EP2936456A1

EP2936456A1 - Method for processing value documents and means for performing the method

Info

Publication number: EP2936456A1
Application number: EP13811127.3A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Richard Neuhauser; Ralf Hobmeier
Original assignee: Giesecke and Devrient GmbH
Current assignee: Giesecke and Devrient Currency Technology GmbH
Priority date: 2012-12-20
Filing date: 2013-12-18
Publication date: 2015-10-28
Anticipated expiration: 2033-12-18
Also published as: US20160189465A1; RU2015129644A; EP2936456B1; RU2658816C2; DE102012025084A1; US9934643B2; CN104871219B; WO2014095054A1; CN104871219A

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for processing value documents, which have an individual identifier, such as a serial number, wherein the individual identifier is recorded for each of the value documents and a stack is formed from at least some of the value documents, wherein for the stack the individual identifiers of the value documents of the stack are stored as belonging to a stack, usage data on the basis of which the use of the stack can be identified and identifier data describing the individual identifier of at least one value document of the stack are recorded for the stack, and the usage data and the individual identifiers of the value documents of the stack, which were stored as belonging to a stack, are stored as associated with each other by using the identifier data.

Description

Process for processing value documents and means for carrying out the method

The present invention relates to a method for processing value documents and means for carrying out the method.

Value documents mean sheet-shaped objects which, for example, represent a monetary value or an entitlement and should therefore not be arbitrarily producible by unauthorized persons. They therefore have features which are not easy to manufacture, in particular to be copied, whose presence is an indication of the authenticity, i. the manufacture by an authorized agency. Important examples of such value documents are coupons, vouchers, checks and, in particular, banknotes.

Value documents can, depending on the type, have an individual identifier. In the context of the present invention, an individual identifier is understood to be a machine-readable property that distinguishes the individual value document from other value documents, including the same type, which permits unambiguous identification of the individual value document and reliable differentiation from other value documents. In the case of value documents in the form of banknotes, such an individual identifier can be a serial number of the banknote. In the case of checks, a check number, possibly in connection with account data.

Value documents, in particular banknotes, are frequently checked by machine and sorted into stacks, in order then to fill them into containers, for example cassettes or boxes, which need not necessarily be completely closed. The containers are then used, for example, to distribute the banknotes or to use the banknotes in ATMs. Often it would be desirable, even after filling a cassette with such Wertdo- Individual identifiers enable documents to be identified as to which value documents have been filled in the cassettes. Similar requirements may arise for other uses of stacks of value documents with individual identifiers.

The invention is therefore based on the object to provide a method for processing value documents with an individual identifier, which makes it possible to easily identify the individual identifiers of value documents of a stack of value documents that are fed to a particular use, as well as to provide means for performing the method ,

The object is solved by the subject matters of the independent claims.

In particular, the object is achieved by a method for processing value documents which have an individual identifier, for example a serial number, in which the individual identifier is obtained for the value documents and a stack is formed from at least one part of the value documents, the stack being assigned to the stack Individual identifications of

Value documents of the stack are stored as belonging to a stack, for the batch use data on the basis of which the use of the stack is identifiable, and the individual identifier of at least one value document of the stack descriptive identifier data are detected, and using the identification data, the usage data and the individual identifiers of the value documents of the stack stored as belonging to a stack, associated with each other. The object is further achieved by a computer program with program code, in the execution of which by a data processing device having a memory device and interfaces for detecting individual identifications of value documents, which are transmitted as belonging to a stack, from usage data, on the basis of which the use of the stack can be identified, and identification data describing an individual identifier of a value document, upon execution of which individual identifiers provided as belonging to a batch are stored as a batch by the data processing device, the usage data and the identification data are acquired, and using the identification data the usage data and Individual identifiers of the value documents of the stack, which were stored as belonging to a stack, are stored in association with each other. The object is further achieved by a data processing device having a memory device, interfaces for detecting individual identifiers of value documents which are transmitted as belonging to a stack, usage data on the basis of which the use of the stack can be identified, and identification data which is an individual identifier describe a value document configured to store individual identifiers provided to a batch as belonging to a batch, to capture the usage data and the identifier data, and to store, using the identifier data, the usage data and the individual identifiers of the value documents of the batch associated with a batch were saved to each other. In particular, the object is achieved by a data processing device having a memory device, interfaces for detecting individual identifiers of value documents which are transmitted as belonging to a stack, at least part of usage data, on hand of which the use of the stack is identifiable, and of identification data describing an individual identifier of a value document and a memory in which a computer program according to the invention is stored so that it can be executed by means of the data processing device

In the method according to the invention, the individual identifiers of value documents are first recorded, from which a stack is formed. In particular, a device for processing value documents with an individual identifier can be used for this purpose, which has a feed device for feeding value documents, an output device for outputting processed value documents, which has at least a stack of processed value documents, a transport device for transporting isolated value documents along a transport path from the feed device to the output device, at least one sensor device arranged on the transport path for detecting the individual identifier of a transported value document and a control and evaluation device which is designed to detect the individual identifiers of the value documents stacked in the output tray , exhibit. The individual identifications can initially be stored in a memory device of the value-document processing device and optionally transmitted later to the data-processing device, but it is also possible for the data to be transferred to the data-processing device during the formation of the stack.

The data processing device can be separate from the value document processing device, that is, it can be configured as a stand-alone device, but it is also possible that the data processing device forms part of the value-document processing device. may also be partially integrated with them with the control and evaluation, for example, the two devices may have a common processor. The invention therefore also relates to a device for processing value documents with an individual identifier having a feed device for feeding value documents, an output device for outputting processed value documents, which has at least a compartment for a stack of processed value documents, a transport device for transporting isolated value documents along a Transport path from the Zufukreinrichtung to the output device, at least one arranged on the transport path sensor means for detecting the individual identifier of a transported value document, and a control and evaluation device which is adapted to detect the individual identifiers of the stacked value documents in the output tray, and a inventive Data processing device whose interface for detecting individual identifiers is connected to a corresponding interface of the control and evaluation device, so that Indi vidualdata stored as belonging to a batch can be transmitted via this interface. The control and evaluation device can detect the individual identifier of the value documents stacked in the output compartment using corresponding sensor data formed by the semor device as a result of detecting the individual identifier of a respective value document, preferably data representing the individual identification. The data processing device can be designed as a local computer or else a system of locally or multi-site networked computers. The program code can then be distributed in the latter case on the various computers, each of which computer may only need to execute parts of the program code. In principle, it suffices that only at least one stack of loose value documents is formed, but it is also possible for the device to have a banding device for banding the stack or the value documents of the stack. The stacks formed can then also be banded.

The storing of the individual cases as belonging to a stack can take place, for example, by being stored only together, for example as a list, preferably a linked list, but it is also possible to assign to the individual cases a stack identifier which identifies the stack. There are also other alternatives conceivable.

The stack can now be fed to a use. Before, during or after, preferably immediately after, the feeding to the use, usage data and the identification data for at least one of the value documents of the stack are now detected. Based on the usage data, the use of the stack is identifiable; in particular, the usage data can be chosen such that the use can be clearly described by means of the usage data and / or can be distinguished from other predetermined possible uses. The identifier data are selected such that the individual identifier of the value document can be determined therefrom. Using the identification data, the usage data and the individual values of the value documents of the stack, which have been stored as belonging to a batch and also contain the individual data corresponding to the identification data, are stored in association with each other. This procedure has the advantage that it is unnecessary to mark the stack more accurately in order to determine later which documents of value were supplied to which use. Only the already existing properties of a value document of the stack are used. The method is therefore particularly easy to perform.

The stack can basically be used arbitrarily. It is only necessary that a use can be clearly identified by the usage data. In a preferred embodiment, the usage data comprises a container identifier of a valuable document container, preferably a containment container, into which the stack is or has been placed, and preferably at least one datum on which the stack is or has been inserted into the container. Accordingly, the computer program and the data processing device are designed such that the usage data is a container identifier of a container for documents of value, preferably a containment container into which the stack is or has been introduced and preferably at least one datum on which the stack is or was introduced into the container, include. The date, preferably also in conjunction with the time, makes it possible to form the usage data in a simple, but meaningful form when using a container several times. The feature that the usage data includes the date and preferably also the time of use of the value documents of the stack is also preferred for other uses of value document stacks.

In this embodiment, it is particularly preferred that in the method at least a part of the usage data, for example, from the container for value documents, preferably the security container over a wired or wireless interface are read or transmitted. The computer program is then preferably designed for use with a data processing device having a wired or wireless interface for at least a portion of the usage data. In the data processing device, the interface is then preferably a wired or wireless interface for at least part of the usage data. During execution of the computer program, at least a portion of the usage data may be read or received over the wired or wireless interface, for example, from the valuable document container, preferably the security container. Preferably, in the case of use with a container for documents of value, preferably a security container, the container can have a wireless or wired readable electrical or electronic circuit, in particular an RFID chip, which can be read via the interface. The circuit may particularly preferably comprise the container identifier, which clearly distinguishes the container from others and serves as at least part of the usage data. In other exemplary embodiments, however, it is also possible for the usage data to be detected at least partially via an issuing device connected to the data processing device via the corresponding interface for detecting at least part of the usage data. The computer program and the data processing device are then designed so that usage data are detected by means of an input device connected to the data processing device via the interface for detecting at least part of the usage data. In principle, the identification data can be entered as required. In particular, it is preferred that the identifier data include as individual identifier only the individual recognition of only one value document of a stack, but not of several value documents. In principle, it suffices that the individual identifier can be determined from the identifier data. For example, the identifier data may include a digital image of a portion of the value document with the individual identifier. Preferably, the identification data but the individual data. The type of detection may depend on the type of characteristics.

Thus, according to an embodiment, it is possible that in the method the identification data are acquired by means of an input device for the manual entry of identification data. The computer program for a data processing device with an input device for the manual input of identification data is then preferably provided or written, and in its execution the identification data are acquired by means of an input device for the manual input of identification data. The input device and the corresponding interface may preferably also be designed to record usage data. This embodiment is particularly suitable for identification data in the form of an individual identifier, which is formed by an alphanumeric character string.

Alternatively or additionally, it is preferred that in the method the identification data are detected by means of a reading device, preferably a hand-held reader. The computer program is then embodied such that the interface of the data processing device for acquiring the identification data is formed by a reading device, preferably a hand-held reading device, and that, when it is executed, the identification data is read by the reading device via the interface. The reader may vary depending on Type of identification data, for example, as a simple device for capturing an image of a section of the value document having the individualization identifier, for example as a camera, with an interface for transmission to the interface of the data processing device. However, it is preferred that the reading device is embodied such that it detects the individual identifications as identification data and transmits them via the interface. For this purpose, in the case of individual identifiers in the form of alphanumeric character strings, for example serial numbers of banknotes, there may be a device for recognizing alphanumeric character strings, for example a corresponding programmed processor. The invention therefore also relates to a handheld reader for detecting an individual identifier of a value document with an interface for transmitting the individual identifier as characteristic data. Alternatively or additionally, it is possible that in the method the identification data comprise image data for an image of the individual identifier, and the individual identifier is determined from the identification data by means of a data processing device in which the usage data and the individualization data are stored and / or are. The computer program can then preferably be embodied such that the identification data comprise image data for an image of the individual identifier, and that, when executed by the data processing device, the individual identifier is determined from the identification data. The data processing device can then preferably have a processor and / or program code, in the execution of which the individual identifier is determined from the identifier data. This embodiment offers the advantage that the hand-held device can be constructed particularly simply. For example, it may be a simple camera with an interface for transmitting image data. The associated storage of the usage data and the individual identifier corresponding to the identification data can take place in principle in any desired manner. According to a preferred embodiment, the method may store individual identifiers as belonging to a stack for various further stacks, and for storing the usage data, the individual identifier corresponding to the identification data may be stored in the individual identifiers for the stack and the others Stack to be searched. The computer program can then preferably be embodied such that when it is executed, if individual identifiers are stored as belonging to a stack for various further stacks, the individual identifier corresponding to the identification data is stored in the individual identifiers for the stack belonging to a stack for storing the usage data and the other stacks are searched. This allows a safe and easy finding of the individual identifiers of the respective stack. The usage data and the individual identifiers stored as belonging to a stack can then be stored in association with one another.

By storing the individual identifications and the usage data belonging to one or the stack as being associated with one another, it is understood that data is stored in such a way that it is possible to determine with a predetermined method which use data of one of the individual identifications and which individual data of a use and / or use are assigned to predetermined usage data.

Preferably, in the method, the individual identifiers of those value documents whose individual identifications are assigned to the same stack can be used. are properly stored, and which contain the individual identifier described by the identification data and the usage data are stored directly associated with each other. For this purpose, the computer program may preferably be designed in such a way that, when executed, the individual identifications of those value documents whose individual identifications are stored as belonging to the same batch and which contain the individual identifier described by the identification data are stored directly associated with each other. Particularly preferably, the already stored individual identifiers can be used for this purpose, to which only the usage data are to be assigned. This type of storage is particularly easy.

However, it is also possible that in the method the usage data and only the detected individual identifier of the value document are stored in association with each other. The determination of the individual data stored as belonging to the stack can take place by the fact that, as described above, the detected individual identifier is searched for in the individual identifications stored as belonging to a stack in order to find these individual identifications. The computer program can then preferably be designed so that the usage data and only the detected individual identifier of the value document are stored in association with each other, this alternative allows very fast storage of the usage data. Furthermore, it is possible in the method that the usage data and a batch identifier identifying the stack are stored in association with one another, wherein the stack of individual identifiers stored as a stack is assigned in each case one stack identifier. The specific type of storage is arbitrary, but preferably a database is used.

The data stored by means of the method according to the invention not only allow the individual identifiers associated therewith to be identified in a simple manner, namely by detecting usage data to be searched for and searching for the usage data, and to identify them as belonging to a stack. Conversely, it is also easily possible to determine the use of a value document. The present invention also provides a method for identifying the use of a value document with an individual identifier in which the individual identifier is read in and searched for among the individualization identifier stored by means of a processing method according to the invention, associated with a batch associated with usage data, and if the individual identifier is found , assigned usage data are determined. These can then preferably be output via a suitable output device or interface.

The subject of the invention is also readable data carriers by means of a data processing device with a computer program stored thereon or therein. The data carrier is an object on or in which the computer program is stored, for example an optical data carrier or a data carrier with an electronic memory, for example a flash memory. Other forms of data carriers are also possible, for example hard disks or the like.

The invention will be further explained by way of example with reference to the drawings. The only figure shows a schematic view of a value-document processing device with a remote data processing device.

A value document processing system in the single figure comprises a value-document processing device 10, in the example a device for processing value documents 12 in the form of banknotes with serial numbers, and an external data-processing device 11. The value-document processing device is for sorting value documents depending on the recognition of authenticity and the state of processed value documents trained. The components of the device described below are arranged in a housing, not shown, of the device or at this. held as far as they are not designated as external. The data processing device 11 is arranged externally and remote from the value-document processing device.

The device 10 has a feeder 14 for feeding value documents, an output device 16 for receiving processed, d. H. sorted, value documents and a transport device 18 for transporting isolated value documents from the feed device 14 to the output device 16.

In the example, the feed device 14 comprises an input pocket 20 for a value document stack and a singler 22 for singling value documents from the value document stack in the input pocket 20 and for feeding the singled value documents to the transport device 18.

In the example, the output device 16 comprises three output sections 24, 25 and 26, in which processed value documents can be sorted according to the result of the processing. In the example, each of the sections te a stacking tray and a stacker wheel, not shown, by means of which supplied value documents can be stored in the respective stacking tray.

The transport device 18 has at least two, in the example three branches 28, 29 and 30, at the ends of each of the output sections 24 and 25 and 26 is arranged, and at the branches via controllable by control signals switches 32 and 34, by means of which Value documents in response to control signals to the branches 28 to 30 and thus the output sections 24 to 26 can be fed.

A sensor device 38 is arranged on a transport path 36 defined by the transport device 18 between the feed device 14, in the example more precisely the singler 22, and the first turnout 32 after the singler 22 in the transport direction, which measures physical properties of the value documents during the transport of value documents forms the measurement results reproducing sensor signals. In this example, the sensor device 38 has three sensors, namely, two optical reflectance sensors 40 and 42 arranged on opposite sides of the transport path 36, each detecting a remission color image and a remission IR image of a corresponding side of the document of value, and a transmission ultrasonic sensor 44, which records or measures spatially resolved ultrasonic transmission properties of the value document and is referred to only as an ultrasonic sensor for the sake of simplicity in the following. The sensor signals formed by the sensors correspond to measured data of the sensors, which, depending on the sensor, may already have been subjected to a correction, for example as a function of calibration data and / or noise properties. In order to display operating data and to collect operating data of a user, the value-to-date processing device 10 has an input / output device 46, which in the example is realized by a touch-sensitive display device ("touch screen").

A control and evaluation device 48 has data interfaces, not shown in the figure, by means of which it is connected via signal connections to the sensor device 38, the display device 46 and the transport device 18, in particular the switches 32 and 34. Next, the control and evaluation device 48 has a data interface 50, by means of which the control and evaluation device 48 data records transmitted to the external data processing device 11 or by means of the external data. Processing device 11 can read records. In the present example, the data interface 50 has an Ethernet network interface.

The control and evaluation device 48 displays operating data by means of the input / output device 46 and detects by means of these user inputs to which it controls the device 10 accordingly.

The control and evaluation device 48 is further configured, inter alia, to evaluate the sensor signals of the sensor device 38, to ascertain an authenticity and a conditional code for a respective value document and to control the transport device 18 as a function of the determined classes in such a way that the Value documents are sorted and stacked in an output tray corresponding to the classes.

Furthermore, the control and evaluation device 48 is designed to use the sensor signals of the sensor device 38, or more precisely its remission sensor. ren, to determine an individual identifier of a respective value document in the form of the serial number of the value document.

The control and evaluation device 48 has a storage device 52, in which the determined individual identifications of the value documents sorted into the stacking compartment can be stored as belonging to a stack for each of the stacking compartments.

The control and evaluation device 48 is designed to be based on the detection of a corresponding signal of the input / output device, which is triggered by a user, or in other embodiments when inserting a stack in the feeder, when processing documents of value for at least one, In the example, each of the stacking compartments to store the previously determined individual identifiers of the value documents stacked in the respective stacking compartment as belonging to a stack in the data memory 52.

For performing the functions mentioned, the control and evaluation device 48, not shown in the figure, has a memory in which program code is stored, and a processor connected to the interfaces, the memory and the memory device 52 via signal connections. When the program code is executed by the processor, the control and evaluation device performs the functions mentioned. The external data processing device 11 has an interface 54 corresponding to the interface 54 for detecting in the value document processing device 10, in this embodiment, the memory device 52, as a stack belonging stored individually. IDs. The interface 54, which is likewise designed as an Ethernet interface, is connected to the interface 50 via a LAN.

The data processing device 11 further has an interface 56 for capturing usage data and an interface 58 for capturing identification data of a value document. Both interfaces are designed as USB interfaces in this embodiment.

The data processing device 11 is designed to carry out parts of a method for processing documents of value described below, for which in this exemplary embodiment a processor 60 connected to the interfaces 54, 56 and 58, a memory section 62 for storing a processor 60 that can be executed Computer program and a memory section 64 for processing data. When the program is executed by the processor, the data processing device 11 carries out the parts of the method mentioned above and described in more detail below. In this embodiment, the memory sections 62 and 64 are memory areas of only one memory, in other embodiments, they may be given by separate memory modules.

Connected to the interface 56 as a reading device for at least part of usage data is a barcode reader 66 which, when a barcode is detected, outputs an alphanumeric character string represented by the barcode via its USB connection.

A reading device 68 for identification data of a value document is connected to the interface 68. As a reading device 68, a reading device designed as a handheld device is provided in this embodiment, which has a camera 70 for generating image data of a digital image, an OCR device 72 for recognizing an alphanumeric individual identifier in a digital image recorded by the camera section 70 on the basis of the image data and an interface 74 connected to the OCR device 72, in the example a USB interface. The OCR device 72 may, for example, be provided by a processor and a memory in which processor-executable program code for recognizing characters, in the example alphanumeric characters. The interface 74 is connected to the interface 58 via a corresponding cable.

The described system is intended inter alia for filling security containers 76 with value documents from the stacked compartments. Each of the security containers 76 used has a bar code that uniquely identifies the security container and that represents a container identifier that uniquely identifies the individual security container and that can be detected by the reader 66.

With the system, the following procedure for processing value documents is feasible.

At the beginning of the processing, the output sections or stacking compartments of the value-document processing device 10 are empty. By means of the input / output device 46, the control and evaluation device 48 detects a start signal, on the one hand, on the one hand for each of the stacking compartments in the memory device 52 creates a list for individual identifiers, which is initially empty. On the other hand, it controls the feed device 14 and the transport device 18 in such a way that the feed device 14 selectively feeds value documents inserted in the feed device 14 to the transport device 18 and the transport device 18 individually transports the value documents to or through the sensor device 38; In this case, it detects corresponding physical properties and forms these descriptive sensor signals which the control and evaluation device 48 receives. In other exemplary embodiments, the control and evaluation device 48 can also detect another start signal, for example from the feed device 14, if it determines by means of a suitable sensor that value documents are located in the input compartment 20. The control and evaluation device 48 evaluates the sensor signals. On the one hand, for each value document, it determines its individual identification using the remission image data acquired by the sensor device 38 for at least one page, preferably both sides of the value document. On the other hand, using the sensor signals, it determines an authenticity class and a status code for the value document and controls the transport device 18 in such a way that the value document is transported to an output section or its stacking compartment assigned to the authentication class and condition code. Further, in the memory 52 assigned to the respective stacker, it stores the determined individual identifier as belonging to the respective stack.

Therefore, when the feeding of value documents is finished, each individual stack memory stored in the memory 52 is stored as a batch associated with individual personal documents belonging to the value documents belonging to each stack. Thus, individual identifiers are stored as belonging to a stack for different batches.

The data processing device 11 reads in response to a corresponding signal from the value-document processing device 10 via the interface 50 now separated by means of their interface 54 for each of the stacking subjects separated as a stack belonging individual identifiers and stores them each in the memory section 64, for example, again as a list. Now a user can take one of the stacking compartments a stack of documents of value and bring in the security container 76. In this case, the user with the reading device 66 detects the barcode on the security container 76 and thus the container identifier. Further, he recorded with the reader 68 as identification data, the individual identifier, here the serial number of the topmost value document of the stack.

The data processing device 11 acquires via the interface 56 as usage data the character string corresponding to the bar code which is output by the reading device 66, which represents the container identifier, and the date provided by the data processing device 11 and the time of detection provided by the data processing device 11.

It also records via the interface 58 as identification data the individual identifier of the highest value document of the stack output by the reading device 68.

In order to store the usage data, the individual identifiers corresponding to the identification data are searched in the individual identifiers for the various stacks stored in memory section 64 as belonging to a stack. In this embodiment, the data processing device 11 searches in more detail in the individual identifiers, which have not yet been assigned any usage data, according to the individual identifier acquired for the top value document of the stack. If she finds the individual ID, she saves the usage data as a batch associated with individual identifiers, among which also finds the individual identifier found assigned from. This is done in this embodiment, characterized in that the usage data of the list are stored assigned. The individual identifiers of those value documents whose individual identifications are stored as belonging to the same stack and among which the individual identifier described by the identification data is found, and the usage data are thus stored directly associated with each other. The last steps can now be repeated for more stacks and / or containment.

If it is later to be determined which value documents were used with which individual identifier for filling a security container, the data processing device 11 can acquire the container identifier, for example via a corresponding input device such as a keyboard, and after searching in the stored data records that belong to a batch and the usage data with the Container identifier assigned stored individual identifiers, optionally output also date and time, via an output device, such as a display device or a printer output.

On the other hand, if it is to be determined later how a value document was used with a given individual identifier, in a method for identifying the use of a value document with an individual identifier, the data processing device 11 can read the individual identifier by means of the mentioned input device, for example, and call it the one described by the method described above associated with a stack and stored associated with usage data. Search for virtualization IDs. If it finds the individual identifier, it determines the assigned usage data and outputs it via the output device. Other embodiments differ from the previously described embodiments in that instead of the individual identifier of the uppermost value document, the individual identifier of any other value document of the stack is detected. Still other embodiments differ from the previous embodiments in that at least a portion of the usage data is read or transmitted from the security container via a wireless interface. Instead of the USB interface 56, an RFID reader is now provided. Instead of the barcode or in addition to it, the security containers now have an RFID chip in which the container identifier is stored. The transmission of the container identifier then takes place via this interface.

Other exemplary embodiments differ from the previously described exemplary embodiments in that the data processing device 11 has an input device for the manual input of identification data, in the example individual identifications, and these are detected by means of the input device, for example a keyboard. Other embodiments differ from the previously described embodiments in that the hand-held reader is a simple camera with a WLAN interface is used. The handheld reader is for capturing a digital image of at least a portion of a value document having a unique identifier and transmitting the image. of the trained via the wireless interface. Accordingly, the data processing device is modified such that the interface 58 is replaced by a WLAN interface. The data processing is now designed to capture the digital image as identifier data via the WLAN interface and to use the processor to determine the individual identifier from the image, which then uses it as in the exemplary embodiments described above. For determining the individual identifier from the identifier data, it is possible, for example, to use the method which is also used by the value-document processing apparatus 10.

Still other embodiments differ from the previous embodiments in that the value document processing device comprises at least one banding machine, by means of which they are stacked stacks before they are fed to a use.

Still other embodiments differ from the previously described embodiments in that the data processing device is integrated into the value-document processing device 10. Other embodiments may differ from those previously described

Differentiate embodiments in that other sorting criteria are used. For example, a sorting by currency and / or denomination and / or authenticity can alternatively take place. Furthermore, in further exemplary embodiments, the data processing device 11 may have a database in which the individual identifications stored as a stack and the usage data are stored in association with one another. Furthermore, it is possible for the memory device 52 to be omitted in other exemplary embodiments and for the individual identifications to be transmitted directly to the data processing device and stored there. In other embodiments, instead of security containers, other containers may be used for value documents in which value documents are kept, for example, only temporarily. These need not be designed as a security container, but may be open, so that a direct access to the value documents is possible.

Claims

P a n t a n s p r e c h e

A method of processing value documents having an individual identifier, for example a serial number, in which

the individual identifier is respectively recorded for the value documents and a stack is formed from at least part of the value documents, the individual identifications of the value documents of the stack being stored as belonging to a stack for the stack,

for the batch of usage data, on the basis of which the use of the stack can be identified, and the individual identification of at least one

Value document of the stack descriptive identifier data are recorded, and

the usage data and the individual identifiers of the value documents of the stack, which have been stored as belonging to a stack, are stored in association with one another using the identification data.

2. The method according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the use of data a container identifier of a container for Wertdokumen- te, preferably a security container into which the stack is or was introduced, and preferably at least one date on which the stack is introduced into the container or was included.

The method of claim 1 or claim 2, wherein at least a portion of the usage data is over a wired or wireless

Interface can be read or transmitted.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the identification data is detected by means of an input device for manually entering identification data.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the identification data by means of a reading device, preferably a handheld reader, are detected.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the identification data comprises image data for an image of the individual identifier, and the individual identifier is determined from the identification data by means of a processor of a data processing device in which the usage data and the individualization data are stored.

7. The method according to any one of the preceding claims, in which individual identifiers are stored as belonging to a stack for different further stack respectively, and

for storing the usage data, the individual identifier corresponding to the identification data is searched for in the individual identifiers for the stack and the further stacks belonging to a stack.

8. The method according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the individual identifiers of those value documents whose individual identifications are stored as belonging to the same stack, and which contain the individual identifier described by the identification data and the usage data are stored directly associated with each other. A method of identifying the use of a value document with an individual identifier in which the individual identifier is read and searched among the individualization identifier associated with a batch associated with usage data associated with a method according to any of the preceding claims, and if the individual identifier is found, determines usage data associated therewith become. Computer program with program code, in its execution by a data processing device with a memory device and interfaces for detecting individual identifiers of value documents, which are transmitted as belonging to a stack of use. tion data, from which the use of the stack is identifiable, and of identification data, which describe an individual identification of a value document, when executed by the data processing device

individual identifiers provided as belonging to a stack are stored as belonging to a stack,

the usage data and the identifier data are acquired and, using the identifier data, the usage data and the individual identifiers of the value documents of the batch which have been stored as belonging to a batch are stored associated with each other. A computer program according to claim 10, wherein the usage data comprises a container identifier of a container for value documents, preferably a containment container into which the stack is or has been incorporated, and preferably at least one date on which the stack is or has been introduced into the container.

A computer program according to claim 10 or 11, provided for a data processing device having a wired or wireless interface for at least a portion of the usage data, and when executed at least a portion of the usage data is read or received via the wired or wireless interface ,

13. Computer program according to one of claims 10 to 12, which is provided or written for a data processing device with an input device for the manual input of identification data, and in the execution of which the identification data are detected by means of an input device for the manual input of identification data.

14. Computer program according to one of claims 10 to 13, wherein the interface of the data processing device for detecting the identification data from a reading device, preferably a handheld reader is formed, and in the execution of the identification data are read via the interface of the reader.

15. Computer program according to one of claims 10 to 14, wherein the identification data comprise image data for an image of the individual identifier, and in the execution of the individual identifier is determined from the identification data.

16. Computer program according to one of claims 10 to 15, in the execution of which, if individual identifications are stored as belonging to a stack for different further stacks, the information data corresponding to the identification data is stored for storing the usage data. in the individual identifiers for the stack and the further stacks which are stored as belonging to a stack.

17. Computer program according to one of the preceding claims, in whose execution the individual identifiers of those value documents whose individual identifications are stored as belonging to the same stack, and which contain the individual identifier described by the identification data and the usage data are stored directly associated with each other.

18. Data carrier with a computer program stored thereon or therein according to one of claims 10 to 17.

19. A data processing device having a memory device, interfaces for detecting individual identifiers of value documents which are transmitted as belonging to a stack, at least part of usage data on the basis of which the use of the stack is identifiable, and identification data which is an individual identifier of a value document and a memory in which a computer program according to one of claims 10 to 17 is stored so that it can be executed by means of the data processing device.

20. Device for processing value documents with an individual identifier with

a feeder for supplying value documents, an output device for outputting processed value documents, which has at least a compartment for a stack of processed value documents, a transport device for transporting isolated value documents along a transport path from the supply device to the output device,

at least one arranged on the transport path sensor sense for detecting the individual identifier of a transported value document and

a control and evaluation device, which is designed to record the individual identifiers of the value documents stacked in the output compartment,

and a data processing device according to claim 19.