TWI666612B - Drive-through payment system, method and apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

A parking-free toll payment system, method and device. The system mainly provides a vehicle driver who can enter a toll lane to pay fees without parking. The toll lane is provided with a toll payment device, including a vehicle identification system, which can be entered by the vehicle. The vehicle identification has been completed when paying the toll lane, and the vehicle-related costs are queried based on the vehicle identification information, and then the driver is notified of the details of the payment that should be made, so that the driver can use the payment-free system with multiple payment methods in the case of free parking Complete the payment and leave from the toll lane.

Description

   Free parking payment system, method and device   

This specification discloses a payment system, and particularly proposes a parking-free payment system, method, and related device that facilitate driving a vehicle into a toll lane to complete payment.

When there are bills to pay, there are usually several ways. One is to go to the payment agency or the relevant place to pay the bill with a paper bill; or use the Internet to pay the bill; or go to have Billing service stores can check bills and output temporary bills to pay bills.

However, drivers who drive vehicles often receive temporary expenses, such as parking fees and tickets. In the case of driving a vehicle, it is necessary to find a place with parking spaces and payment services to facilitate vehicle driving and payment. Expenses incurred temporarily.

If it is not easy to find a place suitable for parking and payment at one time, otherwise it is necessary to remember to pay at the next convenient time, otherwise you may be forgotten and a fine for late payment may occur.

In order to provide a convenient and fast way to pay fees, the disclosure discloses a no-parking payment system, method, and device, especially for vehicle driving. When payment is required, you can use this no-parking payment system to stop paying In the case of vehicles, the vehicle identification, fee inquiry and processing procedures are automatically used to achieve the purpose of fast and convenient payment of fees, especially the vehicle-related expenses.

According to one of the embodiments, the toll-free payment system is provided with a toll lane, the toll-free lane is provided with a toll-free toll payment device, and the toll-free toll payment device is provided with a vehicle identification module, which is used to identify the vehicle when it enters the toll lane and generate a fee Inquiry request; there is a fee inquiry module, which can obtain the cost list of the corresponding vehicle according to the identification information of the vehicle, and then inform a user in the vehicle about the cost list of the vehicle by a cost notification method, and process the user payment after payment One or more expenses in the expense list.

The parking-free payment system may further include a cloud system, which includes a database recording a plurality of vehicle information set by the user, is connected to the parking-free payment device, and obtains the vehicle identification information according to the fee inquiry request issued by the parking-free payment device. Provide a list of vehicle fees and receive fees paid by users through a no-parking payment device.

In one embodiment, the cloud system is connected to a charge supervisory system to obtain the payable fees of the corresponding vehicle, and may be connected to a payment system to process the fees paid by the user through the parking-free payment system. Through the cloud system, the parking-free payment system can simultaneously serve multiple parking-free payment devices at various locations.

In the embodiment of the parking-free payment method applying the parking-free payment system described above, the vehicle can automatically identify the vehicle when it enters the payment lane, obtain vehicle identification information, and generate a fee inquiry request. After the inquiry, the corresponding entry payment can be obtained. The list of fees for the vehicles in the lane will be notified to the relevant users so that they can pay in the payment method provided by the system.

In order to further understand the technology, methods and effects adopted by the present invention to achieve the intended purpose, please refer to the following detailed description and drawings of the present invention. It is believed that the purpose, features and characteristics of the present invention can be deepened and specific It is understood, however, the drawings are provided for reference and description only, and are not intended to limit the present invention.

10‧‧‧Pay kiosk

101‧‧‧Camera

103‧‧‧Human Machine Interface Area

108‧‧‧Pay Lane

12‧‧‧ Vehicle

108’‧‧‧Pay lane

104‧‧‧display screen

105‧‧‧ banknote entrance

106‧‧‧ Induction zone

107‧‧‧Keyboard area

109‧‧‧Large change exit

30‧‧‧Internet

32‧‧‧ Cloud System

301,302,303‧‧‧Pay kiosk

40‧‧‧Free parking payment device

401‧‧‧control unit

402‧‧‧Wireless communication unit

403‧‧‧input unit

404‧‧‧display unit

405‧‧‧ Network Unit

406‧‧‧Expense inquiry module

407‧‧‧Expense Processing Module

408‧‧‧Vehicle identification module

409‧‧‧Message Passing Module

41‧‧‧Internet

42‧‧‧ Cloud System

43‧‧‧Expense Supervisor System

44‧‧‧ payment system

501‧‧‧Identify vehicle

503‧‧‧Query fee

505‧‧‧Notification

507‧‧‧Display fee

509‧‧‧ payment

511‧‧‧Complete payment

51‧‧‧ Cloud System

52‧‧‧Payment System

Fig. 1A shows a schematic diagram of one embodiment of a system for implementing a parking-free payment system; Fig. 1B shows a schematic diagram of a second embodiment of a system for implementing a parking-free payment system; One of the schematic diagrams of the network architecture embodiment of the toll-free payment system; FIG. 4 shows the second schematic diagram of the network architecture of the toll-free payment system;

The disclosure discloses a parking-free payment system, method, and device, especially for driving a vehicle. When payment is required, such as a parking fee just received, a ticket, or various vehicle-related cost documents, you can pass This parking-free payment system smoothly pays fees without parking, achieving the goal of convenient and fast payment of fees. In this system, the system provides an automatic vehicle identification system, which can eliminate the trouble of driving or entering data by users in the vehicle. It can also obtain vehicle identification information based on the identification results, query the payable fees based on the vehicle identification information, and complete the payment.

FIG. 1A shows a schematic diagram of an embodiment for implementing a parking-free payment system. In this schematic diagram, there is a U-shaped toll lane 108 that can be set on the side of a general road, so that passing vehicles 12 can follow the route instructions to enter the toll lane 108 to achieve the purpose of free parking and payment.

The toll lane 108 in the figure surrounds a toll booth 10, that is, the toll payment device provided at each base in the free parking toll system proposed in the disclosure. In this embodiment, a toll booth 10 is provided with a camera 101, which can take pictures of the scene Furthermore, it is recognized from the shooting screen that the vehicle 12 enters the toll lane 108, and then the position of the license plate is identified according to the image characteristics of the license plate. For example, a vehicle identification module is provided in the payment device. Based on image recognition technology, it is determined that a vehicle 12 enters the toll lane 108. Based on the image characteristics of the license plate, such as the square, the color of a specific vehicle, clear English letters, and Numbers, etc., identify the position of the license plate. The license plate image can be tracked during the recognition process until the license plate number of the vehicle 12 is identified.

In the figure, the payment kiosk 10 is provided with a human-machine interface area 103, such as a display screen, which can display the payable fees obtained through inquiry. After the vehicle is driven or confirmed by a specific user, the payment can be paid in accordance with the instructions in the selected payment method. . For example, the display screen can be a touch display that provides a user interface to enter payment information for payment; or a physical keyboard that allows users to enter payment information; or a means of wireless inductive payment, such as through NFC (nearly (Field communication) technology, which can read the user's corresponding payment instrument and complete mobile payment. However, the payment method can adopt various payment technologies, and is not limited to the method shown in this example.

In one embodiment, in addition to the above method of identifying the license plate through image recognition technology, a means of identifying vehicles can also use a radio frequency identification system (Radio-Frequency Identification, RFID). The payment kiosk 10 can be provided with a radio frequency tag reader. The reader thus obtains the identification information of the vehicle 12 and then queries the relevant payable fees of the vehicle 12 and subsequent payment procedures.

According to another specific embodiment, if the parking-free payment system provides a location-based payment service, the user's location can be obtained through the global positioning system (GPS) of the user's mobile device, under the premise of obtaining the system service , This user can be the driver or passenger of the vehicle, and the system can obtain user identification information at the same time, and the vehicle information should be linked under this service. In contrast, the toll-free payment system also knows the locations of the toll-free payment devices. Once the system is compared, it can be clearly known that the user is within a range of a toll-free payment device. The system can actively start querying and Action to display content.

FIG. 1B shows a schematic diagram of another system embodiment. This example shows that the toll booth 10 is located on the side of another toll lane 108 ′. Similarly, after the vehicle 12 can be easily accessed, the camera 101 is first used to obtain the vehicle image. Start the system and identify the vehicle license plate; or use the aforementioned radio frequency identification system to obtain vehicle identification information for subsequent fee inquiry, payment and other steps.

For the operation panel of the toll booth in the aforementioned parking-free toll payment system, refer to the schematic diagram of the embodiment shown in FIG. 2. The toll booth 10 located on the toll lane can be provided with a camera 101, which can be used as a surveillance camera and at the same time for the purpose of identifying vehicles and license plates. When it is determined that a vehicle has entered the toll lane, the system can be activated, so that the purpose of saving electricity can be achieved .

The payment kiosk 10 is provided with a display screen 104, which becomes a user interface, which can provide user input data (or can query other vehicles' information and payment), query cost information, obtain payment information, and other functional operation interfaces. A bill entry 105 can be provided under the toll booth 10 panel to allow users to pay in cash; a toll booth 10 can be provided on the panel of the toll booth 10 as an interface for wireless inductive payment; a keyboard area 107 is provided to provide users with input information The physical interface; there is a change exit 109, which can be used as the export of invoices or receipts, or the change exit.

In another embodiment, after the toll booth 10 is identified, the fare information may be transmitted to the user device in a push notification manner according to the information bound to the vehicle information to replace the display screen 104 of the toll booth 10 and pay. The methods include payment through the payment kiosk 10, or payment by mobile payment.

FIG. 3 then shows a schematic diagram of an embodiment of the network architecture of the parking-free payment system. Under this architecture, the parking-free payment system provides a cloud system 32. The cloud system 32 includes a database recording a plurality of vehicle information set by the user ( (Not shown), the cloud system 32 can be connected to the parking-free payment devices at different bases through the network 30, such as the payment kiosks 301, 302, and 303 shown in the figure, to provide vehicle driving to conveniently pay at different bases.

Each payment kiosk 301, 302, 303 is set to facilitate the direct entry of vehicles and facilitate payment of fee information obtained based on automatically identified vehicle information. Vehicle drivers or specific users do not need to park separately before paying the fee under this application.

In an embodiment, the cloud system 32 may be a server with a central structure, and the database records the information of the vehicles registered in the system service, including corresponding user data. Each user can register one or more vehicles, or A vehicle can have multiple connected users.

For an embodiment of implementing a parking-free payment system, reference may be made to the network architecture described in FIG. 4, which describes a functional module including a parking-free payment device.

In this main structure, a parking-free payment device 40 is provided at each payment base. The parking-free payment device 40 is connected to the cloud system 42 through the network 41. The cloud system 42 is provided with a database in which a plurality of vehicles set by the user are recorded. Information, mainly based on vehicle information, can link (bind) specific user information to facilitate payment and inquiry. The cloud system 42 can provide the results of the free parking payment device 40 at multiple locations to query the vehicle, including receiving the fee inquiry request from the free parking payment device 40 at each end and obtaining vehicle identification information therefrom. The cloud system 42 is connected to the charge supervisory system 43, the vehicle fee list is provided after querying the database. The fee list is mainly the vehicle-related costs. Such costs, such as on-street parking fees, are often temporarily generated. The parking-free payment device 40 provides a convenient payment solution. In addition, the fees in the fee list are not limited to vehicle-related, but may include various other fees tied to vehicle information. The charge supervisory system 43 indicates various organ systems that can obtain the vehicle's payable expenses, such as the servo system of a vehicle supervision unit, so that the no-parking payment system can be authorized to obtain the payable information corresponding to each vehicle.

The cloud system 42 provides users with which the system can pay various fees for information tied to vehicles. In this embodiment, the cloud system 42 is more connected to the payment system 44. The payment system 44 can represent various banking systems and telecommunications systems that provide payment. With third-party payment systems, etc., when the cloud system 42 receives the message that the user performs the payment at the parking-free payment device 40 at each base, including one or more fees to be paid, it can cooperate with various payment methods and the payment system 44. Payment procedures for paying fees.

In another embodiment, the cloud system 42 may be an embedded system provided in a payment device, which is connected to the charge supervisor system 43 and then uses other services of the Internet to query vehicles, obtain fee information, and cooperate with the payment system 44 Procedures for processing payments.

According to yet another embodiment, the parking-free payment device may be provided with a database, which also records a plurality of vehicle information set by the user, and may also obtain the payable fee for each vehicle from the expense supervisory system 43 to Provides information on querying vehicle costs, and can also cooperate with the payment system 44 to complete the payment process.

In this parking-free payment system, the parking-free payment device 40 provided in the toll lane can realize the functions of the hardware and software. The parking-free payment device 40 includes a circuit device and a software module in a control device. The control unit 401, and various circuit modules and software modules connected to the control unit 401, such as a wireless communication unit 402 that executes a specific wireless communication protocol, thereby performing the work of wireless inductive payment; the input unit 403 can touch the screen, the entity The keys provide user operation input data, such as user data, vehicle data, or payment data; the device is equipped with a display unit 404, which can display screen presentation data, such as fees payable, prompt screens, and payment completion The device is provided with a network unit 405, so that the toll-free payment device 40 can communicate with the Internet externally, including connecting to the cloud system 42, including transmitting query requests, query results, and payment information.

Services implemented by a software program installed in the toll-free payment device 40 include, for example, a fee inquiry module 406, a fee processing module 407, and a vehicle identification module 408 as shown in the figure.

According to one of the embodiments, after the related software program is executed by the processor in the toll-free payment device 40, the vehicle identification module 408 can obtain a vehicle image with a camera when the vehicle enters the toll lane, and further determine the license plate with an image recognition technology Position, after obtaining the license plate image, perform license plate recognition to identify the vehicle. If the system provides a power saving solution, the entire inquiry and subsequent services can be initiated only when the system determines that a vehicle has entered the toll lane.

In another embodiment, the vehicle identification module 408 can read the wireless identification tag of the vehicle with a wireless signal to identify the vehicle. For example, if a vehicle is equipped with a specific wireless identification tag, such as an RFID tag, which contains information that uniquely identifies the vehicle, it can be used as a basis for identifying the vehicle.

After execution of the fee inquiry module 406 in the toll-free payment device 40, a fee inquiry request is generated corresponding to the vehicle identification information and transmitted to the cloud system 42. The vehicle identification information can be used to obtain a fee list corresponding to the entry into the vehicle; The processing module 407 processes one or more fees in the user's payment list, including transmitting payment information to the cloud system 42, and the cloud system 42 cooperates with various payment methods to complete the payment process.

The toll-free payment device 40 can cooperate with hardware to achieve a fee notification means. That is, when the vehicle identification module 408 of the toll-free payment device 40 successfully identifies the vehicle and obtains the payable fees of the vehicle, the vehicle can be notified in a specific way. A list of costs associated with the vehicle by one of the users. According to the embodiment, one of the means for notifying the fee is to display the fee list on one screen through the display unit 404 of the free parking payment device 40; the message transmission module 409 can also be used to achieve the purpose of message transmission. For example, after obtaining the fee information, The cost details are transmitted to the mobile device of a user bound to the vehicle through text messages, notifications, etc., and information such as mobile payment can be prompted at the same time.

According to an embodiment, when the vehicle enters the toll lane and the vehicle is identified by the vehicle identification module 408 of the toll-free payment device 40, the vehicle identification information is compared with the database to obtain the cost information of the corresponding vehicle. The messaging module 409 displays the fee details on the display screen of the free parking payment device 40 for the driver or a specific user to confirm the content; it can also be transmitted to the mobile device of the user associated with the vehicle, and cooperates with the free parking payment device The payment service provided by 40 allows users to conveniently use this parking-free payment device 40 to pay fees.

FIG. 5 then shows a flowchart of an embodiment of the operation of the toll-free payment system, which describes the steps of a user driving a vehicle into a toll lane provided by the toll-free payment system, and starting to inquire about the vehicle fee and pay the fee.

At the beginning, the step of identifying the vehicle (step 501) is to automatically identify the vehicle when it enters a toll lane. This is one of the important steps of paying for parking without parking. It can allow the vehicle to drive without parking and / or without manually entering any Under the premise of information, the technology of automatic query of vehicle fees and payment of fees is realized.

Then, after the vehicle identification is completed, a fee inquiry request is generated and transmitted to the cloud system 51. The cloud system 51 has a database, or in another embodiment, a database is built in the local device. The fee is checked in this database (step 503). The cloud system 51 obtains the information identifying the vehicle according to the request for querying the fee, and the related payable fees can be queried based on the vehicle identification information. Provided by the disclosed fee supervisory system (such as a supervision office), and then notify the user with images, text, or voice (step 505). The image notification method not only can send messages to the user ’s mobile device, but also includes The payment details are displayed on the parking consumer device (step 507), thereby prompting the user to pay the payment (step 509). The user can cooperate with the payment system 52 to complete the payment by using any payment method supported by the system (step 511). The payment method can be completed in accordance with the matching of the cloud system 51 and the relevant payment system 52, and the cloud system 51 can obtain the payment result to notify the user of payment completion or failure information.

Therefore, the specification proposes a parking-free payment system, and related devices and methods, the purpose of which is to provide users with the ability to drive vehicles, complete the automatic identification of vehicles, query costs, and provide easy payment Pay-for-pay services are fast and easy to pay, especially for vehicle-related expenses.

The above descriptions are only the preferred and feasible embodiments of the present invention, and any equivalent changes and modifications made in accordance with the scope of patent application of the present invention shall fall within the scope of the present invention.

Claims (8)

A parking-free payment system includes a plurality of parking-free payment devices respectively located in a plurality of payment lanes, and each of the parking-free payment devices includes a vehicle identification module that identifies the vehicle and generates corresponding vehicle identification information. A fee inquiry module, which generates a fee inquiry request corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle to obtain a fee list corresponding to the identification information of the vehicle; a fee notification means to inform a user in the vehicle A list of expenses related to the vehicle; a fee processing module that processes one or more fees paid by the user in the fee list; a cloud system that includes records of multiple vehicle information set by the user A database, the cloud system connects the plurality of parking-free payment devices installed at different bases through a network, the cloud system queries and provides a list of the charges according to the fee inquiry request, and receives the user's payment through the parking-free payment The one or more fees paid by the device; of which: the no-parking payment system provides localized payment services, A global positioning system of a mobile device of the user obtains the user's location and user identification information at the same time; obtains a base location of each of the parking-free payment devices; and compares the location of the user with each of the When the base location of the toll-free payment device is determined to determine that the user is within a range of one of the toll-free payment devices, the toll-free payment system actively queries the fee information to generate the fee list. The parking-free payment system according to claim 1, wherein the vehicle identification module reads one of the vehicles with a wireless signal when the vehicle does not enter the distance range before the payment lane or when entering the payment lane. Wireless identification tags to identify the vehicle. The parking-free payment system according to claim 1, wherein the vehicle identification module is configured to identify an image of the vehicle using an image recognition technology when the vehicle does not enter the distance range before the payment lane or enters the payment lane. License plate number to identify the vehicle. The parking-free payment system according to claim 1, wherein the fee notification means displays the fee list on a screen through a display unit of the parking-free payment device. The parking-free payment system according to claim 1, wherein the cloud system is connected to a charge supervisory system to obtain one or more payable fees corresponding to the vehicle; a payment system is connected to process the user through the parking-free Fees paid by the billing system. A toll-free payment device is provided on a toll lane. The toll-free payment device includes: a fee inquiry module, which is obtained when a vehicle does not enter a range before the toll lane or enters the toll lane. According to the identification information of the vehicle and correspondingly generate a fee query request and output to a cloud system to obtain a corresponding fee list from the cloud system, wherein the cloud system is located at different bases through a network link A plurality of the parking-free toll payment devices; a fee notification means for displaying the user's charge list of the vehicle or providing the charge list to the mobile device; a payment means for the cloud system to query based on the charge Request to inquire and provide the fee list to provide one or more payment methods for the user to pay one or more fees in the fee list; a vehicle identification module that identifies the vehicle and generates corresponding vehicle identification information , Generate the fee query request corresponding to the vehicle identification information, and send it to the cloud system to obtain the response The fee list of the vehicle; and a fee processing module, which processes the user to pay one or more fees in the fee list; wherein the parking-free payment device is provided through a parking-free payment system including the cloud system Appropriate payment services include: obtaining the user's location through a global positioning system of a mobile device of the user, and obtaining user identification information; obtaining a stronghold location for each of the parking-free payment devices; When the user's location and the base location of each of the toll-free payment devices are determined to be that the user is within the range of one of the toll-free payment devices, the toll-free payment system actively queries the fee information to generate the fee list . The parking-free toll payment device according to claim 6, wherein the vehicle identification module reads one of the vehicles with a wireless signal when the vehicle does not enter the distance range before the toll lane or enters the toll lane. Wireless identification tags to identify the vehicle. The parking-free toll payment device according to claim 6, wherein the vehicle identification module is an image recognition technology for identifying a vehicle's vehicle within a distance range before the vehicle enters the toll lane or when entering the toll lane. A license plate number to identify the vehicle.