JPH11219456A - Non contact type automatic ticket examination device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent illegal entering and leaving by specifying the owner of a card when entering/leaving by the card can not be permitted and informing the owner of that. SOLUTION: When a user enters a ticket examining passage P, a card C possessed by the user is held over a communication area 3 provided on the entrance side of the passage P. When the card C is held over the area 3, data are transmitted and received between a main body G and the card C to execute arithmetic processing of entering/leaving by the controller 6 of the main body G. When entering/leaving can not be permitted as a result of the arithmetic processing of entering/leaving, the name of the possessor of the card C is extracted and the extracted name and characters guiding that passing through is not permitted are displayed. Thereby, even in the case of a doorless type, the possessor of the card C is specified and the effect is guided when entering/ leaving is rejected. Thus, illegal entering/leaving is prevented.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a non-contact automatic ticket gate, and more particularly to a non-contact automatic ticket gate capable of effectively guiding a user in a ticket gate passage.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art For example, as shown in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 1-246687, a commuter pass composed of an automatic ticket gate body and an IC card having a wireless communication function, that is, a non-contact type card (hereinafter referred to as a "contactless card"). A non-contact type automatic ticket gate has been proposed which can exchange data with a "card" in a non-contact manner and perform an automatic ticket gate without inserting a card into the body of the automatic ticket gate. .

[0003] The non-contact automatic ticket gate does not require a card such as a commuter pass to be inserted into a main body of the non-contact automatic ticket gate (hereinafter referred to as a "main unit"). It has features that can be improved.

[0004]

A non-contact automatic ticket gate does not require a card to be inserted as in the prior art, and therefore has the property that the speed of passing through the ticket gate passage is higher than in the past. Therefore, when the card held over the main body is determined to be an invalid ticket and the door is closed, there is a concern that the rate of contact of the card holder with the door may increase.

[0005] In order to prevent such inconvenience, it is conceivable that the main body may be a doorless type in which a door is removed. It is feared that it will.

The present invention has been made in order to solve the above-mentioned drawbacks, and has as its object to ensure that even if the main body is of a doorless type, the user who is not permitted to enter and exit the system can reliably use the main body. It is an object of the present invention to provide a contactless automatic ticket gate capable of guiding the user.

[0007]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to achieve the above object, a non-contact automatic ticket gate according to the present invention has a ticket gate passage for exchanging data between a main body and a card to perform entrance / exit processing. A non-contact automatic ticket gate that does not have a door that opens and closes, wherein guidance means for providing voice or display guidance to a user passing through the ticket gate passage of the main body and entry and exit by the card cannot be permitted. And a guidance control means for guiding the fact that entry and exit of the card cannot be permitted by specifying the card holder via the guidance means.

[0008]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a front view of the main body G as viewed from a ticket gate side, and a display unit 2 for displaying predetermined guidance to a user by characters is provided on an upper surface of a housing 1. In addition, a communication area 3 for transmitting and receiving data to and from a card C possessed by a user by wireless communication is provided in an upper part of a front part of the housing 1. An antenna a connected to a communication control unit described later faces this communication area 3.

S, S... Are human detectors for detecting the entry of a user into the ticket gate passage, the exit from the ticket gate passage, or the passage thereof.
Mounted on Further, a speaker 5 for broadcasting guidance by a predetermined voice to a user is attached to a side surface of the housing 1.

Reference numeral 6 denotes a controller for controlling the operation of the main body G, and its configuration is shown in FIG. That is, the central processing unit (CPU) 11 of the controller 6 is configured to be able to perform the arithmetic control process using the program data stored in the ROM 12 and the working data stored in the RAM 13. . This CPU has I
A display driver 15 for controlling the display content of the display unit 2 via the I / O unit 14, an amplifier 16 for amplifying and taking in the detection signals of the human detectors S, S, and an audio driver 17 for driving the speaker 5. A communication control unit 18 for transmitting and receiving data to and from the card C is connected.

The communication control unit 18 includes a separate CPU from the controller 6.
And transmits a predetermined interrogation signal from the main body G to the card C via the antenna a, for example, a signal of a polling command transmitted at a fixed time interval, similarly to a known contactless automatic ticket gate. And card C
When communication with is started, entry and entry data,
It has a function to transmit commuter pass data such as station name and date of the day. The communication method between the main body G and the card C is not limited to the above-described radio wave method, but may be an optical communication method, an electromagnetic coupling method, an electromagnetic induction method, or the like.

Next, the configuration of the card C will be described. The card C has an antenna 20, a communication control unit 21 having the same functions as the communication control unit 19 of the main body G, an I / O unit 22, and a CPU 23, similarly to a normal IC card having a wireless communication function. , A memory 24 composed of a ROM and a RAM, and a power supply unit 25. This memory 24
In addition to the predetermined commuter pass data of the boarding section and the like, in addition to pre-stored holder data such as the name of the holder of the card C, a storage unit for storing the writing state of the data of the card C is provided. Is provided. Note that the power supply unit 25 may receive power supply radio waves from the main body G and serve as a power supply without having the power supply unit 25 inside the card C.

Next, the control operation of the main body G having the above configuration will be described. First, when a user enters the ticket gate P, the card C possessed by the user is held over the communication area 3 provided on the entrance side of the ticket gate P (Yes at Step 100; hereinafter, Steps are referred to as S). And.)

When the card C is held over the communication area 3,
Data is exchanged between the main body G and the card C.
The entry / exit calculation processing is performed in the controller 6 of the main body G (S102).

As a result of the entry / exit calculation processing, when entry / exit can be permitted (S104 affirmative), information indicating that entry / exit can be permitted, for example, the character "Please pass" is displayed on the display unit 2, and Guidance to the same effect is provided by voice via the speaker 5 (S110).

On the other hand, as a result of the entry and exit calculation processing,
When entry and exit cannot be permitted (No at S104), the main body G
Extracts data specifying the owner of the card C from the data obtained from the card C, that is, the name of the holder of the card C (S106), and guides the extracted name and the fact that the card cannot be passed, for example, "XX Hello, the period has expired and you cannot pass. " In addition, the content of the same purpose is the speaker 5
(S108).

When entry and exit cannot be permitted, the display on the display unit 2 is made to blink and light.
Attention may be further raised to the user.
Further, a lamp L provided on the sensor mounting bar may be provided so as to blink.

As described above, the non-contact automatic ticket gate according to the present embodiment specifies the holder of the card C when entry and exit are refused, and informs the user of the fact even if the entrance is denied. Therefore, unauthorized entry and exit can be prevented.

In the above example, guidance is provided by both the display unit 2 and the speaker 5, but guidance may be provided by only one of them.

[0020]

The automatic ticket gate according to the present invention is a non-contact type automatic ticket gate which does not have a door for opening and closing a ticket gate passage, which performs data entry / exit processing by transferring data between the main body and the card. A guide means for giving voice or display guidance to a user passing through the ticket gate passage of the main body, and when entry / exit with the card cannot be permitted, the holder of the card is specified and entry / exit is specified. Since it has guidance control means for guiding the fact that it is not permitted via the guidance means,
Even in the case of a doorless type, when entry / exit is rejected, the holder of the card C is specified and notified to that effect, and unauthorized entry / exit can be prevented beforehand.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a non-contact automatic ticket gate.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an electrical configuration.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a control operation.

[Explanation of symbols]

 G Main body of non-contact automatic ticket gate (main body) a Antenna 1 Housing 2 Display unit 3 Communication area 5 Speaker 6 Controller 16 Display driver 18 Voice driver C Non-contact card (card) 20 Antenna 21 Communication control unit 22 I / O unit 23 CPU 24 Memory 25 Power supply unit

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A non-contact type automatic ticket gate that does not have a door for opening and closing a ticket gate passage for performing data entry and exit processing by exchanging data between a main body of the non-contact type automatic ticket gate and a non-contact type card. Guide means for providing guidance by voice or display to a user passing through a ticket gate of the body of the non-contact automatic ticket gate, and when entry and exit by the non-contact card cannot be permitted, A non-contact automatic ticket gate, comprising: a guidance control means for guiding, via the guidance means, that the entry and exit of the non-contact card cannot be permitted by specifying the holder of the non-contact card.