EP1599844B1 - Verfahren und vorrichtung zur prüfung von münzen - Google Patents

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EP1599844B1
EP1599844B1 EP04712521A EP04712521A EP1599844B1 EP 1599844 B1 EP1599844 B1 EP 1599844B1 EP 04712521 A EP04712521 A EP 04712521A EP 04712521 A EP04712521 A EP 04712521A EP 1599844 B1 EP1599844 B1 EP 1599844B1
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Manfred Wollny
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Walter Hanke Mechanische Werkstaetten GmbH and Co KG
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07D—HANDLING OF COINS OR VALUABLE PAPERS, e.g. TESTING, SORTING BY DENOMINATIONS, COUNTING, DISPENSING, CHANGING OR DEPOSITING
    • G07D5/00—Testing specially adapted to determine the identity or genuineness of coins, e.g. for segregating coins which are unacceptable or alien to a currency
    • G07D5/005—Testing the surface pattern, e.g. relief
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07D—HANDLING OF COINS OR VALUABLE PAPERS, e.g. TESTING, SORTING BY DENOMINATIONS, COUNTING, DISPENSING, CHANGING OR DEPOSITING
    • G07D5/00—Testing specially adapted to determine the identity or genuineness of coins, e.g. for segregating coins which are unacceptable or alien to a currency
    • G07D5/02—Testing the dimensions, e.g. thickness, diameter; Testing the deformation
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07D—HANDLING OF COINS OR VALUABLE PAPERS, e.g. TESTING, SORTING BY DENOMINATIONS, COUNTING, DISPENSING, CHANGING OR DEPOSITING
    • G07D5/00—Testing specially adapted to determine the identity or genuineness of coins, e.g. for segregating coins which are unacceptable or alien to a currency
    • G07D5/10—Testing the rim, e.g. the milling of the rim

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  • the invention relates to a method and a device for testing coins, in which the image of the coin is detected with an image sensor.
  • the coin moves through the receiving area of the image sensor at a constant speed and certainly does not stay in it for a short time.
  • Four time ranges are to be investigated, namely the entry of the coin into the sensor area, the recording / exposure time, the data transfer or transfer for image processing in an evaluation device and the image processing, analysis and evaluation. While no fixed time dimension is specified for the fourth period, with the exception of the maximum time of the overall process, the first three time segments are extremely time-critical.
  • Infeed times have been found for selected coins, the break-in time being defined here from the dipping of the coin edge into the receiving area of the image sensor until the coin has been fully captured by this receiving area.
  • the measured break-in period was between 4.5 and 9.9 ms and that of 0.01, 0.10, 1 and 2 euro coins at 4.9; 5.9; 6.99 and 7.71 ms.
  • the desired diameter range of the coins to be measured is between 15 mm and 33 mm. Measurements in real coin validators showed a maximum coin speed of 3 m / s. Given the time relationships, it is unthinkable to track the coin run to the proper position of the shot through a cyclic scan of the image. In addition, in such a case, the data transfer times from the image sensor to processors to be processed are much too long.
  • the publication JP 2001 230977 A discloses a token validation method in which a position of a token entered into a corresponding validator is detected, and an image sensor is activated in response to that position, but the token has a known diameter and passes through the reviewer at a known constant speed becomes.
  • the invention has for its object to provide a method and apparatus for testing coins with an image sensor for receiving an image of the coin to be tested, in which the time of recording the image of the coin or the location of the recording is reliably determined and with which the data transmission times are minimized from the image sensor to the evaluation.
  • the property of image sensors is used to be able to read only partial areas. Since the scanning speed of the individual pixels is independent of their number, the transmission time can be almost in proportion to the number of dots to be read. Characterized in that only at least one of the front in the direction of movement of the coin columns and at least one line of the image sensor capture parameters of the coin, which together with the temporal information of the detection of a To provide information about the movement of the coin, and that is determined depending on these parameters and the temporal information, when the coin is immersed in a desired for recording cover area of the image sensor, the image sensor switched to an activation of the columns and rows of the coverage area and the recording is triggered, it is possible to monitor the movement of the coin and accurately calculate the time of the actual taking of the image of the coin, due to the activation of only the coverage area the coin with the image sensor is reduced the time for reading the image data.
  • the diameter of the coin is determined by which a statement about the height and width of the overlapping area can be made.
  • At least one line of the image sensor is activated at the height of half the diameter to repeatedly scan the front edge of the coin, since depending on the sampling times and distances traveled, the speed and / or Acceleration of the coin can be calculated exactly.
  • the recording time can be accurately determined, even if the coin undergoes a delay or acceleration in the course of their run-in.
  • a lighting device which is activated in a pulse-like manner at the time of recording, as a result of the determination of the time of recording, a good illumination can be achieved, wherein the duration of the illumination can be determined depending on the speed of the coin.
  • the device according to the invention is installed in a coin validator, preferably in the coin channel, in which the other measuring systems of the coin validator are likewise present, and the device described can be designed as a subsystem of the coin validator control.
  • the device has an image sensor, wherein the image sensor is to be understood as meaning the entire recording device with optics.
  • a lighting device is arranged, which is assigned to the image sensor and which has a flash function, ie generates a pulsed illumination of the coin surface.
  • a device according to the invention is shown and it has arranged in the region of a coin track 1 image sensor 2 with appropriate optics and an evaluation unit 3, which is part of the Münzprüfer Kunststoffung and a lighting assembly 4.
  • the receiving device embodied as the image sensor 2 is set with the optics so that a specific field of view and a specific focus range are predetermined, wherein a coin 5 to be photographed should be arranged in this area so that no optical distortion or darkening occurs.
  • the image sensor 2 whose representation indicates the coverage area, is provided with a plurality of columns and rows of pixels, which are connected to the evaluation unit 3 and which individually or in areas of the evaluation unit 3 for their initialization and activation for the readout of the data can be controlled from the sensor and for the actual recording.
  • the recording is the process of "electronic fixation" of the optical image, ie with an electronic "shutter” the optical function is taken as a charge carrier. This happens in a possible short period of time to avoid motion blur. While the data is being read from the sensor, the coin is already moving. With the control of the rows and columns for recording the lighting device 4 is also controlled.
  • a usable recording of a coin 5 can be achieved, based on the movement parameters of the incoming coin 5, the time of Recording can be determined via the evaluation unit 3 at the desired measuring position or at the desired recording location.
  • the first column 7 of the image sensor 2 activated in the direction of movement 6 of an incoming coin 5 is activated at the beginning of acquisition, the pixels of this first column 7 being continuously read out by the evaluation unit 3 and the coin infeed being awaited.
  • the front edge is detected by the column 7 and detected by the evaluation unit 3, which activates a height control which is intended to detect the vertex of the coin.
  • Fig. 2 determines the evaluation unit 3, the diameter of the coin 5, which is stored as a first measurement of the system. From the diameter of the desired coverage area is set.
  • a first estimation of the coin infeed speed is possible because a speed can be calculated from the time of the front edge scan, the time of the vertex scan, and the diameter.
  • this information is already sufficient to fix the time of the recording, which can be calculated from the speed and the desired measuring position. This is especially true for small, slow running coins, since the desired receiving area shown in dashed lines 8 covers in this case a multiple of the coin area and thus an uncontrolled leakage from the sensor area is unlikely. However, if you expect the speed changes on arrival, an additional control of the passage of the coin is necessary.
  • a pixel line 9 is activated on the center line with respect to the diameter of the coin 5.
  • This activation is carried out by activation of the evaluation unit 3 after detecting the diameter of the coin 5.
  • the first scan line 7 can be deactivated.
  • the scanning of the leading edge of coin 5 on the centerline continuously provides the progress of the coin's passage through the system.
  • the respective speed and, if desired, the respective acceleration can be determined, which then serve to determine the time of arrival of the coin at the measuring position.
  • the rows and columns of the image sensor in the height and width predetermined by the diameter of the coin 5 are initialized by the evaluation unit 3 as coverage area at the receiving location and triggered at the predicted time.
  • the overlap area of the image sensor 2 to be recorded can be optimally selected by the previously determined diameter of the coin and the time determined at the measuring position from the speed or accelerations or accelerations.
  • the evaluation unit 3 Depending on the coin size becomes the overlap or recording area limited by the control of the rows and columns by the evaluation unit 3, whereby the time for reading the image data is reduced to a minimum. If the evaluation of the data is adjusted to this, even areas outside the circular image of the overlapping area 10 located outside the circular image can be suppressed to save space, ie these areas are not forwarded by the evaluation unit 3 with regard to their signals.
  • the lighting arrangement 4 is triggered by the evaluation unit 3, which likewise determines the exposure time from the previous information about the speed and the diameter.
  • the evaluation unit 3 determines the exposure time from the previous information about the speed and the diameter.
  • the illumination for the recording can be formed for example by a plurality of annularly arranged light-emitting diodes with a diffuse reflector.
  • an exposure control of the recording must be carried out with the aid of a targeted control of the lighting. This is necessary because circulating coins have a significantly large spectrum of contamination and oxidation and thus reflectivity. Furthermore, for reasons of cost usually a lens with fixed aperture is used.
  • Exposure must be as short as possible to avoid blurring. There remains the possibility of controlling the supply current of the lighting elements or a gain control of the image sensor.
  • the coin inlet In addition to the lighting for the actual recording lighting is needed for the control of the coin inlet, which can be designed as a point or line lighting with lower light intensity or energy than the main lighting in the area.
  • illumination techniques can therefore be used in the lead-in area with which further measured quantities can be determined, e.g. flat bundled to determine with the shadowing embossing depths, multi-colored lighting to the detection of two-color coins, colored lighting to detect the material.
  • infeed control lighting must be activated several times, if not continuously, throughout the coin infeed period.
  • this lighting is also controlled to run-in control of the evaluation unit 3, which basically monitors the inlet. It can also determine the average brightness of the coin used for the exposure control.
  • a column within the scanning area 8 can be scanned in support of the run-in control in the first column. The timing of this position can then be used in determining the velocity along with the spacing of the columns.
  • image sensors that do not allow freely positionable reading of image data, but make a blockwise reading of pixels or a downshift to a multiple smaller resolution possible. Also in these cases, the aforementioned sampling can be performed by means of columns and possibly lines, the columns and rows then having a reduced pixel number.
  • a so-called Riffel phenomenon is shown, which is feasible with the preferred embodiment.
  • the entry of the coin into the image sensor or the measuring system is monitored by the fast scanning of the first column and the vertex of the coin, ie their diameter, as mentioned, determined.
  • discontinuities can be rated as ripples. With appropriate mathematical correlation, the detection of polygonal coins is possible.
  • Fig. 5 an enlargement of the upper Münzrandes 11 when passing through the first column 7 of the image sensor 2 is shown.
  • only one column is scanned and the repeated change of the uppermost pixel during the passage of the vertex is recognized as corrugation. With knowledge of the coin speed can be concluded so on the corrugation width.

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