Ticket issuing system, ticket checking system, check system, retrieving system and automatic examination machine

• US 6,070,146 A
• Filed: 03/03/1998
• Issued: 05/30/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 03/03/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Mimata, Yoshinobu
• Primary Examiner(s): Voeltz, Emanuel Todd
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hayes, John W.
• Application Number:
  US09/033,485
• Time in Patent Office: 819 Days
• Field of Search: 705/13, 346/15, 235/382, 235/31 R, 235/31 T, 235/384, 232/7, 232/18
• US Class Current: 705/13
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/341 Active cards, i.e. cards including their own processing means, e.g. including an IC or chip
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/4097 using mutual authentication between devices and transaction partners
• CPC Class Codes: G07B 15/02 taking into account a variable factor such as distance or time, e.g. for passenger transport, parking systems or car rental systems G07B15/06 takes precedence; taximeters G07B13/00; parking meters per se G07F17/24; car rental systems per se G07B15/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/10 Movable barriers with registering means
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/42 for ticket printing or like apparatus , e.g. apparatus for dispensing of printed paper tickets or payment cards
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/1008 Active credit-cards provided with means to personalise their use, e.g. with PIN-introduction/comparison system

Abstract

The server, which has the preliminarily stored customer data file, issues a radio card by employing the radio card issuing machine, reads out a customer name from the radio card presented to the automatic ticket examination machine at the entrance, retrieves the customer name in the customer data file, permits entrance when the customer name is retrieved, displays the entrance of the customer on the monitor in a department (area) corresponding to the retrieved customer, and outputs it from the printer.

Claims

1. A retrieving system for storing processing data of a checking device for checking passage of a customer holding an information storing medium storing identification data, said retrieving system comprising:

storage means for storing information about a plurality of customers including identification data;

recording means for recording the processing data of said information storing medium checked by said checking device, in association with the corresponding customer information in said storage means;

reading means for reading said identification data from said information storing medium;

retrieving means for retrieving said customer'"'"'s information in said storage means, with reference to said identification data read by said reading means; and

display means for displaying said customer'"'"'s information including the processing data recorded by said recording means, retrieved by said retrieving means, wherein said display means comprises;

means for selectively displaying information of usage of the date and cumulative usage information added to the retrieved customer information; and

printing means for selectively printing the information usage of the date and the cumulative usage information displayed by said display means.

2. A retrieving system for storing processing data of a checking device for checking passage of a customer holding an information storing medium storing identification data, said retrieving system comprising:

storage means for storing information about a plurality of customers including identification data;

recording means for recording the processing data of said information storing medium checked by said checking device, in association with the corresponding customer information in said storage means;

reading means for reading said identification data from said information storing medium;

retrieving means for retrieving said customer'"'"'s information in said storage means, with reference to said identification data read by said reading means; and

display means for displaying said customer'"'"'s information including the processing data recorded by said recording means and retrieved by said retrieving means, said display means further comprising;

first display control means for allowing said display means to continuously display the customer information when the same identification data is received by said reading means; and

second display control means for allowing the display of said display means to be finished if said identification data is not received by said reading means during the display of said first display control means.

3. A ticket issuing system for issuing a information storing medium, comprising:

first input means for inputting customer'"'"'s information including customer'"'"'s name;

storing means for storing the information about a plurality of customers which is inputted by said first input means;

second input means for inputting the customer'"'"'s name to issue the information storing medium;

retrieving means for retrieving the customer information stored in said storing means on the basis of the customer'"'"'s name inputted by said second input means;

issuing means for issuing the information storing medium based on the retrieved customer information when said retrieving means retrieves the customer information; and

display means for displaying that no customer information is found when said retrieving means cannot retrieved the customer information.

4. A ticket checking system for checking an information storing medium carried by a customer, the information storing medium storing name data used to identify the customer'"'"'s name and an expiration date of validity, comprising:

storage means for storing information about a plurality of customers including customer'"'"'s name;

reading means for reading the name data and the expiration date of validity stored by the information storing medium;

determination means for determining whether the information storing medium is valid or not with reference to the expiration date of validity which is read by said reading means;

retrieving means for retrieving the customer information stored in said storage means with reference to the name data which is read by said reading means, when said information storing medium is determined valid by said determination means; and

control means for controlling the permission of passage of the customer when the customer information can be retrieved by said retrieving means;

a display device for displaying the retrieved customer information when the customer information can be retrieved by said retrieving means; and

printing means for printing the customer information displayed on said display device.

5. A ticket checking system for controlling customer'"'"'s passage holding an information storing medium which stores identification data and an expiration data of validity, comprising:

storage means for storing information about a plurality of customers including customer'"'"'s name in every department and storing them;

a plurality of display devices provided for respective departments classified by said storage means;

reading means for reading identification data and the expiration date of validity stored an said information storing medium;

determination means for determining whether the information storing medium is valid or not with reference to the expiration date of validity read by said reading means;

retrieving means for retrieving the customer information stored in said storage means with reference to the identification data read by said reading means, when said information storing medium is determined valid by said determination means;

control means for controlling the permission of passage of the customer when the customer information is retrieved by said retrieving means;

judging means for judging to which department the customer information is classified, when the customer information is retrieved by said retrieving means; and

display control means for allowing the customer information to be displayed on the display device in the department corresponding to the customer information, of said plurality of display devices, with reference to the judgment made by said judging means.

6. The ticket checking system according to claim 5, further comprising input means provided to respectively correspond to said plurality of display devices, for inputting a response indicating that the display of said display devices has been recognized.

7. The ticket checking system according to claim 6, further comprising recording means for adding the response inputted by said input means to the corresponding customer information in said storage means.

8. A ticket checking system for checking a passage of a customer holding an information storing medium which stores identification data and an expiration date of validity, comprising:

first storage means for storing information about a plurality of customers including data used to identify a customer;

first reading means provided at an entrance of the system, for reading the identification data and the expiration date of validity stored said information storing medium;

determination means for determining whether the information storing medium is valid or not with reference to the expiration date of validity read by said first reading means;

retrieving means for retrieving the customer information from said first storage means corresponding to said identification data read by said first reading means;

control means for permitting passage of the customer when the information storing medium is determined valid by said determination means and when the customer information is retrieved by said retrieving means;

second storage means for storing an entrance time at which the customer has passed through the entrance together with said identification data, when said control means permits the passage of the customer;

second reading means provided at an exit entrance of the system, for reading said identification data from said information storing medium;

third storage means for storing an exit time at which the customer has passed through the exit together with said identification data, when said second reading means reads said identification data;

calculating means for calculating a residence period from the entrance of the customer to the exit thereof, with reference to the entrance time and exit time stored in said second storage means and said third storage means; and

recording means for adding the residence period calculated by said calculating means to the customer information including the identification data.

9. A check system constituted by a check device for checking passage of a customer holding an information storing medium which stores data used to identify the customer and an expiration date of validity are recorded, and a retrieving device for retrieving the data processed by the check device and storing the processed data, said system comprising:

storage means provided at said retrieving device, for storing information about a plurality of customers including the data used to identify the customer;

first reading means provided at said check device, for reading said identification data and said expiration date of validity stored in said information storing medium;

judging means provided at said check device, for judging whether said information storing medium is valid or not with reference to said expiration date of validity read from said first reading means;

first retrieving means for retrieving customer information from the customer information stored in said storage means corresponding to the identification data stored in the information storing medium, when said information storing medium is judged valid by said judging means;

first display means for displaying the customer information when the customer information is retrieved by said first retrieving means;

recording means provided at said check device, for adding usage information including a date of usage to the customer information when the customer information is retrieved by said retrieving means;

second display means provided at said check device, for displaying that the customer is prohibited from passing through the check device, when said information storing medium is judged invalid by said judging means or when the customer information is not retrieved by said retrieving means;

second reading means provided at said retrieving device, for reading said identification data from said information storing medium;

second retrieving means for retrieving the customer information from said storage means, with reference to said identification data read by said second reading means; and

third display means provided at said retrieving device, for displaying said customer information including the usage information recorded by said recording means, with reference to the customer information retrieved by said second retrieving means.