Patent ID: 7178728
Filing Date: 2007-02-20
Classification: G07B

Abstract:
1. A card processing system using an IC card having an electrical contact and an IC card antenna, the IC card capable of exchanging information through the electrical contact with an on-board unit installed in a vehicle using a toll road, and capable of wireless communication with an antenna unit installed at a roadside of the toll road through the IC card antenna, the card processing system comprising: a first processor configured to execute at an entrance of the toll road an electronic toll collection process through the wireless communication between the antenna unit installed at the roadside and the on-board unit into which the IC card is inserted to electrically connect the electrical contact of the IC card with the on-board unit; a second processor configured to execute at the entrance of the toll road a non-contact IC card process through the wireless communication between the antenna unit installed at the roadside and the IC card through the IC card antenna when an error is generated in the electronic toll collection process by the first processor; comparison/collation means for comparing and collating the peculiar information that are stored in the on-board unit and the IC card, respectively, when the IC card storing entrance information of the toll road is inserted in the on-board unit subsequent to the non-contact IC card process executed by the second processor; and means for storing the entrance information stored in the IC card as a result of the non-contact IC card process executed by the second processor in the on-board unit when peculiar information stored in the on-board unit and the IC card unit are matched to each other by the comparison/collation means.