JPS63216168A - Betting ticket payback equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To find out a forged hit betting ticket due to illegal forgery of cryptographic data by outputting a non-payback signal if contents of bet information in the cryptographic data and a normal display of bet information read by a read means are dissident. CONSTITUTION:A CPU 20 is provided with a read discrimination means. Then the CPU 20 discriminates whether or not the bet information in the cryptographic data and the bet information of the normal display read by the read means 11 are coincident and when the contents of them disagree, a non-payback signal is outputted. Even if the cryptographic data is forged as a winning ticket, so long as the bet information of normal display remains as it is or not completely forged, the forgery of the betting ticket is found easily.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Field of the Invention) The present invention relates to a voting ticket refund device, and in particular, to an apparatus for optically reading encrypted data including bet information on the surface of a voting ticket.
The present invention relates to a voting ticket refund device that makes a winning judgment and calculates and displays a refund amount.

(Prior Art and its Problems) Conventionally, as a voting ticket refund device, one having a configuration in which encrypted data including bet information written on the surface of a voting ticket is read by an image sensor is known.

In the conventional example having such a configuration, once the code is decoded, it becomes possible to falsify the encrypted data part of the no-hit voting ticket based on it, which makes it easy to forge the no-hit voting ticket. was there.

(Object of the Invention) The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a voting ticket refund device that can detect counterfeit winning voting tickets due to tampering with encrypted data.

(Structure and Effects of the Invention) In order to achieve such an object, the present invention provides: In the voting ticket refund device described at the beginning, a reading means for reading the bet information normally displayed on the surface of the voting ticket; Refund determination means for determining whether the contents of the bet information in the data and the normally displayed bet information read by the reading means match, and outputting a non-refund signal when the two do not match. And so.

According to this configuration, when the refund determination means determines that the contents of the bet information in the encrypted data and the normally displayed vent information do not match, the refund determination means outputs a non-refund signal.

Therefore, even if the encrypted data has been tampered with, it is now easy to detect forged voting tickets as long as the normally displayed bet information remains unchanged or has not been completely tampered with.

(Description of Examples) Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail based on examples shown in the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing the external shape of the device. At the lower front of the main body 1, there are various operation keys 2, as shown in FIG.
... and a display section 3 are provided. Furthermore, an insertion slot 5 for voting tickets is provided on one side of the main body 1, and an upper hopper 1 for voting tickets that can be shaken is partitioned into upper and lower parts by an operating panel 15 and removed from the upper part.
6. A hopper device 14 is provided, the lower part of which serves as a lower hopper 17 for winning voting tickets. Further, at the top of the hopper device (4), there is provided a paper outlet 18 on which payment details are printed.

Furthermore, the configuration of the conveyance path for voting tickets inside the device will be explained with reference to FIG.

A rectangular voting ticket 6 inserted from the voting ticket insertion slot 5 mentioned above.
is detected by the first photo sensor 7, and conveyed into the main body part l by conveyance rollers 8 arranged in pairs above and below, and during the conveyance, the surface of the voting ticket 6 is illuminated by a lamp 9 to print on the surface. The image sensor 11 is configured to read the displayed content via the lens IO. voting ticket 6
As shown in FIG. 4, encrypted data A including bet information, bet information B normally displayed, event content information C normally displayed, etc. are displayed, and the image sensor 11 reads the bet information. This is done for the encrypted data A containing the information and the normally displayed bet information B.

Further, a second photo sensor 12 and a stamp device 13 are provided above the conveyance path in the main body l to detect the introduction of the voting ticket 6, and respond to the detection of the introduction of the voting ticket 6. Then, the stamp device 13 stamps the voting ticket 6 with a processed stamp. The hopper device 14 is provided at the end of the conveyance path, and the portions are distributed by an operation panel 15.
Successful voting tickets are sent to the lower hopper 17, and winning voting tickets or voting tickets that cannot be read are sent to the upper hopper 16.

A control device 19 as shown in FIG. 5 is connected to the image sensor 11. This control device 19 is a CP
This CPU 20 is equipped with a readiness key 2a of the operation display section 4 via a human power interface 21.
Data from the end key 2b, No. 2 and No. 27 sensor 7.12 is given. The CPU 20 also provides control signals to the stamp device 13, the distribution operation panel 14, the display section 3, the conveyance rollers 8, etc., through the output interface 22, and the operation motors 25 thereof. The control device 19 further includes a memory 23 in which hit data and payout data sent from a higher-level device to which the vote refund device is connected, dictionary data for character judgment, a program for operating procedures of the CPU 20, etc. are stored. have. The CPU 20 of the control device 19 is a reading judgment means that judges whether reading of the image sensor 11 is possible based on dictionary data, and a reading judgment means that judges whether the voting ticket 6 is a hit or miss based on the hit data and the read data of the image sensor 11. A payout amount calculation device that calculates the payout amount based on the payout amount data, and bet information in the encrypted data A read by the image sensor 11 and bet information B normally displayed, according to the present invention. It functions as a refund determination means, etc., which judges whether the contents of the two match and outputs a non-refund signal when the two do not match.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be explained using the flowchart of FIG.

First, the operator presses the readiness key 2a to erase the display for the previous refund and inserts the voting ticket 6 into the insertion slot 5. When the operator receives this insertion signal from the first photo sensor 7 and determines that the voting ticket 6 is present ( Step l), motor 25
(step 2) to rotate the conveyance rollers 8 and move the voting ticket 6. Then, due to movement, voting ticket 6
The voting ticket 6 is placed in a position opposite to the image sensor 11.
The ticket face data consisting of the encrypted data A and the bet information B displayed on the screen is read (step 3).

When the voting ticket 6 is further moved and a detection signal of the voting ticket 6 is received from the second foot sensor 12, the motor 25 is stopped (Step 4), and the voting ticket is transferred to the stamp device 1.
3 located below. In this state, the read card data and dictionary data are compared, and if the characters do not match and it is determined that the characters in the card data are not normal and cannot be read (step 5), an activation signal is output to the display unit 3. Do not turn on the error content lamp (unreadable lamp 3a) (step 6). After the error content lamp lights up, the motor 25 is activated (step 7), and the operation panel 15 is further moved in a predetermined direction to feed the voting ticket 6 into the upper hopper 16 (step 8), and the operation is started. finish.

In step 5, if it is determined that the data can be read, the encrypted data A is analyzed and made into data in the normal display format (step 9), and it is determined whether the head information in that data matches the separately read bet information B. (Step 10). If a match is determined, the bet information is further compared with the hit data to determine whether it is a hit or not (
If step 11) is determined to be correct, it is determined whether the refund period is valid or not based on the event date data in the encrypted data A (step 12). In step 10, encrypted data A
If it is determined that there has been tampering and that they do not match, the process moves to step 6, where an activation signal (non-refund signal) is output to the display section 3 and the error content lamp (caution lamp 3b) is turned on. Also, if it is determined that the error has occurred in step 11, the process moves to step 6, and the error content lamp (missing lamp 3) is executed.
c) is turned on, and even if it is determined in step 12 that the validity period has expired, the process proceeds to step 6 and the error content lamp (out-of-period lamp 3d) is turned on. If it is determined in step 12 that the refund is within the validity period, the refund amount is calculated from the refund data.Step +3) 1. Next, an activation signal is output to each of the display section 3, stamp device 13, and printing machine (not shown) to display the refund amount on the display section 3, to make the stamp device 13 stamp the completed stamp, and then to the printing machine. Perform journal printing (step 14)
). The operator checks the refund amount on the display unit 3 and pays cash to the voting ticket provider. After step 14, the motor 25 is activated (step 15), and the operation panel 15 is further moved in a predetermined direction to send out the voting ticket 6 to the lower hopper 17 (step 16), and the operation is completed. .

As mentioned above, by the refund determination means of the CPU 20,
In step IO, it is determined whether the bet information in the encrypted data A matches the separately read bet information B, so even if the encrypted data A has been tampered with and conventionally a correct judgment is made, A warning is issued by lighting up the error content lamp.

In the above embodiment, if the face data of the voting ticket 6 is printed using the dropout color mark 1'i11,
Since counterfeiting caused by copying is easily detected, the detection rate of counterfeiting can be increased.

Furthermore, in the above embodiment, encrypted data A is analyzed and displayed in a normal display format, and the match between it and bet information B is determined. It is also possible to have a configuration in which:

Furthermore, although the voting ticket refund device shown in the above embodiment has a configuration in which the operator confirms the displayed payment amount and makes the payment, it is also configured so that a payment machine is provided integrally, and the payment machine is equipped with the above-mentioned chip. It is also possible to perform automatic payment after 16, and in that case, the external shape of the device, the configuration of the display section, etc. can be changed as appropriate.

In addition, in the above embodiment, the CPU 20 is equipped with a reading/determining means, but if an image sensor having a control section is used, the CPU on the image sensor side may be provided with a reading/judging means. Alternatively, it is also possible to have a configuration in which both CPUs cooperate to make reading decisions.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of an embodiment showing the external appearance of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a plan view showing the display section, Fig. 3 is a configuration diagram showing the internal structure of the device, and Fig. 4 is a diagram of the voting ticket. Plan view showing the configuration, No. 5
The figure is a block diagram showing the configuration of the control section, and FIG.
It is a flowchart showing the operation of U. 11... Image sensor (reading means), 20...
-CPU (refund determination means).゛Figure 2 Figure 8 Figure 4/A ＼B Image of Figure 5〉

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) In a voting ticket refund device that optically reads encrypted data including bet information on the surface of the voting ticket, determines the winning result, and calculates and displays the payout amount, a reader that reads the bet information normally displayed on the surface of the voting ticket. and a refund determination unit that determines whether the bet information in the encrypted data matches the normally displayed bet information read by the reading unit, and outputs a non-refund signal when the two do not match. A voting ticket refund device comprising: means.