CN102542685A - A method of communicating between an existing billing device and a mobile payment system by optical character recognition - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for communication between the existing billing equipment and mobile payment system by optical character recognition, which adds an optical sensor and an optical character recognition module on the existing billing equipment or point-of-sale terminal, the optical sensor is arranged near the fee display device on the billing equipment or point-of-sale terminal, the optical sensor reads the information displayed on the fee display device and sends the read information to the optical character recognition module, the optical character recognition module processes the received information into digitally coded characters and sends the digitally coded characters to the payment system based on the mobile equipment. The invention relates to a method for communication between the existing charging equipment and a mobile payment system through optical character recognition, which not only can implement the original payment mode, but also can carry out payment based on the mobile equipment without replacing the existing charging equipment or a point-of-sale terminal and updating the existing computer management system.

Description

A method of communicating between an existing billing device and a mobile payment system by optical character recognition

technical field

The invention relates to the field of information transmission, and in particular to a method for communicating between an existing billing device and a mobile payment system through optical character recognition.

Background technique

At present, supermarkets, restaurants, hotels and other business places have billing equipment or point-of-sale terminals for checkout or card swiping, but with the improvement of living standards, people have more and more demands for mobile wallets or other payment methods based on mobile devices The bigger it is, the more these businesses will be forced to update their existing collection equipment and computer management systems. However, if they are all replaced, it will not only be troublesome, but also costly, time-consuming, and risky. There are improvements on billing devices or point-of-sale terminals to quickly implement methods for communicating with modern cash collection systems.

Contents of the invention

In view of the above problems, the object of the present invention is to propose a method for communicating between the existing billing device and the mobile payment system through optical character recognition.

To achieve the above object, the present invention takes the following technical solutions:

A method of communicating between an existing billing device and a mobile payment system by optical character recognition, provided with at least one billing device or at least one point-of-sale terminal, said billing device or point-of-sale terminal being provided with a fee The display device is also provided with at least one optical sensor and at least one optical character recognition module, the optical sensor reads the information displayed on the cost display device, and sends the read information to the optical character recognition module, so The optical character recognition module processes the received information into digitally encoded characters and sends them to the mobile device-based payment system.

The billing equipment is a taxi meter, a water meter, an electric meter, a gas meter, a natural gas meter, a public telephone meter or a parking meter.

The OCR module is a computer program running on at least one computing device.

The at least one computing device also executes the computer program of the mobile device-based payment system.

The optical character recognition module sends digitally encoded characters to the mobile device-based payment system through wired, wireless, optical, sound and/or mechanical vibration.

The optical sensor is arranged around the fee display device through a fixing device.

All or part of the fixing device is made of transparent material.

The fixing device can be adjusted in size and shape as required.

A display device is also provided for displaying the characters processed by the optical character recognition module into digital codes.

The optical sensor includes: at least one optical fiber and at least one photoelectric imaging device, the optical fiber is arranged around the cost display device, and the image is transmitted to the photoelectric imaging device, and the photoelectric imaging device forms an image and sends it to the optical character The recognition module performs character recognition.

The mobile device-based payment system sends information to the billing device or point-of-sale terminal.

The present invention has the following advantages due to the adoption of the above technical scheme:

The present invention is a communication method between the existing billing equipment and the mobile payment system through optical character recognition. An optical sensor and an optical character recognition module are installed on the existing billing equipment or point-of-sale terminal, so that the whole machine can not only Carry out the implementation of the original payment method, and can also carry out payment based on mobile devices, without replacing the existing billing equipment or point-of-sale terminals, and without updating the existing computer management system, which saves the cost of merchants and reduces The hassle of replacing billing devices or point-of-sale terminals.

Detailed ways

The present invention will be described in detail below in conjunction with the examples.

The present invention is a communication method between the existing billing equipment and the mobile payment system through optical character recognition, which adds an optical sensor and an optical character recognition module to the existing billing equipment or point-of-sale terminal, and the optical The sensor is arranged near the fee display device on the billing device or the point-of-sale terminal, the optical sensor reads the information displayed on the fee display device, and sends the read information to the optical character recognition module, the The optical character recognition module processes the received information into digitally encoded characters, and sends them to the mobile device-based payment system in wired, wireless, optical, sound and/or mechanical vibration.

The charging device may be a taxi meter, a water meter, an electric meter, a gas meter, a natural gas meter, a public telephone meter or a parking meter. In this way, the optical sensor and the optical character recognition module can be additionally installed on the payment or charging device with digital display.

The optical character recognition module is a computer program running on a computing device. The computing device can also run other computer programs at the same time, not just serving the optical character recognition module, and the computing device can be an existing device, and it only needs to install the optical character recognition module program on it. The optical character recognition module can also be independently connected to the optical sensor in a hardware manner to run.

The optical sensor is arranged around the fee display device through a fixing device. The fixing device can be made of transparent material in whole or in part, so that after the optical sensor is added, the original display can be avoided as much as possible. The fixing device can also be adjusted in size and shape as required, and can be folded as a whole when the optical sensor is not needed for work. In order to better display the payment data, an additional display device can also be added, and the display device displays the characters processed into digital codes by the optical character recognition module. The optical sensor can also use at least one optical fiber and at least one photoelectric imaging device, so that the optical fiber is arranged under the existing display, and the image is transmitted to the photoelectric imaging device, and the photoelectric imaging device images the image and sends it to the optical character recognition module for character recognition.

After the entire communication is completed, the mobile device-based payment system can send information to the billing device or point-of-sale terminal through the computer management system, and the merchant can reply through the information to know whether the payment is successful.

The present invention is only described with the above-mentioned embodiments, and each inventive step can be changed. On the basis of the technical solution of the present invention, all improvements and equivalent transformations carried out to individual processes according to the principles of the present invention should not be excluded from the scope of the present invention. outside the scope of protection.

Claims (11)

1. A method for communicating between an existing billing device and a mobile payment system through optical character recognition, which is provided with at least one billing device or at least one point-of-sale terminal, and the billing device or point-of-sale terminal is provided with There is a fee display device, which is characterized in that: at least one optical sensor and at least one optical character recognition module are also provided, and the optical sensor reads the information displayed on the fee display device and sends the read information to the An optical character recognition module, the optical character recognition module processes the received information into digitally coded characters and sends them to the payment system based on the mobile device. 2. A method for communicating between an existing billing device and a mobile payment system through optical character recognition as claimed in claim 1, wherein said billing device is a taximeter, a water meter, an electric meter, a gas meter, etc. meter, gas meter, public telephone meter or parking meter. 3. A method for communicating between an existing billing device and a mobile payment system through optical character recognition as claimed in claim 1, wherein the optical character recognition module is a computer running in at least one computing device Computer program. 4. A method of communicating between an existing billing device and a mobile payment system by optical character recognition as recited in claim 3, wherein said at least one computing device also runs said mobile device-based payment system computer program. 5. A method for communicating between an existing billing device and a mobile payment system through optical character recognition as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that: the optical character recognition module communicates through wired, wireless, optical, sound and/or or mechanical vibration to send digitally encoded characters to a mobile device-based payment system. 6. A method for communicating between an existing billing device and a mobile payment system through optical character recognition as claimed in claim 1, wherein the optical sensor is arranged around the fee display device through a fixing device. 7. A method for communicating between an existing billing device and a mobile payment system through optical character recognition as claimed in claim 6, wherein said fixing device is entirely or partially made of transparent material. 8. A method for communicating between an existing billing device and a mobile payment system through optical character recognition as claimed in claim 6 or 7, characterized in that the size and shape of the fixing device are adjusted as required. 9. A method for communicating between an existing billing device and a mobile payment system through optical character recognition as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that: a display device is also provided, and the display device displays the optical character recognition Modules are processed as numerically encoded characters. 10. A method for communicating between an existing billing device and a mobile payment system through optical character recognition as claimed in claim 1, wherein said optical sensor comprises: at least one optical fiber and at least one photoelectric imaging device, the optical fiber is arranged around the cost display device, and the image is transmitted to the photoelectric imaging device, and the photoelectric imaging device forms an image and sends it to the optical character recognition module for character recognition. 11. A method for communicating between an existing billing device and a mobile payment system through optical character recognition as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that: said mobile device-based payment system sends to said billing device or sales Click on the terminal to send the message.