KR100639054B1 - Apparatus for counting paper sheets - Google Patents

Abstract

In the present invention, in the counting of paper sheets in the safe, each paper stored in the safe is given with ID information unique to the paper sheets, and the ID information is read and checked in order. It is an object of the present invention to provide a paper sheet counting device capable of automatically knowing the counting of paper sheets by distinguishing the counting paragraphs without using a reference piece dedicated to counting paragraphs.

In order to solve this problem, the present invention provides a paper sheet counting apparatus in which a safe connected to a circulation conveyance path is provided, and a plurality of sheets of paper stored in the safe are sequentially conveyed and counted. Reading means for reading the ID information unique to the paper sheets, matching means for collating the ID information read by the reading means, read-read ID information already read, and ID of the paper sheet when the matching means is collated. It is characterized in that it is provided with a discriminating means for discriminating the number of sheets of paper sheets which have already been counted when the information coincides with the counted short circuit circulated once.

Paper sheets, counting shorts, check means, discriminating means, reading means

Description

Paper sheet counting device {Apparatus for counting paper sheets}

1 is a schematic side view showing an internal structure of a bill processing apparatus of the present invention.

2 is a control circuit block diagram of the banknote processing apparatus of the present invention.

3 is a flowchart showing a counting operation of the banknote processing apparatus of the present invention.

4 is a transport explanatory diagram showing a counting operation of the banknote processing apparatus of the present invention.

5 is a schematic side view showing the internal structure of another banknote processing apparatus of the present invention.

Explanation of symbols on the main parts of the drawings

11, 53: bill handling apparatus 15, 51: identification unit

16 imaging part L: conveyance line

A: Banknote C1: Thousand Won Safe

C2: five thousand won safe C3: ten thousand safe

B1: holding part B2: accumulating part

21: CPU 23: RAM

25: thousand won safe drive unit 26: 5,000 won safe drive unit

27: 10,000 won safe drive unit 52: Imager

The present invention relates to a paper sheet counting device applied to, for example, an automatic teller machine (ATM), an automatic ticket vending machine, and more. More specifically, a plurality of sheets of paper sheets such as banknotes and checks can be stored inside the apparatus. It relates to a paper sheet counting device that circulates and automatically counts in a.

Hereinafter, a banknote counting device of an ATM will be described as an example. Usually, a bill acceptor allows a bill to enter and exit inside a bill processing apparatus built in an ATM, and when counting all bills stored in the safe. The bills are sent out one by one from the safe on the conveying path, and counting is completed by passing all of the bills out through the position of the identification unit. In conveying the counted bills, it is necessary to move all the bills in the safe, so that a separate storage part is required from the safe, so that the entire apparatus is enlarged and the cost is increased.

For this reason, if the inside of a safe is divided into upper and lower sides, banknotes are sent out from one side, banknotes are stored on the other side, the banknotes are circulated and conveyed on the basis of the safe, and all the banknotes sent out from the safe are counted. Since the cycle is used, the size and cost of the whole apparatus can be reduced.

However, in order to know the end point of counting by circulating the whole banknote of the safe once, it is necessary to recognize the short circuit between the uncounted banknote and the mechanical banknote. For this reason, it is recognized that the whole banknote was circulated once at the time when the second passage of the reference piece was detected by sandwiching the reference piece dedicated to the counting paragraph at the time of counting (for example, JP-A-A). (See H1-144120).

However, such a recognition method requires a reference piece dedicated to counting paragraphs every time the counting in the safe is performed, and a need arises for the attendant to input and operate the reference piece at the time of counting. There were troublesome problems such as the need for handling management.

Therefore, in the present invention, in the counting of the paper sheets in the safe, each sheet of paper stored in the safe is given ID information unique to the paper sheets, and by reading and checking the ID information in order, It is an object of the present invention to provide a paper sheet counting device that can recognize count end of paper sheets automatically without using a reference piece dedicated to counting paragraphs.

The paper sheet counting apparatus of Claim 1 which installs the safe connected to the circulation conveyance path, and circulates and conveys the several sheets of paper accommodated in this safe in order, The paper sheet counting apparatus WHEREIN: Reading means for reading the ID information unique to the paper sheets recorded, matching means for collating the ID information read by the reading means, read-out ID information already read, and paper sheet at the time of collation of the matching means. When the ID information is matched, it is characterized by including discriminating means for discriminating a plurality of sheets of paper that have already been counted as counted paragraphs circulated once.                         

The invention described in claim 2 is characterized in that a reference number is used as ID information.

The invention according to claim 3 is characterized in that it is a reading means for reading the luminance distribution data of the paper sheet.

In the following, an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

The figure shows the banknote processing apparatus internally comprised in ATM, As shown in FIG. 1, the banknote processing apparatus 11 has the entrance / exit entrance and exit 12 which collectively enters the banknote A in the upper one side, and is opened. , The collective conveyance unit 13 which collectively conveys a plurality of banknotes A in the state which piled up several banknotes A, and the collectively conveyed banknotes A are received in the inside which is connected to this entrance / exit entrance and exit 12, and it goes to the back one by one Export section 14, identification section 15 which carries out the authenticity determination and the amount of money sorted out, the imaging section 16 which reads the billing number of a banknote, and a thousand-won safe which permits entry / exit of a thousand won ( C1), a five thousand won safe (C2) allowing five thousand won in and out, a ten thousand safe (C3) allowing one thousand won in and out, a bad bill collection box (17) for collecting bad bills with poor identification, and the amount of withdrawn bills Withdrawal judging part 18 which judges the kind and presence of withdrawal, and identification The banknote holding part 19 which hold | maintains the defective banknote of defect is provided, It connects between these processing elements 12-19, C1-C3 in a loop shape in the conveyance line L, and deposits and withdraws. Carry-on processing according to various processing purposes of the processing and counting processing is performed.

The three types of safes (C1 to C3) described above have the same structure and are arranged in a thousand won, five thousand won and three thousand won (C3), five thousand won safe (C2), and thousand won safe (C1) from top to bottom. The amount of money of the dog is allowed. In this case, each of the safes C1 to C3 has a circulating conveyance structure in which banknotes A are put down and discharged upward, and are connected to the conveying line L. Such circulating conveyance structures are located at the bottom of the safes C1 to C3. The holding part B1 and the holding part B1 which hold | hold and hold | retain one sheet of bank notes A led through the safe deposit line L1 connected in a horizontal direction at the conveyance line L, and hold | maintenance part B1. It is comprised with the accumulator part B2 which pushes up a banknote up and accumulates collectively, and exports a banknote one by one from the accumulator part B2, and draws it to the carry-in line L through the safe deposit line L2 of the upper part. It is configured to lose.

The holding part B1 is provided in the lower part of each safe, and puts the banknote harvested at the time of a deposit transaction first in preparation for deposit cancellation, and returns it from this holding part B1 if there is cancellation of a deposit.

On the other hand, when the deposit transaction is confirmed, the banknote A held by the holding unit B1 is pushed up and merged together with the existing banknotes of the accumulating unit B2 separated and arranged on the upper part of the safe.

2 shows a control circuit block diagram of the banknote processing apparatus 11, and the CPU 21 controls each circuit apparatus in accordance with a program stored in the ROM 22, so that the control data can be read from the RAM 23. As shown in FIG. Remember to.

The banknote detection sensor S detects the conveyance state and presence of the banknote A which passes through the conveyance line L and each processing element 12-19, C1-C3.                     

The communication device 24 communicates with the upper control unit to communicate various data such as deposit and withdrawal transaction data, check data and count data.

The conveying motor M drives the conveying line L, and performs the deposit process, withdrawal process, counting process, etc. of the banknote A. FIG.

Each vault drive unit 25 to 27 of 1,000 won, 5,000 won, and 10,000 won drives an unshown retrieval mechanism, a pushing mechanism, a sending mechanism, and the like, which are provided inside each of the safes. Perform hold processing or circular processing.

By the way, the imaging part 16 is provided continuously in the rear end of the identification part 15, CPU21 handles the banknote number of the banknote which this imaging part 16 read, as ID information of a banknote, The unique ID information obtained by distinguishing each banknote is used as a counting element in counting banknotes.

For example, when counting the bills in the thousand-yen safe C1, the bills of the plurality of bills stored in the safe are sequentially sent out one by one to be circulated and conveyed. ), The read ID information is stored in the RAM 23 and collated with the ID information stored in the RAM 23 at every reading. If it matches with the read-out ID information read out initially, it can be determined that all the bank notes in the safe are the counted paragraphs circulated once, and this can be confirmed by knowing the end of counting. Therefore, the whole bill in the thousand safe C1 can be counted automatically.

In addition, for the configuration of reading the ID information of each banknote in order, not only the collation judgment of the first sheet of money sent out first, but also the collation determination of the second and subsequent subsequent banknotes can be performed to accurately read and confirm. As a result, even if the ID information with the first banknote in the first cycle is not matched, if the matching result with the banknotes subsequently released is matched, it is possible to detect that the cycle has been cycled once at that time, It is possible to perform a stable counting process with high contrasting accuracy by multiple sheet collation.

In particular, since the bills can be accurately distinguished one by one from the billing numbers recorded on the bills, when a particular bill to be counted is cycled once in the circulation conveyance path, the bills end point is clearly distinguished from other bills. I can recognize it. In addition, in counting the bills in the safe, it is possible to count them in a simple operation to circulate and convey them in one direction without the troublesome operation such as moving the bills in the safe.

First, the deposit operation will be described using the bill processing apparatus 11 configured as described above. Now, when a plurality of bills A are collectively fed into the deposit and withdrawal entrance and exit 12, the bills A that have been collectively added are collectively. It is collectively conveyed to the carrying out part 14 by the conveyance part 13, and it is sent out to the rear end one by one from this carrying out part 14.

The exported bill A is first identified by the identification unit 15, and the amount of money is determined. If the bill is authentic, it is stored separately in the safes C1 to C3 corresponding to the same amount of money. It is returned to the entry and exit gate 12 without going.

Banknotes deposited in the holding portion B1 of each safe are first held here in preparation for the cancellation of the deposit, and are stored separately from the accumulated banknotes of the stacking portion B2 in the upper part of the safe. Then, when the deposit transaction is confirmed, the banknotes held in the holding unit B1 are pushed up and merged together with existing existing banknotes in the accumulating unit B2. If the deposit is canceled before the transaction is confirmed, the banknote A accumulated in the holding unit B1 is transferred back, taken out of the safe, and returned to the deposit and withdrawal entrance 12.

Next, with reference to the withdrawal operation, the CPU 21 sends out banknotes one by one from the corresponding safes of the thousand won safe C1, the five thousand won safe C2, and the 10,000 won safe C3, which are designated according to the withdrawal instruction. When the bill passed out passes through the withdrawal determining unit 18, the amount of money and the accompanying withdrawal are checked here, and when determined to be appropriate, the banknote is accumulated in front of the deposit and withdrawal entrance and exit 12, and then collectively discharged.

When the withdrawal determination unit 18 determines that it is not suitable, the banknote which is not suitable for the withdrawal is held in the defective banknote holding unit 19, and after the withdrawal is completed, the package is delivered to the withdrawal and withdrawal inlet and exit 12, From this, it is divided into a safe and received by the same transfer process as a deposit transfer process. At this time, when there is a bad bill determined by the identification part 15 as a bad identification, this banknote is collect | recovered in the bad bank note collection box 17. FIG.

Next, the counting operation | movement operation of the banknote processing apparatus 11 is demonstrated with reference to the flowchart of FIG. 3, and the conveyance explanatory drawing of FIG. In this case, since each of the three safe money types C1 to C3 performs the counting operation in the same conveyance process with the same structure, the counting safe C3 is used as the counting object as an example.

Now, when a counting signal for counting the number of sheets of the full-scale safe C3 is input to the CPU 21, the CPU 21 initially sets the count value of the counter for the full-size safe C3 (step n1), One thousand won tickets are sent out from this one thousand won safe box C3 and operated (step n2).

As shown in bold solid lines in FIG. 4, the sent out 10,000 won tickets pass in the order of the withdrawal determination unit 18, the withdrawal entrance and exit 12, the withdrawal unit 14, and the identification unit 15 on the transfer line L. It is delivered to the imaging unit 16, where the bill number of the banknote is read (step n3).

The read device number is stored in the RAM 23 as ID information unique to the bill, and stored in the RAM 23 each time it is read, and thereafter contrasted with the read ID information and the already read ID information (step n4).

If it does not match, the count value is determined to be not cycled once, and the read ID information is stored in the RAM 23 (steps n5 to n6).

Thus, one banknote in a safe is sent out, and a check operation is performed, and after the check processing, the circular conveyance operation to be stored in the original safe is sequentially repeated for each bill (step n7).

The bills in the safe are circulated around the conveying line L, and the first bill in the safe is sent out again. The counting operation ends with the recognition that the ID information of this banknote coincides with the first ID information (step n8).

The counting result counted at this time is transmitted to the upper control section of the ATM equipped with the banknote processing apparatus 11, and the counting data is displayed and output on the display of the ATM (step n9).

In the above-described embodiment, the case where the imaging section 16 and the identification section 15 are arranged separately is shown. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and as shown in FIG. 5, the interior of the identification section 51 is shown. It is also possible to install and integrate the imager 52 so that it can be integrated into one and can be miniaturized and built in the banknote processing apparatus 53.

In addition, in reading the serial number printed on a banknote, the image of a banknote unique part is acquired, a recognition process is performed with this image, and a serial number is extracted. Further, even if the serial number cannot be extracted completely, the luminance distribution data itself of the image stamped with the serial number may be used as ID information.

For example, the CCD image sensor for serial number imaging reads the luminance distribution data of the banknote number printed on the banknote, and characterizes the serial number of the banknote read by this CCD image sensor for each luminance distribution data, Obtained as ID information. Even when character recognition is not possible, the bill itself can be distinguished from each other by acquiring itself as ID information.

In matching with this luminance distribution data, the threshold used as a reference | standard is set, and a matching and inconsistency are judged by this threshold. Also in this case, since not only the collation judgment of the first sheet of paper sent out first but also the collation determination of the subsequent 2nd sheet and later are carried out and confirmed, the coincidence of the ID information with the first banknote of the first round Even if it is not made, if the matching result with the banknote sent out after that is matched, it can detect that it was circulated once at that time.

As described above, when counting the bills in the safe, a plurality of bills stored in the safe are sequentially conveyed one by one, and the ID information unique to the bills recorded in the bills is recorded for the bills to be transported. If the imaging unit reads the read ID information and the already read read ID information, it matches and determines that all the bills in the safe are counted shorted once. Therefore, by reading the ID information of the banknotes circulated and returned in order, it is possible to accurately detect the time point at which the banknotes are circulated once, and this can be confirmed by knowing the end of counting. Therefore, the number of sheets of all bills in the safe can be counted automatically.

As a result, it is possible to know the end of counting without interposing a reference piece for short circuits in the safe to be counted, and the cashier's work handling the reference piece can be omitted, and the bills in the safe can be counted completely.

In addition, for the configuration of reading the ID information of each banknote in order, not only the collation judgment with the first bill sent out in the first place, but also the subsequent collation judgment after the second sheet can be carried out to accurately read and confirm. If the ID information is not matched with the first banknote in the first cycle, and the matching result with the banknotes subsequently released is matched, one cycle can be detected at that time, and the continuous multiple sheets are checked. It is possible to perform stable counting process with high contrast accuracy.

In addition, since the billing number unique to a bill is used for ID information, when a banknote can be correctly distinguished one by one from the billing number recorded on this bill, and a specific bill is circulated and conveyed once, Clearly distinguished from other bills, it is possible to accurately recognize the end point of counting.

In correspondence with the present invention and the configuration of the above-described embodiment, the paper sheet counting apparatus of the present invention is circularly conveyed as described below, corresponding to the banknote counting apparatus provided in the banknote processing apparatuses 11 and 53 of the example. The furnace corresponds to the conveying line (L), the safe corresponds to the thousand won safe (C1), the five thousand won safe (C2), and the ten thousand safe (C3), and the paper sheets correspond to the bill (A). The reading means corresponds to the imaging unit 16 or the imaging unit 52, the matching means and the discriminating means correspond to the CPU 21, and the present invention corresponds to the technical idea indicated in the claims. It can apply on the basis of, and is not limited only to the structure of the above-mentioned embodiment.

For example, in the above-described embodiment, the safes C1 to C3 which put banknotes from the bottom up at the time of deposit and withdrawal transactions or the counting of banknotes are shown, but are not limited to this. The same effect can be obtained when used.

According to the present invention, when counting the paper sheets in a safe, a plurality of sheets of paper stored in the safe are cyclically conveyed one by one, and the ID information unique to the paper sheets recorded in the paper sheets is read to the reading means. The read-out ID information and the first-read read-out ID information are collated by the matching means, and if the ID information matches, it is determined that all the paper sheets in the safe are counted short circuits that have been cycled once. The means determines.

Therefore, by reading the ID information of the paper sheets circulated and conveyed in order, it is possible to accurately detect the time point at which the paper sheets are circulated once, and this can be confirmed by knowing the end of counting. Therefore, the number of sheets of all paper sheets in the safe can be counted automatically.

As a result, it is possible to know the end of counting without intervening the reference piece for short circuit in the safe to be counted, thereby eliminating the accountant work for interposing the reference piece, thereby fully counting the paper sheets in the warehouse. Can be.                     

In addition, since the ID information of each paper sheet is read in order, not only the collation judgment with the first sheet paper sent out first, but also the second and subsequent collating judgments with the subsequent sheets can be read and confirmed correctly. have. For example, even if the ID information is not matched with the first sheet of paper in the first cycle, if the matching result with the sheets of paper exported thereafter coincides, it is possible to detect that the cycle has been cycled once. As a result, a stable counting performance is obtained because of the high contrast accuracy by continuous multiple sheet matching.

In addition, when the serial number is used as the ID information, since each sheet can be accurately distinguished from the serial number recorded in the sheet, the sheet is different when the specific sheet is circulated once in the circulation transport path. Distinguishing from the classification, the end point of counting can be accurately recognized.

In addition, in the case of using the reading means for reading the luminance distribution data of the paper sheets, the paper sheets can be distinguished one by one for the luminance distribution data read in whole or in part of the paper sheet. If is cycled once, it can be clearly distinguished from other paper sheets, so that the end point of counting can be accurately recognized.

Claims (3)

In the paper sheet counting apparatus which installs the safe connected to a circulation conveyance path, and circulates and conveys the several sheets of paper stored in this safe in order, Reading means for reading paper-specific ID information recorded in the paper sheets; Matching means for matching ID information read by the reading means with read-read ID information already read; A paper sheet counting apparatus, comprising discriminating means for discriminating that a plurality of sheets which have already been counted is a counting section circulated once when the paper sheet ID information coincides when the matching means is collated. The paper sheet counting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the ID information is a serial number. The paper sheet counting apparatus according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the reading means reads the luminance distribution data of the paper sheet.

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