EP3014589A1 - Procédé de préparation de données de mesure d'un système de traitement de documents de valeur et système de traitement de documents de valeur - Google Patents

Procédé de préparation de données de mesure d'un système de traitement de documents de valeur et système de traitement de documents de valeur

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EP3014589A1
EP3014589A1 EP14733089.8A EP14733089A EP3014589A1 EP 3014589 A1 EP3014589 A1 EP 3014589A1 EP 14733089 A EP14733089 A EP 14733089A EP 3014589 A1 EP3014589 A1 EP 3014589A1
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Matthias Hecht
Klaus Vrana
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Giesecke and Devrient Currency Technology GmbH
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    • G—PHYSICS
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    • G07D—HANDLING OF COINS OR VALUABLE PAPERS, e.g. TESTING, SORTING BY DENOMINATIONS, COUNTING, DISPENSING, CHANGING OR DEPOSITING
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    • G07D7/20—Testing patterns thereon
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    • G07D7/206—Matching template patterns
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H43/00—Use of control, checking, or safety devices, e.g. automatic devices comprising an element for sensing a variable
    • B65H43/04—Use of control, checking, or safety devices, e.g. automatic devices comprising an element for sensing a variable detecting, or responding to, presence of faulty articles
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H43/00—Use of control, checking, or safety devices, e.g. automatic devices comprising an element for sensing a variable
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    • G07D—HANDLING OF COINS OR VALUABLE PAPERS, e.g. TESTING, SORTING BY DENOMINATIONS, COUNTING, DISPENSING, CHANGING OR DEPOSITING
    • G07D11/00—Devices accepting coins; Devices accepting, dispensing, sorting or counting valuable papers
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    • G07D—HANDLING OF COINS OR VALUABLE PAPERS, e.g. TESTING, SORTING BY DENOMINATIONS, COUNTING, DISPENSING, CHANGING OR DEPOSITING
    • G07D7/00—Testing specially adapted to determine the identity or genuineness of valuable papers or for segregating those which are unacceptable, e.g. banknotes that are alien to a currency
    • G07D7/06—Testing specially adapted to determine the identity or genuineness of valuable papers or for segregating those which are unacceptable, e.g. banknotes that are alien to a currency using wave or particle radiation
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    • G07D—HANDLING OF COINS OR VALUABLE PAPERS, e.g. TESTING, SORTING BY DENOMINATIONS, COUNTING, DISPENSING, CHANGING OR DEPOSITING
    • G07D7/00—Testing specially adapted to determine the identity or genuineness of valuable papers or for segregating those which are unacceptable, e.g. banknotes that are alien to a currency
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    • G07D7/12—Visible light, infrared or ultraviolet radiation
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07D—HANDLING OF COINS OR VALUABLE PAPERS, e.g. TESTING, SORTING BY DENOMINATIONS, COUNTING, DISPENSING, CHANGING OR DEPOSITING
    • G07D7/00—Testing specially adapted to determine the identity or genuineness of valuable papers or for segregating those which are unacceptable, e.g. banknotes that are alien to a currency
    • G07D7/20—Testing patterns thereon
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  • the present invention relates to a method for providing measurement data of a device for processing value documents of predetermined different types of processing and means for carrying out the method.
  • the provided measurement data may be usable to adapt parameters of the device.
  • Value documents are understood leaf-shaped objects that represent, for example, a monetary value and therefore should not be arbitrarily produced by unauthorized persons. They therefore have not easy-to-manufacture, in particular to be copied features whose presence is an indication of the authenticity, ie the production by an authorized body, is.
  • Important examples of such value documents are vouchers, checks and in particular banknotes.
  • Value-document processing devices in particular banknote processing devices, classify value documents, in particular banknotes, with regard to the value-document type, banknotes of currency and / or value, and / or authenticity and / or quality and / or orientation.
  • a rectangular value document will be understood below to mean one of the four possible positions which can be obtained by rotating the value document around its longitudinal and transverse axes by 180 °.
  • the quality of a value documentation is understood in particular as its state; the state of banknotes may be given in particular by assignment to classes such as "fit” and / or “unfit” and / or “damaged” or “damaged” in connection with the nature of the damage.
  • the value documents can then be included For example, sorted and stored in appropriate output ranges. This is explained using the example of value documents in the form of banknotes.
  • the classification is due to different physical properties of the individual, d. H. each processed, banknote.
  • physical properties are optical properties, in particular color properties, magnetic properties or ultrasound properties.
  • measuring data are generally understood to mean, in particular, raw data formed by a sensor, which, apart from processing operations in the sensor and / or corrections, in particular also with respect to calibration, elimination of noise or background components, are unprocessed.
  • the measurement data supplied by the sensors are evaluated in a connected evaluation device, which can also be designed as a control and evaluation device.
  • a connected evaluation device which can also be designed as a control and evaluation device.
  • banknote features which characterize the banknote type, the authenticity and the quality of the banknote are determined by suitable evaluation methods.
  • the evaluation device calculates a classification result, which is subsequently ge determines in which output tray of the banknote processing device, the banknote is to be stored.
  • the evaluation device is designed as a control and evaluation device, it can control a transport device of the bank note processing device as a function of the classification result.
  • the evaluation procedures and the determination of the classification result must be adapted to the type of banknotes to be processed and also to the requirements of banknote processing operators.
  • the evaluation device preferably at least one evaluation program running therein, can be parameterized, ie. H. there are classification parameters whose values can be specified and which are used in the evaluation and classification or determination of the classification result;
  • This adaptation of the classification parameter values also referred to as adaptation of the classification parameters, is referred to below as adaptation.
  • the measurement data of corresponding, suitably predetermined bank notes are frequently used for the classification parameter adaptation. More specifically, in a first step in a measurement data recording for the given banknotes with the bait node processing device corresponding measurement data are detected and stored. These measurement data are then used in a second step to determine the classification parameter values.
  • measurement data for banknotes are frequently recorded during the measurement data recording, which differ in different processing properties, for example their type, in particular currency and / or value, their quality or condition, their Authenticity and / or the orientation in which they are transported past the sensors in the value document processing device.
  • the measurement data for the various processing properties can be accessed in a targeted manner.
  • the measurement data must therefore be in accordance with different data structures, eg. As files are stored.
  • the information must also be available for which banknote the measurement data were determined.
  • the present invention is based on the object of specifying a method for providing measured data of a value-document processing device for processing value documents of predefined different types of processing, and to provide means for carrying out the method.
  • the measurement data can be used to adapt parameters of the value-document processing device.
  • the object is achieved by a method for providing measured data of a value-document processing device for processing value documents of predetermined different types of processing, comprising a sensor device for detecting at least one property of value documents transported in the value-document processing device, a control device connected to the sensor device and a display device controlled by the control device having;
  • data sets are read which, for at least two of the processing types, respectively contain processing type data by means of which the processing types can be distinguished and the number of value documents of the respective processing type to be supplied to the value document processing device.
  • the data records are used to display in order to control the display device so that the display device displays the processing types and the numbers of the value documents to be supplied of the respective processing type when activated with the display data, and the display device is actuated with the display data.
  • measurement data are respectively recorded and stored by means of the sensor device for one of the respective numbers corresponding number of value documents supplied to the value document processing device.
  • the measurement data are suitable for adapting classification parameters for classification methods, particularly preferably the value document processing device.
  • the object is further achieved by a device for processing documents of value with a feed device for value documents to be processed, into which documents of value can be introduced and occasionally can be output therefrom, an output device in which processed value documents can be stored, a sensor device for detecting at least one property value documents, a transport device for occasionally transporting value documents from the device to the sensor device and from the sensor device to the output device, a display device for displaying operating data, and a control device connected to the sensor device, the transport device and the display device via signal connections.
  • the control device is designed to carry out the method according to the invention.
  • the processing types are designed to read data records which, for each of the processing types, contain respective processing type data, by means of which the processing types can be distinguished, and the number of value documents of the respective processing type to be supplied to the value-document processing device, from the data records Display- data to be determined so that the display device in the control with the display data indicating the types of processing and the numbers of value documents to be supplied of the respective processing type to control the display device with the control data, and according to the displayed types of processing each for a number corresponding number supplied by the value-document processing device Value documents by means of the sensor device to detect measurement data and preferably to store the measurement data.
  • the value-document processing device contains the sensor device, which can detect at least one physical property of a value document. It can have one or more sensors for this purpose. If only one sensor is present, it is designed to detect the at least one physical property. If several physical properties are detected, it is also possible to use a plurality of sensors, each of which detects at least one of the plurality of physical properties.
  • the properties of a value document are its remission and / or transmission properties in the visible range of the electromagnetic spectrum, in particular also resolved by wavelengths or colors, the remission and / or transmission properties in the infrared and / or ultraviolet spectral range of the electromagnetic spectrum, luminescence properties, magnetic Properties or remission or transmission properties for ultrasound in predetermined frequency ranges as well as derived properties.
  • the sensor device can have at least one optical sensor, in particular a color sensor and / or an IR sensor and / or a UV sensor, a luminescence sensor and / or a magnetic sensor and / or an ultrasonic sensor.
  • the sensor device or its sensor or sensors form sensor signals from which the measured data are obtained. or that represent the measurement data.
  • the device comprises an evaluation device which may be partially or completely integrated into the sensor device or the sensor or the sensors. But it can also be separated from the sensor device. It can also be integrated at least partially with the control device into a control and evaluation device, in particular in the latter case.
  • the control device is designed to control the device and connected to the evaluation and at least the transport device via signal connections. It also controls the display device to which it is connected via a corresponding signal connection and on which operating information can be displayed for operating the device and / or during operation.
  • the display device may be a normal aiye device, for example a liquid-crystal display, or else an integrated input and output device, in particular a display device which also functions as an input device, preferably a touch-sensitive display ("touch screen").
  • the device is designed for processing value documents of predetermined types of processing.
  • the processing types can be at least partially given, in particular, by the value document types and the orientation of the value documents.
  • the value-document type may in particular be given by the currency, denomination or value and, if appropriate, issuance or circulation of the value documents.
  • the processing type can then be defined by processing features such as the value document type of the value documents, the orientation of the value documents, and, depending on the embodiment, if necessary Authenticity of the value documents and / or the quality of the value documents be given.
  • the processing types are described by processing type data, which is selected so that the processing types can be distinguished from each other.
  • the processing type data allow a distinction according to value document type, in the case of banknotes preferably currency and / or value, and / or quality and / or authenticity and / or orientation of the value documents in a transport path of the value-document processing device or a Zuturej-einricht der Werturgibear- Processing device for value documents to be processed, in the value documents can be introduced and isolated from this can be output.
  • records are read that allow to determine, or preferably specify, value documents of which type of processing should be supplied in which number.
  • value documents specified by a data record are also supplied to the sensor device directly one after the other.
  • the records containing the edit type data can be read from different sources.
  • the data records may be stored in a memory of the value document processing device and read from the memory.
  • a memory device may be provided for this purpose, in which the data records are stored, or the control device may have a memory device for storing the data records in which the data records are stored.
  • the data records can be read by means of a data interface of the value-document processing device.
  • the value-document processing device may preferably further have a data interface which is connected to the control device for the purpose of transmitting data to it; the control device can be designed to read the data records by means of the data interface.
  • the data interface may in particular comprise at least one wired, optical or wireless scanning device, for example at least one network card, or at least one reading device for external storage media, for example USB, Firewire, Thunderbolt or other disk devices, for example a memory card reader.
  • This embodiment offers the advantage that data sets can be adapted to the intended use of the device.
  • display data are then determined, for example by the control device, which serve to control the display device.
  • display data are respectively determined by the control device in such a way that, when activated by the display data, the aria device displays the processing types and the numbers of the value documents of the respective processing type to be supplied.
  • the process sections after reading the data records can be executed in different ways.
  • the display data for all data sets are determined together so that the display device on the drive ng with the display data out the processing types and the numbers for the respective types of processing in a predetermined order, preferably the order in which the records were read, displays in only one view.
  • a user can then supply the value documents of the given types of processing in the respectively required numbers and the required number, preferably separated by a separation card.
  • the measured data are then recorded and stored for the added value documents. If the acquisition of measurement data is necessary for a larger number of value documents, however, the following variant is preferred. In this case, at least the activation of the Ari Ameemcardi and the detection and storage of the measured data, preferably also the determination of the display data, carried out separately for each of the data sets.
  • the method sections in which display data for activating the appliance device are determined from the data sets in such a way that the display device displays the processing types and the numbers of the value documents of the respective processing type to be supplied when the display data are actuated, the display device is actuated by the display data, corresponding to FIG can be detected by the sensor device measurement data and the measured data are stored, so in particular be designed so that determines the display data for each record, the Aiizeige responded driven with the display data for each record, and the measured data for one of the number displayed for the number of the number corresponding to the value document processing detected value device supplied and preferably stored.
  • the processing types for which measurement data has already been acquired and / or the processing types for which measurement data is yet to be detected can be displayed, for example, of the display of the processing type for the value documents to be supplied next and the corresponding number; the display then takes place in such a way that it is clear which is the current or to be processed type of processing.
  • the display device By driving the display device with the display data, the display device displays the types of processing and the respective number of value documents or, for a record, the processing type of the value documents to be supplied next to the device and the number of value documents of the processing type. This gives the user precise information about which documents of value are to be supplied to the device next. This advantageously helps to avoid errors in the supply of value documents. In particular, the certainty can be increased that the added value documents actually have the processing type for which their measurement data are stored.
  • the display of the processing type and the corresponding number can basically, in particular in the case of the two previously described variants, be carried out as far as it is recognizable to a user which value documents he has to supply as and in what number of Werturgibearbeitungsvor- direction.
  • the edit type could be displayed by displaying a corresponding text.
  • the display data is determined in such a way that an image of a value document corresponding to the processing type is displayed in the orientation corresponding to the processing type in order to display the respective processing type.
  • control device can for this purpose preferably continue to be designed such that the display data is determined in this way
  • an image of a value document corresponding to the machining type is displayed in the orientation corresponding to the machining type.
  • the image does not need to be very detailed, but should clearly recognize the value document type and the orientation.
  • the image data used to define the displayed image may be stored in the value-document processing device associated with the respective value-document type and the orientation; the record then only needs to contain a reference to it.
  • the read data record preferably contains image data from which the control device determines the display data in such a way that an image of a value document corresponding to the processing type is displayed in the orientation corresponding to the processing type in order to display the respective processing type.
  • Submitted value documents are then transported to the sensor device, which records and preferably stores for these measurement data.
  • storage of the measured data is understood to mean storage in a memory device in which the measured data are stored beyond the end of the method.
  • the measured data can in principle be stored arbitrarily.
  • the measurement data for a value document of a processing type can be assigned data characterizing the respective processing type, for example the corresponding processing type data, and the measurement data can be stored together with the data. So is easy to understand to which type of processing the measured data corresponds.
  • the measurement data can be stored sorted according to the processing type data. This allows quick access to the measured data.
  • the measured data can in principle be stored in any devices.
  • the measurement data can be stored in a memory device of the value-document processing device.
  • the device may preferably have a memory device for storing the acquired measurement data or in which the control device has a memory device for storing the acquired measurement data.
  • the acquired measurement data can then be used to adapt the classification parameters of the device.
  • the measurement data can be transmitted via the data interface or a further data interface and stored in a remote data processing device or in an external memory.
  • the data interface and the control device can preferably be designed such that data can be transmitted to a remote data processing device or an external memory, or a further data interface can be provided and the control device can be designed such that Data can be transmitted to a remote data processing device or an external memory via the further data interface.
  • the further data interface may in particular comprise an interface device of a type of the interface device types previously mentioned for the data interface, but the data interface and the other data interface interface devices have the same or different types.
  • the processing types of the value documents to be supplied next are displayed one after the other, it is preferably checked for a respective data record and / or processing type whether measurement data has been acquired for the number of value documents specified in the data record or for the processing type, and, if this is not the case, an error message is output, preferably displayed by means of the Ajizeige pain.
  • This is particularly preferably done after acquisition of the measurement data for the last value document supplied for the respective data record or processing type.
  • the last document of value can be recognized, in particular, by checking whether there are no more documents of value for feeding to the transport path, in particular for singling.
  • control device may preferably be further configured to check, for a respective data set and / or processing type, whether measurement data has been acquired for the number of value documents specified in the data record or for the processing type, and if this is not the case is an error message issued, preferably displayed by means of the display device.
  • the device may preferably have a sensor connected to the control device via a signal connection, by means of which it is possible to determine whether there are no further value documents for feeding to the transport path, in particular for singling. This embodiment has the great advantage that simple errors in the provision of value documents can be detected quickly.
  • the following embodiment is independent of the previous variant, but can be combined with this.
  • the method preferably, upon or after acquiring the value document measurement data for each record and / or edit type using the measurement data, it is checked whether the value document corresponding to the record type is the edit type specified by the record in accordance with a predetermined error criterion, or during or after the acquisition of the measurement data for value documents for a respective data set and / or processing type is checked using the measurement data, if the value documents corresponding to the data set or processing type the given by the record value document type and the provided by the record predetermined orientation according to a predetermined error criterion, and if this is not the case, the measurement data for value documents, which then do not have the respective type of processing, not stored or deleted t, and / or an error message is output, preferably displayed by means of the display device, for which purpose the control device forms corresponding display data and thus activates the display device.
  • the error criterion is selected such that a distinction of the processing types is possible at least in some features of the processing types, in particular the value document type and
  • the invention further relates to a computer program which contains program code, in the execution of which by means of a processor of a control device of a value-document processing device, which incorporates a feed device for value documents to be processed, into the value document.
  • a processor of a control device of a value-document processing device which incorporates a feed device for value documents to be processed, into the value document.
  • an input device in which processed value documents can be stored a sensor device for detecting at least one property of value documents, a transport device for occasionally transporting value documents from the supply device to the sensor device and from the sensor device to the output device, and display means for displaying operation data, the method according to the invention is carried out.
  • the control device is connected to the sensor device, the transport device and the display device via signal connections,
  • Another subject of the invention is a data carrier on which a computer program according to the invention is stored.
  • the invention will be further explained by way of example with reference to the drawings. Show it:
  • FIG. 1 shows a schematic view of a value-document processing device in the form of a banknote sorting device
  • 3a and 3b are views of displays on a display device of the device in Fig. 1,
  • FIG. 4 shows a simplified flow diagram of a first embodiment of a method for providing measurement data which can be carried out by means of the device in FIG. 1
  • 5 shows a simplified flow diagram of a third embodiment of a method for providing measurement data that can be carried out by means of the device in FIG. 1
  • FIG. 4 shows a simplified flow diagram of a first embodiment of a method for providing measurement data which can be carried out by means of the device in FIG. 1
  • 5 shows a simplified flow diagram of a third embodiment of a method for providing measurement data that can be carried out by means of the device in FIG. 1
  • FIG. 4 shows a simplified flow diagram of a first embodiment of a method for providing measurement data which can be carried out by means of the device in FIG. 1
  • 5 shows a simplified flow diagram of a third embodiment of a method for providing measurement data that can be carried out by means of the device in FIG. 1
  • FIG. 4 shows a simplified flow diagram of a first embodiment of a method for providing measurement data which can be carried out by means of the device
  • FIG. 6 is a simplified flow diagram of a third embodiment of a method for providing measurement data that can be carried out by means of the device in FIG. 1.
  • a value-document processing device 10 in FIG. 1 in the example an apparatus for processing value documents 12 in the form of banknotes, is for sorting Value documents formed depending on the recognition of the authenticity and the state of processed value documents.
  • the components of the device described below are arranged in a housing of the device, not shown, or held on this, as far as they are not referred to as external.
  • the device 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
  • the feed device 14 comprises an input compartment 20 for a value document stack and a singler 22 for singling value documents from the value document stack in the input compartment 20 and for supplying the singled value documents to the transport device 18.
  • the output device 16 in the example comprises three output sections 24, 25 and 26, in which edited value documents can be sorted sorted according to the result of the processing.
  • each of the sections comprises a stacking tray and a stacking wheel, not shown, by means of which added value documents can be stored in the 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 the branches 28 to 30 and thus the output sections 24 to 26 feed bar.
  • a sensor device 38 is arranged which measures physical properties of the documents of value during the transport of value documents forms the measurement results reproducing sensor signals.
  • the sensor device 38 has three sensors, namely, an optical reflectance sensor 40 which detects a remission color image and a remission IR image of the value document, an optical transmission sensor 42 which detects a transmission color image and a transmission IR image of the value document. and a transmission ultrasonic sensor 44 which detects spatially resolved ultrasonic transmission characteristics of the value document and is hereinafter referred to simply as an ultrasonic sensor for the sake of simplicity.
  • the sensor signals formed by the sensors correspond to measurement data or raw data of the sensors which, depending on the sensor, already correspond to a sensor. correction, for example as a function of calibration data and / or noise properties.
  • the value-document processing device 10 has an input / output device 46, which comprises a display device.
  • the input / output device 46 is implemented in the example by a touch-sensitive display device ("touch screen") In other embodiments, it may comprise, for example, a keyboard and a display device, for example an LCD display.
  • a control and evaluation device 48 is connected via signal connections to the Sensoreirtraum 38, the display device 46 and the transport device 18, in particular the switches 32 and 34. Furthermore, a data interface 50 is connected to the control and off value device 48, by means of which the control and evaluation device 48 can read data records from an external device.
  • the data interface 50 has a USB interface with a USB port, via which data can be read from and / or written to an external USB storage medium 60.
  • the value-document processing device 10 is designed to be operated in two operating modes, a sorting mode for sorting value documents depending on their condition or quality and their authenticity, and a measurement data acquisition mode for acquiring measured data for predetermined value documents.
  • the control and evaluation device 48 is designed accordingly.
  • value documents are separated from the feed device and transported past or through the sensor device 38.
  • the sensor device 38 detects or measures physical properties of the value document respectively passing past or through it and forms sensor signals or measurement data which describe the measured values for the physical properties.
  • the control and evaluation device 48 classifies the value document into one of predefined authenticity classes and controls it
  • control signals Delivery of control signals to the transport device 18, here more specifically the switches 32 and 34 so that the value document is output according to its class determined in the classification in a class associated with the output section of the output device 16.
  • the assignment to one of the predefined authenticity classes or the classification takes place in dependence on at least one predetermined authenticity criterion.
  • value documents from the accessory direction are separated and transported past or through the sensor device 38.
  • the sensor device 38 detects or measures physical properties of the value document transported past it or through it and forms sensor signals.
  • the measurement data correspond to measurement data describing the measured values for the physical properties.
  • the control and evaluation device 48 detects the sensor signals and stores corresponding measurement data at least temporarily. After detection, the value documents are stacked in the output device 16, for example, in the output section 24.
  • the control and evaluation device 48 has for this purpose in addition to corresponding not shown in the figures data interfaces for the sensor device 38 and its sensors via a processor 52 and connected to the processor 52 memory 54 in which at least one computer program is stored with program code at the processor 52 controls the device according to the mode of operation.
  • the control and evaluation device 48 in particular represents a control device in the sense of the invention.
  • the valuable document processing device 10 further has a measuring data memory 56 connected to the processor 52, which may be part of the control and evaluation device 48, as shown in FIG , or separated from it.
  • control and evaluation device 48 controls the input / output device 46, inter alia, to display operating data, and recorded on this operation data corresponding to inputs of an operator.
  • the following describes the aspects of the value-document processing device 10, which relate in particular to the measurement-data acquisition mode.
  • the computer program stored in the control and evaluation device 48 has, in particular, instructions to carry out the method described below.
  • classification parameters which are used in the evaluation of sensor signals of the sensor device 38 or corresponding measurement data and / or in the sorting of the value documents as a function of the results of the evaluation of the sensor signals or corresponding measurement data
  • value documents of different value document types and properties are used become.
  • genuine value documents of predetermined value document types and preferably also forgeries of these value document types are predetermined, which are supplied to the value-document processing device 10, so that it captures and stores sensor data for the value documents with its sensor device 38.
  • banknotes of the currencies "A" and "B” with nominal values of 10 and 20 are given as value document types, the first image specific to the face value and the currency on one side and the other side on the other side carry the face value and the currency symbol as well as a small second image.
  • the page with the image will be referred to as the image page and the page with the denomination as the number page. If the banknotes are not sorted, one can
  • Banknote in four different orientations which result by rotations about 90 ° parallel to the edges parallel axes, are transported through the value processing device.
  • the various orientations of a currency denomination "A" with a denomination of 10 are shown by way of example in Fig. 2, in which the numerals below the banknotes respectively indicate the orientation.
  • the numerical side faces upward, the numerals denoting the denomination readable, also referred to as upright (see Fig. 2 (1)), or where the numerals are upside down, the banknote as being around 180 ° around one Axis orthogonal to the surface of the banknote is turned (see Fig. 2 (2)).
  • the banknote is rotated relative to the first two orientations about an axis parallel to the transport direction or to the longitudinal edge of the banknote and in the plane of the banknote by 180 °.
  • a file is now written by means of an external computer onto an external USB data medium or a USB storage medium 60 which contains data records which, for at least two of the processing types, respectively contain processing type data by means of which the processing types can be distinguished and the number of Contain value document processing device to be supplied value documents of the specified processing type.
  • the processing types are given by the value document types in each of the four possible orientations in the transport path 36 or singler 22 and the authenticity. In the simple example, this results in 32 different types of processing, if there are also forgeries for each of the value document types.
  • the file now contains, for each of the processing types, a data record with processing type data, by means of which the processing types can be distinguished, and contains the number of value documents to be supplied to the value-document processing device of the respective predetermined processing type.
  • the processing type data make it possible to distinguish by value document type, in the example currency, value, authenticity, and orientation of the value documents in a transport path or a symbology of the value-document processing device.
  • the record contains, in that order, a currency character string, a denomination character string, one of the numbers 1, 2, 3, or 4 each describing the orientation, and a number 1 for genuine banknotes or 0 for counterfeiting. In the end, there is another number indicating the number of banknotes of the processing type to be supplied to the value-document processing apparatus 10.
  • Each data record also contains image data which define an image of a value document of the processing type corresponding to the data record, in particular in the respective orientation. More specifically, each data set contains image data from which the control device determines the display data such that an image of a value document corresponding to the processing type is displayed in the orientation corresponding to the processing type in order to display the respective processing type.
  • the record may instead include a pointer to an image file that is also stored on the volume.
  • the record may instead include a pointer to an image file stored in the value document handler.
  • the image data is a jpg image of a value document of the value document type given by the record or edit type, in the orientation given by the record or edit type.
  • a control command of an operator is detected by means of the input / output device 46, in the present example the touch-sensitive display device, in other embodiments via another input device, and transmitted to the control and evaluation device 48.
  • the control and evaluation device 48 reads the file in step S10 and from there the data records from the data carrier 60 via the data interface 50.
  • the data records contain the processing type data for the given processing types, by means of which the processing types can be distinguished , and the number of value documents of the predetermined machining type to be supplied to the value-document processing device.
  • step S12 the control and evaluation device 48 determines display data for activating the display device 46 from the processing type data.
  • This display data is determined by the control device, in this case the control and evaluation device 48, such that the display device controls the processing types and the display data when the display data is actuated Numbers of the value documents to be supplied for the respective machining type.
  • the display device is then activated in step S16 with these display data, which then displays the processing type and the number of processing-type value documents to be supplied for the processing type.
  • Two exemplary views of the display on currency banknote "A" currency denominator 10 and denomination 10 are shown in FIGS. 3a and 3b. The currency, the face value and the number are displayed directly.
  • the user places the number of value documents of the type of processing specified by the display into the feeder 14, as indicated by the display.
  • the input of the user by means of the display device 46 triggers a continuation signal.
  • a continuation signal Alternatively, in other embodiments Also, the insertion of a new document of value of a recognized by a corresponding sensor in or on the ventzeier and a corresponding continuation signal are formed.
  • the control and evaluation device 48 activates the singler 22, which singulates the value documents and feeds them to the transport path.
  • step S20 measurement data are acquired for the value documents supplied to the value-document processing device 10 by means of the sensors and stored in the control and evaluation device 48 in step S22.
  • the measurement data are recorded more precisely in a memory device of the value-document processing device, here the measurement data memory 56, for example a hard disk, permanently, i. H. at least beyond the end of the processing of the value documents for the read records.
  • data that characterizes the processing type is assigned to the measured data. If the processing types are numbered, for example, the measurement data for each of the value documents can still be assigned the corresponding number.
  • step S24 it is determined in step S24 whether a further data record is present, if this is the case, step S14 is carried out for the next data record, otherwise the method is ended.
  • a second exemplary embodiment differs from the first exemplary embodiment in that the measurement data, after buffering in the measurement data memory 56, are transferred to the USB storage medium 60 via the data interface 50 after processing of all data records and stored there.
  • the measurement data obtained in this way can be transferred to an external data processing device by connecting the USB storage medium to this device and used there to adapt the classification parameters.
  • a third exemplary embodiment illustrated in FIG. 5 differs from the first exemplary embodiment only in that it is checked whether the value documents processed in each case in this exemplary embodiment after formation of the continuation signal are actually supplied in the number specified in each case by the data records were. If this is not the case, a corresponding reaction of the device takes place.
  • step S20 the acquisition of the measurement data is ended when all value documents in the delivery device have been separated and recorded for this measurement data.
  • the measurement data are stored as in the first embodiment in step S22.
  • the control and evaluation device 48 checks whether the number of value documents for which measurement data was acquired for the respective data record is equal to the number of value documents to be supplied specified by the respective data record. If this is the case, the procedure is continued as in the first exemplary embodiment.
  • control and evaluation device 48 controls the display device 46 with display data so that it displays an error message.
  • the error message indicates which error has occurred, how many documents of value were to be supplied and how many documents of value were actually supplied.
  • control and evaluation device then records a confirmation input via the display device 46 (in other embodiments another output device) and continues the process with step S16, in which again the type of processing and the number of value documents to be supplied is shown.
  • step S16 the measurement data already existing for the data record is deleted.
  • a fourth embodiment partly illustrated in Fig. 6 differs from the first embodiment in that it is checked whether the value documents supplied to the value-document processing device actually have the processing types and numbers indicated by the data sets. If this is not the case, a corresponding reaction of the device takes place.
  • the value-document processing device has an evaluation of the sensor data which permits at least one recognition as to whether a detected value document has the respective predetermined processing type in accordance with a predetermined error criterion.
  • a value document has a processing type according to the error criterion if it has the value document type corresponding to the processing type and the orientation corresponding to the processing type.
  • program code for a corresponding evaluation method and parameters to be used in the execution of the program code and thus of the evaluation method are stored in the control and evaluation device, which allow a corresponding classification within a predetermined tolerance range.
  • step S26 it is checked, using the measurement data, whether the value documents corresponding to the data record or processing type correspond to the processing type or the processing category specified by the data record according to the predetermined error.
  • step S24 If this is the case, the method continues with step S24.
  • step S28 "the measurement data for all value documents supplied for the respective data record, in particular the value documents which do not have the respective editing type, deleted. Furthermore, an error message is output, for which purpose the control and evaluation device 48 controls the display device so that the error message is displayed.
  • the error message contains information about which value documents did not show the processing type, for example by specifying the position in the supplied batch.
  • step S16 which again indicates which value documents are to be supplied.
  • Another embodiment differs from the previous exemplary embodiment in that the check as to whether a value document has the value document type specified by the respective data record takes place immediately after the acquisition of the measurement data, and the corresponding measurement data is not stored.
  • the error message is output after the acquisition of the measurement data for all value documents for the respective data record.
  • a further exemplary embodiment differs from the fourth embodiment only in that, by appropriate design of the control and evaluation device, only measurement data for those value documents which do not correspond to the respective processing type given by the data record are deleted in a step otherwise corresponding to step S28 " ,
  • Further embodiments differ from the third and fourth embodiments in that the method is aborted after step S28 or S28 ". Further exemplary embodiments differ from the exemplary embodiments described above in that the predefined value documents comprise different quality, for example, viable value documents which are no longer fit for circulation. The number of machining types then doubles, since the machining types now differ by the property "quality”. The edit type data then includes a digit that describes the quality.
  • FIG. 50 differs from the embodiments described above in that the data interface 50 instead of the USB interface or in addition to this a reader for flash memory cards or a network card or a Firewire or Thunderbolt interface with software for connection to a data network or a external storage device include.
  • the software of the control and evaluation device is then adapted accordingly to read the records using the Daterischschnittstelle.
  • the data mentioned can then be read from a flash memory card or via the network card via a connected data network or via the Firewire or Thunderbolt interface.
  • Still other embodiments differ from the previously described embodiments in that the data records are already stored in a memory of the value document processing device and read from memory. The data interface 50 is then not necessary.
  • This exemplary embodiment makes it possible, for example, to already store the data records upon delivery or installation of the value document processing device, so that no further data carrier is necessary.
  • control and evaluation device is designed such that it determines the reading data from the data records after reading all the data sets such that when the display device is actuated with the control data, the processing types and the respective numbers the value documents to be supplied at the same time, d. H. in a view, displayed in the order of the records.
  • the control and evaluation device is further configured such that a stack located in the feeder is fed by separating elements, for example separation cards, header cards or the like, separate value documents to the sensor device, which records the measured data for the value documents.
  • the user then only needs to insert a stack of value documents which, in the order of the data records, has the value documents of the processing type specified by the respective data record and the number specified by the respective data record separated by the separating elements, preferably by these value documents and separating elements.
  • Still other embodiments differ from the previously described embodiments in that parts of the control and evaluation device 48 and the software are integrated into the sensors of the sensor device. Still further exemplary embodiments differ from the exemplary embodiments described above in that a further data interface connected to the control and evaluation device is provided, by means of which acquired measurement data can be transmitted to a data storage interface connected to the data interface and stored there.
  • a USB, Firewire or Thunderbolt interface or a network interface for example one of the various available Ethernet interfaces, can be used as the data interface.
  • Further exemplary embodiments differ from the exemplary embodiments described above in that the output device has additional output sections and the carrier device has additional points.
  • the control device is then designed so that value documents are stored in accordance with their value document type and / or the ascertained authenticity and / or the quality determined.

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L'invention concerne un procédé permettant la préparation de données de mesure d'un système de traitement de documents de valeur en vue du traitement de documents de valeur de différents types de traitements prédéfinis, ledit système de traitement comprenant un dispositif de capteurs, un dispositif de commande et un dispositif d'affichage. Le procédé de l'invention comprend les étapes suivantes : la lecture de jeux de données qui, pour au moins deux des types de traitements, contiennent chacun des données de type de traitement au moyen desquelles les types de traitement peuvent être différenciés, et le nombre des documents de valeur du type de traitement respectif à introduire dans le système de traitement de documents de valeur ; à partir des jeux de données, la détermination de données d'affichage en vue de la commande du dispositif d'affichage de manière telle que, lors de la commande avec les données d'affichage, le dispositif d'affichage affiche les types de traitements et les nombres des documents de valeur du type de traitement respectif à introduire dans ledit système ; la commande du dispositif d'affichage avec les données d'affichage ; conformément aux types de traitements affichés respectivement pour un nombre, correspondant au nombre respectif, des documents de valeur introduits dans le système de traitement de documents de valeur, la détection des données de mesure au moyen du dispositif de capteurs ; et le stockage des mesures de données.
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