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EP1050021B1
EP1050021B1 EP99906150A EP99906150A EP1050021B1 EP 1050021 B1 EP1050021 B1 EP 1050021B1 EP 99906150 A EP99906150 A EP 99906150A EP 99906150 A EP99906150 A EP 99906150A EP 1050021 B1 EP1050021 B1 EP 1050021B1
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B11/00—Apparatus for validating or cancelling issued tickets
    • G07B11/02—Apparatus for validating or cancelling issued tickets for validating inserted tickets
    • G07B11/03—Apparatus for validating or cancelling issued tickets for validating inserted tickets by printing

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  • the present invention relates to a method for the validation of travel documents, such as for example, but not exclusively, tickets made of paper for public transport vehicles.
  • the invention relates, moreover, to an apparatus that carries out such method.
  • the obliterators used currently do not allow the collection of statistical data.
  • it renders difficult the apportionment of the profits in all cases wherein it is possible to use a same ticket for different journeys administered by different companies.
  • travel documents i.e. card tickets exist having a magnetic strip or a chip, that make possible the use of the information for statistical purposes.
  • travel documents have the drawbacks of being expensive, of requiring expensive issuing and validating apparatus, as well as of encountering other problems such as the demagnetisation or the possibility of fake magnetisation.
  • EP0063026 describes an automatic through ticketing system, particularly for use in buses, which allows passengers to travel with one ticket on more than one vehicle of the transport system.
  • Each bus is provided with apparatus comprising a microprocessor-based control console, data storage means, ticket issuing means and ticket checking means.
  • This apparatus has the disadvantage that the ticket checking means is not equipped with means for obliterating unused tickets. Therefore two devices are necessary on a same bus: one for issuing and printing and one for reading and checking.
  • the coded data are printed in a binary two-dimensional optically readable array and said step of reading comprises a step of optical scanning said array.
  • the coded data are optically readable alphanumeric characters and said step of reading comprises an optical reading step of said characters.
  • the validating apparatus which can be used to carry out the above described method, according to the invention comprises advantageously a box-like body having a slot for the introduction of a ticket, at least an internal printing head arranged in the body in association with the slot, at least an optical reader arranged in the body in association with the slot, and at least a processing unit connected to the optical reader.
  • the optical reader is arranged in coincidence with respective zones of coded data printed on the ticket by the head.
  • the data printed during the first validation can be read later on by optical means after computing the coded printed data, that the validating apparatus can decipher, on each ticket.
  • coded data can be printed on the ticket such as for example, but not exclusively, the information relative to the validating apparatus that is carrying out the printing.
  • coded data can be pre-printed such as for example, but not exclusively, the maximum mileage or the time validity of the ticket, the applied fare, the type of journey such as city or district journey, or the information necessary for the identification of the machine that has issued the original ticket.
  • the validating apparatus accepts it and can print on it, at a predetermined location, further data such as for example, but not exclusively, the validation date and time.
  • a ticket 1 which can be used for example on people transport vehicles, has a side 2 on which data can be printed necessary for carrying out the optical reading validation method according to the present invention.
  • Ticket 1 can be made fully of paper or can have, on its side 2, plastics film covered zones (non shown) or in other printable material in order to fix and maintain, for all the validity life of the ticket, the data written on it by the validating apparatus.
  • an arrow indicator 8 pre-printed on side 2 shows the direction of introduction of ticket 1 into slot 9 of a validating apparatus 10.
  • unused ticket 1 after the first validation by means of apparatus 10 during which it has been introduced through slot 9 has side 2 with a first and a second zone, 5 and 7, on which data have been printed by a printing head 13 indicating the instant of validation.
  • the date and the time of the first validation are printed in alphanumeric characters, whereas in the first zone 5 the same data of zone 7 are printed as coded data, for example a binary two-dimensional optically readable array (fig. 3) readable for example by means of known neural techniques.
  • coded data for example a binary two-dimensional optically readable array (fig. 3) readable for example by means of known neural techniques.
  • Printing head 13 can be of the type described in EP766858, comprising an encoder (not shown) that synchronises the printing speed of fixed head 13 and the speed of introduction of the ticket through slot 9. This way the same head 13 can print the data on the moving ticket also in a second zone, for example zone 6 of figures 4 and 5.
  • the validation action is a printing step of data on an unused ticket, with whichever known method.
  • ticket 1 is introduced, always according to arrow 8, into slot 9.
  • apparatus 10 reads and decodes the data written on zone 5, by means of an optical reader 12, for example a CCD connected to a processing unit and computing means using neural techniques.
  • This way validating apparatus 10 carries out a comparison between real date and time with date and time printed at the first validation, according to the kind of ticket, and checks its validity. In the negative, it refuses the validation and can call the attention of an inspector or can emit a warning signal, acoustic and/or visible on a display.
  • the first validation action ticket 1 can have, on side 2, a third zone 6 that contains other data written in a binary two-dimensional code as already described above, that are printed always by printing head 13 of validating apparatus 10.
  • These other data may indicate, for example, the apparatus that has executed the first validation. They can be read during each validation successive to the first, by means of a second reader 14 of apparatus 10 and can be useful for statistical purposes and for a control of the service performed by the company, as well as for the apportionment of the profits among different public transport companies linked by transport agreements to one another.
  • Reader 12 and reader 14 operate through the same processing unit above described and read respectively the data written on zones 5 and 6, and then compute and store all the information read thereon.
  • a further different embodiment of the invention provides that ticket 1 has, always on side 2, other zones further to those already described, for example a fourth and a fifth zone 3 and 4, that contain coded data, preferably always of the same binary two dimensional array type, or of other kind which can be read by optical means, pre-printed on the unused ticket at the moment of the issue.
  • a third reader 11, provided in apparatus 10, reads and records the data printed in zones 3 and 4 during all the obliterations.
  • each CCD reader owing to the high reading and computing speed, comprises a local processing unit or is connected to a processing unit shared by other optical readers.
  • each CCD reader for reading the data each CCD reader, of a type available on the marker and therefore not described in detail, implements the flow-sheet shown in figure 7.
  • the CCD counter is incremented again of a unit. Otherwise the buffer of the address is reset, the weight is stored in the buffer, the counter of the CCD and the address buffer are incremented.
  • the scanning step is ended the information that has been scanned is read by means of a neural array and is checked as valid or not valid. In the negative the flow goes back to the reset of the CCD counter, otherwise the data is stored until a "white frame" is detected and the reading step of the data starts again with the reset of the CCD counter.
  • optical reader Concerning the optical reader, the following is an example, not limitative, of the requirements for a typical CCD reader having optimum reading speed of about 800 scannings per second and requiring:

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  1. Procédé de validation d'un ticket (1), au moyen d'un appareil de validation (10) pour véhicules de transport public, ladite étape de validation comprenant l'impression au moins de l'heure et de la date sur un ticket édité mais non encore utilisé et le contrôle automatique ultérieur d'un ticket déjà validé, caractérisé en ce qu'il comprend les étapes consistant :
    pendant une première action de validation d'un ticket inutilisé, à mettre dans une fente d'un premier appareil (10), en imprimant dans une première zone (5) du ticket (1) un premier ensemble (5) de données codées (5) qui peuvent être lues par des moyens optiques (12) ;
    pendant la dite première action de validation, à imprimer dans une seconde zone (7) du ticket (1) d'un second ensemble (7) de données écrites en caractères lisibles par l'oeil ;
    pendant une tentative de.validation ultérieure dudit ticket (1) introduit dans la fente d'un autre appareil (10), identique au premier appareil (10), à exécuter ledit contrôle automatique ultérieur par les étapes ultérieures consistant à lire les dites données codées (5), au moyen de moyens optiques (12) connectés à une unité de traitement, et à comparer lesdites données codées aux données stockées dans ladite unité de traitement ;
    à faire produire un signal d'avertissement par ladite unité de traitement si à la lecture des dites données codées (5) de ladite première zone (5) et à la comparaison ensuite auxdites données stockées, la validation ultérieure est interdite.
  2. Procédé de validation selon la revendication 1, comprenant les étapes ultérieures consistant :
    pendant la dite première validation dudit ticket inutilisé (1), à imprimer dans une troisième zone (6) du ticket (1) un troisième ensemble (6) de données codées (5) qui peuvent être lues par des moyens optiques (14) ;
    pendant une tentative de validation ultérieure dudit ticket (1), au moyen desdits moyens optiques (14), à lire et à stocker ledit troisième ensemble (6) de données de ladite troisième zone (6) ;
    à émettre ledit signal d'avertissement si ledit troisième ensemble (6) de données n'est pas compatible avec lesdites données stockées.
  3. Procédé de validation selon la revendication 1, dans lequel ledit ticket non utilisé (1) comprend au moins une quatrième zone (3, 4) sur laquelle au moins un quatrième ensemble (3, 4) de données codées (5) a été pré-imprimé, ladite première action de validation ou ladite action de revalidation dudit ticket (1) fournissant les étapes suivantes consistant :
    à l'aide de moyens optiques (11) connectés à une unité de traitement, à lire lesdites données codées (3, 4) de ladite quatrième zone (3, 4) et à les comparer avec les données stockées dans ladite unité de traitement ;
    à faire produire ledit signal d'avertissement par ladite unité de traitement si, à la lecture desdites données codées (3, 4) de ladite quatrième zone (3, 4) et à leur comparaison avec lesdites données stockées, la validation est interdite.
  4. Procédé de validation selon les revendications précédentes, dans lequel ledit premier ensemble (5) de données inclut des données codées comprenant la date et l'heure de la première action de validation ; dans lequel ledit troisième ensemble (6) de données comprend des données pour l'identification de l'appareil (10) et du distributeur qui les a éditées ; dans lequel ledit quatrième ensemble (3, 4) de données comprend des données choisies parmi : les données concernant le prix du ticket, les données concernant l'édition du ticket original (1).
  5. Procédé de validation selon la revendication 1, dans lequel ledit ticket (1) est choisi parmi : un ticket constitué entièrement de papier ; un ticket constitué de papier comprenant des zones couvertes par films imprimables correspondant auxdites zones.
  6. Procédé de validation selon les revendications précédentes, dans lequel ladite étape de lecture (12) est exécutée en scrutant des rangées linéaires au moyen de techniques neurales.
  7. Procédé de validation selon les revendications précédentes, dans lequel lesdites données codées (5) sont imprimées (13) dans un tableau binaire à deux dimensions lisible optiquement, ladite étape de lecture faisant intervenir une étape de lecture optique (12) dudit tableau.
  8. Procédé de validation selon les étapes 1 à 7, dans lequel les données codées sont des caractères alphanumériques optiquement lisibles et dans lequel ladite étape de lecture comprend une étape de lecture optique desdits caractères alphanumériques optiquement lisibles.
  9. Appareil de validation (10) de tickets de transport (1) en papier, qui peut être utilisé dans le procédé selon les précédentes revendications, comprenant :
    un corps de type boíte ayant une fente (9) pour l'introduction desdits tickets (1),
    au moins une tête d'impression interne (13) disposée dans ledit corps en association avec ladite fente (9),
    caractérisé en ce qu'il comprend
    au moins un lecteur optique (12, 14)
    au moins une unité de traitement connectée audit ou à chaque lecteur optique (12, 14) disposé dans ledit corps en association avec ladite fente (9),
       ledit ou chaque lecteur optique (12, 14) disposé de façon coïncidente avec les zones respectives de données codées (5, 6) imprimées sur ledit ticket (1) par ladite tête (13).
  10. Appareil selon la revendication 9, dans lequel ledit ou chaque lecteur optique (11, 12, 14) est un capteur CCD liée à un processeur opérant au moyen de techniques neurales.
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IT1998PI000006A IT1306105B1 (it) 1998-01-21 1998-01-21 Metodo ed apparecchiatura per la convalida di documenti di viaggio
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PCT/EP1999/000273 WO1999038122A1 (fr) 1998-01-21 1999-01-19 Procede et appareil de validation de tickets

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