KR20170115932A - System and method for parking fee payment cooperated with external service - Google Patents

Abstract

A system and method are disclosed that can provide information associated with a parking lot to an application of a pre-registered user terminal when the vehicle enters or leaves the parking lot. According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a communication system including a receiving module for receiving a vehicle number of a vehicle and unique information of an application from an application installed in a portable terminal of a user, a registration module for registering the unique information of the vehicle number and the application in a DB A recognition module for recognizing the vehicle number of the vehicle when the vehicle enters or parks in the parking lot after the module, the vehicle number, and the unique information of the application are registered, a recognition module for recognizing the vehicle number based on the recognized vehicle number And a push module for pushing predetermined information related to the parking lot to the application based on the obtained unique information of the application and an acquiring module for acquiring the unique information of the application from the DB.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a parking fee payment system,

The present invention relates to a parking bill payment system and method interlocked with an external service allowing a driver parked in a parking lot to pay a parking fee through an external service (for example, an app service) to which the driver himself / herself subscribes.

There has been a tendency to provide a payment of a parking charge generated by using a parking lot through a separate app service rather than a parking lot.

1A and 1B are diagrams illustrating a conventional method

Referring to FIG. 1A, in a conventional method, when a car of a user who has subscribed to an app service (payment service through an app) enters the parking lot, the parking lot notifies the system of providing the app service, To inquire whether the user who subscribed to the app service is a member who subscribed to the app service. The system providing the app service can then reply whether it is a member. Thereafter, when the vehicle makes a request for departure, the parking lot opens the breaker to allow the vehicle to depart, without charge, if the user corresponding to the vehicle is a member of the app service, It is possible to notify the system providing the service. Then, the system providing the app service can settle the parking fee using the payment information previously registered by the member.

Referring to FIG. 1B, in another conventional method, when a car of a user who subscribes to an app service enters a car park, the parking lot notifies a system for providing an app service and a user corresponding to the entered car It is possible to inquire whether or not the member is a member of the service. The system providing the app service can then reply whether it is a member. The user who desires to depart may request payment through the app after inquiring the parking fee, and the system for providing the app service can pay the parking fee and inform the parking lot of the payment details. When the member requests the departure, the parking lot notifies the departure of the member vehicle, and the system providing the app service can transmit the settlement / payment history. Further, the parking lot can open the breaker for the departure of the vehicle of the member who made the payment with the app.

However, since such a conventional method can not know the entire list of the number of the vehicles that have applied for the payment service through the app in each parking lot, it is necessary to inquire about whether the member is a member of the app service for all the entry / .

Problem 1) Driver personal information leak:

It is interpreted as a leak of personal information without driver's consent to inquire of app service for the car number or unique ID and its access history that have not subscribed to the app service

Problem 2) Parking operation information leakage:

Since the inquiry about the entry / departure history of all the vehicles as well as the app service members is made to the app service, the operating information such as the total entrance / exit statistics of the parking lot and estimated earnings is exposed to the app service company

Patent Registration No. 10-1367311

The present invention allows a driver who parks a parking lot to pay parking fees through an external service (for example, an app service or a hospital member service) to which the driver himself / herself subscribes, (For example, the vehicle number or the proprietor's proprietary information) held by the external service provider may be exposed to the parking lot side And to provide a system and a method for preventing such a problem.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided an information processing apparatus including: a unique information acquiring module for acquiring unique information of a vehicle entering or exiting a parking lot; generating unique encryption information of the vehicle by modifying the acquired unique information of the vehicle through a predetermined unidirectional encryption algorithm; To the external service providing system so that the predetermined external service providing system can determine whether the driver of the vehicle is a subscriber subscribed to the external service based on the encryption information of the vehicle A determination module for determining whether the driver of the vehicle is a subscriber subscribed to the external service based on a response received from the external service providing system, wherein the external service providing system comprises: Encryption of the unique information of the vehicle registered in advance by each subscriber Wherein the encryption information is information obtained by modifying the unique information of the vehicle through the unidirectional encryption algorithm when the driver of the vehicle is not a subscriber of the external service, When the driver of the vehicle is a subscriber of the external service, transmits a predetermined control signal to the external service providing system to perform a process of paying the parking fee of the vehicle in the external service providing system A parking fee billing system interlocked with an external service including a control module for controlling the parking lot is provided.

In one embodiment, the external service providing system is an application service providing system that provides predetermined application software to a user terminal and provides an app service through the provided application software, The unique information of the registered vehicle and the payment means information are received from the terminal and transmitted to the app service providing system. When the unique information of the registered vehicle and the payment means information are received from the user terminal, The unique information of the registered vehicle is converted through the unidirectional encryption algorithm to generate and store the encryption information corresponding to the unique information of the registered registered vehicle, and the parking fee payment process for the registered vehicle is performed using the payment means information Characterized by Can.

In one embodiment, the unique information is a vehicle number of the corresponding vehicle, and the unique information obtaining module is installed in the parking lot, receives the license plate image of the vehicle from the photographing device for photographing the license plate of the vehicle, Recognizing the vehicle number of the vehicle by performing image processing on the received license plate image, or photographing a number plate of the vehicle installed in the parking lot and performing image processing on the photographed image to judge the vehicle number of the vehicle The vehicle number of the vehicle can be received from the license plate recognizing device.

In one embodiment, the control module transmits an intrusion notification signal notifying the entrance of the vehicle to the external service providing system when the vehicle enters, and when the vehicle leaves the vehicle, To the external service providing system as the control signal.

In one embodiment, the control module sends the control signal including the encryption information of the vehicle and the entry time of the vehicle to the external service providing system so that the external service providing system can estimate the parking fee of the vehicle. Delivery system.

In one embodiment, when the driver of the vehicle is not a subscriber of the external service, the control module controls to open the access blocking device of the parking lot after the parking lot payment process of the parking lot is successfully completed When the driver of the vehicle is a subscriber of the external service, the controller can control to open the access blocking device of the parking lot when the vehicle requests the departure.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a DB which stores provision information provided from a predetermined external service provision system, wherein the provision information includes encryption information of unique information of a vehicle registered in advance by each subscriber subscribed to the external service Wherein the encryption information is information obtained by modifying the unique information of the vehicle through a predetermined unidirectional encryption algorithm, a unique information acquisition module for acquiring unique information of the vehicle entering or exiting the parking lot, A determination module for determining whether encryption information of the vehicle is included in the provided information stored in the DB, an encryption module for encrypting the encryption information of the vehicle, Is not included in the provision information stored in the DB A payment module for performing an own parking billing process of the parking lot and a process of paying the parking fee of the vehicle in the external service providing system when the encryption information of the vehicle is included in the providing information stored in the DB And a control module for transmitting a predetermined control signal to the external service providing system.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a parking bill payment system comprising: a unique information acquiring step of acquiring unique information of a vehicle entering or exiting a parking lot; a step of acquiring unique information of the vehicle, A step of encrypting the vehicle by modifying the encrypted information by using a one-way encryption algorithm to generate encryption information of the vehicle, the parking bill settlement system comprising: a predetermined external service providing system, And transmits the encryption information of the vehicle to the external service providing system so as to judge whether the user is a subscriber or not, based on a response received from the external service providing system, whether the driver of the vehicle is a subscriber subscribed to the external service A determination step of determining whether the external service The system stores encryption information of unique information of a vehicle previously registered by each subscriber subscribed to the external service, and the encryption information is information obtained by modifying the unique information of the vehicle through the one-way encryption algorithm, The method comprising: a payment step of, when the driver is not a subscriber of the external service, the parking charge settlement system performing a self parking charge payment process of the parking lot with respect to the vehicle; and when the driver of the vehicle is a subscriber of the external service, And a control step of transmitting a predetermined control signal to the external service providing system so that the parking fee payment system performs a process of paying the parking fee of the vehicle in the external service providing system, Payment methods are provided.

In one embodiment, the unique information is a vehicle number of a corresponding vehicle, and the specific information acquiring step includes: receiving license plate images of the vehicle from a photographing apparatus installed in the parking lot and photographing license plate of the vehicle, Recognizing the vehicle number of the vehicle by performing image processing on the received license plate image or photographing a license plate of the vehicle installed in the parking lot and performing image processing on the photographed image, And receiving the vehicle number of the vehicle from the license plate recognizing device.

In one embodiment, the parking fee payment method interlocked with the external service may further include transmitting, to the external service providing system, an intrusion notification signal notifying the entrance of the vehicle when the vehicle enters, The control step may include, when the vehicle requests the departure, transmitting an outgoing notice signal informing the departure of the vehicle as the control signal to the external service providing system.

In one embodiment, the control step may include transmitting the control signal including the encryption information of the vehicle, the entry time of the vehicle, to the external service providing system so that the external service providing system can estimate the parking fee of the vehicle. To the providing system.

In one embodiment, the parking fee payment method interlocked with the external service may be configured such that, when the driver of the vehicle is not a subscriber of the external service, after the parking fee payment process of the parking lot itself is successfully completed, Wherein the billing system controls to open the access blocking device of the parking lot and when the driver of the vehicle is a subscriber of the external service, And controlling to open the device.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a parking fee payment system includes a DB storing provision information provided from a predetermined external service provision system, wherein the provision information includes at least one of a unique Wherein the encryption information is information obtained by modifying the unique information of the vehicle through a predetermined one-way encryption algorithm, the parking bill payment system acquiring unique information of a vehicle entering or exiting the parking lot An encryption step of generating the encryption information of the vehicle by modifying the acquired unique information of the vehicle through the unidirectional encryption algorithm, the parking bill settlement system comprising: Whether the encryption information of the vehicle is included in the provision information stored in the DB Determining whether the parking information is stored in the DB, and determining whether the parking information is stored in the DB if the encryption information of the vehicle is not included in the provided information stored in the DB, And when the encryption information of the vehicle is included in the provision information stored in the DB, the parking fee payment system transmits the parking fee to the external service providing system to perform the process of paying the parking fee of the vehicle in the external service providing system There is provided a parking fee payment method interlocked with an external service including a control step of transmitting a predetermined control signal.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a computer program installed in a data processing apparatus and stored in a recording medium for performing the above-described method is provided.

According to another aspect of the present invention there is provided a parking billing system comprising a processor and a memory for storing a computer program executed by the processor, wherein the computer program, when executed by the processor, A parking billing system is provided in which the system performs the above-described method.

(For example, information on the entire vehicle entering the parking lot) to the outside of the parking lot while allowing the parked driver to pay the parking fee through an external service (for example, an app service) It may not be exposed to the service provider side, and the external service provider side may also provide a system and a method for preventing personal information (e.g., car number) of the subscriber, which the subscriber has, from being exposed to the parking lot side.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS A brief description of each drawing is provided to more fully understand the drawings recited in the description of the invention.
1A and 1B are diagrams showing a conventional method.
FIG. 2 is a view for schematically explaining a parking bill settlement system interlocked with an external service according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a block diagram schematically illustrating the configuration of a parking bill payment system interlocked with an external service according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a flowchart illustrating a process in which a subscriber's vehicle number is registered in advance in an external service providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
5A and 5B are flowcharts for schematically explaining a parking fee payment method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
6A and 6B are flowcharts for schematically explaining a parking bill payment method according to another embodiment of the present invention.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The present invention is capable of various modifications and various embodiments, and specific embodiments are illustrated in the drawings and described in detail in the detailed description. It is to be understood, however, that the invention is not to be limited to the specific embodiments, but includes all modifications, equivalents, and alternatives falling within the spirit and scope of the invention. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

The terms first, second, etc. may be used to describe various components, but the components should not be limited by the terms. The terms are used only for the purpose of distinguishing one component from another.

The terminology used in this application is used only to describe a specific embodiment and is not intended to limit the invention. The singular expressions include plural expressions unless the context clearly dictates otherwise.

In this specification, the terms "comprises" or "having" and the like refer to the presence of stated features, integers, steps, operations, elements, components, or combinations thereof, But do not preclude the presence or addition of features, numbers, steps, operations, components, parts, or combinations thereof.

Also, in this specification, when any one element 'transmits' data to another element, the element may transmit the data directly to the other element, or may be transmitted through at least one other element And may transmit the data to the other component. Conversely, when one element 'directly transmits' data to another element, it means that the data is transmitted to the other element without passing through another element in the element.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the embodiments of the present invention with reference to the accompanying drawings. Like reference symbols in the drawings denote like elements.

FIG. 2 is a view for schematically explaining a parking fee payment system (hereinafter referred to as a 'parking fee payment system') interlocked with an external service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, a parking bill payment system 100 may be provided to implement a parking bill payment method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The parking bill payment system 100 may be in the form of a server device, or a combination of a server device and software installed in the server device. The server device may be implemented as a single device or a group of devices composed of a plurality of devices connected through a predetermined communication interface.

The parking bill payment system 100 may be installed for each parking lot (for example, 200). The parking bill payment system 100 recognizes that the vehicle is parked or departs from the parking lot 200 corresponding to the parking bill payment system 100 and carries out parking management such as setting a fare, And may be a system for controlling / managing various facilities of the parking lot 200 and providing accounting or payment related services of the parking lot 200. For example, the parking bill payment system 100 can recognize the vehicle number of the vehicle parked or departing, determine the parking period, and calculate the parking fee based on the information.

The parking lot 200 is provided with an entering vehicle specific information recognizing device 210 for recognizing the intrinsic information of the entering vehicle 20 and an outgoing vehicle specific information recognizing device 220 for recognizing the intrinsic information of the vehicle requesting the exit or departure, May be installed. Also, the parking lot 200 may be provided with an access blocking device 230 for blocking the vehicle requesting the departure and leaving only authorized vehicles. The parking bill payment system 100 may receive information for determining the unique information of the vehicle or the unique information of the vehicle from the unique information recognition apparatuses 210 and 220 and may determine whether the opening / Closure can be controlled.

On the other hand, the unique information of the vehicle may be unique information given to each vehicle, and may be various types of information used to identify the vehicle. Typically, the car number is not limited to the car number. Meanwhile, the vehicle specific information recognizing device 220 may be implemented in various forms. For example, the vehicle-specific information recognizing device 220 may be a device that recognizes a vehicle number from an image of a license plate of a vehicle, and may recognize an RFID tag (NFC), a beacon, a barcode, a QR code, It may be a reader device.

Some functions performed by the parking bill payment system 100 (for example, a parking bill payment function) may be performed in cooperation with a predetermined external service providing system 300. [ For this purpose, the parking bill payment system 100 can be connected to the external service providing system 300 through a wired / wireless network to transmit / receive various data, signals, and / or information necessary for implementing the technical idea of the present invention .

The external service providing system 300 may be a system for providing a predetermined service operated by an operating entity different from the operating entity of the parking bill payment system 100. The external service providing system 300 may provide the external service to a subscriber subscribing to the service. For this purpose, the external service providing system 300 may provide a subscriber (member) . In addition, the external service providing system 300 may include a database for storing subscriber (member) information on a service provided by the external service providing system 300. The external service may be the main business of the operating entity or an incidental service for the main business.

In one embodiment, the external service providing system 300 may be an app service providing system that provides predetermined application software to the user terminal 10 and provides an app service through the provided application software. The app service may be an online service provided through a wire / wireless network. The app service may be, for example, an online / mobile messenger service, an online banking service, an online shopping service, an online community service, or a social networking service. Hereinafter, a case where the external service providing system 300 is an app service providing system will be described as an example. However, the technical idea of the present invention is not limited to this, and any person skilled in the art will understand It will be possible.

The application software may also be referred to as a program, software, or the like in some embodiments.

Meanwhile, the application software provided by the app service providing system 300 to the user terminal 10 may provide functions necessary for a user to use an external service, And transmits the unique information and the payment means information to the app service providing system 300.

When the unique information of the registered vehicle and the payment means information are received from the user terminal 10, the app service providing system 300 transmits the unique information of the registered vehicle and the payment means information to the user terminal 10 Can be stored in the DB together with the account information of the user. Also, the appservice providing system 300 may convert the unique information of the registered registered vehicle through a predetermined unidirectional encryption algorithm, generate encryption information corresponding to the unique information of the registered registered vehicle, and store the encrypted information together.

The unidirectional encryption algorithm can be an irreversible cryptographic algorithm that can encrypt plaintext with ciphertext but can not decrypt ciphertext with plaintext. For example, the unidirectional encryption algorithm may be implemented by a hash function. For example, the unidirectional encryption algorithm may be MD5, SHA-3, SHA-256, SHA-512, PIPEMD-128/256 and the like, but not limited thereto, and various well-known hash functions may be used.

In addition, the appservice providing system 300 can perform the parking fee payment process for the registered vehicle by using the payment means information registered by the user, if necessary.

The user terminal 10 may be a handheld device such as a mobile phone, a satellite phone, a wireless telephone, a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), a Wireless Local Loop (WLL) station, a smart phone, a tablet PC, As shown in FIG. The user terminal 10 may include various types of input devices for receiving various commands from a user and an output device capable of displaying various graphics such as a driving screen of an application provided by the application software. The input device may be, for example, a keyboard, a mouse, a touch pad, a touch screen, or the like.

The parking bill payment system 100 and / or the external service providing system 300 may be configured such that a parking fee, which is generated when the vehicle 20 is parked in the parking lot 200, You can pay. For this purpose, the parking bill payment system 100 and / or the external service provision system 300 are connected to the billing system 400 via wired / wireless communication, so that various information, data and / or signals necessary for the technical idea of the present invention Lt; / RTI >

The settlement system 400 may be a card company system for performing credit card settlement, an online banking system, a PG corporation system, or the like.

3 is a block diagram schematically illustrating a configuration of a parking bill payment system 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3, the parking bill payment system 100 includes a unique information acquisition module 120, an encryption module 130, a determination module 140, a payment module 150, and a control module 160 . Also, the parking bill payment system 100 may further include a DB 110 according to an embodiment. According to an embodiment of the present invention, some of the above-described components may not necessarily correspond to components necessary for implementation of the present invention. Also, it is needless to say that the parking bill payment system 100 may include more components according to the embodiment.

The parking bill payment system 100 may include hardware resources and / or software necessary for implementing the technical idea of the present invention, and it may mean one physical component or one device It is not. That is, the parking bill payment system 100 may mean a logical combination of hardware and / or software provided to implement the technical idea of the present invention. If necessary, May be implemented as a set of logical structures for implementing the technical idea of the present invention. Also, the parking bill payment system 100 may mean a set of configurations separately implemented for each function or role for implementing the technical idea of the present invention. For example, the DB 110, the unique information acquisition module 120, the encryption module 130, the determination module 140, the payment module 150, and / or the control module 160 may be located in different physical devices Or may be located on the same physical device. According to an embodiment of the present invention, each of the DB 110, the unique information acquisition module 120, the encryption module 130, the determination module 140, the payment module 150 and / The elements constituting the module may also be located in different physical devices, and elements located in different physical devices may be organically coupled to each other to realize the functions performed by the respective individual modules.

In this specification, a module may mean a functional and structural combination of hardware for carrying out the technical idea of the present invention and software for driving the hardware. For example, the module may refer to a logical unit of a predetermined code and a hardware resource for executing the predetermined code, and it does not necessarily mean a physically connected code or a kind of hardware But can be easily deduced to the average expert in the field of the present invention.

The control module 160 may be configured to receive the other components included in the parking bill payment system 100 such as the DB 110, the unique information acquisition module 120, the encryption module 130, the determination module 140, / RTI > and / or the payment module 150).

The DB 110 may be embodied as at least one table, and may also include a separate DBMS (Database Management System) for searching, storing, and managing information stored in the DB 105 . In addition, all data storage media and data structures that can be implemented in various ways such as a linked-list, a tree, a relational database, and the like can be stored in the pattern DB 130, .

The DB 110 may store provision information provided from the external service providing system. The providing information includes encryption information of unique information of a vehicle registered in advance by each subscriber subscribed to the service provided by the external service providing system 300, and the encryption information is information for specifying the unique information of the vehicle by a predetermined unidirectional encryption algorithm Lt; / RTI >

FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of the parking lot billing system 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 4, the unique information (vehicle number) of a subscriber is registered in advance in an external service providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention. Fig.

4, a subscriber who subscribes to the external service providing system 300 can input unique information (for example, a vehicle number) of the vehicle through application software installed in his / her user terminal 10 And the inputted vehicle number N can be transmitted to the external service providing system 300 by the application software (S10). Then, the external service providing system can generate the encryption information of the vehicle by unidirectionally encrypting the received car number N (e.g., hashing) (S20), and transmit the generated encryption information to the external service providing system 300 ) ≪ / RTI >

The processes of S10 to S30 may be performed for each subscriber.

Meanwhile, in one embodiment, the external service providing system 300 may provide encryption information of a vehicle of each subscriber stored in its subscriber DB to the parking bill settlement system 100 (S40). The external service providing system 300 may periodically provide encryption information of the subscriber's vehicle held by the external service providing system 300 to the parking bill settlement system 100. [

The process according to FIG. 4 may be performed before the subscriber parks his or her vehicle in the parking lot 200. FIG.

Referring again to FIG. 3, the unique information acquisition module 120 may acquire unique information of the vehicle 20 entering or leaving the parking lot 200.

The unique information acquisition module 120 may receive unique information of the vehicle acquired by the vehicle specific information acquisition devices 210 and 220 installed in the parking lot 200, It is possible to recognize the unique information of the vehicle by analyzing the acquired information.

For example, when the unique information of the vehicle is a vehicle number of the corresponding vehicle, the unique information acquisition module 120 may be installed in the parking lot 200, 210 and 220, and recognizes the vehicle number of the vehicle by performing image processing on the received license plate image. Alternatively, the unique information acquisition module 120 may be installed in the parking lot 200, photographs a license plate of the vehicle 20, and performs image processing on the photographed image to determine a vehicle number of the vehicle 20, And may receive the vehicle number of the vehicle from the recognition devices 210 and 220. [

In another embodiment, the vehicle 20 may be provided with a tag that stores unique information of the vehicle. In the parking lot 20, tag readers 210 and 220 may be installed as unique information recognition devices. have. In this case, the tags attached to the vehicle 20 and the tag readers 210 and 220 provided in the parking lot may communicate with each other using a short-range wireless communication protocol such as RFID, NFC, Becon, Or a QR code.

The encryption module 130 may generate the encryption information of the vehicle 20 by modifying the unique information of the vehicle 20 acquired by the inherent information acquisition module 120 through the unidirectional encryption algorithm. The unidirectional encryption algorithm used by the encryption module 130 may be the same as the unidirectional encryption algorithm used by the external service providing system 300. However, the unidirectional encryption algorithm used for each parking lot may be different.

The determination module 140 may determine whether the driver of the vehicle 20 entering or departing from the parking lot 200 is a subscriber subscribed to an external service provided by the external service providing system 300. [

In one embodiment, the determination module 140 may query the external service providing system 300 to determine whether the driver of the vehicle 20 is a subscriber subscribed to the external service.

More specifically, the determination module 140 may transmit the encryption information of the vehicle to the external service providing system. Then, the external service providing system 300 can determine whether the driver of the vehicle 20 is a subscriber subscribed to the external service based on the encryption information of the vehicle. That is, as described above, the external service providing system 300 previously generates the encryption information for the unique information of the vehicle registered in advance by the subscriber subscribed to the service, and stores the encryption information in the subscriber DB, It can be determined whether the driver of the vehicle 20 is a subscriber who subscribed to the external service based on whether any one of them is the same as the encryption information that the parking bill settlement system 100 has inquired. Also, the external service providing system 300 may respond to the parking bill settlement system 100 with the determination result. The determination module 140 may then determine whether the driver of the vehicle is a subscriber subscribed to the external service based on the response received from the external service providing system 300. [

On the other hand, in another embodiment, the determination module 140 determines whether or not the driver of the vehicle, based on whether the generated encryption information of the vehicle 20 is included in the provision information stored in the DB 110, It may directly determine whether the subscriber is subscribed to an external service provided by the providing system 300. [

Meanwhile, the parking bill payment system 100 may change the payment method according to whether the driver of the vehicle 20 is a subscriber of the external service.

If the driver of the vehicle 20 is not a subscriber of the external service, the payment module 150 determines whether the driver of the vehicle 20 is a subscriber of the external service, Process can be performed.

On the other hand, when the driver of the vehicle is a subscriber of the external service, the payment module 150 performs the parking bill payment process of the parking lot 20 itself, The control unit 300 may transmit a predetermined control signal to the external service providing system 300 to perform a process of paying the parking fee of the vehicle 20.

The control module 160 may transmit an intrusion notification signal to the external service providing system notifying the entrance of the vehicle 20 when the vehicle 20 enters the parking lot 200. [ The control module 160 may transmit an outgoing notification signal for notifying the departure of the vehicle 20 to the external service providing system as the control signal when the vehicle 20 leaves the parking lot 200 . In this case, the external service providing system 300 may determine the parking period from when the entrance notice signal is received to when the exit notification signal is received, and may calculate the parking fee.

In order to allow the external service providing system 300 to calculate the parking fee of the vehicle 20, the control module 160 controls the encryption information of the vehicle 20 and the vehicle information To the external service providing system 300, the control signal including the entrance time of the external service providing system 20.

On the other hand, when the driver of the vehicle is not a subscriber of the external service, the control module 160 opens the access blocking device 230 of the parking lot after the parking lot payment process of the parking lot is successfully completed When the driver of the vehicle is a subscriber of the external service, the controller can control to open the access blocking device (230) of the parking lot when the vehicle requests the departure.

5A and 5B are flowcharts for explaining a parking fee payment method according to an embodiment of the present invention. 5A and 5B are diagrams showing an example of a case where the parking bill payment system 100 queries the external service providing system 300 to check whether the driver of the vehicle 20 is a subscriber of the external service providing system 300 For example. Fig. 5A shows the entrance of the vehicle 20, and Fig. 5B shows the exit of the vehicle 20. Fig.

First, referring to FIG. 5A, when the vehicle 20 enters, the parking bill payment system 100 can acquire the unique information ID of the vehicle 20 entering the parking lot 200 (S200) The acquired unique information may be modified through a predetermined one-way encryption algorithm to generate encryption information (hash (ID)) of the vehicle (S210).

Then, the parking bill payment system 100 determines whether the driver of the vehicle is a subscriber who subscribed to the external service based on the encryption information of the vehicle, 20) to the external service providing system 300 (S220).

Then, the external service providing system 300 can determine whether the driver of the vehicle 20 is a subscriber according to whether a hash (ID) exists in his / her subscriber DB (S221) It may respond to the payment system 100 (S222).

If the subscriber is a subscriber, the parking bill payment system 100 may transmit an intrusion notification signal to the external service providing system 300 to notify the entrance of the vehicle to the external service providing system 300 (S230). Then, the external service providing system 300 can determine the time when the entrance notification signal is received as the entrance time.

Next, referring to FIG. 5B, when the vehicle parked in the parking lot 200 requests departure, the parking fee payment system 100 can acquire unique information (ID) of the vehicle requesting departure (S240 ). Whether or not the departure is requested can be determined by whether the vehicle specific information recognizing device 220 installed at the exit recognizes the unique number of the vehicle.

The parking bill payment system 100 can generate the encryption information (hash (ID)) of the vehicle 20 requesting departure (S250), and the external service providing system 300 can generate the encryption information (ID) of the vehicle 20 to the external service providing system 300 so that the driver of the vehicle 20 can determine whether or not the driver of the vehicle 20 subscribes to the external service based on the encryption information. (S260).

Then, the external service providing system 300 can determine whether the driver of the vehicle 20 is a subscriber according to whether a hash (ID) exists in his / her subscriber DB (S261) It may respond to the payment system 100 (S262).

If the subscriber is a subscriber, the parking bill payment system 100 may transmit an outgoing notification signal for notifying the external service providing system 300 of the departure of the vehicle to the external service providing system 300 as a control signal (S230 ). Then, the external service providing system 300 can determine the arrival time of the departure notification signal as the departure time, and perform the parking fee payment process (S280).

The external service providing system 300 can perform the parking fee payment process using the information on the payment means previously registered by the driver (subscriber) of the vehicle 20. In this specification, the term 'payment means' may mean a means by which a parking charge can be paid in advance or on a post-payment basis. As a representative example of the payment means, a credit card may be used, but the present invention is not limited thereto. Depending on the implementation, there may be various payment means for paying parking fees such as check cards, prepaid cards, electronic money, Of course it is. If the user's payment means is a credit card, the external service providing system 300 performs wired / wireless communication with the credit card company system 400 corresponding to the user's credit card for payment, And / or send / receive information.

If the subscriber is not a subscriber, the parking bill payment system 100 can perform its own bill payment process (S285). The own billing process is a general process for collecting parking charges in a parking lot, so a detailed description will be omitted.

In addition, when the driver of the vehicle 20 is not a subscriber of the external service, the parking bill payment system 100 may be configured such that after the parking fee payment process of the parking lot 200 itself is successfully completed, When the driver of the vehicle 20 is a subscriber of the external service, the controller 20 can control to open the access blocking device of the parking lot when the vehicle 20 requests the exit ( S290).

6A and 6B are flowcharts for explaining a parking bill payment method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

6A and 6B illustrate a case where the parking bill settlement system 100 is provided with the provision information described above from the external service provision system 300 in advance (refer to step S40 in FIG. 4) The subscriber of the external service providing system 300 determines whether the driver of the external service providing system 300 is a subscriber. Fig. 6A shows the entrance of the vehicle 20, and Fig. 6B shows the exit of the vehicle 20. Fig.

6A, when the vehicle 20 enters, the parking bill payment system 100 can obtain the unique information ID of the vehicle 20 entering the parking lot 200 (S100) The acquired unique information may be modified through the unidirectional encryption algorithm to generate encryption information (hash (ID)) of the vehicle (S110).

Thereafter, the parking fee payment system 100 determines whether or not the driver of the vehicle 20 has a hash (ID) based on whether or not there is a hash (ID) among provision information provided in advance by the external service providing system 300 and stored in the DB 110 (S120). ≪ / RTI >

If the subscriber is a subscriber, the parking bill payment system 100 may transmit an entry notification signal to the external service providing system 300 to inform the entrance of the vehicle to the external service providing system 300 (S130). Then, the external service providing system 300 can determine the time when the entrance notification signal is received as the entrance time.

Next, referring to FIG. 6B, when the vehicle parked in the parking lot 200 requests an exit, the parking lot billing system 100 can acquire unique information (ID) of the vehicle requesting departure (S140 , And the encrypted unique information may be modified through the unidirectional encryption algorithm to generate encryption information (hash (ID)) of the vehicle (S150).

The parking bill payment system 100 can generate the hash ID of the vehicle 20 requesting departure at step S150 and the hash ID of the providing information stored in the DB 110 (S160) whether the driver of the vehicle 20 is a subscriber according to whether or not the driver of the vehicle 20 is present.

If the subscriber is a subscriber, the parking bill payment system 100 may transmit an outgoing notification signal notifying the outsourcing of the vehicle to the external service providing system 300 as a control signal to the external service providing system 300 (S170 ). Then, the external service providing system 300 can determine the arrival time of the departure notification signal as the departure time, and perform the parking fee payment process (S180).

If the subscriber is not a subscriber, the parking bill payment system 100 can perform its own bill payment process (S185).

In addition, when the driver of the vehicle 20 is not a subscriber of the external service, the parking bill payment system 100 may be configured such that after the parking fee payment process of the parking lot 200 itself is successfully completed, When the driver of the vehicle 20 is a subscriber of the external service, the controller 20 can control to open the access blocking device of the parking lot when the vehicle 20 requests the exit ( S190).

On the other hand, according to an embodiment, the parking bill payment system 100 may include a processor and a memory for storing a program executed by the processor. The processor may include a single-core CPU or a multi-core CPU. The memory may include high speed random access memory and may include non-volatile memory such as one or more magnetic disk storage devices, flash memory devices, or other non-volatile solid state memory devices. Access to the memory by the processor and other components can be controlled by the memory controller. Here, when the program is executed by the processor, the program may cause the parking bill payment system 100 according to the present embodiment to perform the parking fee payment method described above.

Meanwhile, the parking fee payment method according to an embodiment of the present invention may be implemented in the form of program instructions readable by a computer and stored in a computer-readable recording medium. In the control program and the target program May also be stored in a computer-readable recording medium. A computer-readable recording medium includes all kinds of recording apparatuses in which data that can be read by a computer system is stored.

Program instructions to be recorded on a recording medium may be those specially designed and constructed for the present invention or may be available to those skilled in the art of software.

Examples of the computer-readable recording medium include magnetic media such as a hard disk, a floppy disk and a magnetic tape, optical media such as CD-ROM and DVD, a floptical disk, And hardware devices that are specially configured to store and execute program instructions such as magneto-optical media and ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like. The computer readable recording medium may also be distributed over a networked computer system so that computer readable code can be stored and executed in a distributed manner.

Examples of program instructions include machine language code such as those produced by a compiler, as well as devices for processing information electronically using an interpreter or the like, for example, a high-level language code that can be executed by a computer.

The hardware devices described above may be configured to operate as one or more software modules to perform the operations of the present invention, and vice versa.

It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the foregoing description of the present invention is for illustrative purposes only and that those of ordinary skill in the art can readily understand that various changes and modifications may be made without departing from the spirit or essential characteristics of the present invention. will be. It is therefore to be understood that the above-described embodiments are illustrative in all aspects and not restrictive. For example, each component described as a single entity may be distributed and implemented, and components described as being distributed may also be implemented in a combined form.

It is intended that the present invention covers the modifications and variations of this invention provided they come within the scope of the appended claims and their equivalents. .

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A unique information acquisition module for acquiring unique information of a vehicle entering or exiting the parking lot;
An encryption module for modifying the obtained unique information of the vehicle through a predetermined one-way encryption algorithm to generate encryption information of the vehicle;
Transmits the encryption information of the vehicle to the external service providing system so that a predetermined external service providing system can determine whether the driver of the vehicle is a subscriber subscribed to the external service based on the encryption information of the vehicle, A determination module for determining whether a driver of the vehicle is a subscriber subscribed to the external service based on a response received from the external service providing system, wherein the external service providing system comprises: Wherein the encryption information is information obtained by modifying unique information of the vehicle through the unidirectional encryption algorithm;
A payment module for performing a parking fee payment process of the parking lot for the vehicle when the driver of the vehicle is not a subscriber of the external service; And
And a control module for transmitting a predetermined control signal to the external service providing system to perform a process of paying the parking fee of the vehicle in the external service providing system when the driver of the vehicle is a subscriber of the external service Parking bill payment system linked with.
The method according to claim 1,
The external service providing system includes:
An app service providing system that provides predetermined application software to a user terminal of a driver of the vehicle and provides an app service through the provided application software,
The application software,
Receiving the unique information of the registered vehicle and the payment means information from the user terminal and transmitting the received information to the app service providing system,
When the unique information of the registered vehicle and the payment means information are received from the user terminal, the app service providing system converts the unique information of the registered registered vehicle through the one-way encryption algorithm to correspond to the unique information of the registered registered vehicle And the parking fee payment process for the registered vehicle is performed by using the payment means information.
The method according to claim 1,
The unique information is the vehicle number of the corresponding vehicle,
Wherein the unique information obtaining module comprises:
A license plate installed in the parking lot for receiving the license plate image from the photographing device for photographing the license plate of the vehicle and performing image processing on the received license plate image to recognize the vehicle license number of the vehicle,
A parking lot billing unit installed in the parking lot and photographing a number plate of the vehicle and performing image processing on the photographed image to determine a vehicle number of the vehicle from a license plate recognition apparatus that receives the vehicle number of the vehicle, system.
The method according to claim 1,
The control module includes:
When the vehicle enters the vehicle, transmits an entrance notification signal notifying the entrance of the vehicle to the external service providing system,
And an exit notification signal notifying the departure of the vehicle when the vehicle departs, as the control signal, to the external service providing system.
The method according to claim 6,
The control module includes:
In order to allow the external service providing system to estimate the parking fee of the vehicle, the control signal including the encryption information of the vehicle and the entrance time of the vehicle is transmitted to the external service providing system Parking bill payment system.
The method according to claim 1,
The control module includes:
When the driver of the vehicle is not a subscriber of the external service, controls to open the access blocking device of the parking lot after the parking fee payment process of the parking lot is successfully completed,
And a parking fee payment system interlocked with an external service for controlling to open the access blocking device of the parking lot when the driver of the vehicle is a subscriber of the external service.
A DB storing provision information provided from a predetermined external service providing system, wherein the providing information includes encryption information of unique information of a vehicle registered in advance by each subscriber subscribed to the external service, Information in which unique information is modified through a predetermined one-way encryption algorithm;
A unique information acquisition module for acquiring unique information of a vehicle entering or exiting the parking lot;
An encryption module for modifying the acquired unique information of the vehicle through the unidirectional encryption algorithm to generate encryption information of the vehicle;
A determination module for determining whether or not the generated encryption information of the vehicle is included in the provision information stored in the DB;
A payment module for performing a parking fee payment process of the parking lot for the vehicle when the encryption information of the vehicle is not included in the provision information stored in the DB; And
A control module that transmits a predetermined control signal to the external service providing system to perform a process of paying the parking fee of the vehicle in the external service providing system when the encrypted information of the vehicle is included in the provided information stored in the DB A parking billing system linked to an external service including a parking lot.
A parking fee payment system acquiring unique information of a vehicle entering or exiting the parking lot;
An encryption step of the parking bill settlement system generating encryption information of the vehicle by modifying the acquired unique information of the vehicle through a predetermined one-way encryption algorithm;
Wherein the parking bill settlement system transmits the encryption information of the vehicle to the external service providing system so that a predetermined external service providing system can determine whether the driver of the vehicle is a subscriber subscribed to the external service based on the encryption information of the vehicle Determining whether the driver of the vehicle is a subscriber subscribed to the external service based on a response received from the external service providing system, wherein the external service providing system includes: Wherein the encryption information is information obtained by modifying unique information of the vehicle through the unidirectional encryption algorithm;
A payment step in which, if the driver of the vehicle is not a subscriber of the external service, the parking charge settlement system performs a self parking charge payment process for the parking lot for the vehicle; And
When the driver of the vehicle is a subscriber of the external service, the parking bill payment system transmits a predetermined control signal to the external service providing system so as to perform a process of paying the parking fee of the vehicle in the external service providing system And a control step of controlling the parking fee to be charged to the outside.
9. The method of claim 8,
The unique information is the vehicle number of the corresponding vehicle,
Wherein the unique information obtaining step comprises:
Receiving a number plate image of the vehicle installed in the parking lot from a photographing device for photographing the number plate of the vehicle and performing image processing on the received number plate image to recognize the vehicle number of the vehicle; or
And a step of receiving the vehicle number of the vehicle from the license plate recognition device installed in the parking lot and photographing the license plate and performing image processing on the photographed image to determine the vehicle license number of the vehicle How to pay for parking charges.
9. The method of claim 8,
The parking fee payment method interlocked with the external service includes:
Further comprising the step of transmitting, to the external service providing system, an intrusion notification signal informing the entrance of the vehicle when the vehicle enters the vehicle,
Wherein the control step comprises:
And transmitting an outgoing notification signal for notifying the departure of the vehicle to the external service providing system as the control signal when the vehicle requests the departure of the vehicle.
9. The method of claim 8,
Wherein the control step comprises:
And transmitting the control signal including the encryption information of the vehicle and the entrance time of the vehicle to the external service providing system so that the external service providing system can estimate the parking fee of the vehicle. How to pay the parking fee linked with the service.
9. The method of claim 8,
The parking fee payment method interlocked with the external service includes:
When the driver of the vehicle is not a subscriber of the external service, controlling the parking bill payment system to open the parking block access device after the parking bill payment process of the parking lot is successfully completed; And
Further comprising controlling, when the driver of the vehicle is a subscriber of the external service, opening the access blocking device of the parking lot when the vehicle requests an exit, Payment method.
A parking fee payment system includes a DB storing provision information provided from a predetermined external service provision system, wherein the provision information includes encryption information of unique information of a vehicle registered in advance by each subscriber subscribed to the external service, The encryption information is information obtained by modifying the unique information of the vehicle through a predetermined one-way encryption algorithm;
The parking bill settlement system comprising: a car number obtaining step of obtaining unique information of a vehicle entering or leaving the parking lot;
An encryption step of causing the parking bill settlement system to generate encryption information of the vehicle by modifying the acquired unique information of the vehicle through the unidirectional encryption algorithm;
A determination step of determining whether the parking bill payment system includes encryption information of the generated vehicle in the provision information stored in the DB;
A billing step of the parking billing system performing a parking billing process of the parking lot for the vehicle if encryption information of the vehicle is not included in the provision information stored in the DB; And
Wherein the parking fee payment system is configured to allow the external service providing system to perform a process of paying the parking fee of the vehicle in the external service providing system when the encryption information of the vehicle is included in the providing information stored in the DB And a control step of transmitting a control signal of the parking fee to the external service.
A computer program installed in a data processing apparatus and stored in a recording medium for carrying out the method according to any one of claims 8 to 13.
As parking bill payment system,
A processor; And
A memory for storing a computer program executed by the processor,
Wherein the computer program causes the parking billing system to perform the method according to any one of claims 8 to 13 when being executed by the processor.

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