JPH06187484A - Slip reading processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a slip reading processor which can surely judge the edge folding of a part forming the bar code of the page information of a slip. CONSTITUTION:Concerning the slip reading processor for reading a bar code 12 showing the page information formed within a prescribed range at a prescribed position of the slip with a sensor 13, a judging means is provided to set the scanning frequency of the sensor 13 to the bar code 12 to be plural times, to read the respective bar code detected widths every scanning, to compare these bar code detected windths with each other and to judge the propriety of a reading result based on the presence/absence of the change, and the detected widths of the bar code 12 due to the respective times of scanning of the sensor 13 are successively compared with each other in the order of scanning, for example. When the width is changed at a fixed rate and it is detected that the detected width of the bar code 12 is inclined, this is judged as edge folding, and erroneous printing based on the reading defect of the bar code 12 can be surely avoided.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a voucher reading processing device for reading page information of a passbook inserted by a customer in an automatic teller machine used in financial services.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In the case of a passbook as in the above example, in order to print transaction data on a print page, a bar code indicating page information formed on the print page of the passbook is read and processed. Since the above-mentioned bar code is generally formed at a corner such as the upper left corner of the printed page, the bar code shown in FIG. 1 may be caught while carrying the passbook or when the passbook is inserted or conveyed. As described above, the end fold 14 of the printed page may occur, and when the end fold 14 is generated in this manner, the reading of the bar code becomes defective. Then, the transaction information is printed on the wrong print page. Therefore, in order to avoid this erroneous printing,
It is necessary to surely detect and judge the edge bending of the print page.

[0003]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a form reading processing device capable of surely determining the edge breakage of a bar code forming portion of page information of a form as described above.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention is a form reading processing device for reading a bar code indicating page information formed in a predetermined range at a predetermined position of a form with a sensor, wherein a plurality of sensor scannings for the bar code are performed. It is a form reading processing device provided with a judging means for reading the bar code detection width of each scan, comparing these bar code detection widths, and judging whether the reading is correct or not based on the change. .

[0005]

In the form reading processing device of the present invention, the detection width of the barcode by each scanning of the sensor is compared, for example, in the scanning order, and when the change is changing at a constant rate, the detection width of the barcode is changed. The inclination means that the inclination is present, and the determination means determines that the inclination is caused by the end bending.

[0006]

As a result of the above, according to the present invention, it is possible to reliably determine the edge breakage of the bar code-formed portion of the page information of the form, and to reliably prevent erroneous printing due to defective reading of the bar code. It can be avoided.

Further, the edge breakage determination described above can be determined by the output of the sensor that reads the page information without requiring a special detector, so that the structure is simplified.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings. The drawings show the form reading processing device of the present invention,
A passbook used in financial business is shown as a form. In FIG. 1, a bar code 12 indicating the number of pages (page information) of the printed page 11 is formed in the upper left corner of the printed page 11 of the passbook 10, and the number of pages is 10 in the other upper right corner.
It is indicated by the base number.

The area of the bar code 12 is read by the one-dimensional image sensor 13 when the passbook 10 is conveyed in the direction X by a conveying device (not shown), and the number of scanning of the image sensor 13 is, for example, It is set to 5 times. As shown in FIG. 1, when the portion of the bar code 12 is bent at the end 14, the reading of the bar code 12 becomes defective, and a part of the bar code 12 on the previous page is read. Therefore, it is necessary to detect the above-mentioned end fold 14 in order to avoid reading failure.

FIG. 2 shows a control circuit of the form reading processing device. The read signal read by the image sensor 13 is converted into a digital signal by the A / D converter 15 and input to the CPU 16. CPU16 is ROM1
In addition to driving and controlling each circuit device according to the program stored in 7, the RAM 18 stores the necessary data in addition to the page data read by the image sensor 13 and the read data of the image sensor 13 is determined. To do. The passbook carrying device 19 carries the passbook 10 for the reading process of the image sensor 13 described above, and also carries the passbook 10 for executing other necessary processes. The display device 20 displays the reading by the image sensor 13 when the reading by the image sensor 13 is defective due to a broken edge, and also displays necessary data.

The processing of the CPU 16 for reading the bar code 12 in the form reading processing apparatus thus configured will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. The customer opens the print page 11 for printing the transaction data and opens the passbook 10.
When the passbook 10 is inserted into the device (step n1), the passbook data magnetically recorded on the magnetic stripe formed on the cover of the passbook 10 is read by a reading means such as a magnetic head (step n2). ), If the passbook data cannot be read, or if the passbook data is invalid even if read (step n3, NO determination), the passbook 10 is returned (step n4) and the reason for returning to the display device 20 is displayed. Display (step n5).

On the other hand, when it is determined that the passbook data is normal (step n3, YES determination), the image sensor 13 then causes the bar code 12 indicating the page data of the passbook 10.
Is read (step n6), and when the barcode 12 can be read normally (step n7, YES judgment), the process shifts to a printing process of reading and printing the next print line.

However, when the reading of the above-mentioned bar code 12 is not successful (step n7, NO judgment), the edge breakage detection process is executed as follows (step n8). That is, as shown in FIG. 4, the image sensor 13 sets the scanning number for the bar code 12 to 5, so that the detection width x of the bar code 12 is compared based on the bar code data at the time of scanning. judge.

The first to fifth bar codes 12 shown in FIG.
When the detection widths x1 to x5 are sequentially compared one by one, if the result is | xi-xi + 1 | ≠ 0 and is a constant value, the detection width x is a constant rate. Since it can be determined that the bar code 12 is tilted due to the change in, it is determined that this is an end break 14.

When the edge break 14 is determined as described above (step n9, YES determination), the display 20 indicates that the edge break 14 is present, and the passbook 10 is instructed to be reinserted. It is returned (step n10). When the guide is displayed in this way, the user can understand that the reason for returning the passbook 10 is the end break 14, so that the user can easily deal with it.

If it is determined in the above determination that the page is not broken (step n9, NO determination), it is determined that the print page 11 opened by the customer is an error. Therefore, a page confirmation message is displayed. , Passbook 1 instruct to reinsert passbook 1
0 is returned (step n11).

As described above, according to this embodiment, the end break 14 at the position where the bar code 12 is formed is attached to the bar code 12.
Since it can be detected and determined based on the detection width x of, the erroneous printing due to the reading failure of the barcode 12 can be reliably avoided.

Further, the detection of the above-mentioned end bending can be judged by the output of the image sensor 13 which reads the page information without requiring a special detector, so that the structure is simplified. The configuration of the present invention is not limited to the configuration of the embodiment.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view showing the correspondence between a print page of a passbook and an image sensor.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a control circuit of the form reading processing device.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart of reading processing.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of barcode scan data.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10 ... Passbook 11 ... Printed page 12 ... Bar code 13 ... Image sensor 14 ... End fold 16 ... CPU

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A form reading processing device for reading a bar code indicating page information formed in a predetermined area of a form in a predetermined range by a sensor, wherein scanning of the sensor for the bar code is set to a plurality of times and each scan is performed. A form reading processing device provided with a judgment means for reading a bar code detection width, comparing the bar code detection widths, and judging whether the bar code detection width is correct or not based on the change.