ADMISSION SYSTEM

• US 20140074521A1
• Filed: 08/09/2013
• Published: 03/13/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: USJ Co Ltd. (Comcast Corporation)
• Original Assignee: USJ Co Ltd. (Comcast Corporation)
• Inventors: Morioka, Tsuyoshi, Kitaguchi, Keisuke, Shiba, Toyotsugu
• Application Number:
  US14/009,381
• Publication Number:
  US 20140074521A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/5
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/02 Reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events
• CPC Class Codes: G07B 15/00 Arrangements or apparatus for collecting fares, tolls or entrance fees at one or more control points handling coins or valuable papers, e.g. banknotes, G07D; apparatus for vending or hiring articles or services activated by coins, credit cards, paper currency or the like G07F7/00, G07F17/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/257 electronically G07C9/26 takes precedence

Abstract

To construct an admission system that raises a limit to the number of sales of tickets such as annual passport relative to an upper limit of on-site guests so as to reduce guests frustrated by inability to buy the tickets and that achieves a high degree of guest satisfaction. An annual passport 20 as a ticket is available as one that permits admission on odd-numbered days and one that permits admission on even-numbered days. Judging means for admission 16 of a server 4 fetches from a recording part 12 ticket information 14 corresponding to a ticket ID transmitted from a control device for entrance gate 2, and determines which of “the odd-numbered day” and “the even-numbered day” is the admission day of the pertinent annual passport 20. Further, the judging means for admission 16 determines whether today is the odd-numbered day or the even-numbered day and whether or not today matches admission day information of the pertinent annual passport 20. If it matches, the judging means determines to permit admission. If not, the judging means determines not to permit admission.

Claims

1. An admission system which corresponds to a ticket permitting admission to facilities on either an odd-numbered day or an even-numbered day within a predetermined period,

comprising a control device for entrance gate disposed at an entrance to the facilities and a server communicably connected to the control device for entrance gate,

wherein the server comprises:

a recording part that records ticket information which includes a ticket ID of the ticket and admission day information indicating whether the pertinent ticket permits admission on the odd-numbered day or the even-numbered day;

judging means for admission that obtains the admission day information of the pertinent ticket based on the ticket ID transmitted from the control device for entrance gate and determines whether or not at least today is the day when the pertinent ticket permits admission; and

transmitting means that transmits a judgment result of the judging means for admission to the control device for entrance gate via a transmission part, and

the control device for entrance gate comprises;

obtaining means for ticket ID that obtains a ticket ID from a ticket possessed by a user;

transmitting means that transmits the obtained ticket ID to the server via the transmission part; and

control means that outputs “

admitted/unadmitted”

to a display part based on a judgment result of the judging means for admission transmitted from the server.

3. The admission system according to claim 1,

further comprising a ticket sales device connected to the server,

wherein the ticket sales device comprises transmitting means that transmits application for saving admission to the server,

judging means for saving admission possibility of the server receives the application for saving admission transmitted from the ticket sales device and judges the possibility of saving admission,

the server further comprises decision means for saving admission that receives the application for saving admission and updates the ticket information recorded in the recording part with an information piece “

saving admission permitted”

if the judging means for saving admission possibility determines that the saving admission is possible, and

the judging means for admission of the server refers to the ticket information of the recording part and determines to permit admission if at least today is the day when the pertinent ticket permits admission or if “

saving admission permitted”

applies to the pertinent ticket.

25. The system or device according to claim 1, wherein out of the odd-numbered or even-numbered admission days within the predetermined period, a given day is defined as an exceptional day when the admission is unpermitted.

2. A server for an admission system corresponding to a ticket permitting admission to facilities on either an odd-numbered day or an even-numbered day within a predetermined period, comprising:

a recording part that records ticket information which includes a ticket ID of the ticket and admission day information indicating whether the ticket permits admission on the odd-numbered day or on the even-numbered day;

judging means for admission that obtains the admission day information of the pertinent ticket based on the ticket ID transmitted from a control device for entrance gate and determines whether or not at least today is the day when the pertinent ticket permits admission; and

transmitting means that transmits a judgment result of the judging means for admission to the control device for entrance gate via a transmission part.

4. The server according to claim 2,

wherein judging means for saving admission possibility of the server receives application for saving admission transmitted from a ticket sales device and judges the possibility of saving admission,

the server further comprises decision means for saving admission that receives the application for saving admission and updates the ticket information recorded in the recording part with an information piece “

saving admission permitted”

if the judging means for saving admission possibility determines that the saving admission is possible, and

the judging means for admission of the server refers to the ticket information of the recording part and determines to permit admission if at least today is the day when the pertinent ticket permits admission or if “

saving admission permitted”

applies to the pertinent ticket.

5. An admission system which corresponds to a ticket permitting admission to facilities on either an odd-numbered day or an even-numbered day within a predetermined period,

comprising a control device for entrance gate disposed at an entrance to the facilities and a server communicably connected to the control device for entrance gate,

wherein the server comprises:

a recording part that records ticket information which includes a ticket ID of the ticket and admission day information indicating whether the pertinent ticket permits admission on the odd-numbered day or on the even-numbered day and records prediction information of on-site guests;

judging means for admission that obtains the admission day information of the pertinent ticket based on the ticket ID transmitted from the control device for entrance gate and determines whether or not at least today is the day when the pertinent ticket permits admission;

judging means for saving admission possibility that, when the judging means for admission determines not to permit admission, determines, based on the prediction information of on-site guests recorded in the recording part, whether or not a predicted number of on-site guests for today leaves room relative to the upper limit of the on-site guests and determines that the saving admission is possible if there is some room or determines that the saving admission is impossible if there is little room; and

transmitting means that transmits judgment results of the judging means for admission and judging means for saving admission possibility to the control device for entrance gate via a transmission part, and

the control device for entrance gate comprises;

obtaining means for ticket ID that obtains a ticket ID from a ticket possessed by a user;

transmitting means that transmits the obtained ticket ID to the server; and

control means that outputs “

admitted/unadmitted”

to a display part based on a judgment result of the judging means for admission transmitted from the server, and that in the case of “

unadmitted”

, outputs “

saving admission possible/impossible”

to the display part based on a judgment result of the judging means for saving admission possibility.

6. A server for an admission system corresponding to a ticket permitting admission to facilities on either an odd-numbered day or an even-numbered day within a predetermined period, comprising:

a recording part that records ticket information which includes a ticket ID of the ticket and admission day information indicating whether the pertinent ticket permits admission on the odd-numbered day or on the even-numbered day and records prediction information of on-site guests;

judging means for admission that obtains the admission day information of the pertinent ticket based on the ticket ID transmitted from a control device for entrance gate and determines whether or not at least today is the day when the pertinent ticket permits admission;

judging means for saving admission possibility that, when the judging means for admission determines not to permit admission, determines, based on the prediction information of on-site guests recorded in the recording part, whether or not a predicted number of on-site guests for today leaves room relative to an upper limit of the on-site guests and determines that the saving admission is possible if there is some room or determines that the saving admission is impossible if there is little room; and

transmitting means that transmits judgment results of the judging means for admission and judging means for saving admission possibility to the control device for entrance gate via a transmission part.

8. The server according to claim 6,

wherein the prediction information of on-site guests recorded in the recording part is data on the number of on-site guests predicted at predetermined time intervals, and

the judging means for saving admission possibility of the server comprises:

calculating means for actual on-site guests that calculates the present number of actual on-site guests based on the number of guests admitted by the judging means for admission and the number of exited guests detected by an exiting guest sensor;

correcting means for prediction information that corrects the prediction information of on-site guests based on the present number of actual on-site guests and the predicted number of on-site guests at a predetermined clock time corresponding to the present clock time; and

judging means for overflow that determines whether or not the corrected prediction of on-site guests will exceed the upper limit of on-site guests at any clock time from now, and determines that the saving admission is impossible if the upper limit will be exceeded or determines that the saving admission is possible if the upper limit will not be exceeded.

9. The server according to claim 6,

wherein the judging means for saving admission possibility receives inquiry about the possibility of saving admission from the ticket sales device and judges the possibility of saving admission, and

the transmitting means transmits a judgment result of the judging means for saving admission possibility in response to the inquiry about the possibility of saving admission transmitted from the ticket sales device.

10. The server according to claim 6,

wherein the judging means for saving admission possibility receives application for saving admission transmitted from the ticket sales device and judges the possibility of saving admission,

the server further comprises decision means for saving admission that receives the application for saving admission and updates the ticket information recorded in the recording part with an information piece “

saving admission permitted”

if the judging means for saving admission possibility determines that the saving admission is possible, and

the judging means for admission refers to the ticket information of the recording part and determines to permit admission if at least today is the day when the pertinent ticket permits admission or if “

saving admission permitted”

applies to the pertinent ticket.

11. The server according to claim 6,

wherein the judging means for saving admission possibility updates the ticket information recorded in the recording part with an information piece “

saving admission possible”

when the judging means for admission determines not to permit admission and the judging means for saving admission possibility determines that the saving admission is possible,

the server further comprises decision means for saving admission that receives application for the saving admission and updates the ticket information with an information piece “

saving admission permitted”

if the ticket information indicates that the saving admission is possible, and

the judging means for admission refers to the ticket information of the recording part and determines to permit admission if at least today is the day when the pertinent ticket permits admission or if “

saving admission permitted”

applies to the pertinent ticket.

7. A control device for entrance gate for an admission system corresponding to a ticket permitting admission to facilities on either an odd-numbered day or an even-numbered day within a predetermined period, comprising:

obtaining means for ticket ID that obtains a ticket ID from a ticket possessed by a user;

transmitting means that transmits the obtained ticket ID to a server; and

control means that outputs “

admitted/unadmitted”

to a display part based on a judgment result of judging means for admission transmitted from the server and that in the case of “

unadmitted”

, outputs “

saving admission possible/impossible”

to the display part based on a judgment result of judging means for saving admission possibility.

12. An admission system which corresponds to a ticket permitting admission to facilities on a given day within a predetermined period, comprising a control device for entrance gate disposed at an entrance to the facilities and a server communicably connected to the control device for entrance gate,

wherein the server comprises:

a recording part that records ticket information which includes a ticket ID of the ticket and admission day information indicating a day when the pertinent ticket permits admission or a day when the pertinent ticket does not permit admission;

judging means for admission that obtains the admission day information of the pertinent ticket based on the ticket ID transmitted from the control device for entrance gate and determines whether or not at least today is the day when the pertinent ticket permits admission; and

transmitting means that transmits a judgment result of the judging means for admission to the control device for entrance gate via a transmission part, and

the control device for entrance gate comprises;

obtaining means for ticket ID that obtains a ticket ID from a ticket possessed by a user;

transmitting means that transmits the obtained ticket ID to the server via the transmission part; and

control means that outputs “

admitted/unadmitted”

to a display part based on a judgment result of the judging means for admission transmitted from the server.

13. An admission system which corresponds to a ticket permitting admission to facilities on a given day within a predetermined period, comprising a control device for entrance gate disposed at an entrance to the facilities and a server communicably connected to the control device for entrance gate,

wherein the server comprises:

a recording part that records ticket information which includes a ticket ID of the ticket and admission day information indicating a day when the pertinent ticket permits admission or a day when the pertinent ticket does not permit admission and records prediction information of on-site guests;

judging means for admission that obtains the admission day information of the pertinent ticket based on the ticket ID transmitted from the control device for entrance gate and determines whether or not at least today is the day when the pertinent ticket permits admission;

judging means for saving admission possibility that, when the judging means for admission determines not to permit admission, determines, based on the prediction information of on-site guests recorded in the recording part, whether or not a predicted number of on-site guests for today leaves room relative to an upper limit of the on-site guests and determines that the saving admission is possible if there is some room or determines that the saving admission is impossible if there is little room; and

transmitting means that transmits judgment results of the judging means for admission and the judging means for saving admission possibility to the control device for entrance gate via a transmission part, and

the control device for entrance gate comprises;

obtaining means for ticket ID that obtains a ticket ID from a ticket possessed by a user;

transmitting means that transmits the obtained ticket ID to the server via the transmission part; and

control means that outputs “

admitted/unadmitted”

to a display part based on a judgment result of the judging means for admission transmitted from the server and that in the case of “

admission unpermitted”

, outputs “

saving admission possible/impossible”

to the display part based on a judgment result of the judging means for saving admission possibility.

14. An admission system which corresponds to a ticket permitting admission to facilities on either an odd-numbered day or an even-numbered day within a predetermined period,

comprising a control device for entrance gate disposed at an entrance to the facilities and a server communicably connected to the control device for entrance gate,

wherein the server comprises:

a recording part that records ticket information which includes a ticket ID of the ticket and admission day information indicating whether the pertinent ticket permits admission on the odd-numbered day or on the even-numbered day;

obtaining means for ticket information that obtains ticket information corresponding to the pertinent ticket ID transmitted from the control device for entrance gate; and

transmitting means that transmits the ticket information to the control device for entrance gate via a transmission part, and

the control device for entrance gate comprises;

obtaining means for ticket ID that obtains a ticket ID from a ticket possessed by a user;

transmitting means that transmits the obtained ticket ID to the server via the transmission part;

judging means for admission that obtains the admission day information of the pertinent ticket based on the ticket information transmitted from the server and determines whether or not at least today is the day when the pertinent ticket permits admission, and

control means that outputs “

admitted/unadmitted”

to a display part based on a judgment result of the judging means for admission.

16. The admission system according to claim 14,

further comprising a ticket sales device connected to the server,

wherein the ticket sales device comprises transmitting means that transmits decision on saving admission to the server,

the server further comprises decision means for saving admission that receives the decision on saving admission and updates the ticket information recorded in the recording part with an information piece “

saving admission permitted”

, and

the judging means for admission of the control device for entrance gate refers to the ticket information and determines to permit admission if at least today is the day when the pertinent ticket permits admission or if “

saving admission permitted”

applies to the pertinent ticket.

17. The admission system according to claim 16,

wherein the ticket sales device comprises transmitting means that transmits application for saving admission to the server,

the server comprises obtaining means for fundamental information that receives the pertinent application for saving admission and obtains fundamental information including at least prediction information of on-site guests,

the transmitting means of the server transmits the pertinent fundamental information to the ticket sales device, and

the ticket sales device comprises judging means for saving admission possibility that judges the possibility of saving admission based on the fundamental information and transmits decision on the saving admission to the server if the judging means determines that the saving admission is possible.

15. A control device for entrance gate for an admission system corresponding to a ticket permitting admission to facilities on either an odd-numbered day or an even-numbered day within a predetermined period, comprising:

obtaining means for ticket ID that obtains a ticket ID from a ticket possessed by a user;

transmitting means that transmits the obtained ticket ID to a server via the transmission part;

judging means for admission that obtains the admission day information of the pertinent ticket based on the ticket information transmitted from the server and determines whether or not at least today is the day when the pertinent ticket permits admission; and

control means that outputs “

admitted/unadmitted”

to a display part based on a judgment result of the judging means for admission.

18. An admission system which corresponds to a ticket permitting admission to facilities on either an odd-numbered day or an even-numbered day within a predetermined period,

comprising a control device for entrance gate disposed at an entrance to the facilities and a server communicably connected to the control device for entrance gate,

wherein the server comprises:

a recording part that records ticket information which includes a ticket ID of the ticket and admission day information indicating whether the pertinent ticket permits admission on the odd-numbered day or on the even-numbered day and records prediction information of on-site guests;

obtaining means for ticket information that obtains ticket information corresponding to the pertinent ticket ID transmitted from the control device for entrance gate;

obtaining means for fundamental information that receives request for fundamental information transmitted from the control device for entrance gate and obtains fundamental information including at least prediction information of on-site guests; and

transmitting means that transmits the ticket information and the fundamental information to the control device for entrance gate via a transmission part, and

the control device for entrance gate comprises;

obtaining means for ticket ID that obtains a ticket ID from a ticket possessed by a user;

transmitting means that transmits the obtained ticket ID to the server via the transmission part;

judging means for admission that obtains the admission day information of the pertinent ticket based on the ticket information transmitted from the server, determines whether or not at least today is the day when the pertinent ticket permits admission, and transmits to the server request for fundamental information used for judgment of the possibility of saving admission when determining not to permit admission;

judging means for saving admission possibility that determines, based on the fundamental information transmitted from the server, whether or not a predicted number of on-site guests for today leaves room relative to an upper limit of the on-site guests and determines that the saving admission is possible if there is some room or determines that the saving admission is impossible if there is little room; and

control means that outputs “

admitted/unadmitted”

to a display part based on a judgment result of the judging means for admission, and that in the case of “

admission unpermitted”

, outputs “

saving admission possible/impossible”

to the display part based on a judgment result of the judging means for saving admission possibility.

20. The admission system according to claim 18,

wherein the prediction information of on-site guests recorded in the recording part is data on the number of on-site guests predicted at predetermined time intervals,

the server comprises:

calculating means for actual on-site guests that calculates the present number of actual on-site guests based on the number of guests admitted by the judging means for admission and the number of exited guests detected by an exiting guest sensor and records the present number of actual on-site guests in the recording part; and

correcting means for prediction information that corrects the prediction information of on-site guests based on the present number of actual on-site guests and the predicted number of on-site guests at a predetermined clock time corresponding to the present clock time and records the corrected prediction information in the recording part; and

the judging means for saving admission possibility of the control device for entrance gate comprises judging means for overflow that determines whether or not the predicted number of on-site guests will exceed the upper limit of on-site guests at any clock time from now, and determines that the saving admission is impossible if the upper limit will be exceeded or determines that the saving admission is possible if the upper limit will not be exceeded.

21. The admission system according to claim 18, further comprising a ticket sales device connected to the server,

wherein the ticket sales device comprises transmitting means that transmits decision on saving admission to the server,

the server further comprises decision means for saving admission that receives the decision on saving admission and updates the ticket information recorded in the recording part with an information piece “

saving admission permitted”

, and

the judging means for admission of the control device for entrance gate refers to the ticket information and determines to permit admission if at least today is the day when the pertinent ticket permits admission or if “

saving admission permitted”

applies to the pertinent ticket.

22. The admission system according to claim 21,

wherein the ticket sales device comprises transmitting means that transmits application for saving admission to the server,

the server comprises obtaining means for fundamental information that receives the pertinent application for fundamental information and obtains fundamental information including at least prediction information of on-site guests,

the transmitting means of the server transmits the pertinent fundamental information to the ticket sales device, and

the ticket sales device comprises judging means for saving admission possibility that judges the possibility of saving admission based on the fundamental information and transmits decision on saving admission to the server when determining that the saving admission is possible.

19. A control device for entrance gate for an admission system corresponding to a ticket permitting admission to facilities on either an odd-numbered day or an even-numbered day within a predetermined period, comprising:

obtaining means for ticket ID that obtains a ticket ID from a ticket possessed by a user;

transmitting means that transmits the obtained ticket ID to the server via a transmission part;

judging means for admission that obtains admission day information of the pertinent ticket based on ticket information transmitted from the server, determines whether or not at least today is the day when the pertinent ticket permits admission, and transmits to the server request for fundamental information used for judgment of the possibility of saving admission when determining not to permit admission;

judging means for saving admission possibility that determines, based on the fundamental information transmitted from the server, whether or not a predicted number of on-site guests for today leaves room relative to an upper limit of the on-site guests and determines that the saving admission is possible if there is some room or determines that the saving admission is impossible if there is little room; and

control means that outputs “

admitted/unadmitted”

to a display part based on a judgment result of the judging means for admission, and that in the case of “

admission unpermitted”

, outputs “

saving admission possible/impossible”

to the display part based on a judgment result of the judging means for saving admission possibility.

23. An admission system which corresponds to a ticket permitting admission to facilities on a given day within a predetermined period,

comprising a control device for entrance gate disposed at an entrance to the facilities and a server communicably connected to the control device for entrance gate,

wherein the server comprises:

a recording part that records ticket information which includes a ticket ID of the ticket and admission day information indicating a day when the pertinent ticket permits admission or a day when the pertinent ticket does not permit admission;

obtaining means for ticket information that obtains ticket information corresponding to the pertinent ticket ID transmitted from the control device for entrance gate; and

transmitting means that transmits the ticket information to the control device for entrance gate via a transmission part, and

the control device for entrance gate comprises;

obtaining means for ticket ID that obtains a ticket ID from a ticket possessed by a user;

transmitting means that transmits the obtained ticket ID to the server via the transmission part;

judging means for admission that obtains admission day information of the pertinent ticket based on the ticket information transmitted from the server and determines whether or not at least today is the day when the pertinent ticket permits admission; and

control means that outputs “

admitted/unadmitted”

to a display part based on a judgment result of the judging means for admission.

24. An admission system which corresponds to a ticket permitting admission to facilities on a given day within a predetermined period,

comprising a control device for entrance gate disposed at an entrance to the facilities and a server communicably connected to the control device for entrance gate,

wherein the server comprises:

a recording part that records ticket information which includes a ticket ID of the ticket and admission day information indicating a day when the pertinent ticket permits admission or a day when the pertinent ticket does not permit admission and records prediction information of on-site guests;

obtaining means for ticket information that obtains ticket information corresponding to the pertinent ticket ID transmitted from the control device for entrance gate;

obtaining means for fundamental information that receives request for fundamental information transmitted from the control device for entrance gate and obtains fundamental information including at least the prediction information of on-site guests, and

transmitting means that transmits the ticket information and the fundamental information to the control device for entrance gate via a transmission part, and

the control device for entrance gate comprises;

obtaining means for ticket ID that obtains a ticket ID from a ticket possessed by a user;

transmitting means that transmits the obtained ticket ID to the server via the transmission part;

judging means for admission that obtains admission day information of the pertinent ticket based on the ticket information transmitted from the server, determines whether or not at least today is the day when the pertinent ticket permits admission, and transmits to the server request for fundamental information used for judgment of the possibility of saving admission when determining not to permit admission;

judging means for saving admission possibility that determines, based on the fundamental information transmitted from the server, whether or not the predicted number of on-site guests for today leaves room relative to an upper limit of the on-site guests and determines that the saving admission is possible if there is some room or determines that the saving admission is impossible if there is little room; and

control means that outputs “

admitted/unadmitted”

to a display part based on a judgment result of the judging means for admission, and that in the case of “

admission unpermitted”

, outputs “

saving admission possible/impossible”

to the display part based on a judgment result of the judging means for saving admission possibility.