JPH10162176A - Automatic ticket examination system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an automatic ticket examination system that enables a user to purchase a ticket without taking trouble to go to a ticket issuing machine. SOLUTION: A ticket center 19 issues ticket data. A portable communication terminal 11 stores the ticket data downloaded from the ticket center 19 through a telephone network 17 and a base station 15. An automatic ticket examining machine 19 reads the ticket data out of the portable communication terminal 11 by radio and controls the passage of passengers at a ticket barrier. The telephone network 17 connects the portable communication terminal 11 and ticket center 19 by a telephone line and calculates the charge when the ticket data is downloaded from the ticket center 19 to the portable communication terminal 11.

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 widely used in the railway field and the like, and more particularly to an automatic ticket gate system for performing ticket processing when passing an automatic ticket gate without contact.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional automatic ticket gate system widely used in railways and airports, contact-type automatic ticket gates have attracted attention in order to improve user convenience.

As shown in FIG. 11, this conventional automatic ticket gate system includes a ticket 51 made of a contacted IC card,
It comprises a ticket issuing machine 55 for confirming payment of the ticket price and writing ticket data to the contacted IC card ticket 51, and an automatic ticket gate 53.

In this conventional automatic ticket gate system, the automatic ticket gate 53 reads out the contacted IC card ticket in which the ticket data has been written, by contacting the IC card ticket, and determines whether or not the customer is allowed to pass. Passengers are passed or blocked from ticket gates.

A conventional automatic ticket gate system is shown in FIG.
As shown in the figure, the above-mentioned automatic ticket gate system further includes a telephone network 57 and a ticket center 59. When the ticket issuing machine 55 confirms payment of the ticket price,
Requests transmission of ticket data to the ticket center 59 via the telephone network 57, and then, when the ticket center 59 receives this transmission request, transmits the ticket data to the ticket issuing machine 55 via the telephone network 57. It is supposed to.

[0006]

However, in these conventional automatic ticket gate systems described above, the ticketing machine 55 checks the payment of the ticket price and writes the ticket data.
Therefore, the user must go to the place where the ticket issuing machine 55 is installed to purchase the ticket 51, which is inconvenient for the user.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In view of the above problems, an object of the present invention is to provide an automatic ticket gate system that allows a user to purchase a ticket without having to visit a ticket issuing machine in order to purchase the ticket. And

[0008]

According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a ticket center for issuing ticket data and ticket data downloaded from the ticket center via a telephone network. And an automatic ticket gate that reads out ticket data stored in the mobile communication terminal wirelessly and sorts the ticket gate traffic of the user based on the ticket data.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, a ticket center that issues ticket data, a portable communication terminal that stores ticket data downloaded from the ticket center, and a telephone line connection between the portable communication terminal and the ticket center. At the same time, when the ticket data is downloaded from the ticket center to the mobile communication terminal, the telephone line network for performing the billing calculation and the ticket data stored in the mobile communication terminal are read wirelessly, and And an automatic ticket gate that organizes the ticket gate traffic of the user.

[0010] The third aspect of the present invention is the first or second aspect.
In the invention described above, when the portable communication terminal downloads the ticket data, the portable communication terminal wirelessly transmits a telephone number of an issuance request to a base station, and transmits ticket data from the ticket center issued by the issuance request to the base station. A base station wireless transmitting / receiving means for receiving wirelessly from the station,
It has an automatic ticket gate wireless transmission / reception means for wirelessly transmitting / receiving the automatic ticket gate.

The invention described in claim 4 is the first or second invention.
In the invention described in the above, the telephone number at the time of requesting issuance at the time of downloading the ticket data includes a normal call for charging only a call charge and a call for downloading ticket data for charging charge for a call charge + ticket price. , A ticket center identification number for uniquely identifying the ticket center, and a ticket type identification number for identifying the ticket type and specifying the ticket price.

[0012] The invention according to claim 5 is the invention according to claim 1 or 2.
In the invention described, in the case where the portable communication terminal transmits to a base station, and in the case of transmitting to the automatic ticket gate, a wireless transmission unit that outputs a radio wave of a strength corresponding to each
Transmission output control means for switching control of the output of radio waves to the wireless transmission means.

According to the present invention, the ticket data is downloaded from the ticket center to the portable communication terminal via the telephone line network and stored, and the ticket data stored in the portable communication terminal is wirelessly read and read by the automatic ticket gate. Based on the ticket data, the system organizes the ticket gate traffic of the user.

Further, since the billing calculation is performed when the telephone network downloads the ticket data from the ticket center to the portable communication terminal, it is not necessary to pay the ticket price as needed.

[0015]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of an automatic ticket gate system according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of an automatic ticket gate system according to the present invention.

The automatic ticket gate system 1 of this embodiment includes a portable communication terminal 11, an automatic ticket gate 13, a base station 15,
It comprises a telephone network 17 and a ticket center 19.

The portable communication terminal 11 downloads ticket data to be described later from a ticket center 19 via the base station 15 and the telephone network 17.

When a request is made to transmit the downloaded ticket data from the automatic ticket gate 13, the portable communication terminal 11 outputs this data in accordance with the request.

As shown in FIG. 2, the portable communication terminal 11 has a control unit 111 for controlling components constituting the terminal.
Memory 11 for storing a control program for controlling the terminal
2. A ticket data storage unit 113 for storing ticket data when passing through an automatic ticket gate, and a telephone number (to be described later) of an issuance request when downloading the ticket data is wirelessly transmitted to the base station 15, and in response to the issuance request, The ticket data from the issued ticket center 19 is transmitted to the base station 1
5, an automatic ticket reader / receiver 115 for wirelessly transmitting / receiving to / from the automatic ticket gate 13, a keyboard, a microphone, etc., and an input unit 116 for the user to perform an input operation. And an output unit 117 for outputting service information to the user.

Here, two radio transmission / reception units 114 and 115 for the base station and the automatic ticket gate are used because the transmission output of the radio wave output from the radio transmission / reception unit 114 for the base station is large. It reaches the range of several tens to several hundred meters,
Before the user approaches the automatic ticket gate 13, the door of the automatic ticket gate 13 opens and the adjacent automatic ticket gate 13 malfunctions. The automatic ticket transmission / reception unit 115, which has a smaller transmission output than the radio transmission / reception unit 114 and a small communicable range (several cm to several tens of cm),
14 is provided separately.

The automatic ticket gate 13 opens and closes the ticket gate based on the ticket data received from the mobile communication terminal 11, and as shown in FIG. A wireless transmission / reception unit 132 that transmits a request for transmitting the ticket data stored in the communication terminal 11 and receives the ticket data, and detects a user who tries to pass through a ticket gate without checking the ticket data. Based on an instruction from the sensor 133 and the control unit 131, the system includes a pass control unit 134 that opens and closes a ticket gate to control a user from passing through the ticket gate, and a ticket database 135 that stores serial numbers of used tickets.

A different number is assigned to the serial number for each ticket data.
The ticket data having the same serial number as that registered in.

The base station 15 has a radio wave reception area within a predetermined range, and transmits and receives radio waves from the portable communication terminal 11 to and from the telephone network 17 within this area.

As shown in FIG. 4, the telephone network 17 includes a plurality of exchanges 171 and an NSP (Network Service Control Unit) 172 provided for each of the exchanges 171.

The exchange 171 is connected to the ticket center 19 through a telephone line, calculates a charge for each call, and transmits it to the charge totaling center 20.

Upon receiving the logical number from the exchange 171, the NSP 172 converts the logical number into a physical number, and then outputs an instruction to the exchange 171 to make a line connection with the ticket center 19 based on the physical number. ing.

Further, NSP 172 outputs billing information (information indicating either "billing only for call charges" or "billing for call charges + ticket charges") to exchange 171 and uses the logical number as the destination. To the ticket center 19.

The ticket center 19 has a host computer, and upon receiving a ticket data transmission request from the portable communication terminal 11 received via the base station 15 and the telephone network 17, the ticket center 19 stores the ticket data corresponding to the request. The information is obtained from a computer and transmitted to the mobile communication terminal 11 via the telephone network 17 and the base station 15.

Here, downloading of the above-described ticket data will be described.

When the ticket data is downloaded from the ticket center 19 to the mobile communication terminal 11, the ticket price is charged together with the telephone charge via the telephone network 17.

In order to calculate the ticket price by the telephone network 17, the telephone number (referred to as a logical number when viewed from the telephone network 17) by which the user dials into the portable communication terminal is shown in FIG. As shown, a communication section identification number, a ticket center identification number, and a ticket type identification number are required.

Here, the communication section identification number includes a normal call (hereinafter, referred to as a normal call) in which only a call charge is processed.
Communication for ticket data download that charges "call charge + ticket price" (hereinafter referred to as ticket communication)
Is a number for identifying For example, if the first four digits of the telephone number are "0990", the communication is ticket communication; otherwise, the communication is normal communication.

The ticket center identification number is a number for uniquely identifying the ticket center 19, for example,
A telephone number in the form of “0990-1234-YYYY” indicates a ticket center identified by “1234”.

The ticket type identification number is a number for identifying the type of the ticket and specifying the ticket price. For example, when YYYY is dialed, the telephone network 17 charges the communication YYYY × 10 yen as the ticket price. To process.

As shown in FIG. 6, the ticket data used for the passive ticket gate system of this embodiment has an encrypted ticket type and serial number. That is, this ticket data can be decrypted only by the ticket center 19 and the automatic ticket gate 13 using the encryption key, thereby preventing unauthorized use of the ticket data by falsification.

Next, the procedure for downloading ticket data will be described with reference to FIG.

In order for the portable communication terminal 11 to download the ticket data, when the user dials in the telephone number consisting of the above-mentioned logical number into the portable communication terminal,
The mobile communication terminal 11 makes a call request to the base station 15 (see a in the figure). The base station 15 is a mobile communication terminal 11
When a call request is received from, a call response to the call request is output to the portable communication terminal 11 (see b in the figure). When receiving a call response to the call request from the base station 15, the mobile communication terminal 11 outputs the dialed-in logical number to the base station 15 (see c in the figure).

The base station 15 outputs the logical number received from the portable communication terminal 11 to the #i exchange 171 of the telephone network 17.

The exchange 171 of #i is connected to the NSP 17 of #i.
The logical number received in 2 is output (see d in the figure). #I
NSP 172 receives the logical number, converts it to a physical number, specifies the connection destination, forms the charging information, and outputs the formed charging information to the exchange 171 of #i (see e in the figure). . Then, NSP172 of #i
Is the NSP 172 of #j on the ticket center 19 side
Output a connection request (see f in the figure) to N of #j.
Upon receiving the connection response from the SP 172 (see g in the figure), it outputs the logical number to the NSP 172 of #j (see h in the figure).

The NSP 172 of #j is the NSP 17 of #i.
The logical number received from # 2 is output to the exchange 171 of #j (see i in the figure), and an instruction to connect to the ticket center 19 is output to the exchange 171 of #j.

Then, the exchange 171 of #j outputs a called number notification request to the ticket center 19 (see k in the figure), and receives a called number notification response from the ticket center 19 (see l in the figure). ) And Ticket Center 1
The logical number received from the NSP 172 of #i on the base station side is output to 9 (see m in the figure).

The ticket center 19 is connected to the exchange 1 of #j.
When the logical number is received from 71, an instruction to the effect that the reception of the logical number is completed is output to the exchange 2 of #j (see n in the figure).

Subsequently, the exchange 171 of #j makes a call to the ticket center 19 (see o in the figure),
When a response is returned from the ticket center 19, the response is output to the exchange 2 (see p in the figure).

Thereafter, the exchange 171 of #j receives the N of #j.
The NSP 172 of #i on the base station 15 side via the SP 172
(See q, r in the figure).

When the NSP 172 of #i receives the response from the NSP of #j, it outputs an instruction to execute the accounting calculation to the exchange 171 of #i (see s in the figure).

Thus, the connection between the portable communication terminal 11 and the ticket center 19 has been completed.

After that, the portable communication terminal 11
Then, a ticket data request is output to the ticket center 19 via the telephone network 17 (see t in the figure).

Then, the ticket center 19 refers to the ticket type identification number in the previously received logical number and transmits the ticket data corresponding to the ticket data request via the telephone network 17 and the base station 135 to the corresponding mobile communication. It is loaded on the terminal 11 (see u in the figure).

When the loading of the ticket data is completed, the portable communication terminal 11 sends an instruction to the effect that the loading has been completed to the ticket center 1 via the base station 15 and the telephone network 17.
9 (see v in the figure).

Next, a communication end instruction is sequentially output from the ticket center 19 to the #i exchange 171 (see w, x, y, z in the figure), and the #i exchange 171 receives the communication end instruction. Then, the accounting calculation ends.

Thereafter, when the mobile communication terminal 11 outputs a line disconnection request to the telephone line network 17 via the base station 15 (see A, B and C in the figure), the telephone line network 17 disconnects the line. Thereafter, a disconnection completion response is output to the mobile communication terminal 11 via the base station 15 (D, E, F in the figure).

Here, the exchange 17 of #i on the base station 15 side
When the billing calculation is completed, 1 calculates and outputs the billed amount to the bill totaling center 20.

Thus, the download processing of the ticket data is completed.

Subsequently, the communication procedure between the portable communication terminal 11 and the automatic ticket gate 13 when passing through the automatic ticket gate is divided into (1) when the user enters and (2) when the user exits. Description will be made with reference to FIGS.

(1) Communication Procedure at the Time of Admission The automatic ticket gate 13 constantly transmits a ticket data transmission request to the portable communication terminal regardless of whether or not the user is present (see FIG. 8). ,,,reference).

When the user approaches the automatic ticket gate 13 and holds the portable communication terminal 11 over the automatic ticket gate 13, the portable communication terminal 13 receives the ticket data transmission request from the automatic ticket gate 13 and automatically converts the ticket data. It is transmitted to the ticket gate 13 (see FIG. 8).

This ticket data is encrypted at the ticket center 19 at the time of downloading.

When receiving the ticket data from the portable communication terminal 11, the automatic ticket gate 13 decodes the data, determines whether the ticket is of a type that can pass through the ticket gate, and checks the used ticket database 135. A search is performed to determine whether a ticket having the same serial number has already been used.

If the validity of the ticket data can be confirmed, the automatic ticket gate 13 creates new ticket data in which the ticket type (see FIG. 6) is updated to the confirmed type without changing the serial number. Is transmitted to the mobile communication terminal 11 as “confirmed ticket data” (see FIG. 8), and the serial number of the ticket data is registered in the used ticket database 135.

Upon receiving the “confirmed ticket data”, the portable communication terminal 11 discards the old ticket data, stores the “confirmed ticket data” in the ticket data storage unit 113, and completes updating the ticket data. Is transmitted to the automatic ticket gate 13 (see FIG. 8).

When the automatic ticket gate 13 receives the update completion of the ticket data from the portable communication terminal 11, it transmits a ticket data transmission request to the portable communication terminal 11 again (see FIG. 8).

The portable communication terminal 11 then outputs the updated ticket data to the automatic ticket gate 13 (FIG. 8).
Reference).

Upon receiving the updated ticket data from the portable communication terminal 11, the automatic ticket gate 13 checks the validity of the ticket data again as described above,
As a result of the check, if the ticket data is correct, the user is permitted to pass.

(2) Communication procedure at the time of exit The operation at the time of exit is the same as that at the time of entry until the validity of the ticket data is confirmed (see FIG. 9,,,), so the description thereof is omitted. I do.

When the automatic ticket gate 13 confirms the validity of the ticket data received from the portable communication terminal 11, the automatic ticket gate 13 issues a ticket data erasure request to erase the ticket data stored in the ticket data storage unit 113. 11 (see FIG. 9).

When the portable communication terminal 11 receives the ticket data erasure request, it erases the ticket data stored in the ticket data storage unit 113 and transmits to the automatic ticket gate 13 that the erasure of the ticket data has been completed ( (See FIG. 9).

Thereafter, the automatic ticket gate 13 transmits a ticket data transmission request (see FIG. 9), and the portable communication terminal 1
When a message “No ticket data” is received from No. 1 (FIG. 9)
), Permit the user to pass.

In the automatic ticket gate system of this embodiment, the ticket data is downloaded from the ticket center 19 to the portable communication terminal 11 via the telephone network 17 and the base station 15 and stored, and the ticket data stored in the portable communication terminal 11 is stored. The automatic ticket gate 13 reads the data wirelessly, and based on the read ticket data, organizes the ticket gate traffic of the user, so that the user can go to the place where the ticket issuing machine is installed as before in order to purchase the ticket. The need to carry.

Further, since the billing calculation is performed when the telephone line network 17 downloads the ticket data from the ticket center 19 to the portable communication terminal 11, it is not necessary to pay the ticket price at any time. Is convenient.

FIG. 10 is a block diagram showing a configuration of another portable communication terminal.

The portable communication terminal 31 includes a control unit 311,
Memory 312, ticket data storage unit 313, input unit 3
14, an output unit 315, a wireless transmission / reception unit 316, and a transmission output control unit 317.

The control section 311, memory 312, ticket data storage section 313, input section 314 and output section 3
The reference numeral 15 is the same as that of the portable communication terminal 11, and a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

Here, the radio transmitting / receiving section 316 is connected to the base station 1
5 and a case where the signal is transmitted to the automatic ticket gate 13, a radio wave having a strength corresponding to each is output.

The transmission output control section 317 controls the transmission output control section 316 to switch the output of radio waves.

The portable communication terminal 31 has the radio transmission / reception unit 316 and the output control unit 317, so that the transmission to the base station 15 and the transmission to the automatic ticket gate 13 have different strengths. In order to output a radio wave having the following, the base station wireless transmitting / receiving section 114 and the automatic ticket gate wireless transmitting / receiving section 115 as in the portable communication terminal 11 described above.
It is possible to prevent the door of the automatic ticket gate from being opened before the user approaches the automatic ticket gate 13 and prevent the adjacent automatic ticket gate from malfunctioning without requiring both.

[0077]

As described above, according to the present invention, the ticket data is downloaded from the ticket center to the portable communication terminal via the telephone network and stored, and the ticket data stored in the portable communication terminal is transmitted to the automatic ticket gate wirelessly. By reading and reading out the ticket data and organizing the ticket passage of the user, the user does not need to go to the place where the ticketing machine is installed in order to purchase a ticket as in the past, which is convenient. There is an effect of improving.

In particular, since the billing calculation is performed when the telephone line network downloads the ticket data from the ticket center to the portable communication terminal, payment of the ticket price is required.
Since there is no need to pay at any time, there is an effect that the convenience for the user is also improved from this point.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an automatic ticket gate system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of the mobile communication terminal in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a configuration of the automatic ticket gate in FIG.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of a telephone network in FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram of contents of a telephone number input by a mobile communication terminal when downloading ticket data.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing a configuration of ticket data.

FIG. 7 is a protocol diagram showing a communication procedure when downloading ticket data.

FIG. 8 is a protocol diagram showing a communication procedure between a portable communication terminal and an automatic ticket gate at the time of entry.

FIG. 9 is a protocol diagram showing a communication procedure between the mobile communication terminal and the automatic ticket gate at the time of exit.

FIG. 10 is a block diagram showing a configuration of another portable communication terminal.

FIG. 11 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a conventional automatic ticket gate system.

FIG. 12 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a conventional automatic ticket gate system.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11 Mobile communication terminal 111, 311 Control unit 112, 312 Memory 113, 313 Ticket data storage unit 114 Base station wireless transmission / reception unit 115 Automatic ticket inspection wireless transmission / reception unit 116, 314 Input unit 117, 315 Output unit 316 Wireless transmission / reception unit 317 Transmission Output control unit 13 Automatic ticket gate 131 Control unit 132 Wireless transmission / reception unit 133 Human detection sensor 134 Passage control unit 135 Used ticket database 15 Base station 17 Telephone network 171 Switchboard 172 NSP (network service control device) 19 Ticket center 20 Price collection Center

Continued on the front page (51) Int.Cl. ⁶ Identification code FI H03J 9/02 H03J 9/02 H04B 5/00 H04B 5/00 Z H04M 11/08 H04M 11/08 15/00 15/00 Z

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A ticket center that issues ticket data, a mobile communication terminal that stores ticket data downloaded from the ticket center via a telephone network, and wirelessly transfers the ticket data stored in the mobile communication terminal. An automatic ticket gate system comprising: an automatic ticket gate that reads out and organizes a ticket gate of a user based on the ticket data. 2. A ticket center that issues ticket data, a portable communication terminal that stores ticket data downloaded from the ticket center, and a telephone line connection between the portable communication terminal and the ticket center. When the ticket data is downloaded to the portable communication terminal, the telephone line network for performing the billing calculation, and the ticket data stored in the portable communication terminal are read wirelessly, and based on the ticket data, the ticket gate of the user is read. An automatic ticket gate system comprising an automatic ticket gate for organizing traffic. 3. The mobile communication terminal, when downloading the ticket data, wirelessly transmits a telephone number of an issuance request to a base station, and transmits ticket data from the ticket center issued by the issuance request to the base station. 3. The automatic ticket gate system according to claim 1, further comprising a base station wireless transmission / reception unit that wirelessly receives a signal from a station, and an automatic ticket gate wireless transmission / reception unit that wirelessly transmits and receives the automatic ticket gate. 4. A telephone number for requesting issuance when downloading the ticket data includes a normal call for charging only a call charge, and a call for ticket data download for charging charge for a call charge + ticket price. 2. A communication center identification number for uniquely identifying the ticket center, a ticket center identification number for uniquely identifying the ticket center, and a ticket type identification number for identifying a ticket type and identifying a ticket price.
Or the automatic ticket gate system described in 2. 5. The wireless communication means for outputting a radio wave of a strength corresponding to each of a case where the portable communication terminal transmits to the base station and a case where the portable communication terminal transmits to the automatic ticket gate, 3. An automatic ticket gate system according to claim 1, further comprising: transmission output control means for switching and controlling the output of a radio wave.