 33 is provided at the ticket issuing port 22.
In addition to the above, the ticket issuing mechanism 34 is also connected. The ticket issuing mechanism unit 34 includes a printing unit 35 and an encoding unit 36. In the ticket issuing mechanism unit 34, the paper sheet printed by the printing unit 35 using a thermal head (not shown) is sent to the encoding unit 36, and the magnetic recording unit (not shown) of the paper sheet is automatically ticketed by the encoding unit 36. Magnetic information of
The ticket is issued from the ticket issuing port 22 to the tray 24 as a ticket.

Then, the card unit 30 and the bill processing unit 3
The main control unit 37 controls all of 1, the coin inspection unit 32, the change unit 33, the ticket issuing mechanism unit 34, the display unit 11, the condition button 17, and the plurality of amount buttons 16. The main controller 37 is mainly composed of, for example, a microcomputer and its peripheral circuits, and controls the entire ticket vending machine 1.

Further, the main control unit 37 has a voice memory 2 in which voice guidance information is stored, a speaker 3 of a speaker unit 26 for outputting voice guidance, and a voice guidance button 25 for shifting to voice guidance operation. And are connected.

Next, the operation of purchasing a ticket by a visually handicapped person will be described with reference to the flow chart shown in FIG. First, a visually impaired person (hereinafter referred to as a user) presses the voice guidance button 25 to purchase a ticket. Voice guidance button 25
If is not pressed, normal ticket issuing processing is performed. When the voice guidance button 25 is pressed, the main controller 37
Voice guidance is performed using the voice guidance information stored in the voice memory 2 and the speaker 3.

Subsequently, the user inserts coins or bills having an amount equal to or exceeding the desired amount of the ticket from the coin insertion slot 20 and the bill insertion slot 21. When coins or banknotes are inserted through these slots, the coin inspection section 3
2. The bill processing unit 31 detects and discriminates the inserted coins and bills. The total amount of the discriminated currency is calculated by the main control unit 37, and the main control unit 37 determines that the voice memory 2
Each time a coin is inserted, the total amount of money is announced by voice from the speaker 3 using the voice guidance information stored in.

After inserting coins (coins or banknotes), the user makes a guess with one of the plurality of amount buttons 16 and presses it (because it is blind). Multiple amount buttons 1
When one of the six buttons is selected and pressed, the main control unit 37 reads the voice guidance information stored in the voice memory 2 and guides the amount of money corresponding to the selected and pressed button by voice from the speaker 3. . In addition, the main controller 37
Only the voice guidance is performed with the second press as the trial press.

When the user purchases a ticket for the amount of money that has been selected and pressed and voice-guided, the user presses the button that has been selected and pressed once again. The main control unit 37 starts the operation of printing and issuing the ticket and sending the change by pressing one of the plurality of amount buttons 16 twice in this way.

Also, the amount of money that the user has selected and pressed and voice-guided is different (this is often the case because one of the plurality of amount buttons 16 is pressed with a guess). In this case, if a ticket with a higher price is purchased, the button to the right of the selected and pressed buttons of the plurality of price buttons 16 is pressed. If a ticket with a lower price is to be purchased, the button to the left of the selected and pressed buttons of the plurality of price buttons 16 is pressed.

Thus, the user can select a plurality of money buttons 16
Since the ticket prices corresponding to the upper and lower buttons are regular as described above, a plurality of money buttons 16
By pressing one of them sequentially, voice guidance is provided and the button for purchasing the ticket of the desired amount can be correctly selected.

When the user selects and presses one of the plurality of money amount buttons 16 and then presses it once more (twice), the main control section 37 causes the amount of money corresponding to the selected and pressed button to be changed. Start the operation of printing and issuing the ticket and sending out the change.

First, the main control section 37 confirms whether the amount of the ticket corresponding to the button of which one of the plurality of amount buttons 16 is pressed twice is within the amount of money inserted, and the amount of money inserted is insufficient. If so, the shortage amount is calculated, and the voice guidance information stored in the voice memory 2 is used to inform the speaker 3 of the shortage amount by voice.

When the user inserts the insufficient amount of money, the main controller 37 edits the face information. The edited ticket surface information is printed on the ticket by the printing unit 35, and the printed ticket is sent to the encoding unit 36. The encoding unit 36 magnetically records magnetic information for automatic ticket gates, such as issuing date information, departure station information, arrival station information, and section (fare) information, on the magnetic recording unit formed on the back surface of the ticket. Then, the ticket is discharged from the ticket issuing port 22 to the tray 24 as a ticket. At this time, if there is change, the change unit 33 operates, and change coins and bills are discharged from the discharge port 23 to the tray 24. When the issuance of the ticket is completed in this way, it returns to the sale waiting state.

The operation of buying a ticket by a visually handicapped person when the money card A is inserted instead of the currency will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. When the money card A is inserted, the main control section 37 guides the remaining money of the money card A by voice from the speaker 3 using the voice guidance information stored in the voice memory 2.

Then, the user can select a plurality of amount buttons 16
Align one of them and press down (because it is blind). When one of the plurality of amount buttons 16 is selected and pressed, the main control unit 37 outputs the amount of money corresponding to the selected and pressed button from the speaker 3 by using the voice guidance information stored in the voice memory 2. Guide by voice.

When the user purchases a ticket for the amount of money that has been selected and pressed and voice-guided, the user presses the button that has been selected and pressed again. The main control unit 37 uses a plurality of amount buttons 1
When one of 6 is pressed twice, the printing and issuing of the ticket and the card sending operation are started.

Further, the user is different in the amount of money that is voice-guided by selecting and pressing it (this is often different because one of the plurality of amount buttons 16 is pressed with a guess). In this case, if a ticket with a higher price is purchased, the button to the right of the selected and pressed buttons of the plurality of price buttons 16 is pressed. If a ticket with a lower price is to be purchased, the button to the left of the selected and pressed buttons of the plurality of price buttons 16 is pressed.

Thus, the user can select a plurality of amount buttons 16
Since the ticket prices corresponding to the upper and lower buttons are regular as described above, a plurality of money buttons 16
By pressing one of them sequentially, voice guidance will be given to correctly select the button that allows the purchase of the ticket of the desired amount.

When the user selects and presses one of the plurality of amount buttons 16 and presses it once more (twice), the main control unit 37 causes the amount of money corresponding to the selected and pressed button to be changed. Start printing and issuing of tickets and card sending operation.

First, the main control unit 37 confirms whether the amount of the ticket corresponding to the button of which one of the plurality of amount buttons 16 is pressed twice is within the remaining amount of the amount card A, If the remaining amount is insufficient, calculate the insufficient amount and
The voice guidance information stored in the voice memory 2 is used to inform the speaker 3 that the amount is insufficient by voice.

When the user inserts a new amount card A or money corresponding to the shortage amount, the main control section 37
Edit the face information. The edited ticket surface information is printed on the ticket by the printing unit 35, and the printed ticket is sent to the encoding unit 36. The encoding unit 36 magnetically records magnetic information for automatic ticket gates, such as issuing date information, departure station information, arrival station information, and section (fare) information, on the magnetic recording unit formed on the back surface of the ticket. Then, the ticket is discharged from the ticket issuing port 22 to the tray 24 as a ticket. At this time,
The main control unit 37 uses the voice guidance information stored in the voice memory 2 to determine the remaining amount after the purchase amount is deducted from the speaker 3
From the voice guidance.

Further, a new remaining amount is written in the storage unit (not shown) of the main control unit 37 by the card unit 30, and the card unit 30 inserts the money amount card A on which the ticket sales history is printed into the card slot 19. To the outside.

That is, the printing section (not shown) prints the release history such as date, time, departure station, used number, and remaining amount on the amount card A, and the writing head (not shown) shows date, time, Magnetic information such as the departure station, the number of the used device, and the balance is magnetically recorded. After that, the card slot 19
The money card A is discharged from.

When the issuing of the ticket is completed in this way, the state returns to the sale standby state. As described above, according to the above-described embodiment, a user who needs voice guidance (for example, a blind person)
You can give information about ticket purchase information to people who are blind and can buy tickets with the correct amount.

Also, by the voice guidance of the amount of money to be inserted, it becomes unnecessary to blindly insert money. In other words, it is not necessary to pay attention to receiving change by inserting banknotes so that the amount will not be insufficient, and as a result, the amount of change will not be increased. In addition, there is no need to spend a lot of change due to fear that the amount of money will be insufficient.

Furthermore, since the monetary amount buttons are regularly arranged from the low monetary amount to the high monetary amount, it is possible to push the monetary amount button with an estimate. Also, since the first pressing of the amount button is not a ticket issuing, the button can be pressed with confidence.

[0044]

As described above in detail, according to the present invention,
It is possible to provide a ticket vending machine that enables even blind people to purchase the correct ticket easily and conveniently with peace of mind.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a schematic configuration of a ticket vending machine according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a control unit of the ticket vending machine in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining a ticket purchase operation using currency.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart for explaining a ticket purchase operation using a money card.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 ... Ticket vending machine 2 ... Voice memory 3 ... Speaker 16 ... A plurality of amount buttons 25 ... Voice guidance button 26 ... Speaker section 34 ... Ticketing mechanism section 35 ... Printing section 36 ... Encoding section 37 ... Main control section

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A receiving means for receiving money, a judging means for judging the amount of money received by the receiving means, a first voice guiding means for guiding the amount of money judged by the judging means by voice, and issuing. Specifying means for specifying the amount of the ticket to be issued, and second voice guiding means for guiding the amount of the specified ticket by voice when the amount of the ticket to be issued by the specifying means is specified, and the second voice. A ticket vending machine comprising: an issuing unit that issues a ticket of a designated amount when the amount of the ticket voice-guided by the guiding unit is designated again by the designating unit. 2. A receiving means for receiving the card, a reading means for reading the remaining amount of money recorded on the card received by the receiving means, and a first voice guidance for guiding the amount of money read by the reading means by voice. Means, designating means for designating the amount of the ticket to be issued, and second voice guidance means for guiding the designated money amount by voice when the amount of the ticket to be issued is designated by the designating means, When the amount of the ticket voice-guided by the second voice guidance means is designated again by the designation means, an issuing means for issuing the ticket of the designated amount, and the amount of the ticket issued by this issuing means And a discharging means for discharging the card with the remaining amount rewritten by the rewriting means, by subtracting from the remaining amount of the card received by the receiving means to rewrite the remaining amount of the card. Ticket vending machine 3. A receiving means for receiving money and a first means for judging the amount of money received by the receiving means.
Determining means, first voice guiding means for guiding the amount of money determined by the first determining means by voice, designating means for designating the amount of the ticket to be issued, and amount of the ticket issued by the designating means. Is designated, the second voice guidance means for guiding the designated ticket amount by voice, and the ticket amount voice-guided by the second voice guidance means are designated again by the designation means. In this case, there is a second judgment means for judging whether the amount of the ticket designated by the designation means is excessive or deficient with respect to the amount of voice guidance given by the first voice guidance means, and a shortage is made by the second decision means. When determined, the third voice guidance means for calculating the shortage amount and guiding the shortage amount by voice, and the money for the shortage amount voice-guided by the third voice guidance means are accepted by the receiving means. In case of the above, it is judged that there is no shortage in the second judging means. When it is, ticket vending machines, characterized by comprising an issuing means for issuing a ticket amounts specified once in the designated means. 4. A receiving means for receiving the card, a reading means for reading the remaining amount of money recorded on the card received by the receiving means, and a first voice guidance for guiding the amount of money read by the reading means by voice. Means, designating means for designating the amount of the ticket to be issued, and second voice guidance means for guiding the designated money amount by voice when the amount of the ticket to be issued is designated by the designating means, When the amount of the ticket voice-guided by the second voice guidance unit is designated again by the designation unit, the ticket designated by the designation unit with respect to the amount voice-guided by the first voice guidance unit is designated. A judgment means for judging whether the amount of money is excessive or insufficient, a third voice guidance means for calculating a shortage amount when the judgment means is insufficient, and giving a voice guidance about the shortage amount; and a third voice. The voice guidance provided by the guide means When the amount of money is supplemented with a card or money, or when it is determined that the amount of money is not insufficient by the above-mentioned determination means, an issuing means for issuing a ticket of the amount of money once again designated by the above-mentioned designating means is provided. Ticket vending machine characterized by.