KR20190134900A - System and method for payment of car service using car number recognition - Google Patents

Abstract

Disclosed are a system for settling a vehicle service using vehicle number recognition, which can be applied to a place that provides a vehicle service such as a gas station or a parking lot, and is configured to recognize a vehicle number of an incoming/outgoing vehicle, automatically perform payment for a service fee using the same, and manage charge information via a blockchain, and a method thereof. According to one aspect of the present invention, the system for settling a vehicle service using vehicle number recognition comprises: a vehicle number recognition device configured to recognize a vehicle number of a vehicle incoming into or outgoing from a vehicle service providing place; and a payment system for performing payment for a fee corresponding to a product that a user of the vehicle purchases at the vehicle service providing place or a service that the user receives at the vehicle service providing place. The payment system includes: an information registration module configured to receive, in advance, payment means information and at least one vehicle number corresponding to the payment means information from a user terminal and register the payment means information and the vehicle number in a DB; an extraction module for extracting, from the DB, the payment means information which is pre-registered in the DB and corresponds to the vehicle number recognized by the vehicle number recognition device; and a payment module for performing payment using the extracted payment means information.

Description

System and method for payment of car service using car number recognition}

The present invention relates to a vehicle service payment system and method using vehicle number recognition. More specifically, it can be applied to a place that provides a vehicle service such as a gas station, a parking lot, and a drive thur, recognizes a vehicle number of an entry / exit vehicle, and automatically pays a service fee by using it. The present invention relates to a system and a method for managing information through a blockchain.

Most vehicles regularly visit gas stations to receive fuel for their operation, and are regularly inspected at repair shops and parked in parking lots. Most vehicle users use vehicle-related services very frequently.

A user who is provided with a vehicle service pays for a cost. Referring to the example of fueling, which is a representative vehicle service, a driver can check a current fueling state and prepare a payment through a display device. In addition, when refueling is completed, the driver pays the refueling amount using a payment method such as a cash payment or a credit card, a prepaid ticket, or a debit card through a gasoline. In this case, the service provider enters the fueling amount into the card terminal or the mobile card terminal located at the gas station center, and the value added network (VAN) company that provides payment agency services related to card payment between a plurality of merchants and card companies. It connects with the card company through the server, approves the use of the credit card, pays for fuel, and delivers the card and the card receipt to the driver. On the other hand, depending on the gas station, there are some places that provide a driver with a gift such as a car wash coupon or give a driver a certain amount of gas fee.

On the other hand, blockchain is a key technology used for decentralized money management. Blockchain maintains the integrity of transactions by making it impossible for any user to forge data without a central management agency. In order to maintain the integrity of the blockchain, all participating nodes participating in the blockchain network store transaction details (books) and inspect newly created transaction transactions through stored books. For example, even if one participating node manipulates a transaction to make a double payment, all other nodes will verify the double payment and reject the agreement, thereby denying the transaction. Therefore, no manipulation of data occurs unless more than 51% of all nodes agree falsely.

Blockchain is a technology that maintains security and integrity in a decentralized network environment without a centralized server. Based on these strengths, various computing data can be shared and applied to other systems besides electronic money. For example, a cloud storage system using a blockchain is a service that uses the disk space of another computer by issuing its own coin to the storage provider to maintain reliability through partition verification.

By applying this blockchain technology to vehicle service payment and payment history management, it is expected to secure safety and integrity.

Republic of Korea Patent Publication No. 10-2010-0042430

The present invention can automatically perform the payment for the vehicle service by automatically recognizing the vehicle number, by using the blockchain can safely store the billing history without a centralized server, appropriate compensation for maintenance of the blockchain or proof of work It is to provide a system and method that can provide.

According to an aspect of the present invention, a vehicle number recognition device for recognizing a vehicle number of a vehicle entering or exiting a vehicle service providing place and an object purchased by the vehicle user of the vehicle at the vehicle service providing place or the vehicle service providing place It includes a payment system for performing a payment for a fee corresponding to the service provided by the payment system, DB in advance by receiving the payment means information and at least one vehicle number corresponding to the payment means information from the user terminal An information registration module registered in the DB, an extraction module corresponding to the vehicle number recognized by the vehicle number recognition apparatus and extracting payment means information registered in advance in the DB from the DB and payment using the extracted payment means information Vehicle service using vehicle number recognition, including a payment module that performs A payment system is provided.

In an embodiment, the information registration module registers prepaid right information previously purchased by a user corresponding to the user terminal in the DB as the payment means information, and the payment module is configured by the vehicle number recognition device. The fare may be deducted from the balance of the prepaid ticket corresponding to the recognized vehicle number.

In an embodiment, the information registration module may pre-register a plurality of vehicle numbers corresponding to prepaid ticket information previously purchased by a user corresponding to the user terminal in the DB.

In one embodiment, the vehicle number recognition apparatus is installed at the vehicle service providing place, receives the license plate image of the vehicle from a photographing apparatus for photographing the license plate of the vehicle, and performs image processing on the received license plate image The vehicle number from the license plate recognition device to determine the vehicle number of the vehicle by recognizing the vehicle number of the vehicle, or installed at the vehicle service providing place, and performing image processing on the photographed image of the license plate of the vehicle Can receive the vehicle number.

In an embodiment, the vehicle service payment system using the vehicle number recognition includes a plurality of blockchain terminals, and among the plurality of blockchain terminals, a blockchain terminal corresponding to a vehicle user of the vehicle may include: When approving the payment, billing information corresponding to the payment may be registered in the blockchain.

In an embodiment, the blockchain terminal corresponding to the vehicle user of the vehicle may acquire cyber money information accumulated as a reward for the payment, and register the cyber money information in the blockchain.

In an embodiment, the blockchain terminal corresponding to the vehicle user of the vehicle generates a new block including the charging information and registers the block in the blockchain, and additional cyber money is accumulated as a reward for the creation of the new block. It may be characterized by.

In an embodiment, the additional cyber money accumulated as a reward for the creation of the new block may include membership points applicable to a vehicle service corresponding to each of a plurality of billing information included in the new block. Can be.

In one embodiment, the vehicle service providing place is a gas station, the vehicle service payment system vehicle service payment system using vehicle number recognition, obtains the vehicle information of the vehicle, suitable for the vehicle based on the vehicle information Determine the type of fuel, determine the type of injected fuel to be injected into the filling port of the vehicle, and prevent mixing to control the fuel to be supplied to the vehicle when the type of the suitable fuel matches the type of the injected fuel The apparatus may further include.

According to another aspect of the invention, the payment system, the information registration step of receiving the payment means information and at least one vehicle number corresponding to the payment means information from the user terminal in advance and registers in the DB, the vehicle number recognition device The vehicle number recognition step of recognizing the vehicle number of the vehicle entering or leaving the vehicle service providing place and the payment system are provided by the vehicle user of the vehicle purchased at the service providing place or provided at the service providing place. And a payment step of performing a payment for a fee corresponding to a service, wherein the payment step corresponds to the vehicle number recognized by the vehicle number recognition device and obtains payment means information previously registered in the DB from the DB. Extracting and performing a payment using the extracted payment means information; A vehicle service payment method using vehicle number recognition is provided.

In one embodiment, the information registration step, the pre-purchase information pre-purchased by the user corresponding to the user terminal comprises the step of registering in advance in the DB as the payment means information, using the extracted payment means information The payment may include subtracting the fare from the balance of the prepaid ticket corresponding to the vehicle number recognized by the vehicle number recognition device.

In an embodiment, the information registering step may include registering a plurality of vehicle numbers corresponding to prepaid ticket information previously purchased by a user corresponding to the user terminal in the DB.

In one embodiment, the vehicle number recognition step, is installed in the vehicle service providing place receives a license plate image of the vehicle from a photographing apparatus for photographing the license plate of the vehicle, and performs image processing on the received license plate image Recognizing the vehicle number of the vehicle or installed in the vehicle service providing place from the license plate recognition device for determining the vehicle number of the vehicle by performing the image processing of the photographed image of the license plate of the vehicle and the And receiving a vehicle number of the vehicle.

In an embodiment, if the blockchain terminal corresponding to the vehicle user of the vehicle among the plurality of blockchain terminals approves the payment in the payment system, registering the billing information corresponding to the payment to the blockchain. It may further include.

In one embodiment, the vehicle further comprises the step of acquiring the cyber money information accumulated as a reward for the payment, the block chain terminal corresponding to the vehicle user of the vehicle, and registering the cyber money information in the block chain Vehicle service payment method using number recognition.

In one embodiment, the step of registering the billing information corresponding to the payment in the blockchain, the blockchain terminal corresponding to the vehicle user of the vehicle, generates a new block including the billing information and registers in the blockchain Including the step of, but may be characterized in that additional cyber money is earned as a reward for the creation of the new block.

In an embodiment, the additional cyber money accumulated as a reward for the creation of the new block may include cyber money applicable to a vehicle service corresponding to each of a plurality of billing information included in the new block. Can be.

In an embodiment, the vehicle service providing place is a gas station, and the vehicle service managing method using the blockchain includes: acquiring vehicle information of the vehicle by the mixing prevention device; Determining a type of suitable fuel suitable for the vehicle based on the determination of the type of injected fuel to be injected into an oil inlet of the vehicle by the mixed oil prevention device; The method may further include controlling fuel to be supplied to the vehicle when the types of the injected fuel coincide.

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

According to an embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to provide a system and method that can automatically recognize the number of the vehicle and can conveniently perform payment through it.

In addition, it is possible to provide a system and method for securely preserving billing details or point accumulation details corresponding to payment on the blockchain.

On the other hand, according to an embodiment of the present invention has an effect that the block chain can be properly maintained by providing a suitable compensation for the proof of work of the block chain.

In addition, the vehicle user may register information on a means for paying the vehicle service in advance, and pay the cost using the information registered in advance when using the actual service. Therefore, there is an effect that it is possible to quickly and simply pay the service cost using the information registered in advance.

In addition, according to an embodiment of the present invention there is an effect that can be prevented by using a pre-registered vehicle information.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS In order to better understand the drawings cited in the detailed description of the invention, a brief description of each drawing is provided.
1 is a view for schematically explaining a vehicle service payment system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2A to 2C are diagrams illustrating a method for recognizing a vehicle number by a vehicle service payment system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, respectively.
3 is a block diagram schematically illustrating a configuration of a payment system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a diagram illustrating a process of receiving and registering information from a vehicle service terminal by a vehicle service payment system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
5 is a flowchart illustrating a method performed by a blockchain terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.
6 is a diagram illustrating an example of a block on a blockchain according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As the invention allows for various changes and numerous embodiments, particular embodiments will be illustrated in the drawings and described in detail in the written description. However, this is not intended to limit the present invention to specific embodiments, it should be understood to include all transformations, equivalents, and substitutes included in the spirit and scope of the present invention. In the following description of the present invention, if it is determined that the detailed description of the related known technology may obscure the gist of the present invention, the detailed description thereof will be omitted.

Terms such as first and second 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 herein is for the purpose of describing particular example embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention. Singular expressions include plural expressions unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

In this specification, terms such as "comprise" or "have" are intended to indicate that there is a feature, number, step, action, component, part, or combination thereof described in the specification, one or more other It is to be understood that the present invention does not exclude the possibility of the presence or the addition of features, numbers, steps, operations, components, parts, or a combination thereof.

In addition, in the present specification, when one component 'transmits' data to another component, the component may directly transmit the data to the other component, or through at least one other component. Means that the data may be transmitted to the other component. On the contrary, when one component 'directly transmits' data to another component, it means that the data is transmitted from the component to the other component without passing through the other component.

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

1 is a view for schematically explaining a vehicle service payment system (hereinafter, referred to as a vehicle service payment system) using vehicle number recognition according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, in order to implement a vehicle service management method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a vehicle service payment system 10 may be provided. The vehicle service payment system 100 may be installed at a place that provides a vehicle service. The place that provides the vehicle service may be a place that provides various services for the vehicle, such as a parking lot, a gas station, or a drive thru store.

As shown in FIG. 1, a vehicle service payment system 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a vehicle number recognition apparatus 100, a payment system 200, and a plurality of blockchain terminals 300-1 to 300 -N. May include a blockchain network 300.

The vehicle number recognition apparatus 100 may recognize a vehicle number of a vehicle entering or exiting a vehicle service providing place.

Means for recognizing the vehicle number may vary.

In one embodiment, the vehicle number recognition apparatus 100 is installed in the service providing place and receives the license plate image of the vehicle from the photographing apparatus for photographing the license plate of the vehicle, and performs image processing on the received license plate image The vehicle number of the vehicle can be recognized.

2A is a diagram illustrating a process of recognizing a vehicle number by the vehicle service payment system 10 (particularly, the vehicle number recognition device 100) according to the present embodiment.

Referring to FIG. 2A, when a vehicle is not provided with a vehicle service and entered / stopped / parked, the photographing apparatus 110 installed at the service providing place photographs a vehicle license plate of the vehicle (S110), and photographs the photographed license plate image. In operation S120, the vehicle number recognition apparatus 100 may transmit the vehicle number recognition apparatus.

Then, the vehicle number recognition apparatus 100 may recognize the vehicle number from the received license plate image (S130). The vehicle number recognition apparatus 100 may recognize text and numbers included in a license plate image received through various image recognition techniques, image analysis techniques, or image processing techniques. On the other hand, the photographing apparatus 110 may include a camera or a camcorder consisting of a closed-circuit television (CCTV), a CCD element.

The photographing apparatus 110 may photograph the license plate of the vehicle when the vehicle is parked and stopped in the area covered by the photographing apparatus. For example, the photographing apparatus 110 in charge of an area where the vehicle stops for fueling may photograph the license plate of the vehicle. Alternatively, the license plate of the vehicle in which the photographing apparatus installed at the entrance of the parking lot can be photographed.

On the other hand, in another embodiment, the vehicle number recognition device 100 is installed in the service providing place, license plate recognition device for determining the vehicle number of the vehicle by taking a license plate of the vehicle and performing image processing on the photographed image The vehicle number of the vehicle can be received from the process, which is illustrated in FIG. 2B. Referring to FIG. 2B, when a vehicle is parked / parked to receive a vehicle service, a license plate recognition device 120 installed at a service providing location photographs a vehicle license plate of the vehicle (S210), and the vehicle of the vehicle is photographed from the photographed license plate image. The number may be recognized (S220). Thereafter, the license plate recognition apparatus 120 may transmit the vehicle number to the vehicle number recognition apparatus 100 (S230).

In another embodiment, the vehicle number recognition apparatus 100 may receive the vehicle number of the vehicle from a tag reader that recognizes the vehicle number of the vehicle.

2C is a diagram illustrating a process of recognizing a vehicle number by a vehicle service payment system 10 (particularly, the vehicle number recognition device 100) through a tag and a tag reader.

Referring to FIG. 2C, the tag 131 may provide a vehicle number of a vehicle to the tag reader 130, and the tag reader 130 may recognize the vehicle number provided by the tag 131 (S310). ). Thereafter, the tag reader 130 may transmit the vehicle number to the vehicle number recognition apparatus 100 (S320).

The tag 130 and the tag reader 131 may communicate with each other using a short range wireless communication protocol such as RFID, NFC, or Becon, and may be implemented as a barcode or a QR code according to an embodiment. In the case of RFID, NFC, Becon, etc., the tag 131 may store vehicle number information in advance, and transmit vehicle number information stored to the tag reader 130 through short range wireless communication. In the case of a barcode or QR code, a tag having a barcode or QR code indicating the vehicle number may be attached to the vehicle, and the tag reader may recognize the vehicle number by reading the barcode or QR code.

In particular, when the vehicle service providing place is a gas station, the tag reader may be installed in a gas station inserted into the gas port of the vehicle for oiling, the tag reader may recognize the vehicle number of the vehicle from the tag attached to the gas port of the vehicle. . That is, when the lubricator takes the lubricator to the place close to the filling port for the liquor, the tag reader attached to the lubricator may recognize the vehicle number of the vehicle from the tag attached to the filling hole of the vehicle.

Referring back to FIG. 1, the payment system 200 may perform a payment for a fee corresponding to an item purchased by the vehicle user of the vehicle at the service providing place or a service provided at the service providing place. For example, when the service providing place is a gas station, the payment system 200 may perform a payment for fueling costs, or when the service providing place is a parking lot, the payment system 200 may perform the payment for the parking fee. Can be.

The payment system 200 may be connected to a predetermined external payment server 20 through wired / wireless communication, and may transmit and receive various information and / or data necessary for payment of a service cost. The external payment server 2000 may be a financial company server, a card company server, a bank server, a payment gateway (PG) server, a value added network (VAN) server, and various other types of financial company servers, and the external payment server 20 ) May be described interchangeably with the above-mentioned financial institution server, card company server, bank server, PG server, and other financial institution server. In the present specification, the external payment server 20 is described based on one of the card company server or the bank server, but the technical idea of the present invention is not limited thereto.

In one embodiment, the payment system 200 may perform a prepayment. That is, the payment system 200 may deduct the fee from the prepaid amount previously purchased by the user.

In an embodiment, the user may pre-specify a vehicle that can use the prepaid amount purchased in advance, and register the vehicle number of the vehicle in the payment system 200. A vehicle that can use the prepaid amount pre-purchased may be designated in one car or a plurality of vehicles.

In another embodiment, the payment system 200 may automatically perform the payment using the payment means information registered in advance by the vehicle user. 3 is a block diagram showing a specific configuration of a payment system 200 according to the present embodiment.

Referring to FIG. 3, the payment system 200 may include an information registration module 210, an extraction module 220, a payment module 230, and a DB 240.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, some of the above components may not necessarily correspond to the components necessary for the implementation of the present invention, and in some embodiments, the payment system 200 Of course, more components may be included. For example, the payment system 200 may further include a control module (not shown) capable of controlling the functions and / or resources of other components included in the payment system 200.

The payment system 200 may include hardware resources and / or software necessary to implement the technical idea of the present invention, and does not necessarily mean one physical component or one device. . That is, the payment system 200 may mean a logical combination of hardware and / or software provided to implement the technical idea of the present invention. If necessary, the payment system 200 may be installed in devices spaced apart from each other to perform respective functions. As a result, it may be implemented as a set of logical configurations for implementing the technical idea of the present invention.

In addition, the term "module" in the present specification may mean a functional and structural combination of hardware for performing the technical idea of the present invention and software for driving the hardware. For example, the module may mean a logical unit of a predetermined code and a hardware resource for performing the predetermined code, and does not necessarily mean a physically connected code or a kind of hardware. It can be easily inferred by the average expert in the technical field of the present invention.

The DB 240 may be implemented as at least one table, and may be used as a meaning including a separate DBMS (Database Management System) for searching, storing, and managing information stored in the DB 190. . In addition, it may be implemented in various ways such as a linked-list, a tree, a relational DB, and includes all data storage media and data structures capable of storing information to be stored in the DB 240. can do.

The vehicle user may register payment means information and at least one vehicle number corresponding to the payment means information before receiving the service at the vehicle service providing place. That is, the information registration module 210 may receive payment means information and at least one vehicle number corresponding to the payment means information from the user's terminal and register the received information in the DB 240.

One payment means information may correspond to one vehicle number, but according to an embodiment, one payment means information may correspond to several vehicle numbers.

Herein, the payment means information may mean any information that is a means of payment. For example, the payment means information may include the type of payment means (for example, credit card), and if the payment means is a credit card may include a credit card number, password, expiration date and the like.

In the present specification, the payment means may mean a means for paying a prepaid or postpaid item purchase cost or service cost. A representative example of a vehicle user's payment method may be a credit card. However, the present invention is not limited thereto. According to embodiments, various payment methods, such as a check card, prepaid card, electronic money, mileage, and mobile payment, may be used. Of course, the payment system 200 may communicate with a payment system (for example, a credit card company system) corresponding to the payment method in order to perform a payment process through the payment means designated by the vehicle user. Can be.

In addition, if necessary, the vehicle user may transmit vehicle information and / or member information of the vehicle user together with the vehicle number in addition to the payment means information, and the information registration module 210 may receive the vehicle information and / or Alternatively, member information of the vehicle user may be registered in the DB 240.

The vehicle information may include information about a vehicle type and a type of fuel (eg, gasoline, diesel, etc.) suitable for the vehicle.

Member information may include personal information of the vehicle user, ID, password and / or portable terminal information of the user name.

In one embodiment, when the payment means is a prepaid right, the information registration module 210 may pre-register the prepaid right information purchased by the user in advance in the DB 240 as the payment means information. Also, the information registration module 210 may pre-register one or a plurality of vehicle numbers corresponding to the prepaid right information purchased by the user in advance in the DB 240. Meanwhile, the extraction module 220 may extract the payment means information corresponding to the vehicle number recognized by the vehicle number recognition apparatus 100 and registered in advance in the DB 240 from the DB 240.

The payment module 230 may perform payment using the extracted payment means information.

In one embodiment, the payment means may be a prepaid ticket purchased by a user in advance, in which case the payment module 230 receives the fee from the balance of the prepaid ticket corresponding to the vehicle number recognized by the vehicle number recognition device. I can deduct it.

4 is a diagram illustrating a process of receiving and registering information from a terminal of a vehicle user by a payment system 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The vehicle user has his / her payment information, which is information about a means to pay later, vehicle number of a vehicle that can use automatic payment of vehicle service costs through the payment means, vehicle information and / or member information of each vehicle. It may be transmitted to the payment system 200 through the user terminal 400 (S410).

Then, the payment system 200 (in particular, the information registration module 210) is a DB of the vehicle number, payment means information, vehicle information and / or member information of the vehicle corresponding to the at least one vehicle received It may be registered at 240 (S420).

On the other hand, the user terminal 400 of the vehicle user is a hand such as a mobile phone, satellite phone, wireless phone, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Wireless Local Loop (WLL) station, smartphone, tablet PC, PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), etc. It may be a processing device including a held device. In addition, the user terminal 400 of the vehicle user may perform a function as a blockchain terminal, which will be described later.

Meanwhile, after the information registration process as shown in FIG. 4 is performed, the vehicle user of the vehicle 400 may visit the vehicle service providing place to receive the vehicle service. Then, as described above, the vehicle number recognition apparatus 100 may recognize the vehicle number of the vehicle entering the service providing place, the extraction module 220 corresponds to the recognized vehicle number and the DB 240 ) Can be extracted from the DB 240, the payment means information, the vehicle information, the member information of the vehicle user registered in advance.

Thereafter, the payment module 230 may use the extracted payment means information to pay for a product purchase cost or a service cost (S250).

In addition, the payment module 230 may provide predetermined cyber goods to the user's terminal 400 or the user's account. To this end, the extraction module 220 may further extract the member information of the vehicle user registered in advance in the DB 240, the payment module 230 is based on the extracted member information of the vehicle user A predetermined cyber good may be provided to the user's terminal 400 or the user's account. In this specification, the cyber goods may mean any goods that can be created, transmitted, exchanged or consumed electronically and exchanged for other goods or services on / offline. For example, the cyber goods may be implemented in the form of points, points, miles, tickets, coupons, or exchange codes.

Meanwhile, when the vehicle service providing place is a gas station, the vehicle service payment system 10 may further include a mixing prevention device (not shown). The mixed oil prevention apparatus acquires vehicle information of a vehicle, determines a type of suitable fuel suitable for the vehicle based on the vehicle information, determines a type of injected fuel to be injected into a gas inlet of the vehicle, and determines the suitable fuel. When the type and the type of the injected fuel coincides with the control unit may be controlled to supply fuel to the vehicle.

Referring back to FIG. 1, the blockchain network 300 may include a plurality of blockchain terminals 300-1 to 300 -N.

The blockchain terminals 300-1 to 300 -N may be blockchain nodes that generate blocks on the blockchain and verify blocks generated on the blockchain.

A block chain is formed by connecting a plurality of blocks in a chain form and includes a hash value of a current block, a hash value of a previous block, a nonce value, and a time stamp.

Typically, transaction data is recorded on the blockchain, but the blockchain according to the technical concept of the present invention includes cyber data (e.g., membership points, etc.) that are credited with billing data and payment benefits corresponding to payment for vehicle services. Information can be recorded.

In one embodiment, the cyber money earned as a benefit for payment may be converted to membership points of other stores or membership points of other services (eg, OK Cashbag points, card company points, etc.). Alternatively, in another embodiment, the cyber money earned as a benefit for payment may be in the form of integration points that can be commonly used in various affiliated stores or affiliate services. FIG. 5 is a blockchain according to an embodiment of the present invention. A flowchart illustrating a method performed by a terminal.

Referring to FIG. 5, among a plurality of blockchain terminals 300-1 to 300 -N, a blockchain terminal (eg, 300-1) corresponding to a vehicle user of the vehicle is paid by the payment system 200. If you approve, it is possible to generate the billing information corresponding to the payment and register in the blockchain (S510, S520).

That is, each vehicle user has a user terminal, and the user terminal of each vehicle user may be a blockchain terminal corresponding to the vehicle user. If a particular user uses the vehicle service and makes a payment, the blockchain terminal corresponding to the user receives the information indicating that the payment has been approved from the payment system 200 and transmits the billing information corresponding to the payment to the blockchain. You can register. The billing information may include ID, amount, expiration date, expenditure location information, etc. of the user who has spent the expenditure.

On the other hand, when the vehicle user makes a payment at the service providing place, the corresponding service providing place may pay (establish) a predetermined cyber money to the vehicle user in return for payment, and then correspond to the vehicle user of the vehicle. The blockchain terminal may acquire cyber money information accumulated as a reward for the payment (S530), and additionally register the cyber money information in the blockchain (S540). The cyber money information registered in the blockchain may include information about a user ID, quantity, date of accumulation, and applicable service providing place (for example, available store).

Therefore, the block registered by the blockchain terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention may be in a form including charging information corresponding to the payment and / or cyber money information accumulated due to the payment.

6 is a diagram illustrating an example of a block generated by a blockchain terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. In the block of FIG. 6, the charging information 1 corresponding to the payment for which the user A paid the amount X in the store A, the cyber money information 1 (membership point information 1) corresponding to the charging information 1, and the user B in the store B amount Y The billing information 2 corresponding to the payment paid by 2, the cyber money information 2 (membership point information 2) corresponding to the billing information 2, the billing information 3 corresponding to the payment that the user B paid the amount Z at the store C, and the corresponding Cyber Money Information 3 (membership point information 3) is included.

Meanwhile, in the blockchain according to the technical idea of the present invention, cyber money may be additionally provided as a reward for proof-of-work. That is, in one embodiment, the blockchain terminal corresponding to the vehicle user of the vehicle may generate a new block including the charging information and register it in the blockchain through proof of work. Then, additional cyber money can be accumulated as a reward for the generation of the new block to the vehicle user of the vehicle.

In particular, the additional cyber money accumulated as a reward for the creation of the new block may include membership points applicable to the vehicle service corresponding to each of the plurality of charging information included in the new block.

For example, if a blockchain terminal corresponding to the vehicle user of the vehicle generates a block as shown in FIG. 6, the cyber money additionally accumulated in the vehicle user of the vehicle is available for membership points and stores in store A. Membership points available at B and membership points available at store C may be included.

In another embodiment, the cyber money additionally paid as a reward for proof of work may be converted into membership points of other stores or membership points of other services (eg OK Cashbag points, card company points, etc.). Alternatively, in another embodiment, the cyber money additionally provided as a reward for proof of work may be in the form of an integration point that may be commonly used in various affiliated stores or affiliated services.

In some implementations, the vehicle service 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 fast random access memory and may include nonvolatile memory, such as one or more magnetic disk storage devices, flash memory devices, or other nonvolatile solid state memory devices. Access to memory by the processor and other components may be controlled by the memory controller. Here, when the program is executed by a processor, the vehicle service settlement system 100 according to the present embodiment may allow the above-described vehicle service management method to be performed.

On the other hand, the vehicle service management method according to an embodiment of the present invention is implemented in the form of computer-readable program instructions can be stored in a computer-readable recording medium, the control program and the target program according to an embodiment of the present invention It can also be stored in a computer-readable recording medium. The computer-readable recording medium includes all kinds of recording devices in which data that can be read by a computer system is stored.

The program instructions recorded on the recording medium may be those specially designed and constructed for the present invention, or may be known and available to those skilled in the software art.

Examples of computer-readable recording media include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks, and magnetic tape, optical media such as CD-ROMs, DVDs, floppy disks, and the like. Included are hardware devices specifically configured to store and execute the same magneto-optical media and program instructions such as ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like. In addition, the above-described medium may be a transmission medium such as an optical or metal wire, a waveguide, or the like including a carrier wave for transmitting a signal specifying a program command, a data structure, and the like. The computer readable recording medium can also be distributed over network coupled computer systems so that the computer readable code is stored and executed in a distributed fashion.

Examples of program instructions include not only machine code generated by a compiler, but also devices that process information electronically using an interpreter, for example, high-level language code that can be executed by a computer.

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

The foregoing description of the present invention is intended for illustration, and it will be understood by those skilled in the art that the present invention may be easily modified in other specific forms without changing the technical spirit or essential features of the present invention. will be. Therefore, it should be understood that the embodiments described above are exemplary in all respects and not restrictive. For example, each component described as a single type may be implemented in a distributed manner, and similarly, components described as distributed may be implemented in a combined form.

The scope of the present invention is shown by the following claims rather than the detailed description, and all changes or modifications derived from the meaning and scope of the claims and their equivalents should be construed as being included in the scope of the present invention. .

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A vehicle number recognition device for recognizing a vehicle number of a vehicle entering or leaving a vehicle service providing place; And
Including a payment system for the vehicle user of the vehicle to pay for the charges corresponding to the goods purchased at the vehicle service providing place or the service provided at the vehicle service providing place,
The payment system,
An information registration module for receiving payment means information and at least one vehicle number corresponding to the payment means information from a user's terminal in advance and registering them in a DB;
An extraction module for extracting payment means information corresponding to the vehicle number recognized by the vehicle number recognition device and pre-registered in the DB from the DB; And
Vehicle service payment system using a vehicle number recognition comprising a payment module for performing a payment using the extracted payment means information.
The method of claim 1,
The information registration module,
Register the prepaid right information previously purchased by the user corresponding to the user terminal in the DB as the payment means information,
The payment module,
And a vehicle number recognition system for subtracting the fee from the balance of the prepaid ticket corresponding to the vehicle number recognized by the vehicle number recognition device.
The method of claim 2,
The information registration module,
And a vehicle number recognition system for registering a plurality of vehicle numbers corresponding to prepaid right information purchased by a user corresponding to the user terminal to the DB in advance.
The method of claim 1,
The vehicle number recognition device,
Installed at the vehicle service providing place and receives a license plate image of the vehicle from a photographing apparatus for photographing the license plate of the vehicle, and performs image processing on the received license plate image to recognize the vehicle number of the vehicle;
It is installed at the vehicle service providing place using the vehicle number recognition to receive the vehicle number of the vehicle from the license plate recognition device for determining the vehicle number of the vehicle by performing the image processing on the photographed image of the license plate of the vehicle Vehicle service payment system.
The method of claim 1,
The vehicle service payment system using the vehicle number recognition includes a plurality of blockchain terminals,
The blockchain terminal corresponding to the vehicle user of the vehicle among the plurality of blockchain terminals, when the payment system approves the payment, uses a vehicle number recognition for registering the billing information corresponding to the payment to the blockchain. Service payment system.
The method of claim 5,
The blockchain terminal corresponding to the vehicle user of the vehicle,
Vehicle service payment system using vehicle number recognition to obtain the cyber money information earned as a reward for the payment, and register the cyber money information in the blockchain.
The method of claim 5,
The blockchain terminal corresponding to the vehicle user of the vehicle,
Create a new block containing the billing information and register it in the blockchain,
Vehicle service payment system using a vehicle number recognition, characterized in that additional cyber money is accumulated as a reward for the generation of the new block.
The method of claim 7, wherein
The additional cyber money earned as a reward for the creation of the new block,
And a membership point applicable to a vehicle service corresponding to each of a plurality of charging informations included in the new block.
The method of claim 7, wherein
The additional cyber money earned as a reward for the creation of the new block,
Vehicle service payment system using a vehicle number recognition, characterized in that the conversion point to a membership point of a predetermined affiliated store or a membership point of a predetermined affiliated service or can be commonly used in various affiliated stores or affiliated services.
The method of claim 1,
The vehicle service providing place is a gas station,
The vehicle service payment system using the vehicle service payment system vehicle number recognition,
Acquiring vehicle information of the vehicle, determining a type of suitable fuel suitable for the vehicle based on the vehicle information, determining a type of injected fuel to be injected into a gas inlet of the vehicle, and determining the type of the suitable fuel and the And a mixing control device for controlling fuel supply to the vehicle when the types of injected fuels match.
An information registration step of receiving, by a payment system, payment means information and at least one vehicle number corresponding to the payment means information from a user's terminal in advance and registering in a DB;
A vehicle number recognition step of the vehicle number recognition device recognizing a vehicle number of a vehicle entering or exiting a vehicle service providing place; And
Wherein the payment system, the vehicle user of the vehicle comprises a payment step for the payment corresponding to the goods purchased at the service providing place or the service provided at the service providing place,
The payment step,
Extracting payment means information corresponding to the vehicle number recognized by the vehicle number recognition device and pre-registered in the DB from the DB; And
Vehicle service payment method using a vehicle number recognition comprising the step of performing a payment using the extracted payment means information.
The method of claim 11,
The information registration step,
And registering the prepaid right information previously purchased by a user corresponding to the user terminal in the DB as the payment means information.
Performing a payment using the extracted payment means information,
And subtracting the fee from the remaining balance of the prepaid ticket corresponding to the vehicle number recognized by the vehicle number recognition device.
The method of claim 11,
The information registration step,
And registering a plurality of vehicle numbers corresponding to the prepaid right information purchased by a user corresponding to the user terminal in the DB in advance.
The method of claim 11,
The vehicle number recognition step,
Receiving a license plate image of the vehicle from a photographing apparatus for photographing the license plate of the vehicle and installed at the vehicle service providing place, and performing image processing on the received license plate image to recognize the vehicle number of the vehicle; or
And receiving the vehicle number of the vehicle from a license plate recognition device installed at the vehicle service providing place and performing image processing on the photographed image of the license plate of the vehicle and determining the vehicle number of the vehicle. Vehicle service payment method using number recognition.
The method of claim 11,
The vehicle number further comprises registering, by the blockchain terminal corresponding to the vehicle user of the vehicle among the plurality of blockchain terminals, the billing information corresponding to the settlement in the blockchain when the settlement system approves the settlement. Vehicle service payment method using recognition.
The method of claim 15,
And obtaining, by the blockchain terminal corresponding to the vehicle user of the vehicle, cyber money information accumulated as a reward for the payment, and registering the cyber money information in the blockchain. Service payment method.
The method of claim 15,
Registering the billing information corresponding to the payment to the blockchain,
And generating, by the blockchain terminal corresponding to the vehicle user of the vehicle, a new block including the charging information and registering the new block in the blockchain.
Vehicle service payment method using a vehicle number recognition, characterized in that additional cyber money is accumulated as a reward for the generation of the new block.
The method of claim 17,
The additional cyber money earned as a reward for the creation of the new block,
And a cyber money applicable to a vehicle service corresponding to each of a plurality of charging informations included in the new block.
The method of claim 11,
The vehicle service providing place is a gas station,
Vehicle service management method using the blockchain,
Obtaining, by the mixing prevention device, vehicle information of the vehicle;
Determining, by the mixing control apparatus, a type of suitable fuel suitable for the vehicle based on the vehicle information;
Determining, by the mixing prevention device, a type of injected fuel to be injected into a filling port of the vehicle;
And mixing, by the mixing prevention device, fuel so that fuel is supplied to the vehicle when the type of the suitable fuel and the type of the injected fuel coincide with each other.
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 11 to 19.

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