JP2019066916A - Medium processing system - Google Patents

Abstract

To provide a medium processing system capable of determining whether a round of discrimination of media has been completed.SOLUTION: A medium processing system 10 includes a first accommodation unit 150 that accommodates plural media, a discrimination unit 130 that discriminates the plural media and reads identification information inscribed on each medium, a first transportation unit 110 that transports each medium from the first accommodation unit to the discrimination unit according to a first order, a second transportation unit 110b that returns the medium, for which a predetermined result of discrimination is obtained by the discrimination unit, to the first accommodation unit according to a second order, a first memory unit that stores the identification information on the medium, which is read by the discrimination unit, as first identification information according to the first order, a second memory unit that stores the identification information on the medium, which is returned to the first accommodation unit, as second identification information according to the second order, and a determination unit that determines whether a round of discrimination of the plural media by the discrimination unit has been completed.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

Description

  The present invention relates to media processing devices.

  The bill depositing and dispensing machine (medium processing apparatus) is provided, for example, in an automated teller machine (ATM: Automated Teller Machine) or the like, and performs bill depositing and dispensing processes.

  In the deposit process of the banknote depositing and dispensing machine, first, the banknote depositing and dispensing machine stores the banknotes (medium) inserted from the customer in the customer service unit, separates the plurality of stored banknotes one by one, and It supplies to the discrimination part provided in the inside via a supply port. And the said discrimination | determination part identifies with respect to each banknote, and the banknote determined as an abnormal banknote (a fake bill, a spoiled note etc.) by the discrimination part is returned to a customer-service part via a return port. In the customer service unit, a partition or the like is not provided to distinguish between banknotes that have not been discriminated by the discrimination unit and banknotes that have been discriminated by the discrimination unit and returned to the customer service unit. Therefore, the bill depositing and dispensing machine continues to supply the bill to the discrimination unit, but at this time, it is returned to the customer service unit following the bill which has not been discriminated by the discrimination unit. An abnormal banknote will be supplied. The banknotes once discriminated by the discrimination unit may be supplied again to the discrimination unit and may not be discriminated again, but whether all the plurality of banknotes stored in the customer service unit have been discriminated by the discrimination unit, that is, customer service If it can not be determined whether the discrimination of a plurality of bills stored in a part has made a round, the bill depositing / dispensing machine will continue to supply the bills to the discrimination part.

  Therefore, in order to stop the supply of bills to the discrimination unit at an appropriate timing while avoiding the generation of bills that have not been discriminated, in the bill depositing and dispensing machine, a plurality of bills stored in the customer service unit It is determined whether or not all the discriminations have been made by the discrimination unit, that is, whether the discrimination of a plurality of banknotes stored in the customer service section has made a round. For example, in the bill depositing and dispensing machine disclosed in Patent Document 1 below, the discrimination section reads the serial number printed on the bill, and the discrimination of the bill is completed by the coincidence of the read serial number and the order of the corresponding bills. It was judged.

JP 2014-164399 A

  However, when the internal configuration of the apparatus of the bill depositing / dispensing machine (medium processing apparatus) is changed, it can not be determined whether the discrimination of the bill (medium) has made one round by the determination of the disclosure of Patent Document 1 above. .

  Therefore, the present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a new and improved medium capable of determining whether or not the discrimination of the medium has made a round. It is in providing a processing apparatus.

  In order to solve the above problems, according to one aspect of the present invention, a first storage unit for storing a plurality of media, the plurality of media are discriminated, and identification information described in each of the media is displayed. A discrimination unit to read, a first transport unit that transports each medium in a first order from the first storage unit to the discrimination unit, and the medium for which a predetermined discrimination result is obtained by the discrimination unit A second transport unit configured to return the first storage unit in a second order opposite to the first order, and the identification information of the medium read by the discrimination unit as first identification information; A first storage unit for storing in a first order; and a second storage unit for storing the identification information of the medium returned to the first storage unit as second identification information in the second order And a determination unit that determines whether the discrimination of the plurality of media by the discrimination unit has made one round, The determination unit may determine, after the first identification information, the first identification information if the first identification information matches the second identification information stored in the second storage unit. Whether the subsequent first identification information stored in the second storage unit matches the subsequent second identification information stored in the second storage unit next to the second identification information Or the preceding first identification information stored in the first storage unit before the first identification information and the second storage unit before the second identification information A media processing apparatus is provided that determines if the stored preceding second identification information matches.

  The medium processing device may further include a second storage unit for storing the medium for which a predetermined discrimination result has not been obtained by the discrimination unit.

  When being transported from the first storage unit to the discrimination unit by the first transport unit, the plurality of media may be separated and transported, respectively.

  When being transported from the discrimination unit to the first storage unit by the second transport unit, the medium is transported from the storage unit to the first storage unit after being stored in the storage unit. May be

  The storage unit may function as a transport unit that transports the medium.

  The discrimination unit may obtain the predetermined discrimination result by discriminating the medium from an abnormal medium.

  The identification information may be a serial number printed on the medium.

  The first storage unit may be a customer service unit that receives an input of the medium from a customer and returns the medium to the customer.

  As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide a media processing device capable of determining whether or not discrimination of media has made a round.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a basic configuration of the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 10. It is an explanatory view for explaining the detailed composition of bill depositing / dispensing machine 10 concerning the embodiment of the present invention. It is a flowchart of the determination method in the payment process which concerns on the same embodiment. It is an explanatory view (the 1) for explaining the payment processing concerning the embodiment. It is an explanatory view (the 2) for explaining the payment processing concerning the embodiment. It is an explanatory view (the 3) for explaining the payment processing concerning the embodiment. It is an explanatory view (the 4) for explaining the payment processing concerning the embodiment. It is an explanatory view (the 5) for explaining the payment processing concerning the embodiment. It is an explanatory view (the 6) for explaining the payment processing concerning the embodiment. It is an explanatory view (the 7) for explaining the payment processing concerning the embodiment. It is an explanatory view for explaining the detailed composition of bill depositing and dispensing machine 20 concerning a comparative example. It is an explanatory view (the 1) for explaining the payment processing concerning a comparative example. It is an explanatory view (the 2) for explaining the payment processing concerning a comparative example. It is an explanatory view (the 3) for explaining the payment processing concerning a comparative example.

  The present invention will now be described more fully with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which exemplary embodiments of the invention are shown. In the present specification and the drawings, components having substantially the same functional configuration will be assigned the same reference numerals and redundant description will be omitted.

  In the present specification and the drawings, a plurality of components having substantially the same or similar functional configurations may be distinguished by attaching different numerals after the same reference numerals. However, when it is not necessary to distinguish each of a plurality of components having substantially the same or similar functional configuration, only the same reference numeral is given. Also, similar components in different embodiments may be distinguished by attaching different alphabets after the same reference numerals. However, when it is not necessary to distinguish each of similar components in particular, only the same reference numeral is attached.

  In the embodiment of the present invention described below, the deposit and withdrawal of banknotes provided in ATMs used in financial institutions etc., cash processing devices installed in sales offices of financial institutions, backyards of stores etc. The case where it applies to the banknote depositing / dispensing machine which processes is demonstrated to an example. However, the embodiment of the present invention is not limited to the application to the above-described bill depositing and dispensing machine, and a medium processing apparatus such as an automatic ticket vending machine which processes media such as cash vouchers, tickets and slips. It may be applied and is not particularly limited.

<< Basic Configuration of the Banknote Payment / Discharger 10 >>
First, with reference to FIG. 1, the basic configuration of the bill depositing and dispensing machine (medium processing device) 10 will be described. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a basic configuration of the bill depositing and dispensing machine 10. As shown in FIG. The bill depositing / dispensing machine 10 is provided in an ATM or the like, and performs bill deposit processing, payment processing, and the like. In addition, the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 10 may be a device that performs only a banknote depositing process, or may be an apparatus that performs only a banknote dispensing process. Here, the deposit process is a process of discriminating, counting, and storing the bills inserted by the customer or the like in the storage unit in the bill depositing / dispensing machine 10. Further, the dispensing process is a process of counting the banknotes stored in the storage unit of the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 10 and paying out the bills to the customer or the like.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 10 includes a control unit 100, a transport unit 110, a customer service unit (first storage unit) 120, a discrimination unit 130, a storage unit 140, and a temporary storage unit The second storage portion 150 mainly includes a cassette 160, a first storage case 170, a second storage case 180, and a shutter 190. In the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 10, basically, one or more banknotes are inserted into the customer service unit 120, separated one by one, conveyed to the discrimination unit 130, and the discrimination unit 130 performs discrimination It will be. Then, the discriminated banknotes are mainly transported to the temporary storage unit 150. Furthermore, when discrimination is performed on all the bills inserted into the customer service unit 120, these bills are stored in the cassette 160 for each denomination. In addition, depending on the discrimination result by the discrimination unit 130, the banknotes are returned to the customer service unit 120 or stored in the first and second storages 170 and 180. Below, the detail of each part of the said banknote deposit or withdrawal machine 10 is demonstrated.

(Control unit 100)
The control unit 100 includes a central processing unit (CPU) that is an arithmetic processing unit, a read only memory (ROM) that stores programs used by the CPU, arithmetic parameters, and the like, and programs used in the execution of the CPU. It is comprised with RAM (Random Access Memory) etc. which memorize | store temporarily the parameter etc. Such control unit 100 controls the overall operation of the bill depositing and dispensing machine 10. For example, the control unit 100 controls the transport unit 110, the actuator (not shown), various sensors (not shown), etc. provided in the bill depositing / dispensing machine 10 based on the information stored in the storage unit 140 described later. Do. In addition, as shown in FIG. 1, the control unit 100 determines whether all the plurality of banknotes stored in the customer service unit 120 have been discriminated by the discrimination unit 130, that is, discrimination of the plurality of banknotes stored in the customer service unit 120 And a determination unit 102 that determines whether the cycle has made a round.

(Conveying unit 110)
The transport unit 110 includes a transport path (not shown) for receiving bills, a transport roller (not shown) for rotating the transport path, a switching section (not shown) for guiding bills and the like, and a drive mechanism (not shown) for driving the transport rollers. The banknotes are transported to various places in the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 10, including (for example, a direct current servo motor, a pulse motor, etc.). For example, the transport rollers are disposed to face each other across the transport path, and the transport path is moved in a predetermined direction by the transport roller being controlled by the control unit 100 described above to transport banknotes. it can. Furthermore, the conveyance direction of a banknote can be switched by the blade provided in contact with the conveyance path. The transport unit 110 may be branched as described later.

(Customer service unit 120)
The customer service unit 120 stores a plurality of bills input from a customer or the like, and stores bills to be returned to the customer or the like. Specifically, the customer service unit 120 can separate a plurality of stored banknotes one by one and supply it to the transport unit 110. By doing this, the banknotes one by one into the interior of the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 10 Will be incorporated.

(Determination unit 130)
The discrimination unit 130 can discriminate banknotes passing through the inside of the discrimination unit 130 one by one. More specifically, the discrimination unit 130 incorporates therein a plurality of types of sensors (not shown) such as an authenticity sensor such as an image sensor such as an OCR (Optical Charcter Recognition) or a magnetic sensor, and the like. Denomination (for example, ten thousand yen ticket, five thousand yen ticket, two thousand yen ticket, one thousand yen ticket), true or false (true note / fake note) The condition, conveyance condition such as double feed, and the front and back of the bill etc. are distinguished. And the discrimination part 130 performs normality determination or abnormality determination with respect to the banknote which passes the discrimination part 130 based on the result of the said discrimination.

  Specifically, the genuine note refers to a medium that is discriminated as a bill by the discrimination unit 130, and the counterfeit note refers to a medium that is not discriminated as a bill. In addition, genuine banknotes are banknotes that are identified as genuine banknotes that have little dirt, etc., and that are discriminated to be suitable for use in the deposit / withdrawal process, and unfit banknotes are discriminated as genuine banknotes. Among the banknotes, it refers to a banknote that has many stains and the like and is not suitable for the deposit / withdrawal process, and a banknote that can not be used for the deposit / withdrawal process because it is an overseas banknote or the like. Then, the discrimination unit 130 performs the abnormality determination on the discriminated medium as a denomination unknown or an unacceptable banknote (abnormal medium) based on factors such as a counterfeit note, an unfit note, and the like. On the other hand, the discrimination unit 130 determines that the other medium is normal as a normal bill (normal medium).

  Furthermore, based on such normal determination or abnormal determination (discrimination result) of the discrimination unit 130, the accumulation destination of the banknotes is determined. In the following description, although bill cash-receipt-and-disbursement machine 10 is explained as what determines the accumulation place of the bill concerned based on the distinction result by discrimination part 130, it is limited in this embodiment in this embodiment Depending on the information (the state of the medium, the information written on the medium, etc.) relating to the medium (the cash voucher, the ticket, the slip, etc.) to be processed, the collection destination of the corresponding medium may be determined.

  In addition to performing the above-described discrimination, the discrimination unit 130 can also count banknotes for which a denomination has been determined. Furthermore, the discrimination unit 130 can also read identification information for identifying each bill printed on each bill.

  The identification information is a serial number printed for each bill, and is, for example, a character string composed of alphanumeric characters or the like given for each bill and printed in advance on the bill. The serial number (identification information) read by the discrimination unit 130 is stored in the storage unit 140 described later together with the discrimination result by the discrimination unit 130 as information for identifying each bill.

(Storage unit 140)
The storage unit 140 is realized by a data storage storage device such as a hard disk drive (HDD) device, and stores the result obtained by the discrimination unit 130. For example, the storage unit 140 may include a serial number storage area 200 for storing the identification information (serial number) read by the discrimination unit 130. The storage unit 140 may store various control programs (software) for controlling the entire banknote depositing and dispensing machine 10.

(Temporary storage unit 150)
The temporary storage unit 150 is for temporarily storing bills inserted into the customer service unit 120 by the customer. The temporary storage unit 150 is not temporarily determined to be a banknote (specifically, the discrimination unit 130 is not determined to be an abnormal banknote until the deposit process (payment transaction) is established by the operation of the customer, that is, until the payment amount is confirmed. Store banknotes). On the other hand, when the deposit process is canceled by the operation of the customer, the banknote stored in the temporary storage unit 150 is returned to the customer reception unit 120.

(Cassette 160)
The cassette 160 stores bills that can be used in transactions with customers. For example, a stage (not shown) capable of moving up and down by a lifting mechanism is provided inside the cassette 160, and the bills stored in the cassette 160 are stacked on the stage. Further, the cassette 160 is provided with a supply mechanism (not shown), and the banknotes in the cassette 160 can be supplied to the transport unit 110 one by one by the supply mechanism. The cassette 160 may include a plurality of cassette parts (not shown) each having the same structure. In this case, each cassette unit stores the banknotes of each denomination individually.

(First storage 170)
The first storage 170 is a storage unit for storing banknotes of a denomination not used for transactions with customers among banknotes input to the customer service unit 120 at the time of deposit transaction, for example, a 2,000 yen bill, etc. The bills conveyed by the unit 110 can be accumulated.

(Second storage 180)
The second storage 180 is a withdrawal / reject storage that stores bills determined to be unsuitable for withdrawal to the customer in the discrimination unit 130 at the time of withdrawal transaction. In addition, the bill depositing and dispensing machine 10 may have a third storage (not shown), and the third storage is, for example, identified by a counterfeit bill during payment processing or payment processing. It is a counterfeit note storage for storing banknotes determined to be present.

(Shutter 190)
The shutter 190 is provided on the side of the customer service unit 120 facing the customer etc., and opens and closes the customer service unit 120 when the customer etc. inserts a bill or takes out a bill by opening and closing the bill. When taking it into 10, the customer service unit 120 is closed.

<< Circumstances for achieving the embodiment of the present invention >>
Next, prior to the description of the embodiments of the present invention, the circumstances under which the present inventor has made the embodiments of the present invention will be described.

  First, a bill depositing and dispensing machine 20 according to a comparative example, which is a bill depositing and dispensing machine which has been studied by the present inventors so far, will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 11 is an explanatory view for explaining the detailed configuration of the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 20 according to the comparative example, and specifically, the customer service unit 120, the discrimination unit 130, and the temporary storing unit 150 in the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 20. And the positional relationship of the conveyance part 112 is shown typically. The bill depositing and dispensing machine 20 has the same basic configuration as the bill depositing and dispensing machine 10 of FIG. 1 described above.

  As shown in FIG. 11, in the bill depositing and dispensing machine 20 according to the comparative example, the supply port 122 for supplying the bill to the customer service unit 120 from the customer service unit 120 to the discrimination unit 130 in the bill depositing and dispensing machine 20 A return port 124 for returning the banknotes from inside the metal machine 20 to the customer service unit 120 is provided.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 11, in the bill depositing / dispensing machine 20, the transport unit 112 passes the discrimination unit 130 from the supply port 122 of the customer service unit 120 and makes a round to the return port 124 of the customer service unit 120. As stretched. Further, the transport unit 112 between the discrimination unit 130 and the return port 124 of the customer service unit 120 is provided with a transport unit extending to the temporary storage unit 150, and more specifically, a branch unit 112c. A blade 306 is provided at a branch point where the conveyance unit 112 and the branch unit 112 c are branched, and by controlling the blade 306, the conveyance direction of the bill is directed to the temporary storage unit 150 or the customer reception unit 120. The direction toward the return port 124 of the The transport unit 112 and the branch unit 112c are provided continuously, and are driven to transport the banknote along the same direction (clockwise direction in the drawing).

  Next, an outline of the deposit process in the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 20 according to the comparative example will be described. The bills inserted into the customer service unit 120 by the customer or the like are separated one by one and supplied to the transport unit 112 through the supply port 122 and transported to the discrimination unit 130 by the transport unit 112. And the banknote discriminated by the discrimination part 130 will be conveyed to the accumulation destination according to the discrimination result. In detail, the banknote determined to be a normal banknote by the discrimination unit 130 is conveyed to the temporary storage unit 150, and the banknote determined to be an abnormal banknote is returned to the customer service unit 120 via the return port 124. Furthermore, if discrimination is performed by the discrimination unit 130 on all the plurality of bills inserted into the customer service unit 120 by the customer etc., and payment processing (payment transaction) is established by the operation of the customer etc. The banknotes stored in the storage unit 150 are stored in the cassette 160, and the banknotes returned to the customer reception unit 120 are collected by the customer or the like.

  In addition, since the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 20 according to the comparative example has a configuration in which banknotes determined as abnormal banknotes are returned directly from the discrimination unit 130 to the customer service unit 120, a plurality of abnormal banknotes are those abnormal banknotes Are returned to the return port 124 of the customer service unit 120 in the same order as they were supplied from the supply port 122 of the customer service unit 120 to the discrimination unit 130.

  Next, details of the deposit process in the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 20 according to the comparative example will be described with reference to FIGS. 12 to 14. 12 to 14 are explanatory diagrams for explaining the deposit process according to the comparative example. Specifically, the upper diagrams in FIGS. 12 to 14 schematically show the movements of the banknotes at each stage of the deposit process in the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 20, and the lower tables of these figures show the deposit process. The state of the table stored in the serial number storage area 200 of the storage unit 140 at each stage is shown.

  In the serial number storage area 200, all of the banknotes stored in the customer service unit 120 have been discriminated by the discrimination unit 130, that is, two pieces of information are used to determine that the discrimination of the stored banknotes has made a round. It is stored as a table, a deposited banknote serial number table 230, and an abnormal banknote serial number table 240.

  In detail, the deposited banknote serial number table 230 is the order in which the discrimination unit 130 reads the serial number (identification information) of the banknote read by the discrimination unit 130, that is, from the supply port 122 of the customer service unit 120 to the discrimination unit 130 Store in the order in which they were supplied. The abnormal banknote serial number table 240 stores identification information (serial number) of banknotes that are judged as abnormal banknotes by the discrimination unit 130 and returned to the customer service unit 120 in the order when they are returned to the customer service unit 120. In the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 20 according to the comparative example, the abnormal banknotes are supplied to the discrimination unit 130 from the supply port 122 of the customer service unit 120 in the order when the abnormal banknotes are returned to the return port 124 of the customer service unit 120. It is the same as the order when it was done.

  First, as shown in the upper part of FIG. 12, six bills (note 1, note 2, note 3, note 4, note 5, note 6) are present in the customer service unit 120 of the note depositing and dispensing machine 20 according to the comparative example. It shall be input by a customer etc. At this stage, as shown in the lower part of FIG. 12, since the discrimination by the discrimination unit 130 and the reading of the serial number are not performed on the deposited banknote serial number table 230 and the abnormal banknote serial number table 240, the serial number is It is not stored. In the deposited banknote serial number table 230 and the abnormal banknote serial number table 240, an upper row is attached with an index number (INDEX) indicating the order in which the information is stored, and the lower row is attached to the lower row , Serial number is stored.

  Subsequently, the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 20 separates the banknotes inserted into the customer service unit 120 one by one, and transports the banknotes to the discrimination unit 130. Then, the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 20 conveys the banknote determined to be a normal banknote to the temporary storage unit 150 based on the discrimination result in the discrimination unit 130 and conveys the banknote determined to be an abnormal banknote to the customer reception unit 120.

  In detail, the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 20 sequentially transports the banknotes 1 to 5 to the discrimination unit 130. And bill cash-receipt-and-disbursement machine 20 conveys bill 1, bill 2, and bill 4 which were judged as an abnormal bill by discrimination part 130 to customer service part 120, bill 3, and bill 5 judged as a normal bill temporarily storing part. It is transported to 150, and the state as shown in the upper part of FIG. 13 is obtained (the first deposit stage).

  As shown in the lower part of FIG. 13, in the first deposit stage as described above, the deposited banknote serial number table 230 stores the serial numbers of the banknotes read by the discrimination unit 130 in the read order. In detail, the deposited banknote serial number table 230 stores the serial numbers of the banknotes in the order of the banknote 1, the banknote 2, the banknote 3, the banknote 4, and the banknote 5. Further, the abnormal banknote serial number table 240 stores the serial numbers of the banknotes determined as abnormal banknotes by the discrimination unit 130 and returned (returned) to the customer service unit 120 in the order returned to the customer service unit 120. Specifically, the abnormal bill serial number table 240 stores the serial numbers of the bills in the order of the bill 1, the bill 2 and the bill 4. In FIG. 13 and FIGS. 4 to 10 and 14 referred to in the following description, specific serial numbers are stored as serial numbers stored in the deposited banknote serial number table 230 and the abnormal banknote serial number table 240. Instead of, the name of the bill (e.g. "bill 1") is shown.

  Subsequently, the bill depositing / dispensing machine 20 continues to transport the bill from the customer service unit 120. In detail, the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 20 sequentially transports the banknote 6, the banknote 1, the banknote 2, and the banknote 4 stored in the customer service unit 120 to the discrimination unit 130. Then, the bill depositing / dispensing machine 20 conveys the bill 2 determined as an abnormal bill and the bill 4 to the customer service unit 120, and conveys the bill 6 determined as a normal bill and the bill 1 to the temporary storage unit 150. As shown in the upper row of (the second deposit stage).

  Then, as shown in the lower part of FIG. 14, in the second deposit stage as described above, the deposited banknote serial number table 230 is newly stored in the order of reading the serial numbers of the banknotes read by the discrimination unit 130 . At this time, in the deposited banknote serial number table 230, the serial number stored in the first deposit step described above is erased, and the serial number of the banknote read by the discrimination unit 130 in the second deposit step is stored. Specifically, the deposited banknote serial number table 230 stores the serial numbers of the banknotes in the order of the banknotes 6, 1, 2, and 4.

  Here, the determination unit 102 of the control unit 100 determines whether all the banknotes stored in the customer service unit 120 have been discriminated by the discrimination unit 130, that is, discrimination of the stored banknotes has made one round. Specifically, the determination unit 102 stores the serial number (see the lower part of FIG. 14) stored in the deposited banknote serial number table 230 at the second deposit stage and the abnormal banknote serial number table 240 at the first deposit stage. It compares with the serial number (refer the lower stage of FIG. 13), and searches the banknote in which a serial number corresponds. Specifically, in the lower example of FIG. 13 and the lower example of FIG. 14, the serial number (note 1) of the bill corresponding to INDEX 1 of the deposited banknote serial number table 230 at the second deposit stage and the first deposit stage The serial number (banknote 1) of the banknote corresponding to INDEX 0 in the abnormal banknote serial number table 240 in FIG. In the following description, a bill (in the above example, the bill 1 corresponds) in which the serial number stored in the deposited banknote serial number table 230 matches the serial number stored in the abnormal banknote serial number table 240 , I will call the same serial number detection banknote.

  Subsequently, the determination unit 102 receives the deposited banknote serial number table 230 (see the lower part of FIG. 14) at the second deposit stage and the abnormal banknote serial number table 240 (see the lower stage of FIG. 13) at the first deposit stage. In the meantime, banknotes having serial numbers stored in respective tables after the same serial number detection banknote are searched, and the banknotes having the same serial number are searched for. Specifically, in the lower part of FIG. 13 and the lower part of FIG. 14, the serial number (note 2) of the bill corresponding to INDEX 2 of the deposited bill serial number table 230 at the second deposit stage and the first deposit stage The serial number (banknote 2) of the banknote corresponding to INDEX 1 of the abnormal banknote serial number table 240 matches. In the following description, a bill whose serial number is stored in each of the tables after the same serial number detection bill is referred to as a subsequent bill. On the other hand, a bill whose serial number is stored in each of the tables before the same serial number detection bill is called a leading bill.

  Then, the determination unit 102 compares the deposited banknote serial number table 230 (see the lower part of FIG. 14) at the second deposit stage and the abnormal banknote serial number table 240 (see the lower stage of FIG. 13) at the first deposit stage. In the case where there are two or more banknotes with matching serial numbers (in the above example, banknote 1 and banknote 2) and the order of the banknotes with the same serial number matches in both tables (in the above example) It is determined that the discrimination of the banknote has made one round in the order of the banknote 1 and the banknote 2 in the abnormal banknote serial number table 240 and the deposited banknote serial number table 230).

  That is, in the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 20 according to the comparative example, the determination unit 102 searches for the presence / absence of the same serial number detection banknote, and further determines whether or not the serial numbers match in the subsequent banknotes. It was judged whether the discrimination went round.

  In addition, when the determination part 102 does not determine with one round of the discrimination of a banknote at this stage, as shown to the area | region 420 of the lower stage of FIG. 14, the abnormal banknote serial number table 240 is a 2nd payment stage. The serial numbers of the bills (bills 2 and 4) returned to the customer service unit 120 are additionally stored. At this time, in the abnormal banknote serial number table 240, the serial number stored in the above-described first deposit stage is not deleted, and the second column in the table in which the serial number is not stored (the area 420) The serial number of the bill returned to the customer service unit 120 in the deposit stage is stored.

  Then, the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 20 repeatedly performs the above-described depositing step until it is determined by the determination unit 102 that the discrimination of the banknote has made one round.

  However, when the internal configuration of the apparatus of the banknote depositing and dispensing machine is changed, the above-described determination method can not determine that the discrimination of banknotes has made one round. Specifically, the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 20 according to the comparative example has a configuration in which banknotes determined to be abnormal banknotes are returned directly from the discrimination unit 130 to the customer service unit 120. The banknotes are returned to the return port 124 of the customer service unit 120 in the same order as the bills are supplied from the supply port 122 of the customer service unit 120 to the discrimination unit 130. Furthermore, in the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 20, the deposited banknote serial number table 230 discriminates the serial numbers of the banknotes read by the discrimination unit 130 in the order in which the discrimination unit 130 reads, that is, from the supply port 122 of the customer service unit 120 It stores in the order at the time of being supplied to the part 130. In addition, the abnormal banknote serial number table 240 stores the serial numbers of the banknotes determined as the abnormal banknotes by the discrimination unit 130 and returned to the customer service unit 120 in the order when they are returned to the customer service unit 120. Is the same as the order when it is supplied from the supply port 122 of the customer service unit 120 to the discrimination unit 130, the order when the serial number of the abnormal banknote is supplied from the supply port 122 of the customer service unit 120 to the discrimination unit 130 Store in

  On the other hand, when the internal configuration of the apparatus of the banknote depositing and dispensing machine is changed, the abnormal banknotes are supplied to the discrimination unit 130 from the supply port 122 of the customer service unit 120 due to the change. The order will be returned to the return port 124 of the customer service unit 120 in the reverse order. In such a case, since the order in which the abnormal banknotes are returned is reversed, the determination method of the comparative example, that is, the same serial number detection banknote is searched, and whether the serial numbers match in the subsequent banknotes In such a method, it can not be determined whether or not the discrimination of banknotes has made one round.

  Then, in view of such a situation, the present inventors have come to create an embodiment of the present invention. According to the embodiment of the present invention, the customer service unit in the reverse order (the second order) to the order (first order) when the abnormal banknotes are supplied from the supply port 122 of the customer service unit 120 to the discrimination unit 130 A bill depositing / dispensing machine (medium processing device) 10 which can determine whether or not discrimination of a bill (medium) stored in the customer service unit 120 has made a round even if it is returned to the return port 124 of 120. Can be provided. Details of such an embodiment of the present invention will be sequentially described below.

<< Embodiment of the Invention >>
<Detailed Configuration of Banknote Payment and Dispensing Machine 10 According to the Embodiment of the Present Invention>
First, the detailed configuration of the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 10 according to the embodiment of the present invention will be described. The bill depositing and dispensing machine 10 has the same basic configuration as the bill depositing and dispensing machine 10 described above with reference to FIG. 1. Therefore, the description of the basic configuration of the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 10 according to the present embodiment is omitted here, and the detailed configuration of the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 10 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 2 is an explanatory view for explaining the detailed configuration of the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 10 according to the embodiment of the present invention, and in detail, the customer service unit 120, the discrimination unit 130 and the temporary storage in the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 10 The positional relationship between the unit 150 and the transport unit 110 is schematically shown.

  As shown in FIG. 2, in the bill depositing and dispensing machine 10 according to the present embodiment, as in the above-described comparative example, the customer serving unit 120 receives a bill from the customer serving unit 120 to the discrimination unit 130 in the bill depositing and dispensing machine 10 A supply port 122 for supplying and a return port 124 for returning a bill from the inside of the bill depositing and dispensing machine 10 to the customer service unit 120 are provided.

  Moreover, as shown in FIG. 2, the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 10 which concerns on this embodiment has the conveyance part 110 of the form different from the conveyance part 112 which concerns on a comparative example. In detail, in the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 10, the transport unit (first transport unit) 110 extends from the supply port 122 of the customer service unit 120, passes through the discrimination unit 130, and extends to the temporary storage unit 150. There is. Furthermore, between the discrimination unit 130 and the temporary storage unit 150, a part of the transport unit 110 branches and extends in a direction different from the temporary storage unit 150. In the following description, a portion where the conveyance unit 110 branches is referred to as a storage unit 110 d. The storage unit 110 d is a conveyance unit that branches and extends from the conveyance unit 110. Therefore, the storage unit 110 d can convey a bill as a conveyance unit. Furthermore, the storage unit 110 d can function as a storage unit that temporarily stores the bill by temporarily stopping the conveyance of the bill. Furthermore, in the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 10 according to the present embodiment, a blade 302 is provided at a branch point where the transport unit 110 and the storage unit 110 d headed to the temporary storage unit 150. By controlling the above, it is possible to make the transport direction of the banknotes be the direction toward the temporary storage unit 150 or the direction toward the storage unit 110 d.

  Furthermore, as shown in FIG. 2, in the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 10 according to the present embodiment, the transport unit 110 is branched and extended between the customer service unit 120 and the discrimination unit 130 (a second branch 110 b (second A transport unit is provided, and the branch unit 110 b transports the banknote (for example, an abnormal banknote) passing through the discrimination unit 130 to the return port 124 of the customer service unit 120. In detail, a blade 304 is provided at a branch point where the conveyance unit 110 and the branch unit 110b branch, and by controlling the direction of the blade 304, the conveyance direction of the bill is directed to the discrimination unit 130. Or towards the customer service unit 120.

  When a bill passes through the discrimination unit 130 and is returned to the return port 124 of the customer service unit 120, the bill passes through a portion of the transport unit 110, and further passes through the branch section 110b and returns. It will be returned to 124. That is, a part of the path when the bill is supplied from the customer service unit 120 into the bill depositing / dispensing machine 10 and the path when the bill is returned from the inside of the bill depositing / dispensing machine 10 to the customer service part 120 are common. It will be done. In addition, when a bill is supplied from the customer service unit 120 into the bill depositing / dispensing machine 10, the transport unit 110 and the storage unit 110d are directed downward in FIG. 2 and in the direction from left to right. Transport the banknotes. On the other hand, when a bill is returned from the inside of the bill depositing / dispensing machine 10 to the customer service unit 120, the transport unit 110, the branching unit 110b, and the storage unit 110d are in the upper to lower direction in FIG. Transport the banknotes in the direction towards. Therefore, in the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 10 according to the present embodiment, it is possible to switch between supply and return of banknotes by switching the transport direction of the transport unit 110 or the like.

  Further, in the above description, although the storage unit 110 d is described as being formed by the transport unit branched from the transport unit 110, the storage unit 110 d is not limited to this in this embodiment. It may be a storage of bills having the same configuration. In this case, for example, in the storage which is the storage section 110d, the receiving port for the transported banknotes and the outlet for the received banknotes are common, and the storage is the banknotes received The stored bills are to be discharged in the reverse order of the order of.

  Next, an outline of the deposit process in the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 10 according to the present embodiment will be described. In the present embodiment, the bills inserted into the customer service unit 120 by the customer or the like are separated one by one, supplied to the transport unit 110 through the supply port 122, and transported to the discrimination unit 130 by the transport unit 110. . And the banknote discriminated by the discrimination part 130 will be conveyed to the accumulation destination according to the discrimination result.

  In detail, in the present embodiment described below, the banknote determined to be a normal banknote by the discrimination unit 130 is conveyed to the temporary storage unit 150, and the banknote determined to be an abnormal banknote is temporarily stored in the storage unit 110d. After being accumulated, it is passed through the discrimination unit 130 and returned to the return port 124 of the customer service unit 120. However, in this embodiment, it is not limited to conveying a bill as mentioned above. For example, in the present embodiment, the banknote determined as the abnormal banknote by the discrimination unit 130 is conveyed to the temporary storage unit 150 or the like (may be another storage unit), and the banknote determined as the normal banknote is Once temporarily accumulated in the storage unit 110 d, the identification unit 130 may be passed through and returned to the return port 124 of the customer service unit 120.

  Furthermore, if the discrimination by the discrimination unit 130 is performed on all the plurality of bills inserted into the customer service unit 120 by the customer etc., and if the payment process (payment transaction) is established by the operation of the customer etc. The banknotes stored in the storage unit 150 are stored in the cassette 160, and the banknotes returned to the customer reception unit 120 are collected by the customer or the like.

  In addition, the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 10 according to the present embodiment has a configuration in which the banknotes determined to be abnormal banknotes are once accumulated in the storage unit 110 d and then passed through the discrimination unit 130 and returned to the customer service unit 120 Since the plurality of abnormal banknotes are supplied to the discrimination unit 130 from the supply port 122 of the customer service unit 120, the plurality of abnormal banknotes are in the reverse order (the second order) to the order (first order) It will be returned to the return port 124 of the customer service unit 120. The details of the deposit process according to the present embodiment will be described later.

  In the present embodiment, as described above, by providing the storage unit 110 d as a part of the transport unit, a storage case having the same configuration as the temporary storage unit 150 is provided, as in the comparative example, Compared to the case where the transport unit 112 is provided so as to pass from the customer service unit 120 to the discrimination unit 130 and make a round to the customer service unit 120, the increase in the manufacturing cost and the volume of the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 10 can be suppressed. Furthermore, in the present embodiment, the transport unit 110 or the like is stopped in the transport stop or return direction (from the bottom to the top and from the left to the right in FIG. 2 until the amount of banknotes that can be accumulated in the storage 110d is reached. It is possible to continue the conveyance of bills in the supply direction (the direction from top to bottom and from right to left in FIG. 2) without conveying the bills in the direction). The processing time of the bill deposit process can also be shortened.

  In addition, in the following description, although it demonstrates as what can accumulate | store three banknotes in the storage part 110d, in this embodiment, it is not limited to this and is accumulated in the storage part 110d. The amount of possible banknotes can be appropriately adjusted in consideration of the manufacturing cost, the volume, and the like.

  Further, in the present embodiment, the bill depositing / dispensing machine 10 is not limited to the detailed configuration as shown in FIG. 2, and an abnormal bill determined to be an abnormal bill by the discrimination unit 130 is customer service. The configuration is not particularly limited as long as the configuration is such that the order is returned to the return port 124 of the customer service unit 120 in the reverse order to the order when the supply port 122 of the unit 120 supplies the identification unit 130.

  Furthermore, also in the present embodiment, in the serial number storage area 200 of the storage unit 140, all the bills stored in the customer service unit 120 are discriminated by the discrimination unit 130, that is, it is determined that the discrimination of the banknotes has made The information used to make the deposit is stored as the deposited banknote serial number table (first storage unit) 210 and the abnormal banknote serial number table 220 (second storage unit) (see FIGS. 4 to 10).

  Specifically, the deposited banknote serial number table 210 according to the present embodiment is, as in the comparative example, the order in which the discrimination unit 130 reads the serial number (identification information) of the banknote read by the discrimination unit 130, ie, customer service It stores in the order at the time of being supplied to the discrimination part 130 from the supply port 122 of the part 120. On the other hand, when the abnormal bill serial number table 220 according to the present embodiment is returned to the customer service unit 120, the identification information (serial number) of the banknote determined to be an abnormal banknote by the discrimination unit 130 and returned to the customer service unit 120 is returned. Store in the order of In the present embodiment, the order when the abnormal banknotes are returned to the return port 124 of the customer service unit 120 is the order when the abnormal banknotes are supplied from the supply port 122 of the customer service unit 120 to the discrimination unit 130 Is the opposite. Therefore, the abnormal banknote serial number table 220 according to the present embodiment is the reverse of the serial numbers of the abnormal banknotes in the order in which these abnormal banknotes are supplied from the supply port 122 of the customer service unit 120 to the discrimination unit 130. Store. The details of the deposited banknote serial number table 210 and the abnormal banknote serial number table 220 will be described later.

  In addition, each time the deposit step is performed in the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 10, the deposited banknote serial number table 210 newly stores the serial numbers of the series of banknotes read by the discrimination unit 130. Therefore, in the new deposit stage carried out next, the deposited bill serial number table 210 erases all the serial numbers stored in the previous deposit stage, and a series of the serial numbers read by the discrimination unit 130 in the new deposit stage. The bill serial number is newly stored. On the other hand, in the present embodiment, the abnormal banknote serial number table 220 stores the serial numbers of the returned series of banknotes each time the banknote deposit and withdrawal machine 10 performs the return step. In detail, the abnormal banknote serial number table 220 is stored so as to add the serial number of the banknote returned at the new return stage without deleting the serial number stored earlier. The details of the deposit stage and the return stage will be described later.

<< Judgment method according to the embodiment of the present invention >>
The detailed configuration of the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 10 according to the present embodiment has been described above. Next, the determination method according to the embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 3 is a flowchart of the determination method in the deposit process according to the present embodiment. The determination method according to the present embodiment described below is performed by the determination unit 102 of the control unit 100 described above. That is, in the determination method, whether the plurality of banknotes stored in the customer service unit 120 are all discriminated by the discrimination unit 130 by the determination unit 102, in other words, the discrimination of the plurality of banknotes stored in the customer service unit 120 It is a method for determining whether or not it has made a round.

  The main flow of the determination method according to the present embodiment will be described. The determination unit 102 stores the serial number (first identification information) stored in the deposited banknote serial number table 210 and the abnormal banknote serial number table 220. The same serial number detection banknote in which the serial number (2nd identification information) corresponds is searched. Furthermore, when there is an identical serial number detection banknote having a matching serial number, the determination unit 102 determines that the serial number stored in the deposited banknote serial number table 210 is abnormal with the subsequent banknote of the same serial number detection banknote. A banknote whose serial number stored in the banknote serial number table 220 matches is searched, or, in a preceding banknote of the same serial number detection banknote, the serial number stored in the deposited banknote serial number table 210 and the abnormal banknote registration A bill is searched for which the serial number stored in the number table 220 matches. Then, when there is a bill whose serial number matches in the subsequent bill or the preceding bill, the determination unit 102 determines that the discrimination of the bills has made one round.

  Specifically, as shown in FIG. 3, the determination method according to the present embodiment includes a plurality of steps from step S101 to step S121. The details of each step of the determination method according to the present embodiment will be described below.

  In the example described below, it is assumed that the banknotes inserted into the customer service unit 120 by the customer include the abnormal banknotes.

(Step S101)
The determination unit 102 sets an index number (INDEX) of a bill to be searched for in the deposited banknote serial number table 210 and the abnormal banknote serial number table 220 to zero. Therefore, the determination unit 102 determines whether the serial numbers match in order from the banknote whose headline number is 0 when searching for the banknotes having the same serial number.

(Step S103)
The determination unit 102 confirms whether a bill has been conveyed to the storage unit 110 d based on the discrimination result of the discrimination unit 130 or the sensing result of a sensor (not shown) provided in the storage unit 110 d. The determination unit 102 proceeds to step S105 if the banknotes are transported to the storage unit 110d, and proceeds to step S121 if the banknotes are not transported to the storage unit 110d.

(Step S105)
Determination unit 102 checks whether a serial number is stored in the corresponding index number (INDEX) (0 for the first time) of deposited banknote serial number table 210. If a serial number is stored in the corresponding heading number, the determination unit 102 proceeds to step S107. If a serial number is not stored in the corresponding heading number, the determination unit 102 proceeds to step S121.

(Step S107)
The determination unit 102 confirms whether or not the serial number is stored in the corresponding index number (INDEX) (0 for the first time) of the abnormal banknote serial number table 220. If a serial number is stored in the corresponding heading number, the determination unit 102 proceeds to step S109. If a serial number is not stored in the corresponding heading number, the determination unit 102 proceeds to step S117.

(Step S109)
Determination unit 102 determines the serial number stored in the corresponding index number (INDEX) (initially 0) of deposited banknote serial number table 210, and the corresponding index number (INDEX) of abnormal banknote serial number table 220 (initially 0). The serial numbers stored in are compared with each other to determine whether these serial numbers match. If the serial numbers match (if the same serial number detection banknote is present), the determination unit 102 proceeds to step S111. If the serial numbers do not match, the determination unit 102 proceeds to step S119. In this case, even if two abnormal banknote serial number tables 220 include two serial numbers that match the serial numbers stored in the corresponding heading numbers of the deposited banknote serial number table 210. The determination unit 102 determines whether the serial number stored in the corresponding heading number in the abnormal banknote serial number table 220 matches the serial number stored in the corresponding heading number in the deposited banknote serial number table 210. Do.

(Step S111)
After the same serial number detection banknote searched in step S109 described above, determination unit 102 adds a serial number to the subsequent banknote whose serial number is stored in deposited banknote serial number table 210 and abnormal banknote serial number table 220. It is determined whether or not they match. The determination unit 102 proceeds to step S113 if the serial numbers match in the subsequent banknotes, and proceeds to step S115 if the serial numbers do not match in the subsequent banknotes.

(Step S113)
The determination unit 102 determines that the discrimination of the banknotes has made one round, and ends the process.

(Step S115)
Determination unit 102 adds a serial number to the preceding banknote whose serial number has been stored in deposited banknote serial number table 210 and abnormal banknote serial number table 220 just before the same serial number detection banknote searched in step S109 described above. It is determined whether or not there is a match. The determination unit 102 proceeds to step S113 when the serial numbers match in the leading banknote, and proceeds to step S117 when the serial numbers do not match in the leading banknote.

(Step S117)
Determination unit 102 increases the index number (INDEX) of the bill to be searched for in the deposited bill serial number table 210 by one, and further, the index number of the bill to be searched for in the abnormal bill serial number table 220 (INDEX ) Is set to 0, and the process returns to step S105.

(Step S119)
The determination unit 102 increases the index number (INDEX) of the bill to be searched for in the abnormal bill serial number table 220 by one, and returns to step S107.

(Step S121)
The determination unit 102 determines that the discrimination of banknotes has not completed one cycle, and ends the process.

<Example>
The determination method according to the present embodiment has been described above. Next, the determination method in the deposit process according to the present embodiment will be more specifically described with reference to FIGS. 4 to 10 while showing a specific example. 4 to 10 are explanatory diagrams for explaining the deposit process according to the present embodiment. In detail, the upper diagrams in FIGS. 4 to 10 schematically show the movements of the banknotes at each stage of the deposit process in the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 10, and the lower tables of these figures show the processes of the deposit process. The state of the table stored in the serial number storage area 200 of the storage unit 140 at each stage is shown. The example shown below is only an example of the deposit process according to the present embodiment, and the deposit process according to the present embodiment is not limited to the following example.

  First, as shown in the upper part of FIG. 4, the bill receiving unit 120 of the present embodiment receives six bills (bill 1, bill 2, bill 3, bill 4, bill 5, bill 6) as shown in the upper part of FIG. Shall be input by the customer etc. At this stage, as shown in the lower part of FIG. 4, since the discrimination by the discrimination unit 130 and the reading of the serial number are not performed on the incoming banknote serial number table 210 and the abnormal banknote serial number table 220, the serial number is It is not stored. In the inserted banknote serial number table 210 and the abnormal banknote serial number table 220, an index number (INDEX) indicating the order in which the serial numbers are stored is stored in the upper row, and in the lower row A serial number is stored.

  Subsequently, the banknote depositing / dispensing machine 10 separates the banknotes inserted into the customer service unit 120 one by one and transports the banknotes to the discrimination unit 130. And bill cash-receipt-and-disbursement machine 10 conveys a bill judged to be a normal bill to temporary storage part 150 based on a discrimination result in discrimination part 130, and conveys a bill judged to be an abnormal bill to storage part 110d. In the present embodiment, the banknote depositing / dispensing machine 10 serves banknotes until the amount of banknotes accumulated in the storage unit 110 d reaches the amount (here, three sheets) of banknotes that can be accumulated in the storage unit 110 d. The sheet 120 is conveyed from the portion 120 to the discrimination portion 130, and the conveyance of the banknotes to the accumulation destination corresponding to the discrimination result of the discrimination portion 130 is continued.

  In detail, the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 10 sequentially conveys the banknotes 1 to 3 to the discrimination unit 130. And bill cash-receipt-and-disbursement machine 10 conveys bill 1, bill 2, and bill 3 which were judged as an abnormal bill by discrimination part 130 to storing section 110 d, and it will be in a state as shown in the upper row of FIG. Deposit stage).

  As shown in the lower part of FIG. 5, the deposited banknote serial number table 210 stores the serial numbers of the banknotes read by the discrimination unit 130 in the order of reading. In detail, the deposited banknote serial number table 210 stores the serial numbers of these banknotes in the order of the banknote 1, the banknote 2 and the banknote 3. On the other hand, since there is no bill returned to the customer service unit 120, the abnormal bill serial number table 220 does not store the serial number at this time. As described above, in FIGS. 4 to 10, as serial numbers stored in the deposited banknote serial number table 230 and the abnormal banknote serial number table 240, the names of the banknotes instead of the specific serial numbers. (For example, "bill 1") is shown.

  In the present embodiment, at this stage, since the banknotes are transported and accumulated in the storage unit 110d (step S103 in FIG. 3), the determination unit 102 makes one round of discrimination of the banknotes in accordance with the flowchart of FIG. Will be determined. However, since the serial number is not stored in the abnormal banknote serial number table 240 (step S105 in FIG. 3), the determination unit 102 finally determines that the discrimination of the banknote has not made one round (FIG. 3). Step S121), the process ends.

  Therefore, the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 10 continues the deposit process since the discrimination of the banknotes has not made a round.

  Next, in the present embodiment, the bill depositing / dispensing machine 10 causes the bill 1, the bill 2, and the bill 3 accumulated in the storage unit 110d to pass through the discrimination unit 130 and return the bill to the customer service unit 120. At this time, since the bills accumulated in the storage section 110 d are later returned to the customer service section 120 later, the bills accumulated in the storage section 110 d are reverse to the order in which the bills are transported from the customer service section 120 It will be returned to the customer service unit 120 in the order of. In detail, the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 10 returns these banknotes to the customer service unit 120 in the order of the banknotes 3, 2 and 1. Then, the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 10 is in the state as shown in the upper part of FIG. 6 (first return stage).

  Then, the abnormal banknote serial number table 220 stores the serial numbers of the banknotes determined as abnormal banknotes by the discrimination unit 130 and returned to the customer service unit 120 in the order returned to the customer service unit 120. Specifically, the abnormal bill serial number table 220 stores the serial numbers of the bills in the order of the bill 3, the bill 2 and the bill 1.

  Subsequently, the banknote depositing / dispensing machine 10 further continues to transport the banknotes from the customer service unit 120. At this time, all the serial numbers (see the lower part of FIG. 6) stored in the deposited banknote serial number table 210 are erased. In detail, the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 10 sequentially transports the banknotes 4, 5, 6, and 3 stored in the customer service unit 120 to the discrimination unit 130. Then, the bill depositing / dispensing machine 10 conveys the bill 5, the bill 6, and the bill 3 determined to be an abnormal bill to the storage section 110d, and conveys the bill 4 determined to be a normal bill to the temporary storage unit 150. As shown in the upper row of (the second deposit stage).

  Then, as shown in the lower part of FIG. 7, the deposited banknote serial number table 210 newly stores the serial number of the banknote read by the discrimination unit 130 in the order of reading. In detail, the deposited banknote serial number table 210 stores the serial numbers of the banknotes in the order of the banknotes 4, 5, 6 and 3. On the other hand, at this stage, as shown in the lower part of FIG. 7, the abnormal banknote serial number table 220 remains in the state of storing the serial numbers of the banknotes 3, 2 and 1 stored at the previous return stage. .

  In the present embodiment, since the banknotes are transported and accumulated in the storage unit 110d at this stage (step S103 in FIG. 3), the determination unit 102 makes one round of discrimination of the banknotes according to the flowchart in FIG. Will be determined.

  Specifically, since the serial numbers are stored in the deposited banknote serial number table 210 and the abnormal banknote serial number table 220, they correspond to step S105 and step S107 in FIG. 3, and accordingly, the determination unit 102 has the same serial number. The process can proceed to step S109 in FIG. 3 in which a search for a detected banknote is performed.

  Then, as shown in the lower part of FIG. 7, the serial number (note 3) of the bill of the heading number (INDEX) 3 of the deposited bill serial number table 210 and the note of the heading number (INDEX) 0 of the abnormal bill serial number table 220 And the serial number of (). Therefore, since it corresponds to step S109 of FIG. 3 (the same serial number detection banknote exists), the determination unit 102 can proceed to the next step S111.

  However, in step S111 of determining the coincidence of the serial numbers of the subsequent banknotes, the serial numbers of the subsequent banknotes do not match because the serial number is not stored next to the same serial number detection banknote in the deposited banknote serial number table 210 It becomes. Therefore, the determination unit 102 proceeds to step S115 for determining the coincidence of the serial numbers of the preceding banknotes. Furthermore, in step S115 for determining the coincidence of the serial numbers of the leading banknotes, the serial numbers of the leading banknotes do not match because the serial number is not stored in front of the same serial number detection banknote in the abnormal banknote serial number table 220 It becomes. Therefore, the determination unit 102 determines that the discrimination of banknotes has not completed one cycle (step S121 in FIG. 3), and ends the process. Then, the banknote depositing / dispensing machine 10 further continues the depositing process since the discrimination of the banknotes has not made a round.

  Next, the bill depositing / dispensing machine 10 returns the bill 3, the bill 6, and the bill 5 accumulated in the storage unit 110d to the customer service unit 120. At this time, since the banknotes accumulated later in the storage unit 110 d are first returned to the customer service unit 120, these banknotes are returned to the customer service unit 120 in the reverse order of the conveyance from the customer service unit 120. Be done. More specifically, the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 10 returns these banknotes to the customer service unit 120 in the order of the banknotes 3, 6, and 5. Then, the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 10 is in the state as shown in the upper part of FIG. 8 (second return stage).

  Then, the abnormal banknote serial number table 220 is the abnormal banknote serial number table 220 in the order in which the serial numbers of the banknotes determined as abnormal banknotes by the discrimination unit 130 and returned to the customer service unit 120 are returned to the customer service unit 120. Is additionally stored in the field (the area 400 in FIG. 8) in which the serial number is not stored. Specifically, the abnormal banknote serial number table 220 stores the serial numbers of these banknotes in the area 400 in the order of the banknotes 3, 6 and 5.

  Subsequently, the banknote depositing / dispensing machine 10 further continues to transport the banknotes from the customer service unit 120. At this time, all the serial numbers (see the lower part of FIG. 8) stored in the deposited banknote serial number table 210 are erased. In detail, the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 10 sequentially transports the banknote 2, the banknote 1, and the banknote 3 stored in the customer service unit 120 to the discrimination unit 130. And bill cash-receipt-and-disbursement machine 10 conveys bill 2 judged as an abnormal bill, bill 1, and bill 3 to storage part 110d, and it will be in a state as shown in the upper row of Drawing 9 (3rd payment step).

  Then, as shown in the lower part of FIG. 9, the deposited banknote serial number table 210 newly stores the serial numbers of the banknotes read by the discrimination unit 130 in the order of reading. In detail, the deposited banknote serial number table 210 stores the serial numbers of these banknotes in the order of the banknotes 2, 1, and 3. On the other hand, at this stage, as shown in the lower part of FIG. 9, the abnormal banknote serial number table 220 remains in the state of storing the serial numbers stored at the return stage which has been carried out so far.

  In the present embodiment, since the banknotes are transported and accumulated in the storage unit 110d at this stage (step S103 in FIG. 3), the determination unit 102 makes one round of discrimination of the banknotes according to the flowchart in FIG. Will be determined.

  Specifically, as shown in the lower part of FIG. 9, since serial numbers are stored in the deposited banknote serial number table 210 and the abnormal banknote serial number table 220, they correspond to steps S105 and S107 in FIG. Therefore, the determination unit 102 can proceed to step S109 in FIG. 3 in which the same serial number detection banknote is searched.

  Then, as shown in the lower part of FIG. 9, the serial number (note 2) of the bill of the heading number (INDEX) 0 of the deposited bill serial number table 210 and the note of the heading number (INDEX) 1 of the abnormal bill serial number table 220 And the serial number (note 2) match. Therefore, since it corresponds to step S109 of FIG. 3 (the same serial number detection banknote exists), the determination unit 102 can proceed to the next step S111.

  Further, in step S111 for determining the coincidence of the serial numbers of the subsequent banknotes, the serial number (banknote 1) of the banknote of the header number (INDEX) 1 of the deposited banknote serial number table 210 and the header number of the deposited banknote serial number table 210 The serial number (note 1) of the note of INDEX 2 matches. Therefore, the determination unit 102 determines that the discrimination of the banknotes has made one round (step S113), and ends the process.

  Next, the case where the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 10 is in the state of FIG. 10 different from FIG. 9 in the third deposit stage will be described. In detail, the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 10 sequentially transports the banknote 2, the banknote 1, the banknote 3, and the banknote 6 stored in the customer service unit 120 to the discrimination unit 130. Then, the bill depositing / dispensing machine 10 conveys the bill 1, the bill 3, and the bill 6 determined to be an abnormal bill to the storage section 110d, and conveys the bill 2 determined to be a normal bill to the temporary storage unit 150. As shown in the upper row of (the third deposit stage).

  Then, as shown in the lower part of FIG. 10, the deposited banknote serial number table 210 newly stores the serial numbers of the banknotes read by the discrimination unit 130 in the order of reading. In detail, the deposited banknote serial number table 210 stores the serial numbers of the banknotes in the order of the banknotes 2, the banknotes 1, the banknotes 3, and the banknotes 6. However, since the serial number can not be read by the discrimination unit 130 for the banknote 1, the serial number is not stored in the index number (INDEX) 1 of the deposited banknote serial number table 210 corresponding to the banknote 1, but instead Information indicating that the serial number could not be read is stored.

  Then, in the present embodiment, since the banknotes are transported and accumulated in the storage unit 110d at this stage (step S103), the determination unit 102 makes one round of discrimination of the banknotes according to the above-described flowchart of FIG. The decision will be made.

  Specifically, as shown in the lower part of FIG. 10, since the serial numbers are stored in the deposited banknote serial number table 210 and the abnormal banknote serial number table 220, they correspond to step S105 and step S107 in FIG. Therefore, the determination unit 102 can proceed to step S109 in FIG. 3 in which the same serial number detection banknote is searched.

  Then, as shown in the lower part of FIG. 10, the serial number (note 2) of the bill of the heading number (INDEX) 0 of the deposited bill serial number table 210 and the note of the heading number (INDEX) 1 of the abnormal bill serial number table 220 And the serial number (note 2) match (note 2). Therefore, since it corresponds to step S109 of FIG. 3 (the same serial number detection banknote exists), the determination unit 102 can proceed to the next step S111. However, in step S111 of determining the coincidence of the serial numbers of the subsequent banknotes, the serial numbers of the subsequent banknotes do not match because the serial number is not stored next to the same serial number detection banknote in the deposited banknote serial number table 210 Therefore, the determination unit 102 proceeds to step S115 for determining the coincidence of the serial numbers of the preceding banknotes. Furthermore, in step S115 of determining the coincidence of the serial numbers of the leading banknotes, the serial numbers of the leading banknotes do not match because the serial numbers are not stored in front of the same serial number detection banknote in the deposited banknote serial number table 210. It becomes. Then, the determination unit 102 repeats the process in step S109 or the like according to the flowchart of FIG. 3 and continues searching for the same serial number detection banknote whose serial number matches.

  Next, as shown in the lower part of FIG. 10, the serial number (note 3) of the bill of the heading number (INDEX) 2 of the deposited bill serial number table 210 and the heading number (INDEX) 0 of the abnormal bill serial number table 220 The serial number (bill 3) of the bill matches. Therefore, since it corresponds to step S109 of FIG. 3 (the same serial number detection banknote exists), the determination unit 102 can proceed to the next step S111. However, in step S111 for determining the coincidence of the serial numbers of the subsequent banknotes, the serial numbers of the banknotes following the same serial number detection banknote in the deposited banknote serial number table 210 (banknote 6) and the same description in the abnormal banknote serial number table 220 Since the serial number (bill 2) of the next bill of the number detection bill does not match, the determination unit 102 proceeds to the next step S115. Further, in step S115 for determining the coincidence of the serial numbers of the leading banknotes, the serial numbers of the leading banknotes do not match because the serial numbers are not stored before the same serial number detection banknote in the deposited banknote serial number table 210. Become. Then, the determination unit 102 repeats step S109 and the like in accordance with the flowchart of FIG. 3 and further continues the search for the same serial number detection banknote whose serial number matches.

  Next, as shown in the lower part of FIG. 10, the serial number (banknote 6) of the banknote of the heading number (INDEX) 3 of the deposited banknote serial number table 210 and the heading number (INDEX) 4 of the abnormal banknote serial number table 220 The serial number of the bill (bill 6) matches. Therefore, since it corresponds to step S109 of FIG. 3 (the same serial number detection banknote exists), the determination unit 102 can proceed to the next step S111. And in step S111 which determines the coincidence of the serial number of the following bill, since the serial number next to the same serial number detection bill is not stored in the deposited bill serial number table 210, the serial number of the following bill does not match It will be. Therefore, the determination unit 102 proceeds to the next step S115. However, in step S115 for determining the coincidence of the serial numbers of the leading banknotes, the serial numbers (bills 3) in front of the same serial number detection banknote in the deposited banknote serial number table 210 and the same description in the abnormal banknote serial number table 220 Since the serial number (bill 3) of the bill in front of the number detection bill matches, the determination unit 102 determines that the discrimination of the bill is completed (Step S113), and ends the process.

  That is, in the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 20 according to the comparative example, the same serial number detection banknote is searched, and it is further determined whether discrimination of the banknote has made a round by determining whether or not the serial numbers match in the subsequent banknotes. Was. On the other hand, in the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 10 according to the present embodiment, discrimination of the banknotes is made once by searching for the same serial number detection banknote, and further determining whether the serial numbers match in the subsequent banknote and the preceding banknote. It is determined that you did.

  As described above, according to the embodiment of the present invention, the banknotes determined as the abnormal banknotes by the discrimination unit 130 are returned to the customer service unit 120 in the reverse order to the order in which the banknotes were transported from the customer service unit 120 to the discrimination unit 130 Even in such a bill depositing and dispensing machine 10, the same serial number detection bill is searched, and further discrimination of the bill is completed by determining whether or not the serial number matches in the subsequent bill or the preceding bill. Can be determined.

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In the above description, the deposit process in the bill depositing and dispensing machine 10 has been described as an example, but the embodiment of the present invention is not limited to the deposit process and, for example, to the dispensing process of the bill depositing and dispensing machine 10 It can also be applied. Moreover, in the above description, the customer reception unit 120, the temporary storage unit 150, and the storage unit 110d are mentioned as storages in the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 10 in which the banknotes are stored, but the storage unit is limited to such storages Other storage may be used instead. Further, as described above, the embodiment of the present invention is not limited to the application to the bill depositing and dispensing machine 10 for depositing and debiting bills, and a medium for processing a medium such as a cash voucher, a ticket, and a slip. It is also possible to apply to a processor.

  The steps in the deposit processing and determination method of the embodiment of the present invention described above may not necessarily be processed in the order described. For example, each step may be processed in an appropriate order. Also, each step may be processed partially in parallel or individually instead of being processed chronologically. Furthermore, the processing of each step may not necessarily be performed in accordance with the described method, for example, may be processed in another manner by another functional unit.

  Furthermore, at least a part of the deposit processing and the determination method according to the above embodiment can be configured by software as an information processing program that causes a computer to function, and when configured by software, The program for realizing at least a part is stored in a recording medium such as a flexible disk or a compact disc read only memory (CD-ROM), and the bill depositing / dispensing machine 10 etc. or other device connected to the bill depositing / dispensing machine 10 It may be read and executed. The recording medium is not limited to a removable medium such as a magnetic disk or an optical disk, and may be a fixed recording medium such as a hard disk drive or a memory. Furthermore, a program that implements at least a part of these methods may be distributed via a communication line (including wireless communication) such as the Internet. Furthermore, the program may be encrypted, modulated, compressed, or stored in a recording medium via a wired line or a wireless line such as the Internet or may be distributed.

  Although the preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, the present invention is not limited to such examples. It is obvious that those skilled in the art to which the present invention belongs can conceive of various changes or modifications within the scope of the technical idea described in the claims. Of course, it is understood that these also fall within the technical scope of the present invention.

10, 20 bill depositing / dispensing machine 100 control unit 102 determination unit 110, 112 transport unit 110 b, 112 c branch unit 110 d storage unit 120 customer service unit 122 supply port 124 return port 130 discrimination unit 140 storage unit 150 temporary storage unit 160 cassette 170 1st Storage 180 second storage 190 shutter 200 serial number storage area 210, 230 deposit banknote serial number table 220, 240 abnormal banknote serial number table 302, 304, 306 blade 400, 420 area

Claims (8)

A first storage unit for storing a plurality of media;
A discrimination unit that discriminates the plurality of media and reads identification information described in each of the media;
A first transport unit that transports each medium in a first order from the first storage unit to the discrimination unit;
A second transport unit configured to return the medium, for which a predetermined discrimination result has been obtained by the discrimination unit, to the first storage unit in a second order opposite to the first order;
A first storage unit that stores the identification information of the medium read by the discrimination unit as the first identification information in the first order;
A second storage unit for storing the identification information of the medium returned to the first storage unit as second identification information in the second order;
A determination unit that determines whether the discrimination of the plurality of media by the discrimination unit has made one round;
Equipped with
The determination unit is
If the first identification information matches the second identification information stored in the second storage unit,
The subsequent first identification information stored in the first storage unit next to the first identification information and the subsequent one stored in the second storage unit next to the second identification information It is determined whether the second identification information matches.
Or
The preceding first identification information stored in the first storage unit before the first identification information, and the preceding storage stored in the second storage unit before the second identification information It is determined whether the second identification information matches.
Media processing device.   The medium processing device according to claim 1, further comprising a second storage unit for storing the medium for which a predetermined discrimination result has not been obtained by the discrimination unit.   The medium processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of media are separated and conveyed when being conveyed from the first storage unit to the discrimination unit by the first conveyance unit.   When being transported from the discrimination unit to the first storage unit by the second transport unit, the medium is transported from the storage unit to the first storage unit after being stored in the storage unit. The media processing device according to any one of claims 1 to 3.   The medium processing device according to claim 4, wherein the storage unit functions as a conveyance unit that conveys the medium.   The medium processing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the discrimination unit obtains the predetermined discrimination result by discriminating the medium from an abnormal medium.   The medium processing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the identification information is a serial number printed on the medium.   The medium processing device according to any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein the first storage unit is a customer service unit that receives an input of the medium from a customer and returns the medium to the customer.

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