Paper sheet handling apparatus and paper sheet handling method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11276263-B2
Application number	US-201615760140-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 14, 2016
Priority date	Sep 16, 2015
Publication date	Mar 15, 2022
Grant date	Mar 15, 2022

Abstract

One object is to acquire from a paper sheet circulating in the market data for updating the data for recognition. A paper sheet handling apparatus used for recognizing a paper sheet and the like includes a recognition unit that recognizes a paper sheet, an operation unit for instructing execution of a data collection processing, and a control unit that controls, in the data collection processing that is executed after an instruction operation is performed by using the operation unit, data from a paper sheet that is not correctly recognized by the recognition unit, and a memory that stores therein the data collected by the control unit.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A banknote handling apparatus comprising:
a receiving unit configured to receive banknotes;
a memory configured to store therein template data for recognizing the banknotes;
a recognition unit configured in a first mode to acquire, from each banknote received in the receiving unit, data used for recognizing each banknote, and recognize each banknote based on comparison result between acquired data and the template data;
at least one stacker configured to stack the banknotes recognized by the recognition unit to separate genuine banknotes and counterfeit banknotes; and
an operation unit configured to receive an instruction to switch an operation mode of the banknote handling apparatus from the first mode to a second mode for processing an error banknote that is not correctly recognized by the recognition unit in the first mode,
wherein
in the second mode processing, the recognition unit acquires, from the error banknote, data that indicates characteristics of the error banknote and is used for updating the template data, the acquired data including data that has not been acquired in the first mode processing and/or data that has been acquired but deleted in the first mode processing, and
the memory stores therein the data acquired by the recognition unit in the second mode processing and keeps the stored data until the stored data is retrieved from the memory,
the second mode includes a reject mode,
in a case where the error banknote is a genuine banknote that has not been correctly recognized as genuine based on the template data in the first mode processing, the second mode is set to the reject mode

and
in the second mode processing of the reject mode, only the data acquired from banknotes, which are recognized as counterfeit banknotes and are rejected based on the template data, is kept in the memory.

2. The banknote handling apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the acquired data in the second mode processing includes at least one of data on optical characteristics of the error banknote, data on magnetic characteristics of the error banknote and data on dimensional characteristics of the error banknote.

3. The banknote handling apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein
the second mode includes an accept mode,
in a case where the error banknote is a counterfeit banknote that has not been correctly recognized as counterfeit based on the template data in the first mode processing, the second mode is set to the accept mode, and
in the second mode processing of the accept mode, only the data acquired from banknotes, which are recognized as genuine banknotes and accepted based on the template data, is kept in the memory.

4. The banknote handling apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein
the second mode includes an auto mode,
in the second mode processing of the auto mode,
if a first banknote, from which the data is acquired by the recognition unit first in the second mode processing, is a banknote recognized to be rejected based on the template data, only the data acquired from banknotes recognized to be rejected based on the template data is kept in the memory, and
if the first banknote is a banknote recognized not to be rejected based on the template data, only the data acquired from banknotes recognized not to be rejected based on the template data is kept in the memory.

5. The banknote handling apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein, the number of banknotes, from which the recognition unit acquires the data in the second mode processing, is limited to a predetermined number of banknotes.

6. The banknote handling apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising
a display unit configured to display information, wherein
the second mode includes a manual mode,
in the second mode processing of the manual mode, information on each banknote, from which the data is acquired by the recognition unit, is displayed on the display unit, and
the data of the error banknote selected from among the banknotes, of which the information is displayed on the display, is kept in the memory.

7. The banknote handling apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising a control unit configured to perform an authentication process of an operator, and permit an operation to move and/or copy the data stored in the memory only in a case where the operator is authorized for the operation.

8. The banknote handling apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the data that has been acquired by the recognition unit in the second mode processing and stored in the memory is being encrypted.

9. The banknote handling apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising a control unit configured to monitor an operation to move and/or copy the data from the memory and record information on the operation.

10. The banknote handling apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein, after the data that has been acquired by the recognition unit in the second mode processing and stored in the memory is collected by a manufacturer of the banknote handling apparatus, the data is deleted from the memory.

11. A banknote handling method implemented in a banknote handling apparatus, comprising
switching an operation mode of the banknote handling apparatus from a first mode to a second mode to perform a second mode processing for processing an error banknote, which is not recognized correctly in the first mode based on template data previously prepared for the first mode, wherein

the first mode processing includes:
receiving a banknote in the banknote handling apparatus;
acquiring, from the banknote, data used for recognizing the banknote, comparing acquired data with the template data previously prepared for recognizing banknotes and recognizing the banknote based on comparison result; and
stacking the banknote in a corresponding stacker to separate genuine banknotes and counterfeit banknotes based on recognition result and
the second mode processing includes:
receiving the error banknote;
acquiring, from the error banknotes, data that is used for updating the template data and indicates characteristics of the error banknote, the data to be acquired including data that is not acquired in the first mode and/or data that is acquired but deleted in the first mode;
storing in a memory, the acquired data and keeping the stored data until the stored data is retrieved from the memory; and
stacking the error banknote in a corresponding stacker
wherein the second mode includes a reject mode,
in a case where the error banknote is a genuine banknote that has not been correctly recognized as genuine based on the template data in the first mode processing, the second mode is set to the reject mode

and
in the second mode processing of the reject mode, only the data acquired from banknotes, which are recognized as counterfeit banknotes and rejected based on the template data, is kept in memory.

12. A banknote handling apparatus comprising:
a receiving unit configured to receive banknotes;
a memory configured to store therein template data for recognizing the banknotes;
a recognition unit configured in a first mode to acquire, from each banknote received in the receiving unit, data used for recognizing each banknote, and recognize each banknote based on comparison result between acquired data and the template data;
at least one stacker configured to stack the banknotes recognized by the recognition unit to separate genuine banknotes and counterfeit banknotes; and
an operation unit configured to receive an instruction to switch operation mode of the banknote handling apparatus from the first mode to a second mode for processing an error b

Assignees

• Glory Kogyo Kk

Inventors

• MORIBAYASHI Shigenori
• MIYAMA Yoshihiko
• Hayashi Masao

Classifications

• G07D11/36

  Auditing of activities · CPC title

• G07D9/00

  Counting coins (in combination with coin-sorting G07D3/16); Handling of coins not provided for in the other groups of this subclass · CPC title

• G07D11/32

  Record keeping (transaction aspects G07F19/00) · CPC title

• G07D7/164

  Thickness · CPC title

• G07D11/28

  Setting of parameters; Software updates · CPC title