Card processing system and card processing method on toll road
First Claim
1. A card processing system comprising:
- a first antenna unit set in a booth provided at a road side of a traffic lane so as to process data in an IC card with respect to use of a toll road for a vehicle passing the toll road through a wireless communication with the IC card;
a second antenna unit set at the road side of the traffic lane outside the booth to process the data through a wireless communication with the IC card; and
a data processor to process the data relative to use of the toll road based on the card data obtained from either one of the first and second antenna units.
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Abstract
A wireless type pre-paid IC card system enhances the convenience of users and assures the safe payment of tolls by vehicles including bikes when introduced for toll roads. This toll collecting system is composed of: a card processor that is arranged in a booth for the toll collection process and has an antenna unit for executing the card process through the wireless communication with IC cards, antenna units arranged at the left and right roadsides of the booth for executing the card process through the wireless communication with IC cards, a vehicle class discriminator for discriminating classes of vehicles entering into a traffic lane, and a traffic lane controller that selects an antenna unit to perform the card process according to a discriminated vehicle class and controls the card process.
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37 Claims
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1. A card processing system comprising:
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a first antenna unit set in a booth provided at a road side of a traffic lane so as to process data in an IC card with respect to use of a toll road for a vehicle passing the toll road through a wireless communication with the IC card;
a second antenna unit set at the road side of the traffic lane outside the booth to process the data through a wireless communication with the IC card; and
a data processor to process the data relative to use of the toll road based on the card data obtained from either one of the first and second antenna units. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 15, 16, 37)
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5. A card processing system comprising an entrance system to execute an entrance process at an entrance of a toll road for vehicles passing the toll road and an exit system to execute an exit process for vehicles used the toll road, wherein:
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the entrance system includes;
an antenna unit set at a roadside of the entrance, the antenna unit having an antenna portion which is close to or touches an IC card for a wireless communication, and an entrance card processor to write entrance data on the IC card when the antenna portion of the antenna unit reads the data from the IC card through the wireless communication with the IC card and the card data obtained are normal, and the exit system includes;
a first antenna unit set in a booth provided at a roadside of an exit, the first antenna unit having an antenna portion which is close to or touches the IC card for a wireless communication;
a second antenna set at the booth, the second antenna having an antenna portion which is close to or touches the IC card for a wireless communication; and
an exit card processor to write a result of a process relative to use of the toll road into the IC card based on preset exit data and entrance data read from the IC card through the wireless communication with the IC card by the antenna portion of either the first or the second antenna unit. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18)
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19. A card processing method to execute an entrance process at an entrance of a toll road for vehicles passing the toll road and an exit process at an exit of the toll road, comprising:
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reading data from an IC card through a wireless communication by an antenna portion of an antenna unit set at the entrance to which the IC card is brought close or touched and writing an entrance data into the IC card when the card data is normal; and
reading the card data from the IC card through a wireless communication by one of exit antenna units set inside and outside of a booth at the exit and writing a result of processed data relative to use of the toll road on the IC card based on the entrance data and preset exit data. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A card processing system comprising:
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a vehicle class discriminator set at a traffic lane to process data relative to use of a toll road for a vehicle passing the toll road to identify a vehicle'"'"'s class;
plural passing ticket issuers set in a vertical direction to a road side of the traffic lane to issue passing tickets from a height out of plural heights;
plural antenna portions set at positions close to the passing ticket issuers to process data of an IC card through a wireless communication with the IC card; and
a controller to let the passing ticket issuer at a height corresponding to a vehicle class identified by the vehicle class discriminator issue a passing ticket and to return the ticket issued from the passing ticket issuer when the data of the IC card is processed by one of the plural antenna units. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27)
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28. A card processing system comprising:
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a leaving vehicle detector to detect a vehicle leaving a traffic lane to process data relative to the use for a vehicle passing a toll road;
antenna units set in a booth and/or at a road outside the both in the traffic lane to read card data from an IC card through a wireless communication with the IC card, to judge the card data whether the data are normal or not and to process the card data when the card data are normal;
an input unit set in the booth to input a vehicle class data processed by at least one of the antenna unit and a class of a vehicle to be processed;
means for urging whether the vehicle data input by the input unit can be confirmed as the data of a vehicle to be processed after a vehicle is detected by the card data obtained when reading the card data from the IC card by the antenna unit and the leaving vehicle detector; and
a controller to control the antenna unit to write a result of the card processed by the confirmed data of a vehicle to be processed when the confirmation is input by the input unit.
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29. A card processing method comprising:
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judging a class of a vehicle entering into a traffic lane of a toll road; and
issuing a passing ticket from a passing ticket issuer at a position corresponding to a vehicle class out of plural passing ticket issuers installed in a vertical direction to a roadside of the traffic lane. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31)
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32. A card processing method comprising:
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processing data of an IC card by an antenna portion set at a traffic lane through a wireless communication with the IC card to collect a toll for a vehicle passed a toll road; and
subtracting the toll from balance data contained in entrance data out of the card data of IC cards when card data of the IC cards are obtained from data processed by the antenna portion. - View Dependent Claims (33)
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34. A card processing method for executing an entrance process at an entrance for a vehicle passing a toll road and an exit process at an exit, comprising:
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identifying a vehicle entering into the entrance of the toll road;
writing entrance data containing a vehicle data specified at the entrance into an IC card when an entrance antenna portion provided at the entrance of the toll road reads the card data from the IC card through a wireless communication with the IC card and the card data are normal;
reading entrance data from the IC card by an exit antenna portion provided at the exit through a wireless communication with the IC card;
identifying a vehicle leaving the toll road through the exit;
judging whether the IC card used at the entrance and the exit are the same IC card in the process of the applicable vehicle based on the vehicle data contained in the entrance data read by the exit antenna portion and the data of the vehicle identified at the exit;
reporting the doubt of illegality when the IC card used at the entrance and the exit are judged different in the process of the applicable vehicle.
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35. A card processing method comprising:
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executing the data process of an IC card by antenna units set in a booth and/or at a roadside of a traffic lane for processing data relative to the use of a toll road by vehicles after reading card data from the IC card through a wireless communication and confirming the data to be processed;
detecting a vehicle leaving from the traffic lane after finishing to process the data of the IC card;
designating a class of a new vehicle to be processed by the antenna unit after detecting a vehicle leading from the traffic lane;
urging to determine whether the vehicle data designated as a new vehicle class and card data actually read by the antenna unit from the IC card of the new vehicle as the data to be processed;
inputting the defined new vehicle class; and
writing result data processed by the antenna unit according to the defined input data in the IC card.
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36. A card processing system comprising:
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a vehicle class discriminator equipped in a traffic lane to identify a class of a vehicle passing through a toll road;
antenna portions set at vertically different height positions on a road side of the traffic lane to carry out radio communications with an IC cards for processing data stored in the IC cards; and
a control unit to drive one of the antennas portions in response to a vehicle class identified by the vehicle class discriminator so as to process the data of the IC cards.
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Specification