JP5712827B2 - Media processing device - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a medium processing apparatus.

  Recently, automatic transaction apparatuses represented by ATM (Automated Teller Machine) of financial institutions are installed in various places such as banks, station premises, and convenience stores. The customer can perform transactions such as deposit, withdrawal and balance inquiry by performing various operations on the display screen displayed on the automatic transaction apparatus.

  Such an automatic transaction apparatus manages the amount of banknotes existing in the apparatus before starting operation or during operation. And an automatic transaction apparatus examines based on the height of the banknote which exists in an apparatus at the time of completion | finish of operation.

  Here, the automatic transaction apparatus discriminates the denomination, authenticity, correctness, and running state of the banknote by the identification device when performing transactions such as deposit, withdrawal, and collection. Banknotes whose denomination cannot be determined due to running abnormality or the like by the discrimination device are identified as abnormal bills, and the automatic transaction apparatus rejects such banknotes. However, if the rejected banknote is included in the automatic transaction apparatus, the height of the banknote existing in the apparatus cannot be managed accurately.

  On the other hand, in the following Patent Document 1, a method is disclosed in which a denomination of a denomination cassette in which a banknote identified as denomination is fed is assigned to the denomination of the banknote.

JP 2001-291142 A

  However, the discrimination process for sorting the banknote transport destinations must be performed within a specified distance and time. For this reason, depending on the running state of the banknote, the number of banknotes may not be specified accurately. Therefore, even if the denomination of the banknote is estimated by the method of Patent Document 1, the correction of the height can be performed accurately. It was difficult.

  Moreover, in the method of the said patent document 1, when the payout origin of banknotes is other than a denomination cassette, the number of denominations of the rejected banknote cannot be determined. In addition, when an operator directly loads banknotes into the denomination cassette, if an incorrect denomination banknote is loaded into the denomination cassette, there is a problem that an incorrect denomination is assigned to the rejected banknote.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a new and improved medium processing apparatus capable of improving the accuracy of medium discrimination. There is.

In order to solve the above-described problem, according to an aspect of the present invention, a discrimination device that acquires discrimination data from a medium and discriminates the medium based on the acquired discrimination data, and an abnormality is detected by the discrimination device. A storage unit that stores data for identification of the identified medium, and a reject accumulation unit that accumulates a medium that has been identified as abnormal by the identification device, wherein the identification device is linked to the medium, Media processing for acquiring data until the chain breaks as discrimination data, storing it in the storage unit, and performing re-discrimination of the medium transported to the reject accumulating unit based on the discrimination data stored in the storage unit A device is proposed.

  Further, the medium is a banknote, and the medium processing device includes a calculation unit that calculates the height of the banknote existing in the medium processing device based on a discrimination result by the discrimination device, and the calculation unit includes: The banknote of unknown denomination may be subtracted from the height of the banknote, and the re-discrimination result by the discrimination apparatus may be added.

In order to solve the above problems, according to another aspect of the present invention, a discrimination device that acquires discrimination data from a medium and discriminates the medium based on the acquired discrimination data, and the discrimination device A storage unit that stores data for identifying a medium that has been identified as abnormal by the method, and a reject accumulation unit that accumulates a medium that has been identified as abnormal by the identification device, and the identification device is conveyed to the reject accumulation unit. The medium is re-discriminated based on the discrimination data stored in the storage unit, the medium is a banknote, and further includes a banknote stacking section that stacks the banknotes in denominations. When the discrimination result is unknown, a medium processing device is proposed that corrects the re-discrimination result based on separation source information indicating a banknote stacking unit from which a banknote of unknown denomination is separated.

  The medium is a banknote, and the medium processing device includes a replenishment stacking unit that stacks banknotes to be replenished, and the banknotes stacked on the banknote stacking unit are separated from the replenishment stacking unit, and the discrimination device It may be a bill discriminated by.

  Moreover, the said discrimination apparatus may perform the said discrimination after conveyance of the said medium according to transaction is complete | finished.

  As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to improve the accuracy of medium discrimination.

It is explanatory drawing which showed the structure of the automatic transaction system which is embodiment of this invention. It is explanatory drawing which showed the internal structure of the automatic transaction apparatus by this embodiment. It is a figure for demonstrating the flow of a banknote conveyance at the time of discriminating with abnormality in a collection process. It is a figure for demonstrating the flow of banknote conveyance at the time of discriminating with abnormality in payment | withdrawal transaction. It is a figure for demonstrating the flow of banknote conveyance at the time of discriminating with abnormality in banknote replenishment operation | movement. It is a flowchart which shows the re-discrimination process in the payment / collection by 1st Embodiment. It is a figure for demonstrating the discrimination by a comparative example, and the discrimination by 1st Embodiment. It is a figure for demonstrating the amount of money according to the discrimination result of the discrimination apparatus 2. FIG. It is a figure for demonstrating the correction of the amount using the re-discrimination result. It is a flowchart which shows the discrimination process of the automatic transaction apparatus by 2nd Embodiment. It is a flowchart which shows the discrimination process of the automatic transaction apparatus by 2nd Embodiment.

  Exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In addition, in this specification and drawing, about the component which has the substantially same function structure, duplication description is abbreviate | omitted by attaching | subjecting the same code | symbol.

<1. Overview of automatic transaction system>
First, with reference to FIG. 1, the outline | summary of the automatic transaction system by embodiment of this invention is demonstrated.

  FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing a configuration of an automatic transaction system according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the automatic transaction system includes a plurality of automatic transaction apparatuses 10, a dedicated network 12, and a financial institution host 20.

  The automatic transaction apparatus (medium processing apparatus) 10 is a customer operation type terminal that executes money transactions based on operations by customers of financial institutions. The automatic transaction apparatus 10 is installed in various facilities such as a financial institution sales store, a convenience store, a station premises, a hotel, a hospital, an amusement park, a restaurant, and an office building.

  The automatic transaction apparatus 10 also includes a customer operation display unit 14, a passbook insertion slot 16, and a card insertion slot 18. The customer operation display unit 14 includes a function as a display unit that displays a guidance screen for an operation by a customer and a customer operation unit that detects a customer operation. The function as the display unit is realized by, for example, a CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) display device, a liquid crystal display (LCD) device, or an OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) device. Moreover, the function as a customer operation part is implement | achieved by the touch panel, for example. 1 shows an example in which the functions of the display unit and the customer operation unit are integrally configured in the automatic transaction apparatus 10, the functions of the display unit and the customer operation unit may be configured separately. .

  The passbook insertion port 16 inserts and discharges the customer's passbook, and the card insertion port 18 inserts and discharges the customer's cash card. The customer service port 19 has a function as a deposit port for banknotes by a customer and a withdrawal port for banknotes to a customer.

  The dedicated network 12 is a network of a financial institution, and is configured by, for example, an IP-VPN (Internet Protocol-Virtual Private Network). The financial institution host 20 can communicate with the automatic transaction apparatus 10 via the dedicated network 12.

  The financial institution host 20 controls various transactions by communicating with the automatic transaction apparatus 10 via the dedicated network 12. For example, the financial institution host 20 authenticates a customer who operates the automatic transaction apparatus 10, or executes a financial transaction (account transaction processing) such as payment or transfer instructed by the customer in the automatic transaction apparatus 10. . The financial institution host 20 also manages customer information (account ledger) such as account number, personal identification number, name, address, age, date of birth, telephone number, occupation, family structure, annual income, and deposit balance.

  Embodiments of the present invention relate to an automatic transaction apparatus 10 included in the above-described automatic transaction system, and more particularly to discrimination of bills (medium) in an automatic transaction apparatus (medium processing apparatus) 10. Hereinafter, after describing the configuration and basic operation of the automatic transaction apparatus 10, each embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail.

<2. Configuration and basic operation of automatic transaction apparatus 10>
FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing the internal configuration of the automatic transaction apparatus 10. As shown in FIG. 2, the automatic transaction apparatus 10 includes a banknote processing mechanism 13, a control unit (calculation unit) 15, and a storage unit 17. Further, the banknote handling mechanism 13 includes a customer service section 1 including a service opening 19, a discrimination device 2, a temporary storage section 4, banknote cassettes 5a to 5d, reject cassettes 6a to 6b, replenishment collection cassettes 7 to 7a, and a forgotten stacking cassette 8 The transport paths 3a to 3g and the blades 9a to 9c are provided.

  The customer service unit 1 is configured to separate banknotes deposited by a customer during a deposit transaction or to stack banknotes to be dispensed to a customer during a withdrawal transaction.

  The identification device 2 performs identification of banknotes deposited by a customer or banknotes withdrawn to a customer. Specifically, the discrimination device 2 discriminates the denomination, authenticity, fitness, running state, and the like based on the discrimination information (data for discrimination) acquired from the banknotes conveyed through the conveyance path 3. . Moreover, the discrimination apparatus 2 has the memory | storage part 2a, and preserve | saves the discrimination information of the banknote judged to be abnormal. The discrimination information stored in the storage unit 2a will be described later with reference to FIG. Then, the discrimination device 2 outputs the discrimination result to the control unit 15.

  The temporary holding unit 4 temporarily accumulates the banknotes separated by the customer service unit 1 and discriminated as normal by the discrimination device 2 at the time of deposit transaction. The banknotes accumulated in the temporary storage unit 4 are transported to the banknote cassettes 5a to 5d through the discrimination device 2 when a transaction is established, for example, when accounting of the deposited banknote is confirmed.

  The banknote cassettes 5a to 5d are banknote stacking units that stack banknotes deposited by customers, banknotes to be withdrawn, banknotes separated from other banknote cassettes 5 and supplementary collection cassettes 7, and the like. The banknote cassettes 5a to 5d may include a plurality of banknote cassettes for the same denomination. For example, the banknote cassettes 5a and 5b may be banknote cassettes for 10,000 yen bills, and the banknote cassettes 5c and 5d may be banknote cassettes for thousand yen bills. Note that the banknote cassettes 5 a to 5 d may be configured to be detachable from the banknote processing mechanism 13. In this case, banknotes can be loaded into the banknote cassettes 5a to 5d by individually replacing the banknote cassettes 5a to 5d.

  Moreover, the banknote cassettes 5a-5d by this embodiment are equipped with the separation mechanism for isolate | separating a banknote (not shown). Such a separation mechanism includes a sensor that acquires individual information from banknotes that are separated one by one. The sensor acquires separation source information indicating which banknote cassette is separated as individual information of the banknotes to be separated. The separation source information is output to the control unit 15 by the separation mechanism and stored in the storage unit 17 by the control unit 15.

  The reject cassettes 6a to 6b accumulate non-payable banknotes that have been identified as having an unknown denomination by the identification device 2 at the time of a withdrawal transaction or a deposit transaction.

  The replenishment collection cassette 7 is a banknote stacking unit for replenishing banknote cassettes 5a to 5d with banknotes and collecting banknotes from the banknote cassettes 5a to 5d. The replenishment / collection cassette 7 has a reject cassette 7a. The reject cassette 7a is a banknote stacking unit for stacking banknotes identified as abnormal by the discrimination device 2 during the banknote replenishment operation. In addition, the replenishment collection cassette 7 has a structure that can be attached to and detached from the banknote processing mechanism 13, and replenishes / collects the banknotes by exchange.

  The banknotes accumulated in the replenishment / collection cassette 7 are scrutinized by the control unit 15 as follows. First, banknotes are fed one by one from the replenishment / collection cassette 7 and conveyed to the discrimination device 2 via the conveyance paths 3e and 3c. And the banknote discriminated as normal by the discrimination apparatus 2 returns to the replenishment collection cassette 7 via the path | routes 3b and 3g, and a height is decided. On the other hand, the banknote discriminated as abnormal by the discrimination device 2 is conveyed to the reject cassette 7a via the paths 3b and 3g.

  The forgotten stacking cassette 8 is a banknote stacking unit that stacks banknotes forgotten by the customer at the customer service port 19.

  The conveyance paths 3a-3g are the structures for conveying a banknote. Each of the transport paths 3a to 3g can transport a bill to a target transport destination by rotating a DC servo motor or a pulse motor according to control by the control unit 15.

  The conveyance paths 3a, 3b, 3d to 3f constitute a deposit / collection path, the conveyance paths 3e, 3c, and 3b constitute a replenishment / collection path, and the conveyance paths 3b, 3c, 3e, and 3f are withdrawals. Configure the route. The transport path 3g constitutes a reject path.

  The transport path 3 according to the present embodiment is provided with a sensor (not shown) that acquires individual information from banknotes transported one by one. The sensor monitors the running state of the bill as individual bill information. Information such as the running state of bills acquired by the sensor is output to the control unit 15 and stored in the storage unit 17 by the control unit 15.

  The blades 9 a to 9 c are mechanisms for switching the banknote transport destination according to the discrimination result of the discrimination device 2. For example, the blade 9a switches so that the banknote discriminated as abnormal by the discrimination device 2 during the deposit transaction is conveyed to the customer service unit 1. Moreover, the blade 9a switches so that the banknote discriminated as normal by the discrimination device 2 at the time of deposit transaction is conveyed to the temporary storage unit 4.

  The blades 9b are provided in the stacking paths of the banknote cassettes 5a to 5d, respectively, and are switched to transport banknotes to appropriate banknote cassettes 5a to 5d according to the denominations identified by the discrimination device 2.

  The blade 9c switches so that the banknotes identified as normal (payable) by the identification device 2 during the withdrawal transaction are conveyed to the customer service unit 1. Moreover, the blade 9c switches so that the banknote discriminated as abnormal by the discrimination device 2 at the time of the withdrawal transaction is conveyed to the reject cassettes 6a to 6b.

  The control unit 15 controls basic operations such as deposit, replenishment / collection, and withdrawal by controlling the transport paths 3a to 3g according to operations by a customer or an operator. The basic operation controlled by the control unit 15 will be described in “Basic operation” described later.

  Moreover, the control part (calculation part) 15 by this embodiment manages the height of the banknote which exists in the automatic transaction apparatus 10 using the separate information of the banknote output from each sensor in the banknote processing mechanism 13. FIG. . Specifically, the control unit 15 starts operation by counting how many denominations are replenished when the bill cassettes 5a to 5d are replenished in accordance with the denomination in the bill replenishment operation. Determine the height of the banknote at the time.

  In addition, when the banknotes deposited in the deposit transaction are accumulated in the banknote cassettes 5a to 5d according to the denominations, the control unit 15 counts how many banknotes of which denominations are deposited. Determining the banknote amount of the transaction.

  Moreover, when the banknote withdrawn in payment | withdrawal transaction is drawn out from banknote cassette 5a-5d according to a money type, the control part 15 counts how many banknotes of which money type were withdrawn. , Determine the amount of banknotes for withdrawal transactions.

  Moreover, when the banknote collect | recovered in collection | recovery operation | movement is drawn | fed out from banknote cassette 5a-5d according to a money type, collection | recovery operation | movement is counted by counting how many banknotes of which money type was collect | recovered. Confirm the banknote height of.

  The storage unit 17 stores banknote individual information output from each sensor in the banknote processing mechanism 13. Individual information shows the discrimination result of the banknote output from the discrimination apparatus 2, the information output from the sensor which monitors the running state of the banknote provided in the conveyance path 3 or the discrimination apparatus 2, and the place where the banknote was separated. Contains separation source information. Here, the discrimination result is information such as the denomination, the number of sheets, the front / back / up / down orientation of the banknote, and the like, and also includes information indicating that the running state is poor and the denomination is unknown.

(basic action)
The configuration of the automatic transaction apparatus 10 has been described above. Next, basic operations such as deposit transaction, accumulation processing, withdrawal transaction, and banknote replenishment by the automatic transaction apparatus 10 described above will be described.

  In the deposit transaction, first, banknotes are separated one by one from the customer service section 1, and the separated banknotes are conveyed to the discrimination device 2 via the conveyance path 3a. And the banknote in which the discrimination result by the discrimination apparatus 2 was normal is conveyed by the blade | blade 9a to the temporary storage part 4 through the conveyance paths 3b, 3e, and 3f, and is integrated | stacked. On the other hand, the banknotes for which the discrimination result by the discrimination device 2 is normal are conveyed to the customer service section 1 by the blade 9a through the conveyance paths 3b, 3e and 3f and accumulated. Thereafter, when the operation of confirming the deposit amount is performed by the customer, the process proceeds to the accumulation process.

  In the stacking process, first, banknotes are separated from the temporary storage unit 4 one by one, and the separated banknotes are conveyed to the discrimination device 2 via the conveyance path 3d. And the banknote in which the discrimination result by the discrimination apparatus 2 was normal is sent to the banknote cassettes 5a to 5d corresponding to the denominated money type by the blade 9b provided in the stacking path of each banknote cassette 5 through the transport path 3b. Transported and accumulated.

  On the other hand, when the discrimination result by the discrimination device 2 is abnormal, such as a running abnormal banknote such as a 10,000 yen bill and a thousand yen bill, a broken bill, a 2000 yen bill, a 5000 yen bill, a skew bill, etc. The flow of the integration process will be described with reference to FIG. As shown in FIG. 3, banknotes for which the discrimination result by the discrimination device 2 is abnormal are accumulated in the reject cassettes 6 a to 6 b via the transport paths 3 b and 3 g.

  Next, the flow of withdrawal transactions will be described. In the withdrawal transaction, first, banknotes are separated one by one from the banknote cassettes 5a to 5d according to the amount designated by the customer, and the separated banknotes are conveyed to the discrimination device 2 via the conveyance path 3b.

  And the banknote in which the discrimination result by the discrimination apparatus 2 was normal is conveyed to the customer service part 1 by the blade 9a through the conveyance paths 3c, 3e, and 3f, and is accumulated.

  On the other hand, the flow of the withdrawal transaction when the discrimination result by the discrimination device 2 is abnormal will be described with reference to FIG. As shown in FIG. 4, a banknote whose discrimination result by the discrimination device 2 is abnormal, that is, a banknote that cannot be paid to the customer, is conveyed to 3g constituting the reject path by the blade 9c via the conveyance path 3c, and reject cassette 6a. ~ 6b.

  Next, bill replenishment operation will be described. In the banknote replenishment operation, first, banknotes are separated one by one from the replenishment collection cassette 7, and the separated banknotes are conveyed to the discrimination device 2 via the conveyance paths 3e and 3c. And the banknote in which the discrimination result by the discrimination apparatus 2 was normal is sent to the banknote cassettes 5a to 5d corresponding to the denominated money type by the blade 9b provided in the stacking path of each banknote cassette 5 through the transport path 3b. Transported and accumulated.

  Next, the banknote replenishment operation when the discrimination device 2 discriminates an abnormality will be described with reference to FIG. As shown in FIG. 5, the banknotes for which the discrimination result by the discrimination device 2 is abnormal are accumulated in the reject cassettes 7a, 6a, 6b via the transport paths 3b and 3g.

(Problems with normal bill discrimination processing)
However, in banknote discrimination processing in various ordinary transactions, even if it is originally a normal banknote, it takes time to discriminate when the running state (carrying state) of the banknote is bad. In some cases, it was identified.

  Normally, the discrimination device must perform discrimination within a limited time during bill running, and output the discrimination result (individual information of the bill such as denomination, correctness, true / false, running state, number of sheets, etc.) to the control unit. I must. For this reason, when it takes time for the discrimination process, the discrimination process has to be terminated halfway, and there is a problem that even a normal banknote is discriminated from an abnormal ticket of unknown denomination.

  Even when the running state is poor and a plurality of banknotes are chained, the discrimination device usually does not acquire discrimination information (various sensor information such as images) that exceeds the specified value. Therefore, there was a problem that the exact number of sheets could not be grasped.

  Then, it came to create the automatic transaction apparatus 10 by each embodiment of this invention focusing on the said situation. The automatic transaction apparatus 10 according to each embodiment of the present invention can more accurately manage the height of banknotes in the automatic transaction apparatus 10. Hereinafter, each embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail.

<3. First Embodiment>
In the first embodiment of the present invention, at the time of withdrawal / collection, the discrimination device 2 performs re-discrimination based on the discrimination information of the banknote discriminated as abnormal by the discrimination device 2 to automatically improve discrimination accuracy. A transaction apparatus 10 is proposed. The automatic transaction apparatus 10 realizes an improvement in the accuracy of discrimination by performing re-discrimination over time.

  FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing re-discrimination processing in withdrawal / collection according to the first embodiment. As shown in FIG. 6, first, when the customer operates the customer operation display unit 14 to specify the withdrawal amount (S100), the automatic transaction apparatus 10 separates the banknotes from the banknote cassettes 5a to 5b (S102). The separated banknote is conveyed to the identification device 2.

  Next, the discrimination device 2 performs discrimination based on the discrimination information acquired from the conveyed banknote (S104). When the denomination discrimination in the discrimination device 2 cannot be performed (S106 / No), the control unit 15 stores in the storage unit 17 that there is a denomination unknown banknote, and the discrimination device 2 stores the discrimination information acquired from the banknote. The data is stored in the part 2a (S108).

  Here, the discrimination information stored in the storage unit 2a will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 7 is a diagram for explaining discrimination by a comparative example and discrimination by the present embodiment.

  First, discrimination by a comparative example will be described with reference to FIG. As shown in the left of FIG. 7, even when the running state is poor and banknotes 42 to 46 are conveyed in a chain, as shown in the center of FIG. Information (such as image data) is not acquired.

  And the discrimination apparatus by a comparative example discriminate | determines based on the discrimination information of the width | variety A, but discrimination fails because of banknote linkage, and it discriminate | determines from abnormality. Thereafter, the discrimination device according to the comparative example does not acquire the discrimination information until the banknote is no longer detected by the sensor, that is, until the linkage of the bills ends, and therefore the bill 46 included in the width B cannot be identified.

  Thus, in the discrimination by the comparative example, the bills 42 to 46 are discriminated as abnormal and rejected. Next, discrimination according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG.

  As shown on the right side of FIG. 7, the discrimination device 2 according to the present embodiment first discriminates based on the discrimination information of the regulation (width A), and determines that the banknotes 42 are linked, the width C of FIG. 7. As shown, the identification information is acquired until the banknote chain is broken. And the discrimination device 2 discriminate | determines the banknotes 42-46 from abnormality, preserve | saves the discrimination information of the width | variety C in the memory | storage part 2a, and notifies the control part 15 that there existed a money type unknown banknote. In this embodiment, the discrimination information of the banknote discriminated as abnormal in this way is stored in the storage unit 2a and used for re-discrimination described later.

  Subsequently, returning to the flowchart of FIG. 6, the discrimination process of the present embodiment will be described. Based on the individual information such as the control unit 15 and the discrimination result, it is determined whether or not the banknote is normal (S110). And the control part 15 conveys the banknote discriminated with abnormality to the rejection cassettes 6a-6b (S114).

  On the other hand, the control part 15 conveys the banknote discriminated as normal to the service port 1 in the withdrawal transaction and to the replenishment collection cassette 7 in the collection operation (S114).

  And the control part 15 repeats S104-S116 until delivery of the banknote according to the payment amount designated by the customer is complete | finished. When the feeding of the banknote is completed (S116 / Yes), the control unit 15 checks whether or not the storage unit 17 stores the banknote with unknown denomination (S118). When there is a denomination banknote (S118), the control unit 15 instructs the discrimination device 2 to re-differentiate rejected banknotes (banknotes identified as abnormal).

  Next, the discrimination device 2 performs re-discrimination based on the discrimination information of the reject banknote stored in the storage unit 2a, and outputs the re-discrimination result to the discrimination device 2 (S120).

  Next, the control unit 15 corrects the height based on the re-discrimination result acquired from the discrimination device 2. Specifically, the control unit 15 subtracts the number of denominations from high and low (S122), and adds the re-discrimination result to high and low (S124). Here, the correction of the amount using the re-discrimination result performed by the control unit 15 will be described with reference to FIGS. 8 and 9.

  FIG. 8 is a diagram for explaining the amount of money according to the discrimination result of the discrimination device 2. On the left side of FIG. 8, the discrimination results obtained by the discrimination device 2 discriminating the banknotes 40 are shown. As in the case described with reference to FIG. 7, the banknotes 42 to 46 are identified as abnormal by the banknote chain, and the denomination and number of sheets are unknown. And the amount of money which the automatic transaction apparatus 10 grasps | ascertains based on this discrimination result is shown on the right side of FIG. Specifically, the automatic transaction apparatus 10 grasps the amount of money such as three thousand tickets, one ten thousand tickets, and one denomination. However, the automatic transaction apparatus 10 cannot manage the height of the banknote which exists in an apparatus correctly by including the rejection banknote with an unknown denomination.

  FIG. 9 is a diagram for explaining the correction of the amount using the re-discrimination result. As shown on the left side of FIG. 9, the control unit 15 first subtracts the number of denominations (number of rejected banknotes) from the amount of money. Then, the control unit 15 adds the re-discrimination result shown in the center of FIG. 9 to the amount obtained by subtracting the number of denominations as shown on the right side of FIG.

  As described above, since the automatic transaction apparatus 10 according to the first embodiment of the present invention performs re-discrimination after all the banknotes are paid out by withdrawal transaction or the like, the discrimination information is discriminated over time. be able to. Thereby, the accuracy of discrimination improves and the automatic transaction apparatus 10 can manage the amount of the banknote in an own apparatus more correctly.

  Moreover, since the automatic transaction apparatus 10 according to the first embodiment of the present invention performs re-discrimination based on the stored discrimination information, it is not necessary to re-carry the reject banknote to the discrimination apparatus 2. As a result, trouble during re-conveying can be prevented and the time for re-discrimination can be made efficient.

<4. Second Embodiment>
In 1st Embodiment mentioned above, although the denomination and the number of sheets of a reject banknote were discriminated by re-discrimination of the discrimination apparatus 2, even if the number of reject banknotes can be specified by performing re-discrimination over time, the denomination is It may not be possible to distinguish.

  Therefore, the automatic transaction apparatus 10 according to the second embodiment corrects the denomination based on the separation source information when the denomination cannot be discriminated by re-discrimination.

  Here, in the present embodiment, the banknote cassettes 5 a to 5 d are replenished from the replenishment collection cassette 7. As described above, the banknote replenishment operation pays out banknotes one by one from the replenishment / collection cassette 7 and, after having been identified by the discrimination device 2, replenishes each banknote in the banknote cassettes 5a to 5d. Here, in patent document 1 mentioned above, since an operator directly loaded a banknote into a denomination cassette, there was a possibility that a banknote of a wrong denomination might be loaded. However, in the present embodiment, the banknote cassettes 5a to 5d are replenished with banknotes by the banknote replenishment operation, so that there is no possibility of loading wrong banknotes. Based on the above, the operation process will be described with reference to FIGS.

  FIG. 10 and FIG. 11 are flowcharts showing the discrimination process of the automatic transaction apparatus 10 according to the second embodiment. Of the steps shown in FIG. 10 and FIG. 11, S200 to S222 are the same as S100 to S122 shown in FIG.

  In the present embodiment, when the denomination is unknown even after re-discrimination (S220) by the discrimination device 2 (S224 / Yes), the control unit 15 corrects the re-discrimination result based on the separation source information (S226). . Here, the separation source information is information that is output from sensors provided in the separation mechanism of the conveyance path 3 and the banknote cassettes 5a to 5d and indicates a place where the banknotes are separated.

  Based on the information of the banknote cassettes 5a to 5d of the separation source of the banknote of unknown denomination, the control unit 15 determines the denomination assigned to the banknote cassettes 5a to 5d based on the information of the separation source information. Correction for denomination of banknotes is performed (S226).

  Then, as in the first embodiment, the control unit 15 adds the corrected re-discrimination result to the amount obtained by subtracting the number of denominations (S228).

  The automatic transaction apparatus 10 according to the second embodiment of the present invention corrects the re-discrimination result based on the separation source information of the banknote of unknown denomination when the denomination is unknown even in the re-discrimination result. Thus, it is possible to more accurately manage the height of banknotes in the device.

  Moreover, in the 2nd Embodiment of this invention, since the banknote cassette 5a-5d used as the separation | separation source of a banknote is replenished with a banknote from the replenishment collection cassette 7, there is no possibility that a wrong banknote will be loaded. Thereby, the automatic transaction apparatus 10 by the 2nd Embodiment of this invention can manage the height of the banknote in an own apparatus more correctly.

<5. Summary>
As described above, since the automatic transaction apparatus 10 according to the first embodiment of the present invention performs re-discrimination after all the banknotes are paid out by withdrawal transaction or the like, the discrimination information is discriminated over time. be able to. Thereby, the accuracy of discrimination improves and the automatic transaction apparatus 10 can manage the amount of the banknote in an own apparatus more correctly. Moreover, since the automatic transaction apparatus 10 according to the first embodiment of the present invention performs re-discrimination based on the stored discrimination information, it is not necessary to re-carry the reject banknote to the discrimination apparatus 2. As a result, trouble during re-conveying can be prevented and the time for re-discrimination can be made efficient.

  In addition, the automatic transaction apparatus 10 according to the second embodiment of the present invention corrects the re-discrimination result based on the separation source information of the banknote of unknown denomination when the denomination is unknown even in the re-discrimination result. The amount of banknotes in the device can be managed more accurately.

  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 a person having ordinary knowledge in the technical field to which the present invention pertains can come up with various changes or modifications within the scope of the technical idea described in the claims. Of course, it is understood that these also belong to the technical scope of the present invention.

  For example, each step in the process of the automatic transaction apparatus 10 of this specification does not necessarily need to be processed in time series in the order described as a flowchart. For example, each step in the processing of the automatic transaction apparatus 10 may be processed in an order different from the order described as the flowchart, or may be processed in parallel.

  Moreover, in this specification, a banknote is an example of a medium, Comprising: The medium processing apparatus of this invention is not restricted to the automatic transaction apparatus 10. FIG. For example, you may implement | achieve by the medium processing apparatus which discriminate | determines media, such as a check, and performs various transactions.

  Further, it is possible to create a computer program for causing hardware such as CPU, ROM and RAM incorporated in the automatic transaction apparatus 10 to perform the same function as the control unit 15 of the automatic transaction apparatus 10 described above. A storage medium storing the computer program is also provided.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Customer service part 2 Discrimination apparatus 3a-3b Conveyance path 4 Temporary reservation part 5a-5b Banknote cassette 6a-6b, 7a Reject cassette 7 Replenishment collection cassette 8 Forgetting collection cassette 9a-9c Blade 10 Automatic transaction apparatus 12 Dedicated network 13 Banknote processing Mechanism 15 Control unit 17 Storage unit 19 Customer service 20 Financial institution host

Claims (5)

A discrimination device that acquires discrimination data from a medium and discriminates the medium based on the acquired discrimination data;
A storage unit that stores data for identifying a medium that has been identified as abnormal by the identification device;
A reject accumulating unit for accumulating a medium identified as abnormal by the discrimination device;
When the medium is chained , the discrimination device acquires data until the chain breaks as data for discrimination, stores it in the storage unit, and re-discrimination of the medium conveyed to the reject stacking unit, A medium processing apparatus that performs based on identification data stored in a storage unit. The medium is a banknote,
The medium processing apparatus includes:
Based on the discrimination result by the discrimination device, a calculation unit that calculates the height of banknotes present in the medium processing device,
The medium processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the calculation unit subtracts a banknote of unknown denomination from the height of the banknote and adds a re-discrimination result by the discrimination apparatus.   A discrimination device that acquires discrimination data from a medium and discriminates the medium based on the acquired discrimination data;
  A storage unit that stores data for identifying a medium that has been identified as abnormal by the identification device;
  A reject accumulating unit for accumulating a medium identified as abnormal by the discrimination device;
  The discrimination device performs re-discrimination of the medium conveyed to the reject accumulation unit based on the discrimination data stored in the storage unit,
  The medium is a banknote,
  A banknote stacking unit that stacks the banknotes by denomination;
  The medium processing apparatus which correct | amends the said re-discrimination result based on the separation source information which shows the banknote stacking part from which the banknote of unknown denomination was separated when the re-identification result by the said discrimination apparatus is unknown. The medium processing apparatus includes:
A replenishment stacking unit that stacks banknotes to be replenished,
The medium processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the banknotes stacked in the banknote stacking unit are banknotes separated from the replenishment stacking unit and discriminated by the discrimination device.   5. The medium processing device according to claim 1, wherein the discrimination device performs the re-discrimination after the conveyance of the medium according to a transaction is completed.

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