JP2015046033A - Cash processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To output the reject factor of rejected paper money in inspection.SOLUTION: A cash processor having at least a reject storage part for storing a medium in an abnormal state for performing predetermined cash processing includes: one or more state sensors for detecting the state of the medium to be conveyed in the cash processor; storage means for acquiring a reject factor indicating the abnormal state based on the detection data of the state sensor for each medium, and for storing information including the reject factor of each medium stored in the reject storage part; control means for performing the output control of inspection information including the reject factor of each medium stored in the reject storage part in inspection; and output means for outputting the inspection information including the reject factor of each medium stored in the reject storage part.

Description

  The present invention relates to a cash processing apparatus, and can be applied to a cash processing apparatus such as an automatic cash processing apparatus (ATM) installed in a financial institution, for example.

  FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a control system of the conventional cash processing apparatus 900. As shown in FIG. FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram showing an arrangement example of each component inside the cash processing apparatus 900. FIG. 4 is a configuration diagram showing the configuration of the internal mechanism of the cash processing apparatus 900.

  The conventional cash processing apparatus 900 performs the denomination, authenticity determination, and banknote status (for example, the state of the banknote being transported (skew), damage, tearing, dirt, etc.) related to deposit processing or withdrawal processing. It has a recognition unit 902 for discrimination. The recognition unit 902 discriminates the conveyed banknotes one by one, and obtains a determination result including a denomination and a recognition result indicating the authenticity determination / banknote state as illustrated in FIG.

  The determination result obtained by the recognition unit 902 is notified to the control unit 905, and the control unit 905 controls the conveyance of the banknotes to the customer service unit 201, the reject store 205 or the banknote store 206 according to the determination result from the recognition unit 902.

  As a specific example in the case of deposit processing, when a bill (medium) is deposited after a deposit operation by a customer, the control unit 905 temporarily retracts the bill to the temporary storage unit 203. At this time, when the determination result of the recognition unit 902 is determined to be a non-banknote / counterfeit ticket, the medium is transported from the temporary storage unit 203 to the customer service unit 201. Further, when the determination result is a genuine note and the bill state is normal (that is, the state is good), the bill is conveyed from the temporary storage unit 203 to the bill storage 206 that stores the denomination of the bill. Furthermore, when the determination result is a genuine note and the banknote state is abnormal (that is, the banknote state is not good), the banknote is conveyed from the temporary storage unit 203 to the reject box 205.

  The control unit 905 performs conveyance control of banknotes according to the determination result of the recognition unit 202 as described above, and stores banknotes for each denomination based on the determination result of the recognition unit 202 as shown in FIG. The banknote count data stored in each banknote bank 206 and reject bank 205 is stored and managed in the storage unit.

  The maintenance staff periodically performs a scrutiny process for collecting banknotes stored in the banknote bank 206 and reject bank 205 of the cash processing apparatus 900. At this time, in order to collect the banknotes stored in the banknote bank 206 or the reject bank 205, the maintenance staff displays a scrutiny screen 500 illustrated in FIG. 7 on the display unit 101 by a predetermined operation, and stores the reject bank 205. The banknotes are tabulated for each denomination, the banknotes and amounts for each denomination are confirmed, and after the banknotes are collected, the maintenance staff initializes the number of stored banknotes 206 and reject boxes 205 on the scrutiny screen 500. (See Patent Document 1).

JP 2009-295132 A

  By the way, there are a case where the banknote is rejected due to a banknote state and a case where the banknote is due to the equipment state of the cash processing apparatus (for example, due to an apparatus failure or an influence of dirt on the apparatus).

  However, the conventional cash processing apparatus does not output the reason for the rejection even if the reject banknotes are accumulated in the reject warehouse. For this reason, even if a banknote rejection resulting from the equipment state occurs, the maintenance staff cannot know the situation, which may cause a problem that appropriate measures such as repair of the apparatus and cleaning of the apparatus cannot be performed.

  Therefore, there is a strong demand for a cash processing apparatus that can output the reason for rejecting rejected banknotes during scrutiny.

  In order to solve such a problem, the cash processing apparatus of the present invention includes at least a reject storage unit that stores a medium in an abnormal state and performs a predetermined cash process. (1) The cash One or more state sensors for detecting the state of the medium conveyed in the processing apparatus; and (2) a rejection factor indicating an abnormal state based on detection data of the one or more state sensors is obtained for each medium. Storage means for storing information including reject factors for each medium stored in the reject storage section; and (3) reject factors for each medium stored in the reject storage section stored in the storage means at the time of examination. And (4) output the scrutinization information including the rejection factor of each medium stored in the reject storage unit by the output control of the control unit. A cash handling apparatus, characterized in that it comprises an output unit.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to output the reason for rejecting the rejected banknote at the time of scrutiny.

It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the control system of the cash processing apparatus which concerns on 1st Embodiment. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the control system of the conventional cash processing apparatus. It is a block diagram which shows the example of arrangement | positioning of each component inside a cash processing apparatus. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the internal mechanism of a cash processing apparatus. It is explanatory drawing which shows the structure of the determination data which the conventional cash processing apparatus notifies. It is explanatory drawing explaining the structure of the conventional banknote number data. It is a screen figure which shows the example of a screen of the conventional close examination screen. It is a flowchart which shows the process which concerns on the payment transaction of the cash processing apparatus which concerns on 1st Embodiment. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the determination data which the recognition part which concerns on 1st Embodiment notifies. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the banknote number data of the rejection store | warehouse | chamber which the control part which concerns on 1st Embodiment memorize | stores. It is a flowchart which shows the process which concerns on the close examination process of the cash processing apparatus which concerns on 1st Embodiment. It is a screen figure which shows the example of a screen of the close examination screen which concerns on 1st Embodiment. It is a screen figure which shows the example of a screen of the rejection factor screen which concerns on 1st Embodiment. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the control system of the cash processing apparatus which concerns on 2nd Embodiment. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the rejection factor analysis data analyzed by the rejection factor analysis part which concerns on 2nd Embodiment. It is a flowchart which shows the process which concerns on the close examination process of the cash processing apparatus which concerns on 2nd Embodiment. It is a screen figure which shows the example of a screen of the rejection factor screen which concerns on 2nd Embodiment. It is a block diagram which shows the whole structure of the remote management system which concerns on deformation | transformation embodiment.

(A) 1st Embodiment Hereinafter, 1st Embodiment of the cash processing apparatus of this invention is described in detail, referring drawings.

  1st Embodiment illustrates the case where this invention is applied to the automatic cash processing apparatus (ATM) provided in the financial institution etc., for example.

(A-1) Configuration of the First Embodiment FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the control system of the cash processing apparatus 100A according to the first embodiment.

  Among the components of the cash processing apparatus 100A shown in FIG. 1, the same or corresponding elements as those of the conventional cash processing apparatus 900 of FIG. 2 are denoted by the same reference numerals.

  In addition, the arrangement of components of the cash processing apparatus 100A according to the first embodiment and the configuration of the internal mechanism may be the same as or correspond to those of the conventional cash processing apparatus 900 shown in FIGS. . Therefore, also in 1st Embodiment, it demonstrates using FIG.3 and FIG.4.

  In FIG. 1, a cash processing apparatus 100A according to the first embodiment includes a display unit 101, an input unit 102, a card reader 103, a receipt printer 104, a control unit 105, a customer service unit 201, a recognition unit 202, a temporary storage unit 203, It has a transport unit 204, a reject box 205, and a banknote box 206.

  Under the control of the control unit, the display unit 101 displays a processing selection screen, a transaction screen, a scrutiny screen, etc. for a customer, a maintenance person, etc., information related to a transaction entered by a customer, or information entered by a maintenance person (For example, displaying a screen including the determined number and amount of money for each denomination during maintenance) and management data of the control unit 105 (for example, the number and amount of money for each denomination on the scrutiny screen) It is. The display unit 101 is included in output means.

  The input unit 102 is used by a customer, a maintenance person, or the like to select functions or input necessary information, and provides the input information to the control unit 105.

  The display unit 101 and the input unit 102 may use a touch panel type operation display unit in which a touch panel is arranged on the surface of a display screen such as an LCD. In addition, a plurality of display units 101 and input units 102 may be provided separately for customer-specific and maintenance-person-specific ones.

  The card reader 103 reads data stored in a card (for example, a magnetic card or an IC card) input by a customer and gives the read data to the control unit 105. Although not shown in FIG. 1, a passbook data reading unit for reading passbook data of a financial institution or the like may be provided.

  Under the control of the control unit 105, the receipt printer 104 prints data relating to transaction processing results and data relating to scrutiny on a medium, and discharges the printed medium as a receipt.

  The customer service unit 201 is a depositing unit that takes in banknotes related to depositing or a dispensing unit that discharges banknotes related to dispensing. As the customer service unit 201, for example, a bucket type having a storage unit (bucket) for storing banknotes and an openable / closable body can be used. Specifically, when depositing banknotes, the customer service unit 201 opens the opening / closing body, accepts the inserted banknotes, and then closes the opening / closing body. The customer service unit 201 sends out the inserted banknotes one by one to the transport unit 204. In addition, when banknotes are dispensed, after the banknotes from the transport unit 204 in the cash processing apparatus 100A are sent to the bucket of the customer service unit 201, the customer service unit 201 opens the opening / closing body. Thereby, receipt of the banknote by a customer is enabled.

  The temporary storage unit 203 receives the control of the control unit 105 and temporarily accumulates deposited banknotes and banknotes to be withdrawn. The temporary storage unit 203 is for temporarily retracting banknotes, and a plurality of temporary storage units 203 may be provided as necessary. Moreover, when the recognition part 202 discriminate | determines the banknote accommodated in the banknote bank 206 or the rejection store | warehouse | chamber 205 in the case of a close examination, you may make it the temporary storage part 203 accumulate | store a banknote temporarily.

  Under the control of the control unit 105, the transport unit 204 transports banknotes among the customer service unit 201, the recognition unit 202, the temporary storage unit 203, the reject store 205 and the banknote store 206.

  The reject store 205 is a reject storage unit that stores rejected banknotes. That is, the rejection store | warehouse | chamber 205 accumulate | stores the banknote determined by the recognition part 202 as a genuine note and a rejection object banknote.

  The banknote bank 206 is a banknote cassette for collecting banknotes of denominations set in advance for each denomination. As shown in FIG. 4, the banknote bank 206 includes a plurality of banknote cassettes for each denomination. The number of banknote cassettes is not particularly limited. Each banknote cassette in the banknote bank 206 accumulates banknotes from the transport unit 204 one by one. Various types of banknote cassettes in the banknote store 206 can be widely applied. Specifically, a deposit-only cassette, a withdrawal-dedicated cassette, or a reflux-type cassette that has a banknote accumulation function and a separation function and discharges stored banknotes for withdrawal can be used as the banknote cassette. Note that the deposit-only cassette may accumulate banknotes of a plurality of denominations.

  The recognition unit 202 discriminates bills conveyed by the conveyance unit 204. The recognizing unit 202 recognizes the state of a bill that passes, and determines the authenticity of a bill (determination of a genuine note, a counterfeit ticket, etc.), correctness determination (stained ticket, damaged ticket, damaged ticket, outer shape abnormal ticket, folded) Judgment of tickets, etc., or regular tickets), denomination determination, counting processing, etc. The recognition unit 202 is included in the recognition unit.

  Here, the recognition unit 202 performs normality determination and rejection determination. Rejection determination includes, for example, a counterfeit ticket, a damaged ticket, a damaged ticket, a damaged ticket, an externally abnormal ticket, a folded ticket, a banknote tilted with respect to the transport direction (hereinafter referred to as skew), and the recognition unit 202. Means that The normality determination means that the recognition unit 202 determines that, for example, a genuine note or a banknote state is not the above-mentioned fouled ticket or the like, a state that is not a skew, or the like. Moreover, the recognition part 202 is good also as what respond | corresponds to the thing corresponding to the banknote which advances bidirectionally, or the banknote which advances to one direction.

  As illustrated in FIG. 1, the recognition unit 202 includes a state sensor group 21, a determination unit 22, and a determination data notification unit 23.

  The state sensor group 21 is a sensor group that senses the state of a bill that passes. The state sensor group 21 can be, for example, an image sensor that takes an image of a passing banknote, a sensor that senses the thickness or size of a passing banknote, and the like. The state sensor group 21 gives the sensed data to the determination unit 22.

  The determination unit 22 is set in advance with inspection items for performing the rejection determination. Based on the inspection items and the sensing data from the state sensor group 21, the determination unit 22 determines the authenticity determination and the banknote state.

  The bill state recognition method can use a technique used in a conventional discrimination device such as ATM. For example, the determination unit 22 applies a method of determining the presence / absence of stains, graffiti, breakage, or the like based on the image of the banknote imaged by the image sensor, or specifying the position of the stain, graffiti, breakage, etc. be able to.

  Specifically, for example, when the banknote is soiled, the appraisal unit 2 evaluates the ratio of the soiling or the degree of soiling (for example, brightness) in the entire banknote range or the specific location of the banknote. In other words, the determination unit 22 determines a stain ticket or a correct ticket by comparing a determination level value (for example, a threshold value such as a stain level value) set for an inspection item with an evaluation level value based on sensing data. In addition, for example, the determination unit 22 determines whether the inclination of the banknote to be conveyed (that is, the inclination of the banknote edge with respect to a line perpendicular to the conveyance direction on the imaging screen) based on the image of the banknote imaged by the image sensor. When the banknote is tilted beyond the discrimination level value set in step 1, it is determined that the banknote is skewed. Further, the determination unit 22 determines that a plurality of banknotes are conveyed while being overlapped when the sensing data regarding the thickness of the banknotes exceeds the determination level value. Further, the determination unit 22 determines that a plurality of banknotes are overlapped and conveyed based on the image of the banknote imaged by the image sensor when the size of the banknote exceeds the determination level value.

  Note that the inspection items used by the determination unit 22 may be stored in the storage unit included in the recognition unit 202, or may be stored in the storage unit 15 of the control unit 105 and may be controlled as necessary. The information may be read from 105, or may be acquired from a management device (for example, a management server such as a financial institution) through a network.

  The determination data notification unit 23 gives the determination result (data) of the determination unit 22 to the control unit 105.

  The determination result notified by the determination data notification unit 23 includes a recognition result including a denomination of a bill to be passed, authenticity (genuine bill, counterfeit ticket) and a bill state, and reject factor data in the case of reject determination. Note that the determination result is not limited to the above, and may include count data such as the number and amount of money for each denomination, discrimination time, discrimination identification information for identifying different discrimination processes, and the like.

  Here, the rejection factor means the reason for the rejection determination factor. Reject factors can be broadly classified into banknote-state reject factors and device-state reject factors.

  The reject factor in the banknote state can be, for example, a stain, a tear, a break, a graffiti, or the like.

  The rejection factor of the device state is a factor related to the influence of a mechanical defect constituting the cash processing apparatus 100A, dirt in the apparatus, apparatus failure, or the like. For example, there are skew anomalies, image anomalies based on dirt on the lens of the image sensor, thickness anomalies, security anomalies, size anomalies, and the like.

  The control unit 105 manages various functions of the cash processing apparatus 100A. The control unit 105 includes, for example, a CPU, ROM, RAM, EEPROM, an input / output interface unit, and the like. For example, the control unit 105 realizes the function of the cash processing apparatus 100A by executing a processing program stored in the ROM by the CPU. The processing program can be constructed by installation, and even in that case, the processing program can be functionally shown in FIG. The control unit 105 is included in the control means.

  The control unit 105 includes a transaction processing unit 11, a determination data acquisition unit 12, a conveyance control unit 13, a scrutiny processing unit 14, and a storage unit 15 as a storage unit.

  The transaction processing unit 11 performs processing related to deposit transactions and withdrawal transactions in the cash processing apparatus 100A. The withdrawal transaction is a transaction for paying cash to the customer, and includes, for example, a withdrawal transaction. The deposit transaction is a transaction for depositing cash received from a customer, such as a deposit transaction or a transfer transaction. When the transaction processing unit 11 receives the input information of the transaction type desired by the customer via the input unit 102, the transaction processing unit 11 executes the transaction process according to the procedure according to the transaction type, and communicates with the center via the communication unit (not shown). Exchange transaction information between them to complete the transaction. The transaction processing unit 11 stores transaction information regarding various completed transactions in the storage unit 15.

  The determination data acquisition unit 12 acquires determination data from the recognition unit 202. For example, banknotes are identified by the recognition unit 202 during a deposit transaction or a withdrawal transaction. The determination data acquisition unit 12 acquires determination data related to discrimination from the recognition unit 202. The determination data acquisition unit 12 stores the acquired determination data in the storage unit 15 in the control unit 105.

  The conveyance control unit 13 performs conveyance control of banknotes related to deposit or withdrawal according to the determination data of the recognition unit 202 acquired by the determination data acquisition unit 12.

  Specifically, for example, in the case of a deposit transaction, when a bill (medium) is deposited after a deposit operation by a customer, the transport control unit 13 temporarily retracts the bill in the temporary storage unit 203. At this time, when the determination result of the recognition unit 202 is a non-banknote / counterfeit ticket, the transport control unit 13 transports the medium from the temporary storage unit 203 to the customer service unit 201. When the determination result is true and the bill state is normal, the transport control unit 13 transports the bill from the temporary storage unit 203 to the bill storage 206 that stores the denomination of the bill. Furthermore, when the determination result is a genuine note and the bill state is abnormal, the transport control unit 13 transports the bill from the temporary storage unit 203 to the reject box 205.

  Further, for example, in the case of a withdrawal transaction, after the withdrawal operation by the customer, the transport control unit 13 feeds the denomination and the number of bills related to withdrawal one by one from the banknote store 206 and transports them to the recognition unit 202. At this time, when the determination result of the recognition unit 202 is genuine and the bill state is normal, the transport control unit 13 transports the bill to the customer service unit 201. When the determination result is a genuine note and the banknote state is abnormal, the transport control unit 13 transports the banknote to the temporary storage unit 203. And after discharging the banknote of the number of withdrawals to the customer service part 201, the conveyance control part 13 conveys the banknote accommodated in the temporary storage part 203 to the rejection store | warehouse | chamber 205. FIG.

  The scrutinization processing unit 14 displays a scrutiny screen on the display unit 101 when the information for selecting the scrutiny processing is given through the input unit 102 by the maintenance person operation, and by the operation of the maintenance person through the input unit 102. A predetermined scrutiny process is executed.

  The storage unit 15 stores a processing program of the control unit 105, data necessary for processing, banknote number data of each banknote cassette in the banknote bank 206, banknote number data of the reject box 205, and the like.

(A-2) Operation of First Embodiment Next, an operation example of the cash processing apparatus 100A according to the first embodiment will be described.

  FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing a process related to the deposit transaction of the cash processing apparatus 100A according to the first embodiment.

  First, the customer operates the input unit 102 to select a deposit transaction from the menu screen displayed on the display unit 101, and the customer's card is inserted. In cash processing apparatus 100 </ b> A, the inserted card is given to card reader 103, and the card data stored in the card is read by card reader 103. The read card data is given to the control unit 105 (S101).

  The control unit 105 causes the display unit 101 to display an input processing screen that allows the input of a password or the like in order to acquire information necessary for the deposit transaction (S102). Thereby, for example, input information such as a password for the card is acquired (S103), and the control unit 105 performs an authentication process.

  Next, under the control of the control unit 105, the opening / closing body of the customer service unit 201 is opened, and banknotes related to deposit are put into the customer service unit 201. When the bill insertion is completed, the customer service unit 201 closes the opening / closing body. And the conveyance part 204 drives under control of the control part 105, and the banknote thrown into the customer service part 201 is conveyed one by one to the recognition part 202 (S104).

  When the banknote is given to the recognition unit 202, the recognition unit 202 performs discrimination such as denomination determination, authenticity determination, and banknote state determination of the conveyed banknote (S105). Moreover, the banknote discriminated by the recognition part 202 is conveyed to the temporary storage part 203 (S106).

  Identification of banknotes by the recognition unit 202 is performed for all banknotes inserted into the customer service unit 201. Therefore, the process of S104-S107 is repeatedly performed until all the inserted banknotes are identified (S107).

  Banknotes are identified by the recognition unit 202 one by one. The recognizing unit 202 notifies the control unit 105 of determination data as a discrimination result of the inserted bill. When the determination data from the recognition unit 202 is given to the control unit 105, the notified determination data is stored in the storage unit 15 of the control unit 105 (S108).

  In this example, it is illustrated that the judgment data of all banknotes is notified to the control unit 105 after the discrimination of all inserted banknotes is completed, but each time the discrimination of banknotes is completed. The determination data may be notified to the control unit 105.

  The recognizing unit 202 counts the inserted bills, and the control unit 105 is also notified of data relating to the number and amount of bills.

  FIG. 9 is a configuration diagram illustrating a configuration of determination data notified by the recognition unit 202 according to the first embodiment.

  As shown in FIG. 9, the determination data includes “No.” indicating the serial number associated with the discrimination, “Denomination” indicating the denomination of each bill, “Recognition result”, and “Reject factor”. The “recognition result” includes the authenticity determination result determined by the recognition unit 202 and the banknote state result (results of fouling, tearing, graffiti, etc.). Specifically, data indicating a genuine note, a forged ticket, a non-banknote, or the like is notified as the authenticity determination result. Moreover, the normal data which shows that a banknote state is favorable, the abnormal data which shows the damage etc. which show that a banknote state is unsatisfactory are notified as a banknote state result.

  The “reject factor” includes the reject factor determined by the recognition unit 202 when the recognition unit 202 determines rejection. Therefore, when the determination is not rejected (that is, when the determination is normal), data indicating “reject factor: none” is notified, such as “No. 1” in FIG. On the other hand, as shown in “No. 4” in FIG. 9, when the rejection determination is made, data indicating “reject factor: skew” is notified. The actual determination data is notified of an identification number indicating the contents of “denomination”, “recognition result”, and “reject factor”.

  When the determination data is given to the control unit 105, a display screen including the total amount of inserted banknotes notified from the recognition unit 202 is displayed on the display unit 101 under the control of the control unit 105 (S109). When the input amount is correct and the customer confirms on the display screen, the control unit 105 performs a payment transaction of the input amount with the center (S110).

  Based on the determination data from the recognition unit 202, the control unit 105 performs conveyance control of the banknotes stored in the temporary storage unit 203 (S111).

That is, the control unit 105 refers to the “recognition result” of the determination data illustrated in FIG.
When the “recognition result” is a non-banknote / counterfeit ticket, the medium is conveyed from the temporary storage unit 203 to the customer service unit 201. Further, when the “recognition result” is a genuine note and the bill state is normal (for example, “normal” in FIG. 9), the bill is conveyed from the temporary storage unit 203 to the bill storage 206 that stores the denomination of the bill. Furthermore, when the “recognition result” is a genuine note and the banknote state is abnormal (for example, “damage” in FIG. 9), the banknote is conveyed from the temporary storage unit 203 to the reject box 205.

  And the control part 105 memorize | stores and updates the banknote number data (payment data) of the banknote bank 206 or the rejection store | warehouse | chamber 205 based on the determination data from the recognition part 202, and the received number of sheets (S112). About the banknote number data of the banknote bank 206, the control part 105 has memorize | stored the banknote number data which consists of the number of sheets accommodated in the banknote bank 206, and the money amount for every banknote cassette similarly to the past.

  FIG. 10 is a configuration diagram illustrating a configuration of the number-of-banknotes data in the reject store 205 stored by the control unit 105 according to the first embodiment.

  In FIG. 10, the number data of banknotes in the reject store 205 indicates that “No.” (for example, the smaller “No.” indicating the order of stacking in the reject store 205 has been stored in the reject store 205 old. ), “Denomination” indicating the denomination of the banknotes accumulated in the reject store 205, “recognition result” and “reject factor” of the judgment data of the banknotes stored in the reject store 205.

  For example, in “No. 1” in FIG. 10, the denomination of the banknote stored in the reject box 205 is “denomination: 1000 (yen voucher)”, and the recognition result of the banknote determination data and the rejection factor are “Recognition result: genuine note / damage” and “reject factor: skew”. Thereby, it is understood that the reason that the banknote stored in the reject box 205 is rejected is “skew” which is a rejection factor of the device state.

  Note that the banknote number data in the reject box 205 is not limited to the items shown in FIG. 10, and may include other items. For example, the time of discrimination by the recognition unit 202 may be included.

  Next, operation | movement of the close examination process in 100 A of cash processing apparatuses which concern on 1st Embodiment is demonstrated.

  FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing the operation of the scrutiny process in the cash processing apparatus 100A according to the first embodiment.

  The maintenance person regularly performs a scrutiny to collect banknotes stored in the banknote bank 205 and reject bank 206 of the cash processing apparatus 100A.

  First, the maintenance person uses the input unit 102 to select a review (for example, a review button on the menu screen) from the menu screen displayed on the display unit 101 (S201).

  In the control unit 105, in order to perform a scrutinization process, the banknote number data of each banknote cassette 206 and reject bank 205 of the storage unit 15 are read (S202), and a scrutiny screen is displayed on the display unit 101 (S203). ). Note that the start of the scrutiny process is not limited to selecting the scrutinize button from the menu screen. For example, when the key for opening the door for taking out the banknote storage 206 is opened, or a scrutiny switch A scrutiny screen may be displayed on the display unit 101 by using a press of, etc. as a trigger.

  FIG. 12 is a screen diagram illustrating an example of a scrutiny screen according to the first embodiment. The scrutinization screen 1000 in FIG. 12 is a denomination number display unit 501 that displays the number and amount of each denomination in the cash processing apparatus 100A, and each banknote cassette (indicated as “CST” in FIG. 12). A cassette number display section 502 for displaying the denomination and the number of coins, a “scrutinize” button 503 for determining the number of denominations, a “reject (RJ) factor” button 1005 for displaying a reject factor, and a “return” button 504 Have

  Here, the scrutiny screen 1000 of FIG. 12 is characterized by having an “RJ factor” button 1005. Conventionally, determination data notified from the recognition unit 202 after discrimination by the recognition unit 202 is used by the control unit 105 to determine a banknote transport destination after discrimination. Therefore, if the determination data includes a “recognition result” indicating a rejection determination or a normal determination, the control unit can perform the conveyance control, which is sufficient. However, when the rejection factor is a rejection factor of the equipment state, it is necessary to have a maintenance person perform maintenance such as cleaning and inspection in the apparatus. Therefore, in the first embodiment, the scrutinization screen 1000 of FIG. 12 has an “RJ factor” button 1005 in order to make the maintenance factor recognize the rejection factor during the scrutiny.

  When a maintenance person who recognizes that banknotes are stored in the reject box 206 presses the “RJ factor” button 1005 on the scrutiny screen 1000 in FIG. 12 (S204), the control unit 105 stores it in the storage unit 15. The banknote number data of the reject box 205 is read, and the created reject factor screen (see FIG. 13) is displayed on the display unit 101 based on the banknote number data of the reject box 205 (S205).

  FIG. 13 is a screen diagram illustrating a screen example of the reject factor screen 1100 according to the first embodiment. In FIG. 13, the reject factor screen 1100 according to the first embodiment includes a reject factor display unit 1101 and a “return” button 1102. The reject factor display unit 1101 is based on the banknote number data of the reject box 205, and is associated with “No.”, “denomination”, “recognition result”, and “reject factor” as shown in FIG. It is a thing.

  For example, in the reject factor display unit 1101 of FIG. 13, the denominations of “No. 1” and “No. 2” are “1000 (yen voucher)” and “10000 (yen voucher)”, respectively. It can be seen that the factor is “skew”. That is, the maintenance person can recognize that many “skews” occur regardless of the denomination. From this, there is a possibility that a mechanical failure (for example, a failure of the conveyance roller in the conveyance path, etc.) has occurred in the conveyance unit 4 that conveys the banknote to the recognition unit 202, and the maintenance person can Maintenance such as inspection and cleaning for the presence or absence of a failure on the conveyance path can be performed.

  Further, for example, when dirt is attached to the lens of the image sensor that captures the banknote image in the recognition unit 202, the rejection factor is continuously damaged regardless of the denomination. In such a case, it is determined that the rejection factor is “image (abnormal)”, and the maintenance person can clean the lens of the image sensor. When the banknote number data of the reject box 205 includes “time” as an item, the item “time” is also displayed in the reject factor display unit 1101 of FIG. The maintenance person can recognize the occurrence of the rejection factor.

  Thereafter, after the maintenance person performs maintenance in the cash processing apparatus 100A as necessary, when the “return” button 1102 is pressed by the maintenance person operation (S206), the scrutiny screen 1000 is displayed on the display unit 101. It is displayed (S203).

  Then, the maintenance person collects banknotes from each banknote cassette in the banknote bank 206. After the banknote collection, “0” is input in the number field of the number of banknotes for each banknote cassette by the maintenance person operation through the input unit 102 as in the conventional case (S207). When the “scrutinize” button 503 is pressed by the maintenance person operation (S208), the control unit 105 sets the number of banknotes in the banknote cassette 206 and the number of banknotes in the reject box 205 to “0”. Initialization is performed (S209).

(A-3) Effect of First Embodiment As described above, according to the first embodiment, the recognition unit 202 notifies the control unit 105 of determination data including a rejection factor, and the control unit 105 rejects the rejection factor. By storing banknote number data including, a scrutiny screen including a rejection factor can be displayed during scrutiny. As a result, since the maintenance person can confirm the rejection factor of the rejected banknote, the necessary inspection and repair procedures can be performed based on the experience of the maintenance person. Thereby, the operating rate of the apparatus can be kept high.

(B) 2nd Embodiment Next, 2nd Embodiment of the cash processing apparatus of this invention is described in detail, referring drawings.

  Similarly to the first embodiment, the second embodiment exemplifies a case where the present invention is applied to, for example, an automatic cash processing apparatus (ATM) provided in a financial institution or the like.

(B-1) Configuration of Second Embodiment The cash processing apparatus 100B according to the second embodiment is different from the cash processing apparatus 100A of the first embodiment in the function of the control unit, and other components are the first. The same or corresponding components as those in the first embodiment can be used.

  Moreover, the arrangement | positioning of each component of the cash processing apparatus 100B which concerns on 2nd Embodiment, and the structure of an internal mechanism can be the same as or correspond to the conventional cash processing apparatus 900 shown in FIG.3 and FIG.4. . Therefore, also in 2nd Embodiment, it demonstrates using FIG.3 and FIG.4.

  FIG. 14 is a configuration diagram illustrating a configuration of a control system of the cash processing apparatus 100B according to the second embodiment.

  14, the cash processing apparatus 100B according to the second embodiment includes a display unit 101, an input unit 102, a card reader 103, a receipt printer 104, a control unit 305, a customer service unit 201, a recognition unit 202, a temporary storage unit 203, It has a transport unit 204, a reject box 205, and a banknote box 206.

  Among the components of the cash processing apparatus 100B shown in FIG. 14, the same or corresponding components as those of the cash processing apparatus 100A of FIG. 1 according to the first embodiment are denoted by the same reference numerals. .

  Similar to the control unit 105 of the first embodiment, the control unit 305 performs transaction processing and conveyance control, and acquires and stores determination data including a rejection factor from the recognition unit 202. Note that the control unit 305 includes, for example, a CPU, a ROM, a RAM, an EEPROM, an input / output interface unit, and the like. For example, the control unit 305 realizes the function of the cash processing apparatus 100B by executing a processing program stored in the ROM by the CPU. It should be noted that the processing program can be constructed by installation, and even in that case, it can be functionally shown in FIG.

  The control unit 305 includes a transaction processing unit 11, a determination data acquisition unit 12, a conveyance control unit 13, and a storage unit 15 as in the first embodiment. Furthermore, the control unit 305 includes a scrutiny processing unit 31 instead of the scrutiny processing unit 14 according to the first embodiment, and further includes a reject factor analysis data storage unit 32.

  As in the first embodiment, the scrutinization processing unit 31 displays a scrutiny screen on the display unit 101 when the information for selecting the scrutiny processing is given via the input unit 102 by the maintenance person operation, and the input unit A predetermined scrutinization process is executed by the operation of the maintenance person via 102. Further, the scrutinization processing unit 31 includes a rejection factor analysis unit 311 and displays the rejection factor screen including a rejection factor analysis result by the rejection factor analysis unit 311 on the display unit 101.

  The rejection factor analysis unit 311 analyzes the rejection rate for each rejection factor based on the banknote number data of each banknote cassette of the banknote bank 206 and the banknote number data of the reject box 205. The reject factor analysis data analyzed by the reject factor analysis unit 311 is stored in the reject factor analysis data storage unit 32.

  Further, when displaying the reject factor screen, the reject factor analysis unit 311 compares the reject rate for each reject factor at the time of the current scrutiny with a corresponding reference reject rate, which will be described later, and the reject rate this time is the reference reject rate. If it exceeds, highlight the data to alert the maintenance personnel. As a highlighting method, for example, a method of changing a display color such as red or blue, enlarging a display font of data, adding an underline, blinking data, or combining them Can be used.

  FIG. 15 is a configuration diagram showing a configuration of reject factor analysis data analyzed by the reject factor analyzing unit 311 according to the second embodiment.

  In FIG. 15, the reject factor analysis data according to the second embodiment includes “denomination”, “number of processed sheets”, “reject factor”, “number of sheets” indicating the number of rejected banknotes, and “reject rate (%)”. And “reference rejection rate (%)” as items.

  “Denomination” indicates the denomination of the banknote. For example, in the case of Japanese yen, it is classified as “1000 (yen ticket)”, “5000 (yen ticket)”, “10000 (yen ticket)”, and the like. Of course, it is possible to deal with the case of foreign currency, and the denomination can be defined as appropriate.

  The “number of processed sheets” is the number of banknotes stored in each banknote cassette and reject bank 205 of the banknote bank 206. The “number of processed sheets” is the number of banknotes stored in each banknote cassette and reject box 205 after the previous scrutiny process.

  “Reject factor” indicates a reject factor determined by the recognition unit 202. “Reject factors” are exemplified as “skew (abnormal)”, “image (abnormal)”, “thickness (abnormal)”, “security (abnormal)”, and “size (abnormal)”, but are not limited thereto. Is not to be done.

  In the “number of sheets”, the number of rejected banknotes is stored for each rejection factor based on the determination data from the recognition unit 202.

  In the “reject rate”, reject factor analysis data analyzed by the reject factor analyzing unit 311 is stored. In other words, the rejection factor analysis unit 311 obtains a rejection rate (= “number of sheets” / “number of processed sheets”) using the “number of processed sheets” for each denomination and the “number of sheets” of the rejection factor for each denomination. This analysis result is stored in the “reject rate”.

  The “reference rejection rate” is a reference value for comparison with the “reject rate” obtained by the rejection factor analysis unit 311. The “reference rejection rate” may be a reference value for evaluating the rejection rate. As the “reference rejection rate”, a numerical value set according to a rejection factor that may occur in a country, currency, district, or the like can be used. For example, the “reference rejection rate” may be a preset reference value. Further, for example, the “reference rejection rate” may be a reference value that can be updated by the center terminal through a network or the like. Further, for example, the “reference rejection rate” may be the rejection rate obtained by the rejection factor analysis unit 311 last time, or statistical processing is performed using the rejection rate obtained before the previous time, and the values after the statistical processing are sequentially obtained. It may be updated.

  As described above, the rejection factor analysis unit 311 can obtain the rejection rate for each rejection factor based on the number of processings for each denomination and the number of rejections for each rejection factor.

  FIG. 15 illustrates a case where the rejection factor analysis unit 311 obtains a rejection rate for each rejection factor by distinguishing each denomination. However, the rejection factor analysis unit 311 may obtain the rejection rate for each rejection factor without distinguishing between the denominations.

  The reject factor analysis data storage unit 32 stores the reject factor analysis data (see FIG. 15) analyzed by the reject analysis factor analysis unit 311. When the scrutiny processing unit 31 displays a reject factor screen including the reject factor analysis result, the scrutiny processing unit 31 reads out the reject factor analysis data. The reject factor analysis data storage unit 32 is included in the reference value storage means.

(B-2) Operation of the second embodiment In the second embodiment, the operation of the control unit 305 at the time of the scrutiny process in the cash processing apparatus 100B is different from that of the first embodiment. The operation of the control unit 305 will be mainly described.

  FIG. 16 is a flowchart showing the operation of the scrutiny process in the cash processing apparatus 100B according to the second embodiment. In FIG. 16, processes that are the same as or correspond to the processes according to the first embodiment are denoted by the same reference numerals.

  First, in response to a predetermined operation related to the scrutiny by the maintenance person, the control unit 305 displays a scrutiny screen on the display unit 101 (S201 to S203). The scrutiny screen displayed on the display unit 101 in S203 can be the same screen as the scrutinization screen 1000 of FIG. 12 according to the first embodiment.

  Next, when a maintenance person who recognizes that banknotes are stored in the reject box 206 presses the “RJ factor” button 1005 on the scrutiny screen 1000 in FIG. 12 (S204), the scrutiny processing unit 31 in the control unit 305. The reject factor analysis unit 311 reads the reject factor analysis data in the reject factor analysis data storage unit 32, and compares the reject rate for each denomination of each denomination with the corresponding reference reject rate (S301).

  Then, the rejection factor analysis unit 311 of the scrutiny processing unit 31 highlights the rejection rate for each rejection factor that exceeds the reference rejection rate (S302), and the scrutiny processing unit 31 displays the banknote number data in the rejection store 205 and A reject factor screen based on the reject factor analysis data in the reject factor analysis data storage unit 32 is displayed on the display unit 101 (S303).

  FIG. 17 is a screen diagram illustrating a screen example of the reject factor screen 1400 according to the second embodiment. In FIG. 17, a reject factor screen 1400 according to the second embodiment includes a reject factor display unit 1101, a reject factor analysis data display unit 1402, and a “return” button 1102.

  As in the first embodiment, the reject factor display unit 1101 is based on the banknote number data of the reject box 205, and corresponds to “No.”, “Denomination”, “Recognition result”, and “Reject factor”. It is attached.

  The reject factor analysis data display unit 1402 is based on the reject factor analysis data, and includes “denomination”, “number of processed sheets”, “reject factor”, “number of sheets”, “reject rate (%)”, “reference reject rate”. (%) ”Is associated.

  For example, in FIG. 17, when the rejection rate for each denomination of each denomination is viewed, the rejection rate of “reject factor: skew” of “denomination: 1000 (yen voucher)” is “4.0”. The “reference rejection rate: 3.5” is exceeded. In this case, the rejection factor analysis unit 311 changes the display of the “reject factor: skew” rejection rate of “4.0” to “4.0” as the display color such as red. Highlight. This can prompt the maintenance person to call attention.

  Items to be highlighted are not only “reject rate”, but also “denomination”, “number of processed sheets”, “reject factor”, “number of sheets”, “reject rate (%)”, and “reference reject rate (%)” Alternatively, a part may be highlighted.

  Note that the reject factor analysis data display unit 1402 in FIG. 17 illustrates the case of displaying data of all items of the reject factor analysis data, but only a part of the item data of the reject factor analysis data is displayed. Also good.

  Thereafter, after the maintenance person performs maintenance in the cash processing apparatus 100B as necessary, when the “return” button 1102 is pressed by the maintenance person operation (S206), the scrutiny screen 1000 is displayed on the display unit 101. It is displayed (S203).

  Then, the maintenance person collects banknotes from each banknote cassette in the banknote bank 206. After the banknote collection, “0” is input in the number field of the number of banknotes for each banknote cassette by the maintenance person operation through the input unit 102 as in the conventional case (S207). When the “scrutinize” button 503 is pressed by a maintenance person's operation (S208), the control unit 305 sets the number of banknotes in each banknote cassette in the banknote bank 206 and the number of banknotes in the reject box 205 to “0”. Initialization is performed (S209).

(B-3) Effects of Second Embodiment As described above, according to the second embodiment, in addition to the effects of the first embodiment, data obtained by analyzing reject factors can be displayed. In addition, since highlighting can be performed, items that are supposed to be inspected and cleaned in the apparatus are clearly shown regardless of the experience of the maintenance personnel, so that the quality of maintenance can be improved.

(C) Other Embodiments In the above-described embodiments, various modified embodiments have been described, but the present invention can also be applied to the following modified embodiments.

(C-1) In each embodiment mentioned above, although the recognition part 202 is demonstrated as detecting a rejection factor, based on the sensing data from the other sensors mounted in the cash processing apparatus. The control unit may be able to detect the rejection factor. For example, a controller that detects a failure in conveyance based on a sensor provided in the conveyance unit, a sensor that detects feeding out of a banknote from a banknote cassette or a customer service unit, etc., may cause the control unit to reject the device state. The factor may be detected.

(C-2) In each embodiment mentioned above, the case where a control part displayed a rejection factor screen on display part 101 was illustrated. However, as illustrated in FIG. 18, when the center terminal 500 that manages the states of the plurality of cash processing apparatuses 100-1 to 100 -N (N is an integer) is connected through the network, the rejection factor is set. The included data and screen information may be given to the center terminal 500, and the rejection factor screen may be displayed on the display unit of the center terminal 500. That is, even when remotely managing the states of the plurality of cash processing apparatuses 100-1 to 100-N, the communication data including the rejection factor is given to the center terminal 500, and the rejection factor of the cash processing apparatus is recognized remotely. You may be able to do it. This remote management, for example, when remotely managing a plurality of cash processing devices in a certain store, or remotely managing cash processing devices for each area including a plurality of stores, remotely manages the cash processing devices of all stores. Can be widely applied to cases.

(C-3) In each of the above-described embodiments, the storage destination of the reject factor analysis data has been described as being stored in the storage unit of the control unit of the cash processing apparatus, but the cash processing apparatus is generally connected to a network. Alternatively, a monitoring center may be provided in the system and stored in a terminal of the monitoring center to perform statistical processing.

(C-4) In each of the above-described embodiments, it has been described that the reject factor screen is displayed when the “RJ (reject) factor” button 1005 on the scrutiny screen 1000 is pressed. However, the reject factor screen may be displayed in the scrutiny screen 1000. That is, the rejection factor screen is not limited to being displayed on the display unit as another screen, and may be displayed from the beginning on the examination screen.

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100A and 100B ... Cash processing apparatus, 101 ... Display part, 105 and 305 ... Control part, 12 ... Determination data acquisition part, 13 ... Conveyance control part, 14 and 31 ... Detailed examination processing part, 311 ... Reject factor analysis part, 32 ... Rejection factor analysis data storage unit, 202... Recognition unit, 21... State sensor group, 22 ... determination unit, 23 ... determination data notification unit, 205.

Claims (8)

At least in a cash processing apparatus that has a reject storage unit that stores a medium in an abnormal state and performs predetermined cash processing,
One or more state sensors for detecting the state of the medium conveyed in the cash processing apparatus;
Storage means for acquiring, for each medium, a rejection factor indicating an abnormal state based on detection data of the one or more state sensors, and storing information including the rejection factor of each medium stored in the reject storage unit When,
Control means for performing output control of scrutiny information including the rejection factor of each medium stored in the reject storage section stored in the storage means during scrutiny;
A cash processing apparatus comprising: output means for outputting scrutiny information including the rejection factor of each medium stored in the reject storage section by output control of the control means.   A part of the one or more state sensors is mounted to recognize the state of the medium being transported, and the rejection factor for each medium based on the detection data of each of the mounted state sensors. The cash processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a recognition unit that notifies the storage unit of determination data including the determination data. The control means obtains an occurrence rate for each reject factor based on information including the reject factor for each medium of the storage means, and controls output of scrutiny information including the occurrence rate for each reject factor. ,
The cash processing apparatus according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the output means outputs scrutiny information including an occurrence rate for each rejection factor. Reference value storage means for storing a reference value for evaluating the incidence of reject factors for each reject factor,
The control means compares the occurrence rate for each reject factor with the corresponding reference value, and emphasizes the reject factor for which the occurrence rate for each reject factor exceeds the reference value,
Under the control of the control means, the output means emphasizes and outputs the reject factor whose occurrence rate for each reject factor exceeds the reference value among the scrutiny information including the occurrence rate for each reject factor. The cash processing apparatus according to claim 3. The scrutiny information output by the output means is a scrutiny screen,
When the control means causes the output means to output a scrutiny screen including a selection button for outputting the rejection factor, and the selection button in the scrutiny screen is selected, a screen including the rejection factor of each medium The cash processing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the cash is output to the output means. The scrutiny information output by the output means is a scrutiny screen,
5. The cash processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control means causes the output means to output a scrutinizing screen having a screen including the rejection factor of each medium from the beginning. The one or more state sensors include a device state sensor that detects a state abnormality based on the influence of the device state in the cash processing apparatus,
The cash processing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the rejection factor includes a factor based on device abnormality by the device state sensor.   8. The control device according to claim 1, wherein the control means gives scrutiny information including the rejection factor of each medium stored in the reject storage unit to a center terminal connected through a network. The cash processing apparatus as described in.

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