JP6245029B2 - Media trading device - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a medium transaction apparatus, and is suitably applied to, for example, an automatic teller machine (ATM) that delivers a medium such as a bill requested by a user and performs a desired transaction.

  Conventionally, in a cash dispenser or the like used in a financial institution etc., for example, the user is made to deposit cash such as banknotes and coins, and the user is made to withdraw cash according to the contents of transaction with the user. Things are widespread.

  As a cash dispenser, for example, a deposit / withdrawal unit that transfers banknotes with a user, a transport unit that transports banknotes, a discrimination unit that distinguishes denominations and authenticity of inserted banknotes, and insertion It has been proposed to have a temporary holding unit for temporarily holding the bill, a bill storage for storing the bill for each denomination, and a control unit for controlling the whole. The deposit / withdrawal unit includes, for example, a container for storing a bill and a shutter for closing or opening the container.

  The cash dispenser, when instructed by the user to start and withdraw the withdrawal transaction in the withdrawal transaction, sequentially delivers banknotes of denomination and number according to the withdrawal amount from the banknote storage, and this is Each sheet is discriminated to distinguish the denomination, the conveyance state, etc., and the bill that can be dispensed is sequentially conveyed to the deposit / withdrawal part and stored in the container. After that, the cash dispenser opens the shutter of the deposit and withdrawal unit and urges the user to take out the bills in the storage machine.

  Here, when the banknote in the deposit and withdrawal section is not taken out by the user within a predetermined time, the cash dispenser has the so-called withdrawal note of the withdrawal banknote that the user has forgotten to take out the banknote and left. Then, the shutter of the deposit / withdrawal unit is closed to take in the bill, and the bill is transported to a predetermined storage container and stored (for example, see Patent Document 1).

  At this time, the automatic teller machine discriminates the taken-in bills again by the discrimination unit to determine the denomination and read the serial number etc., and it is used as a journal for recording the transaction history etc. Record Thus, in a cash dispenser, the staff of a financial institution or the like refers to this journal when multiple withdrawals of withdrawal banknotes occur and the corresponding banknotes are stored in the dedicated storage. Can be used to identify forgotten banknotes in each transaction.

JP-A-11-283076 (FIG. 1)

  However, in the cash dispenser with such a configuration, when a part of or all of the serial numbers can not be read when the imported banknotes are discriminated again in the discrimination unit, the serial numbers to be recorded are unclear. There was a case that no record was left. In such a case, in the cash dispenser, there is a problem that the association between the forgotten bill and the journal is not easy and identification of the bill becomes extremely difficult.

  The present invention has been made in consideration of the above points, and an object of the present invention is to propose a medium transaction apparatus which records information that can easily correspond to a forgotten medium.

In order to solve such problems, in the medium transaction apparatus of the present invention, a medium to which a unique identification number is attached at a different position for each type is left at the delivery part for delivering the user according to the transaction content. A discrimination unit that discriminates the type of the medium and reads the identification number from the medium, a discrimination unit that discriminates the legitimacy of the medium according to a predetermined discrimination criterion, the type discriminated by the discrimination unit for each medium, and the identification number Among them, the reading result in which the part that can not be read by the discrimination unit is represented by predetermined unread information and the discrimination result of the legitimacy are recorded, and when the discrimination unit denies the legitimacy, the legitimacy together with the reading result Recording means for recording information representing the reason why the sex is denied, and when the discrimination unit can not discriminate the type and can not read the identification number, recording means for recording type unknown information indicating that the type of the medium is unknown Setting Was to so that.

The present invention makes it easy to associate an actual medium with the reading result represented by the identification number or the unread information, the reason for the legitimacy being denied or the type unknown information , to the person who visually recognizes the recorded content. It can be done. Thus the present invention is based on the recording on the reading result and the associated validity determination results and the like, it is possible to easily specify the medium there is a problem with validity, also could not read the identification number It also makes it easy to understand the reason .

According to the present invention, it is possible to realize a medium transaction apparatus that records information that can easily correspond to a forgotten medium.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS It is a schematic line perspective view which shows the structure of a cash dispenser. It is an approximate line figure showing composition of a bill cash-receipt-and-disbursement machine. It is a basic diagram which shows the block configuration of a cash dispenser and a banknote depositing / dispensing machine. It is a basic diagram which shows the structure of the forgetting information by 1st Embodiment. It is a flowchart which shows the forgetting information recording process procedure by 1st Embodiment. FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram showing the configuration of a print operation screen. It is a basic diagram which shows printing on a receipt of forgetting information. It is a basic diagram which shows the structure of the forgetting information by 2nd Embodiment. It is a flowchart which shows the forgetting information recording process procedure by 2nd Embodiment.

  Hereinafter, modes for carrying out the invention (hereinafter referred to as embodiments) will be described using the drawings.

[1. First embodiment]
[1-1. Configuration of cash dispenser]
As the appearance is shown in FIG. 1, the automated teller machine 1 is mainly configured of a box-like case 2 and is installed in, for example, a financial institution etc., and is used as a deposit transaction or withdrawal transaction with a user. Conduct cash related transactions, etc. In the following, the side of the cash dispenser 1 with the user facing is the front side, the opposite is the back side, and the left and the right are the left side and the right side, respectively, as viewed from the user facing the front side. The lower side is defined and explained.

  In the case 2, the customer handling unit 3 is provided at a position where it is easy to insert a bill or operate the touch panel in a state where the user faces the front side. The customer service unit 3 directly exchanges cash, passbook and the like with users such as customers of financial institutions, and also receives notification of information on transactions and operation instructions. , A deposit / withdrawal port 5, an operation display unit 6, a ten key 7 and a receipt issue port 8 are provided.

  The card entrance 4 is a portion into which various cards such as a cash card are inserted or ejected. On the back side of the card entrance 4 is provided a card processing unit 4A (FIG. 3) for reading an account number etc. magnetically recorded on various cards. The deposit / withdrawal port 5 is a portion into which a bill to be deposited by the user is inserted and a bill to be dispensed to the user is discharged. Further, the deposit / withdrawal port 5 is opened or closed by driving a shutter.

  The operation display unit 6 is a touch panel in which an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) for displaying an operation screen at the time of transaction, a touch sensor for selecting a type of transaction, and inputting a personal identification number, transaction amount and the like are integrated. The ten-key pad 7 is a physical key that receives input of numbers “0” to “9” and the like, and is used at the time of input operation such as a personal identification number or a transaction amount. The receipt issue port 8 is a part that issues a receipt on which the contents of the transaction and the like are printed at the end of the transaction process. Incidentally, on the back side of the receipt issue port 8, a receipt processing unit 8A (FIG. 3) for printing the contents of the transaction etc. on the receipt is provided.

  In the housing 2, a main control unit 9 for overall control of the entire cash dispenser 1 and a bill depositing / dispensing machine 10 for performing various processes regarding bills are provided.

  The main control unit 9 is mainly composed of a CPU (Central Processing Unit) (not shown), and reads and executes a predetermined program from a ROM, a flash memory, etc. (not shown) to execute various operations such as deposit transaction and withdrawal transaction. Perform the processing of Further, the main control unit 9 internally includes a storage unit 9M including a random access memory (RAM), a hard disk drive, a flash memory or the like, and stores various information in the storage unit 9M.

  Further, in the cash dispenser 1, an electronic journal unit 21 is provided which records the history of operations and processes related to various transactions. The electronic journal unit 21 is, for example, a hard disk drive or a flash memory, and the date and time when the transaction was performed with the user, the account number of the user, the type of transaction, the denomination and number of bills handled, The serial number etc. of each bill is recorded as electronic data in an electronic journal EJ (described later).

  The bill depositing and dispensing machine 10 has a bill control unit 11, a deposit and withdrawal unit 12, a transport unit 13, a discrimination unit 14, a temporary storage unit 15, a bill storage 16, and a reject storage as shown in FIG. 17 and a withdrawal storage 18 are provided.

  The bill control unit 11 controls the bill depositing / dispensing machine 10 in an integrated manner while cooperating with the main control unit 9 as shown in FIG. 3 as a block configuration of the bill depositing / dispensing machine 10 including the entire cash dispenser 1. It is supposed to Similar to the main control unit 9, the bill control unit 11 is mainly configured with a CPU (not shown), and by reading and executing a predetermined program from a ROM, a flash memory, etc. (not shown), payment processing, payment processing, etc. Perform various processing.

  In addition, the bill control unit 11 internally includes a storage unit 11M including a RAM, a flash memory, and the like, and stores various information such as various programs such as a dispensing program and information on bills in the storage unit 11M.

  The deposit / withdrawal unit 12 (FIG. 2) is configured around a box-like container 12A whose upper side is opened. The container 12A accommodates the banknote to be delivered to the user or the banknote delivered from the user in an aligned state along the front-rear direction. An openable shutter 12B is provided above the container 12A.

  The conveyance part 13 forms the conveyance path which connects each part in the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 10 by a motor, a roller, a belt, a guide, etc. which are not shown in figure. The transport unit 13 transports the roller along the transport path with the direction along the short side of the bill as the traveling direction by appropriately rotating the roller and traveling the belt as appropriate.

  The discrimination unit 14 internally includes various sensors such as an optical sensor, an image sensor, and a magnetic sensor, and while conveying a bill inside thereof, obtains a discrimination result by each sensor and supplies it to the bill control unit 11. In response to this, the bill control unit 11 determines the denomination and authenticity of the bill, the degree of damage, and the like based on the acquired discrimination result, reads the serial number, and determines the conveyance destination of each bill. The bill control unit 11 also notifies the main control unit 9 of the determination result and the serial number.

  Incidentally, the serial number of the bill is an identification number uniquely assigned to each bill, and is composed of a combination of a plurality of characters. This serial number is used, for example, when specifying an individual bill. As characters constituting this serial number, characters of various languages such as Russian characters and kanji can be used in addition to numbers and English characters, and furthermore, various characters such as "-", "@", "&" The symbol of can also be used as a "character" in a broad sense.

  The temporary storage unit 15 adopts a so-called tape escrow method, and stores the bill by winding the bill together with the tape on the circumferential side surface of the cylindrical drum and stores the bill by peeling off the tape from the circumferential side surface. It is supposed to pay out. Incidentally, the temporary storage unit 15 can store, for example, up to 200 bills.

  The bill storage 16 is configured to collect and store a large number of bills inside. For example, in the deposit transaction, the banknote storage 16 takes in the banknotes classified to a small degree of damage in the discrimination unit 14 and classified as reusable and distributed by denomination and transported by the transport unit 13. Store. Further, the banknote storage 16 separates the banknotes of the instructed number one by one under the control of the banknote control unit 11 in the dispensing transaction, delivers the banknotes one by one, and sequentially delivers them to the transport unit 13.

  The reject storage 17 stores banknotes (so-called rejected banknotes) which are discriminated in the discrimination unit 14 to a large extent of damage and should not be reused. The forcible storage storage 18 stores the banknotes that the user forgot from the deposit / withdrawal unit 12 in the dispensing transaction, etc. in a state of being vertically aligned and aligned.

[1-2. Payment processing]
Next, the deposit process of the banknote in the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 10 will be described. When a deposit transaction is performed with the user in the cash dispenser 1, the bill control unit 11 of the banknote depositing / dispensing machine 10 reads out and executes a predetermined deposit processing program from the storage unit 11M to thereby perform deposit processing. To start.

  First, when accepting the start operation of the deposit transaction via the operation display unit 6 in cooperation with the main control unit 9 (FIG. 1), the bill control unit 11 opens the shutter 12B of the deposit / withdrawal unit 12 and enters the container 12A. Insert a bill. When the user inserts a bill into the container 12A by the user and receives an operation instruction to start taking in through the operation display unit 6, the shutter 12B is closed, and the bill is removed from the container 12A. Each sheet is taken in and delivered to the transport unit 13. The transport unit 13 advances the banknote along the short side direction and transports the banknote to the discrimination unit 14.

  The discrimination unit 14 notifies the bill control unit 11 of the detection result of each sensor while conveying the bill therein. The bill control unit 11 determines the denomination and authenticity of the bill, the degree of damage, etc. based on the discrimination result obtained from the discrimination unit 14 and further reads the serial number, and determines the discrimination result of each bill. Determine the destination of the

  Specifically, the banknote control unit 11 causes the transport unit 13 to transport and store the banknotes identified as valid and to be traded to the temporary storage unit 15 while storing the rejected banknotes identified as not to be transacted. It transports to the deposit / withdrawal unit 12 and returns to the user.

  Soon after the bill control unit 11 finishes taking in all the bills inserted into the deposit / withdrawal unit 12, the bill control unit 11 calculates the deposit amount based on the discrimination result obtained from the discrimination unit 14, and uses this as the operation display unit 6 (FIG. ) To display to the user, and inquire whether to continue the deposit transaction. Here, when an instruction to continue the deposit transaction is received from the user, the bill control unit 11 conveys the bill held in the temporary holding unit 15 to the discrimination unit 14 by the conveyance unit 13 and sets the denomination and the like Distinguish the degree of damage etc. and acquire the result of the discrimination.

  Subsequently, the bill control unit 11 controls the transport unit 13 to sort the banknotes with a small degree of damage to the banknotes by denomination by the transport unit 13 as banknotes to be reused. It conveys to storage 16 and makes it store. On the other hand, the bill control unit 11 transports and stores a bill having a large degree of damage as a rejected bill that should not be reused to the reject storage 17.

  On the other hand, when the banknote control unit 11 receives from the user an instruction not to continue the deposit transaction, the banknote control unit 11 causes the temporary storage unit 15 to sequentially draw out all the reserved banknotes, and the transport unit 13 transfers the banknotes. 12. The sheet 12 is sequentially transported to the container 12A. When the bill control unit 11 stores all the bills in the container 12A, the shutter control unit 11 opens the shutter 12B and causes the user to take out the bills.

  At this time, when the bill remains in the container 12A even after a predetermined standby time (for example, 30 seconds) elapses after the shutter 12B is opened, the bill control unit 11 causes the user to forget the bill. It is determined that what has gone away, that is, that a note has been forgotten. Subsequently, the banknote control unit 11 takes in the banknotes in the container 12A one by one, conveys them to the discrimination unit 14 by the conveyance unit 13, discriminates each banknote, and conveys it to the temporary storage unit 15.

  Here, when the bill control unit 11 determines that each bill is not normal based on the discrimination result obtained from the discrimination unit 14, there are roughly two types of factors. One of them is caused by the banknote itself, and it is a case where it is discriminated as a counterfeit note or a case where it is not possible to discriminate a denomination, that is, a case where it is discriminated as an improper banknote. Hereinafter, the bill determined in this manner is referred to as an unfair bill.

  The other type is due to the conveyance of bills, and in the case of so-called double feeding, in which two or more bills are overlapped and conveyed, or in the case of so-called skew feeding, in which the inclination angle to the bill conveyance direction is extremely large. That is, it is determined that the sheet is not conveyed normally. Hereinafter, the bill determined in this manner is referred to as a conveyance failure bill.

  The banknote control unit 11 conveys all the banknotes to the withdrawal storage 18 even if the transport failure banknote is included if the improper banknote is not included based on the discrimination result obtained from the discrimination unit 14. Store and wait for the start of the next transaction. On the other hand, when one or more unfair banknotes are included, the banknote control unit 11 conveys all the banknotes to the deposit / withdrawal unit 12 to store the banknotes in the container 12A, and closes the shutter 12B. In cooperation with 9, the operation of the cash dispenser 1 is stopped.

[1-3. Disbursement processing]
Next, the process of dispensing banknotes in the banknote depositing and dispensing machine 10 will be described. When a dispensing transaction is performed with the user in the cash dispenser 1, the bill control unit 11 of the banknote depositing / dispensing machine 10 reads out and executes a predetermined dispensing process program from the storage unit 11M. Start the withdrawal process.

  First, the banknote control unit 11 receives an operation for starting a withdrawal transaction or an input operation for withdrawal amount by the user via the operation display unit 6 in cooperation with the main control unit 9 (FIG. 3). Next, the bill control unit 11 determines the bills of the denomination and the number according to the withdrawal amount, sequentially feeds the bills of the denomination and the number from the bill storage 16 and conveys them to the discrimination unit 14 by the conveyance unit 13 And make them distinguish.

  At this time, the bill control unit 11 conveys a bill which can not be determined as normal as a rejected bill to the reject storage 17 like a double feed in which a plurality of bills are overlapped and conveyed, while a normal bill corresponds to a withdrawal amount. The amount of money to be transferred is transferred to the deposit / withdrawal unit 12 and stored in the container 12A. Finally, the bill control unit 11 opens the shutter 12B of the deposit / withdrawal unit 12 to allow the user to take out the bill in the container 12A.

  At this time, if the bill remains in the container 12A even after a predetermined standby time (for example, 30 seconds) elapses after the shutter 12B is opened, the bill control unit 11 generates a bill as in the case of the deposit process. It is determined that a forgetfulness has occurred. Subsequently, the bill control unit 11 takes in the bills in the storage container 12A one by one, discriminates the respective bills by the discrimination unit 14, and conveys the bills to the temporary storage unit 15.

  Furthermore, based on the discrimination result obtained from the discrimination unit 14, the banknote control unit 11 withdraws all banknotes when there is no unfair banknote, and stands by for the start of the next transaction When one or more banknotes are included, all banknotes are transported to the deposit / withdrawal unit 12 and the operation of the cash dispenser 1 is stopped.

[1-4. Recording of Disclaimer Information]
By the way, the bill depositing and dispensing machine 10 takes in each bill from the depositing and dispensing unit 12 as described above, transports it to the discrimination unit 14 and discriminates it as described above, in any of the deposit transaction and the withdrawal transaction. The bill control unit 11 determines the authenticity or the like of each bill. At this time, the main control unit 9 acquires the discrimination result of each bill from the bill control unit 11, and records the discrimination result on the electronic journal EJ of the electronic journal unit 21 (FIG. 3) along with other information regarding the transaction.

  Specifically, the main control unit 9 records, in the electronic journal EJ, the forgetting information N representing the information on the not yet remembered banknote every time the forgotten note is occurred once. As shown in FIG. 4, the forgetting information N is composed of a plurality of lines of characters, of which the first line is date and time information NA representing date and time, and the remaining lines are banknotes representing information of bills. It is information NB.

  In the bill information NB, information is recorded one line at a time for one bill, and in each line, order information NB1, denomination information NB2, serial number information NB3 and legitimacy information NB4 are recorded sequentially from the left.

  The order information NB1 is an integer representing the order identified in the identification unit 14, and basically corresponds to the alignment order of the note banknotes stored in the storage for forgetting storage 18 or the deposit / withdrawal unit 12. The order information NB1 also functions as a line number in the bill information NB. The denomination information NB2 represents the denomination determined in the bill control unit 11 based on the discrimination information obtained from the discrimination unit 14 and, as in "1000", "5000" and "10000", each bill The amount of money is recorded numerically.

  Further, when the banknote control unit 11 can not determine the denomination, the denomination information NB2 indicates, for example, a denomination unknown character string “in which the denomination could not be determined like the line number“ 5 ”in FIG. "UNKNOWN" is recorded. Here, when the denomination of the bill can not be determined, the image data obtained from the discrimination unit 14 is different from the normal image data of each denomination stored in advance in the storage unit 11M (FIG. 3). Is also not matched. Incidentally, when the denomination of the bill can not be determined, the bill control unit 11 can not specify the position of the different serial number for each denomination, and can not read the serial number.

  The serial number information NB3 represents a serial number read by the banknote control unit 11 based on the discrimination information obtained from the discrimination unit 14. Here, if there is a digit that can not be read as a serial number, for example, a digit that can not be determined as any character or a digit that can not determine any of a plurality of candidates, this digit is regarded as an unread digit, for example, line number “ The unread character "?" Is recorded like the 7th character of 3 "and the 1st, 2nd, and 8th characters of the line number" 4 ".

  The legitimacy information NB4 is an unfair character string representing an unfair banknote when the banknote control unit 11 determines that the banknote is a counterfeit or the denomination can not be determined based on the discrimination result from the discrimination unit 14. "REJECTED" is recorded. Incidentally, the legitimacy information NB4 is left blank if it is a valid bill.

  Incidentally, the main control unit 9 generates the bill information NB for each of the disclaimed bills while using the storage unit 9M as a temporary storage area regardless of the presence or absence of the unfair bill when the forgetting of the bill occurs. The disclaimer information N is supplied to the electronic journal EJ and recorded.

  Next, a processing procedure in the case where the main control unit 9 records the forgetting information N in the electronic journal EJ will be described. When forgetting a bill occurs in a deposit transaction or a withdrawal transaction, the banknote control unit 11 takes in the banknotes one by one from the deposit / withdrawal unit 12 and conveys it to the discrimination unit 14, and acquires the discrimination result from the discrimination unit 14 Do.

  Subsequently, the bill control unit 11 carries out each processing such as discrimination of authenticity and denomination of each bill and reading (recognition) of serial number based on the obtained discrimination result, and information indicating these processing results The main control unit 9 is notified of this (hereinafter referred to as “notice banknote information”).

  When the main control unit 9 acquires the disapproval banknote information from the banknote control unit 11, the main control unit 9 reads out the disapproval information recording program from the storage unit 9M and executes it to start the disapproval information recording process procedure RT1 shown in FIG. Then, the process proceeds to step SP1. In step SP1, the main control unit 9 generates date and time information NA based on the current date and time, records the date and time information NA in the electronic journal EJ, and proceeds to the next step SP2. By the way, at this time, in the case where the forbidding banknote information for a plurality of banknotes has been acquired, the main control unit 9 focuses on the first banknote and sets the forbidding banknote information as a processing target.

  In step SP2, the main control unit 9 determines whether or not the denomination of the bill has been determined, based on the obtained disclaimed bill information. If a positive result is obtained here, this means that the bill can be recognized as any bill of at least a plurality of denominations, and it is highly likely that the serial number has been read. At this time, the main control unit 9 proceeds to the next step SP3 to determine the denomination information NB2, and proceeds to the next step SP4.

  In step SP4, the main control unit 9 determines whether the bill is a forged bill based on the obtained disclaimed bill information. If a positive result is obtained here, this means that the bill is a forged bill and that the electronic journal EJ should record that fact. At this time, the main control unit 9 moves to the next step SP5, determines the bill as an unfair bill, and moves to the next step SP6. On the other hand, if a negative result is obtained in step SP4, this indicates that the bill is normal, and at this time, the main control portion 9 proceeds to the next step SP6.

  In step SP6, the main control unit 9 determines whether or not there is an unread digit in the serial number, based on the obtained note banknote information. If a positive result is obtained here, this means that it is necessary to record in the electronic journal EJ that the character of the unread digit can not be read. At this time, the main control unit 9 assigns unread characters "?" To the unread digits, and proceeds to the next step SP10. On the other hand, if a negative result is obtained in step SP6, this means that all digits of the serial number can be read, and the serial number can be recorded as it is in the electronic journal EJ. At this time, the main control unit 9 proceeds to the next step SP10.

  Further, if a negative result is obtained in step SP2, the denomination of the bill can not be determined, and accordingly the serial number can not be read because the position of the serial number different for each denomination can not be identified. And that it should be recorded in the electronic journal EJ. At this time, the main control unit 9 proceeds to the next step SP8, and similarly to step SP5, determines the banknote as an unfair banknote, and proceeds to the next step SP9. In step SP9, the main control unit 9 sets a denomination unknown character string "UNKNOWN" representing that the denomination is unknown as the denomination information NB2, and further sets a character string representing a space in the serial number information NB3. Then, it proceeds to the next step SP10.

  In step SP10, the main control unit 9 sequentially records the denomination information NB2 and the serial number information NB3 after recording the order information NB1 at the head of the line as a part of the bill information NB related to the bill in the electronic journal EJ. , Move to the next step SP11.

  In step SP11, the main control portion 9 determines whether or not the bill is determined as an incorrect bill. If an affirmative result is obtained here, the main control unit 9 moves to the next step SP12, records an invalid character string "REJECTED" as the legitimacy information NB4, and moves to the next step SP13. On the other hand, if a negative result is obtained in step SP11, this indicates that the bill is valid and does not need to be recorded as the legitimacy information NB4. At this time, the main control unit 9 proceeds to the next step SP13.

  In step SP13, the main control unit 9 determines whether or not the bill information NB has been recorded in the electronic journal EJ for all the bills for which the disclaimed bill information has been obtained. If a negative result is obtained here, this indicates that the bill information NB should be recorded also for the remaining bills. At this time, the main control unit 9 returns the processing to step SP2 and repeats the series of processing, thereby recording the bill information NB similarly for the next bill.

  On the other hand, if a positive result is obtained in step SP13, this indicates that the electronic journal EJ has finished recording the forgetting information N including the bill information NB for all the rejected bills. At this time, the main control unit 9 proceeds to the next step SP14 and ends the forgetting information recording processing procedure RT1.

  Incidentally, the main control unit 9 keeps the stored bill information NB (i.e., the forgetting information N) from being erased from the storage unit 9M even after finishing the forgetting information recording processing procedure RT1.

[1-5. Printing of Disclaimer Information]
Furthermore, in the cash dispenser 1, the contents of the electronic journal EJ can be printed on a receipt by the receipt processing unit 8 A (FIG. 1, FIG. 3) by the operation of a staff member of a financial institution or a maintenance worker.

  For example, the automated teller machine 1 may not forget to take bills in the withdrawal transaction, and the unpaid bills include unfair bills, and the unpaid bills are conveyed to the deposit / withdrawal unit 12 to stop operation. It is assumed that the At this time, when a predetermined maintenance operation is performed by the maintenance worker or the like through the operation display unit 6 or the like, the main control unit 9 causes the operation display unit 6 to display the print operation screen D1 shown in FIG.

  The print operation screen D1 is provided with a print button B1 on which the characters "print" are displayed. When the print button B1 is touch-operated, the main control unit 9 reads out the forgetting information N related to the disclaimed banknote stored in the deposit / withdrawal unit 12 from the electronic journal EJ, and receives it from the receipt processing unit 8A (FIG. 1, FIG. Supply to Figure 3).

  As shown in FIG. 7, the receipt processing unit 8A prints the acquired forgetting information N on the receipt RC, and discharges it from the receipt issue port 8 (FIG. 1). At this time, the same content as the forgetting information N recorded in the electronic journal EJ is printed on the receipt RC.

  The maintenance worker receives the receipt RC and compares it with the rejected banknotes taken out from the deposit / withdrawal unit 12 to identify the unfair banknotes, visually confirm the unfair banknotes, or restart the operation of the automatic teller machine 1, etc. Do.

[1-6. Operation and effect]
In the above configuration, the main control unit 9 of the automated teller machine 1 according to the first embodiment is configured by the bill information NB for each disclaimed bill when a note is left in a deposit transaction or a withdrawal transaction. The forgetting information N is generated and recorded in the electronic journal EJ.

  At this time, when the denomination of the bill can not be determined, the main control unit 9 records a denomination unknown character string “UNKNOWN” as denomination information NB2 of the bill information NB. For this reason, the main control unit 9 can make the maintenance worker or the like who visually checked the forgetting information N recognize the denomination and the serial number of each forgetting banknote, and can not distinguish the denomination in the forgetting banknote. It can be recognized that the bank note is included.

  When the main control unit 9 can not determine the denomination of the bill, the main control unit 9 can not read the serial number, and can not record the serial number as the banknote information NB. That is, the main control unit 9 can not make the maintenance worker specify this bill by relying on the serial number.

  However, the main control unit 9 records the denomination unknown character string “UNKNOWN” as the denomination information NB2 in association with the order information NB1 in the electronic journal EJ, and the order determined by the discrimination unit 14 remains unchanged. The bill information NB of each disclaimed bill is recorded line by line.

  For this reason, the main control unit 9 causes the maintenance worker etc. to compare the order of each bill information NB in the forgiveness information N with the order of the notable bills taken out from the deposit / withdrawal unit 12 so that the denomination is denominated. It is possible to easily identify a rejected note which can not be identified and whose serial number is unknown. As a result, the main control unit 9 easily associates each bill information NB recorded as the forgetting information N with a real notched note, and easily grasps the discrimination result and the like of each left note. Can.

  Further, when there is an unread digit in the serial number, the main control unit 9 does not record the serial number at all in the serial number information NB3 but records the character of the digit read normally as it is, and reads the unread digit. Record as unread characters "?" For this reason, the main control unit 9 can make the maintenance worker etc. compare the forgotten note and the forgetting information N while taking into consideration the character of the digit read out of the serial number.

  Furthermore, when a maintenance worker or the like performs a predetermined operation, the main control unit 9 prints the content of the electronic journal EJ on the receipt RC. As a result, the main control unit 9 attaches verbose RCs to the disclaimed banknotes, for example, in the case where the disclaimed banknotes are sequentially transferred among the departments in the financial institution, for example. It is possible to immediately make the person in charge of each department who has seen the disclaimed bill recognize the state without giving an explanation or the like.

  According to the above configuration, the main control unit 9 of the cash dispenser 1 according to the first embodiment causes the denomination information NB2 to be a denomination when the denomination can not be determined if a note is left uncollected. It is considered as an unknown character string "UNKNOWN", and the unread digit in the serial number is made unread character "?" In the serial number information NB3, and the bill information NB of each disclaimer is generated to be the forget information N. Record in the electronic journal EJ. Thereby, the main control unit 9 presents the disclaimer information N of the electronic journal EJ to the maintenance worker etc., thereby making the correspondence between each disclaimed banknote and the respective banknote information NB easy and making each disclaimed banknote It is possible to immediately grasp the judgment result of

[2. Second embodiment]
The automated teller machine 101 (FIG. 1) according to the second embodiment is different from the automated teller machine 1 according to the first embodiment in that the main control unit 9, the bill depositing / dispensing machine 10 and the electronic journal unit 21. Although the main control unit 109 instead of the above is different in that it has the bill depositing / dispensing machine 110 and the electronic journal unit 121, the other points are configured in the same manner.

  Similar to the main control unit 9 according to the first embodiment, the main control unit 109 is mainly configured with a CPU (not shown), and performs various processes by executing a predetermined program. The main control unit 109 also has a storage unit 109M that replaces the storage unit 9M. Similar to the storage unit 9M, the storage unit 109M stores various programs such as a forgetting information recording program and various information.

  The bill depositing and dispensing machine 110 is different from the bill depositing and dispensing machine 10 according to the first embodiment in that it has a bill control unit 111 instead of the bill control unit 11, but is otherwise configured similarly. It is done. The banknote control unit 111 compares the discrimination result of the disclaimed banknote from the discrimination unit 14 when the forgetting of the banknote occurs in the deposit transaction and the withdrawal transaction as compared with the banknote control unit 11 according to the first embodiment. The processing to be performed after acquisition is partially different.

  That is, based on the discrimination result obtained from the discrimination unit 14, the banknote control unit 111 takes all the banknotes when all the banknotes are normal, that is, when neither the unfair banknote nor the transport failure banknote is included. The container is transported to and stored in the not-stored storage 18 and waits for the start of the next transaction. On the other hand, the bill control unit 111 conveys all the bills to the deposit / withdrawal unit 12 so as to be accommodated in the container 12A when the unfair bill or the conveyance defective bill is included one or more sheets, and keeps the shutter 12B closed. In cooperation with the main control unit 109, the operation of the cash dispenser 101 is stopped.

  Like the electronic journal unit 21 according to the first embodiment, the electronic journal unit 121 (FIG. 3) records information on transactions such as the forgetting information N in the electronic journal EJ, but the contents of the forgetting information N This is partially different from the first embodiment.

  Specifically, as shown in FIG. 8 corresponding to FIG. 4, the main control unit 109 records forgetting information N in which the reason information NB 5 is added to the bill information NB, as shown in FIG. 8 corresponding to FIG. 4. For the reason information NB5, only the line in which the invalid character string "REJECTED" is recorded as the legitimacy information NB4, for example, it is a character string in which English letters and numbers are combined like "E01" or "E02". .

  The reason information NB5 is a so-called error code, and for each character string, "bank type information unknown" or "counterfeit", or "double feed" or "skewed", etc. The reason for discrimination in the case of being discriminated as a bad bill is associated in advance.

  The main control unit 109 is also partially different from the main control unit 9 according to the first embodiment in the recording of the forgetting information N to the electronic journal EJ. Specifically, the main control unit 109 executes processing according to the forgetting information recording procedure RT2 shown in FIG. 9 in place of the forgetting information recording procedure RT1 (FIG. 5). In this forgetting information recording processing procedure RT2, the main control unit 109 performs the same processing as steps SP1 to SP10 of the forgetting information recording processing procedure RT1 in steps SP21 to SP30, and proceeds to step SP31.

  In step SP31, the main control unit 109 determines whether or not the bill is determined as either an unfair bill or a conveyance-failed bill. If an affirmative result is obtained here, the main control unit 9 moves to the next step SP32, records an invalid character string "REJECTED" as the legitimacy information NB4, and moves to the next step SP33. In step SP33, the main control unit 109 records reason information NB5 indicating the reason why the bill is determined as the unfair bill or the conveyance failure bill in the electronic journal EJ, and proceeds to the next step SP34.

  On the other hand, if a negative result is obtained in step SP31, this means that the bill is valid and does not need to be recorded as the legitimacy information NB4 and the reason information NB5. At this time, the main control unit 109 proceeds to the next step SP34.

  In step SP34, the main control unit 109 determines, as in step SP13 (FIG. 5), whether or not the bill information NB has been recorded in the electronic journal EJ for all the bills for which disclaimed bill information has been obtained. If a negative result is obtained here, the main control unit 109 returns to step SP22 and repeats a series of processes. On the other hand, when a positive result is obtained in step SP34, the main control unit 109 proceeds to the next step SP35 and ends the forgetting information recording processing procedure RT2.

  Further, in the cash dispenser 101, as in the first embodiment, the contents of the electronic journal EJ are received by the receipt processing unit 8A (FIG. 1, FIG. 3) by the operation of the staff of the financial institution, the maintenance worker, etc. It can also be printed. At this time, reason information NB5 (FIG. 8) is also printed on the receipt RC.

  In the above-described configuration, the main control unit 109 of the cash dispenser 101 according to the second embodiment generates the forgetting information N when the paper currency is forgotten in the deposit transaction or the withdrawal transaction, and the electronic journal EJ is generated. Record on At this time, the main control unit 109 records the order information NB1, the denomination information NB2 and the serial number information NB3 as the bill information NB of each disclaimed bill, and further the legitimacy of the bill determined as the unfair bill or the conveyance failure bill. The information NB4 and the reason information NB5 are recorded.

  For this reason, the main control unit 109 can make the maintenance worker or the like who visually checked the forgetting information N recognize the denomination and the serial number of each forgetting banknote, and which note is determined to be not normal , And the reason can be easily grasped.

  Particularly in the second embodiment, when the bill control unit 111 of the bill depositing / dispensing machine 110 forgets to remove a bill, in addition to the case where there is an unfair bill, there is also a case where there is a conveyance failure bill. The bill will be transported to the deposit / withdrawal unit 12 to stop the operation of the cash dispenser 101. Therefore, even if the legitimacy information NB4 is recorded in the forgetting information N, in the cash dispenser 101, it is difficult to distinguish whether it is an incorrect banknote or a conveyance-failed banknote, and the maintenance worker can not recognize the condition of the banknote. There was a possibility that I could not make it understand correctly.

  In this respect, the main control unit 109 records the reason information NB5 together with the legitimacy information NB4, so that the maintenance worker can grasp the state of the bill in more detail and in a short time, It is possible to make the appropriate measures correspond. Thereby, for example, even when the staff of the financial institution explains the state of the bill withdrawal to the customer, it is possible to obtain the customer's consent including the detailed reason by referring to the reason information NB5. You can

  Also in other points, the automatic teller machine 101 according to the second embodiment can exhibit the same function and effect as the automatic cash dispenser 1 according to the first embodiment.

  According to the above configuration, the main control unit 109 of the cash dispenser 101 according to the second embodiment causes the electronic journal EJ to receive the denomination information NB2 and the note information NB as the bill information NB when a note is forgotten to be taken. The number information NB3 is recorded, and the legitimacy information NB4 and the reason information NB5 are recorded for the banknotes determined as the unfair banknotes or the transport failure banknotes. As a result, the main control unit 109 presents the disclaimer information N of the electronic journal EJ to the maintenance worker or the like to make the correspondence between the disclaimed banknotes and the respective banknote information NB easy, and causes the unfair banknotes or the conveyance. It is possible to immediately and in detail understand the discrimination result of each disclaimed banknote, etc., including the reason when it is determined to be a defective banknote.

[3. Other embodiments]
In the first embodiment described above, the case where the read character is recorded for the read digit and the unread character "?" Is recorded for the unread digit in the serial number information NB3 has been described. . However, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, the unreadable digit may be blank, and various symbols such as "*" and "_" may be used as unread characters. Furthermore, when all digits can not be read, a special character string representing that may be recorded, such as "<ERROR>". The point is that as long as the character of the read digit is recorded as the serial number information NB3 as much as possible, and the existence and position of the unread digit can be clarified, the position of each digit can be correctly recorded. The same applies to the second embodiment.

  In the first embodiment described above, the case where the automated teller machine 1 handles banknotes of a plurality of denominations, the case is described where denomination information NB2 representing a denomination is recorded in the forgetting information N. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the denomination information NB2 may be omitted from the forgetting information N when, for example, the automated teller machine 1 handles only one kind of denomination of banknotes. The same applies to the second embodiment.

  Furthermore, in the first embodiment described above, when the denomination can not be determined, the denomination information NB2 is set as the denomination unknown character string “UNKNOWN”, and in addition to this, the position of the serial number is different for each denomination. Since the serial number can not be read at all due to the difference, the case where the serial number information NB3 is left blank is described. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and, for example, when the positions of the serial numbers are the same among the denominations, the serial number information NB3 is obtained based on the reading result of the serial numbers regardless of whether the denominations can be identified. You may make it record. The same applies to the second embodiment.

  Furthermore, in the second embodiment described above, the case where an error code such as "E01" or "E02" is displayed as the reason information NB5 has been described. However, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, a word representing a state such as "SLANTED" or "OVERLAP" may be recorded as reason information NB5.

  Furthermore, in the first embodiment described above, the case has been described in which the bill information NB for one disclaimed bill is recorded in one line. However, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, the bill information NB for one disclaimed bill may be recorded over two or more lines, or the bill information NB for two or more disclaimed bills in one line. You may connect and record. In this case, by recording the order information NB1, it can be associated with the order of arrangement of the disapproval banknotes, and it is only necessary to be able to separate the banknote information NB for one disclaimer banknote in the disclaimer information N. . The same applies to the second embodiment.

  Furthermore, in the first embodiment described above, the case is described where the order information NB1 is recorded as the bill information NB. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the order information NB1 may be omitted. In this case, since the number of lines from the first line of the bill information NB represents the order of the bills, counting the number of lines makes it possible to correspond to the order of arrangement of disapproved bills. The same applies to the second embodiment.

  Furthermore, in the first embodiment described above, the case of recording the forgetting information N composed of electronic information in the electronic journal EJ of the electronic journal unit 21 has been described. However, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, the memorandum information N may be recorded by printing characters on a paper journal. In this case, it is possible to make the maintenance worker search and refer to the desired forgetting information N from the printed paper journal without printing it on the receipt RC again.

  Furthermore, in this case, although the forgetting information N is recorded in the paper journal, the forgetting information N regarding the note to be refused may be separately printed on the receipt RC by the operation of the maintenance worker or the like. Specifically, it is sufficient to read out the forgetting information N stored in the storage unit 9M and print it on the receipt RC. The same applies to the second embodiment.

  Further, in the above-described first embodiment, when printing out the forgetting information N on the receipt RC (FIG. 7) by the operation of the maintenance worker etc., the forgetting information N related to the forgetting banknote is read out from the electronic journal EJ Described the case of printing. However, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, the forgetting information N may be read from the storage unit 9M and printed. The same applies to the second embodiment.

  Furthermore, in the first embodiment described above, the case has been described in which the forgetting information N is printed on the receipt RC (FIG. 7) by the operation of the maintenance worker or the like. However, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, the printing function may be omitted, and the forgetting information N may be displayed on the operation display unit 6 to allow the maintenance worker to visually confirm it, or, for example, USB (Universal Serial) The forgetting information N as electronic information may be transferred and stored in a removable information storage medium such as a Bus) memory, and this may be referred to by a terminal device of the maintenance worker or the like. The point is that the forgetting information N can be presented by various presenting means capable of presenting the character information to the maintenance worker or the like. The same applies to the second embodiment.

  Furthermore, in the above-described first embodiment, the banknote control unit 11 determines processing of denomination, authenticity, etc., and reading processing of the serial number (recognition processing) based on the discrimination result obtained in the discrimination unit 14 Described when to do. However, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, a predetermined discrimination processing unit may be incorporated in the discrimination unit 14, and the discrimination processing unit may perform the discrimination processing and the recognition processing. The same applies to the second embodiment.

  Furthermore, in the first embodiment described above, when one or more unfair banknotes are included in the disclaimed banknotes, all the banknotes are transported to the deposit / withdrawal unit 12 and accommodated in the container 12A, and the shutter 12B The case where the operation of the automated teller machine 1 is stopped in cooperation with the main control unit 9 is described. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and for example, regardless of whether or not an improper bill is included in the disclaimed bill, all the bills are transported to and stored in the forget storage 18 and wait for the start of the next transaction. You may do so. The same applies to the second embodiment.

  Furthermore, in the first embodiment described above, the case is described where the main control unit 9 of the cash dispenser 1 executes the recording process of the forgetting information according to the forgetting information recording procedure RT1 (FIG. 5). . However, the present invention is not limited to this, and for example, the recording processing of the forgetting information may be executed by the bill control unit 11 of the bill depositing / dispensing machine 10 alone or in cooperation with the bill control unit 11 and the main control unit 9. The same applies to the second embodiment.

  Furthermore, in the first embodiment described above, the case where the forgetting-information recording program is stored in advance in the storage unit 9M of the main control unit 9 has been described. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and may be stored, for example, in the storage unit 11M of the bill control unit 11, or may be downloaded and acquired from an external server or the like via a network not shown. It may be acquired from a removable information storage medium such as a USB memory via an interface (not shown). The same applies to the second embodiment.

  Furthermore, in the first embodiment described above, the case has been described where the present invention is applied to an automatic teller machine 1 that trades banknotes as a medium with a user. However, the present invention is not limited to this, for example, an apparatus installed at a window of a financial institution to perform deposit processing and deposit processing of banknotes, so-called teller cashier, or various media such as various cash vouchers and securities with a user. The present invention may be applied to various devices, especially when the user forgets to take away a medium which the user has forgotten. The same applies to the second embodiment.

  Furthermore, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments and other embodiments. That is, the present invention can be applied to an embodiment in which any or all of the above-described embodiments and any of the other embodiments described above are arbitrarily combined or an embodiment in which a part is extracted. It is.

  Furthermore, in the embodiment described above, the deposit / withdrawal unit 12 as the delivery unit, the discrimination unit 14 as the discrimination unit, the bill control unit 11 as the discrimination unit, the main control unit 9 as the recording unit, and the electronic journal unit The case where an automatic teller machine 1 as a medium transaction apparatus is configured by the above-described items 21 and 21 has been described. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the medium transaction apparatus may be configured by a delivery unit having other various configurations, a discrimination unit, a determination unit, and a recording unit.

  The present invention can also be used in various devices for exchanging media such as banknotes with a user.

  1, 101: cash dispenser, 5: deposit and withdrawal opening, 6: operation display unit, 8: receipt issue opening, 8A: receipt processing unit, 9, 109: main control unit, 9M, 109M ...... Memory unit, 10, 110 ... Banknote cash-dispensing machine, 11, 111 ... Banknote control unit, 11M ... Storage unit, 12 ... Cash-dispensing unit, 12A ... Container, 12B ... Shutter, 13 ... ... Transporting part, 14 ... Discrimination part, 15 ... Temporary stocking part, 18 ... Disclaimed storage, 21, 121 ... Electronic journal part, D1 ... Printing operation screen, EJ ... Electronic journal, N ... Reminder information, NA ... date and time information, NB ... banknote information, NB 1 ... order information, NB 2 ... denomination information, NB 3 ... serial number information, NB 4 ... validity information, NB 5 ... reason information, RC ……receipt.

Claims (6)

A delivery unit that delivers to the user a medium having a unique identification number at a different position for each type according to the content of the transaction;
A discrimination unit that discriminates the type of medium left in the delivery unit and reads the identification number from the medium;
A determination unit that determines the correctness of the medium according to a predetermined determination criterion;
For each medium, the type determined by the discrimination unit, a reading result in which a portion of the identification number that can not be read by the discrimination unit is represented by predetermined unread information, and the discrimination result of the correctness When the legitimacy is denied by the discriminator, information indicating the reason why the legitimacy is denied is recorded together with the reading result and the legitimacy, and the type can not be discriminated by the discriminator. A medium transaction apparatus comprising: a recording unit for recording type unknown information indicating that the type of the medium is unknown when the identification number can not be read . The identification number is a combination of a plurality of characters,
The medium transaction apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the recording unit records, as the unread information, a substitute character representing one character that can not be read out of the identification number. The recording unit records information indicating the order of the medium when the identification number is read by the discrimination unit, in association with the reading result and the determination result of the legitimacy. The medium dealing apparatus described in. An operation unit that receives an operation instruction;
The medium transaction apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: a presentation unit that presents the read result for each medium and the determination result of the legitimacy in accordance with a predetermined operation instruction to the operation unit. The medium transaction apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein the presentation unit is a receipt processing unit that issues and prints the transaction content on a receipt. The medium trading device according to claim 4 , wherein the presentation unit is a display screen for displaying information.

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