KR101857186B1 - Media processing apparatus and media processing method - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an apparatus for processing a medium and a method thereof. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the apparatus capable of accurately determining whether mediums are exactly the same comprises: a medium storage unit storing a medium; a recognition unit acquiring recognition information specifying an image of the medium and the medium; a storage unit storing the image and the recognition information of each medium according to a medium incoming sequence of the medium storage unit; and a control unit controlling the medium storage unit, the storage unit, and the recognition unit. To this end, the recognition unit may determine whether the images are identical by performing pattern-matching the images of the medium acquired from the medium sequentially released from the medium storage unit and the images of the medium stored in the storage unit when receiving a recognition request based on the recognition information from the control unit.

Description

[0001] MEDIA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND MEDIA PROCESSING METHOD [0002]

The present invention relates to a medium processing apparatus and a medium processing method.

Generally, in an apparatus for processing a medium such as banknotes or securities, such as an ATM (automated teller machine) or a TCR, a medium remaining amount information stored in a cassette, which is a medium storing section, It may become uncertain.

The conventional media processing apparatus recognizes the serial number of the medium as a character through the recognition section when the rollback transaction or the correction of the station is performed and compares the recognized serial number with the remaining amount information of the medium to determine whether the medium is identical or not, Respectively.

However, since the recognition rate of the serial number of the recognition unit is not 100% accurate, it is not possible to accurately determine that the medium is the same due to unrecognized or false recognition. In addition, in the case where foreign matter is damaged or damaged at the serial number position of the medium, the recognition rate of the medium is greatly deteriorated, so that it is impossible to judge whether the medium is the same or not. In this case, it takes a lot of time to check the medium remaining amount information, which lowers the operating rate of the apparatus and inconveniences the customer.

An object of the present invention is to provide a medium processing apparatus and a medium processing method capable of determining whether or not they are exactly the same by pattern matching a serial number image of a medium upon determination of the identity of the medium.

A medium processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a medium storage unit for storing a medium; A recognition unit for acquiring recognition information specifying an image and a medium of the medium; A storage unit in which images and recognition information of each medium are stored according to a medium lead-in sequence of the medium storage unit; And a control unit for controlling the medium storage unit, the storage unit, and the recognition unit.

When receiving the recognition request based on the recognition information from the control unit, the recognition unit can determine whether or not the image is identical by pattern matching the image of the medium acquired from the medium sequentially emitted from the medium storage unit and the image of the medium stored in the storage unit have.

Here, the recognition information may include the serial number of each recognized medium, the recognition accuracy, the category, and the image ID.

In addition, the control unit generates a matching number corresponding to the image ID of each medium when requesting recognition, and transmits to the recognition unit at least one image ID and a matching number for determining whether or not the matching is identical.

The recognition unit may perform pattern matching of the image of the medium stored in the storage unit corresponding to the received image ID and the image of the medium acquired from the medium sequentially emitted from the medium storage unit so as to match the image ID of the medium determined to be the same And transmits the corresponding matching number to the control unit.

The control unit can perform the spot correction or the rollback transaction based on the matching number received from the recognition unit.

For example, the control unit may request the recognition unit to use the determination of whether or not the images are identical based on the recognized serial numbers of the respective media and the determination as to whether they are the same by the image pattern matching.

As another example, when determining whether or not the medium is the same as or more than the set number of copies, the control unit may request image pattern matching only for the medium whose recognition accuracy of the medium is lower than the set criterion.

Here, the image of the medium may be a serial number image.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a medium processing method comprising the steps of: acquiring, in each medium storage unit, an image of a recognition unit medium and recognition information for specifying the medium when the medium is brought in; And storing the image of the acquired medium and the recognition information in the storage unit according to the media lead-in order.

Further, a medium processing method according to the present invention is a method for matching a pattern of an image of a medium acquired from a medium sequentially discharged from the medium storage unit and an image of a medium stored in the storage unit, And a step of judging whether or not the received data is transmitted.

For example, the step of determining the identity may include generating a matching number corresponding to an image ID of each medium, transmitting at least one image ID and a matching number to the recognition unit, The recognition unit performs pattern matching of the image of the medium stored in the storage unit corresponding to the received image ID and the image of the medium acquired from the medium sequentially emitted from the medium storage unit to match the image ID of the medium judged to be the same Transmitting a number to the control unit; And a step in which the control unit performs the spot correction or the rollback transaction based on the match number received from the recognition unit.

According to the present invention, it is possible to more accurately determine whether or not the medium is identical by pattern matching the serial number image of the medium when judging whether the medium is identical or not. As a result, errors can be minimized in a rollback transaction or a correction transaction.

Other effects according to the present invention will be further described with reference to the following embodiments.

1 is a perspective view schematically showing a financial instrument according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a diagram showing a configuration of a medium processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a conceptual diagram illustrating a data communication interface between a control unit and a recognition unit according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a flowchart illustrating a data communication process between the controller and the recognition unit according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 5 is a table for explaining recognition information stored in the deposit-time storage unit according to an embodiment of the present invention.
6 is a flowchart showing a medium processing method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, some embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to exemplary drawings. It should be noted that, in adding reference numerals to the constituent elements of the drawings, the same constituent elements are denoted by the same reference symbols as possible even if they are shown in different drawings. In the following description, well-known functions or constructions are not described in detail since they would obscure the understanding of the embodiments of the present invention.

In describing the components of the embodiment of the present invention, terms such as first, second, A, B, (a), and (b) may be used. These terms are intended to distinguish the constituent elements from other constituent elements, and the terms do not limit the nature, order or order of the constituent elements. When a component is described as being "connected", "coupled", or "connected" to another component, the component may be directly connected or connected to the other component, Quot; may be "connected," "coupled," or "connected. &Quot;

1 is a perspective view schematically showing a financial instrument according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, a financial instrument 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a medium processing apparatus for processing a medium.

The financial instrument 100 may further include a customer information obtaining unit for obtaining customer information.

The customer information acquiring unit may include a passbook processing module 114 for allowing passbooks to be input and output and recognizing passbooks. Alternatively, the customer information obtaining unit may include a card processing module 115 for allowing the card to be input / output and recognizing the card.

In this embodiment, there is no limitation on the type of the customer information obtaining unit, and it is also possible to acquire the information recorded in the short distance communication, the RFID tag or the USB, or obtain the customer information by using the biometric information such as the fingerprint.

The financial instrument 100 may further include a user interface 111 capable of displaying a menu and information for depositing or withdrawing money and inputting or selecting a command or information for depositing or withdrawing money.

The financial instrument 100 may further include a control unit (not shown) capable of controlling the media processing apparatus and the customer information obtaining unit or the user interface 111 of the financial instrument. In this case, the control unit may include a media processing apparatus control unit for controlling the media processing apparatus, and a financial apparatus control unit for controlling the financial apparatus.

The media processing apparatus may include an upper module and a lower module. The upper module may be removably connected to the lower module or may be movably connected to the lower module. Or the upper module and the lower module may be kept in a contact state without being connected to each other.

The media processing apparatus may include a media input / output module (112, 113) for input / output of a medium.

The media input / output modules 112 and 113 may include a media storage space accessible by a customer, and the media storage space may be opened and closed by a closure member such as a shutter and / And may sometimes remain open without being opened or closed. The media storage space may be partitioned into a plurality of storage spaces by a partition member.

The media input / output modules 112 and 113 can serve as a common input / output unit through which a plurality of types of media, such as banknotes, checks, and gift vouchers, can be input and output. The media can be input into the media input / output modules 112 and 113 in units of a bundle or a bundle. In addition, the media may be ejected to the media entry / exit module 112, 113 in a sheet or bundle basis.

Alternatively, a draw-in space in which the media is drawn in the media input / output modules 112 and 113 and a draw-out space in which the media is drawn out can be distinguished. Alternatively, the media input / output module may include an independent media entry module and a media extraction module.

The media processing apparatus may further include a discrimination module (not shown). The discrimination module can identify the denomination, the thickness, the amount of the denomination of the medium or the defective medium in the deposit transaction process and the withdrawal transaction process of the medium.

The medium processing apparatus may further include a temporary accumulation module for temporarily accumulating the medium.

The temporary integration module may temporarily integrate the media received through the media input / output modules 112 and 113 when the customer intends to deposit the medium into the financial instrument.

The medium integrated in the temporary integration module may be transferred to a media storage section which will be described later when the customer finally decides to store the medium. Alternatively, the temporary integration module may temporarily collect the medium to be transferred to the medium entry / exit module.

The medium processing apparatus may further include a medium storage section for storing the medium. The media storage unit may include a plurality of media storage modules 116.

The plurality of media storage modules 116 may include one or more bill storage modules and one or more check storage modules. In this specification, the number of the bank note storage module and the check storage module is not limited. As another example, it is also possible that the media storage unit includes only a banknote storage module or a check storage module. Alternatively, the plurality of media storage modules may include a storage module for storing gift certificates, securities, tickets, and the like. Alternatively, the check storage module can be replaced by a storage module that stores gift certificates, securities, tickets, and the like.

The media processing apparatus may further include a replenishment recovery module (not shown) for replenishing or recovering the medium. In the replenishment recovery module, one or more of the medium to be supplemented to the medium storage portion and the medium recovered from the medium storage portion may be stored.

The media processing apparatus may further include a collection module (not shown). In the recovery module, a medium determined to be a defective medium may be recovered in at least one of a process of depositing a medium, a process of withdrawing the medium, a process of supplementing the medium, and a process of recovering the medium. In other words, a medium which has been taken out to the medium entry / exit module but has been tried by the customer and / or which is judged as a bad medium in the discrimination module or a medium which is not recognized in the discrimination module may be accommodated. In addition, the media processing apparatus may further include a deposit check collection space in which the deposit check transferred from the media entry / exit module is collected when the financial instrument includes a check insertion / withdrawal function. At this time, the deposit check may be recovered by separating the check issued by the bank operating the financial institution from the check issued by another bank. The deposited check collection space may be configured as a separate module from the collection module, or may be divided into the divided spaces in the collection module. The collection module and / or the check collection space may be located at the rear end of the financial instrument so that the manager or manager can open the door to easily access the collection module and / or the check collection space.

Such a medium processing apparatus may include a transfer module for transferring a medium to be deposited or a medium to be discharged for withdrawal to respective modules.

Examples of the financial device according to the present invention may include an automatic teller machine (ATM) such as a cash dispenser (CD), a cash recycling device, and the like. However, the financial instrument is not limited to the above-described example, and may be a device for automating financial business such as FIS (Financial Information System).

Next, a media processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a configuration of a medium processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The media processing apparatus 1 includes at least one media storage unit 10, a recognition unit 20, a storage unit (not shown), a control unit 40, a media input / output unit 50, a temporary storage unit 17, A part 13 and a replenishment / recovery section 15, and the like.

First, the medium storage unit 10 is a medium storage module for storing the medium, and may include at least one medium storage module 10a to 10d.

The recognition unit 20 is a configuration for acquiring the identification information for identifying each medium and each medium in the deposit transaction process, the withdrawal transaction process, etc. of the medium, and corresponds to the identification module.

For example, the image of the medium is a serial number image obtained by photographing the serial number area (i.e., the identification information area) of the medium, and the recognition information includes the serial number, recognition accuracy, An image ID, and the like. Here, the serial number means serial number information recognized as a character for each medium, and the recognition accuracy is a recognition score indicating the serial number recognition rate, for example, represented as "LOW " If the recognition rate is high, it can be indicated as "HI". The denomination represents a denomination of a medium type, for example, 5,000 won, 10,000 won. The image ID is information for identifying an image of each medium.

The storage unit (not shown) is configured to store images and recognition information of each medium acquired for each medium storage unit 10 in accordance with a media lead-in sequence. The storage unit 10 may be included in the medium storage unit 10, Or may be a separately formed data storage space.

The recovery unit 13 retrieves a medium determined to be a defective medium (for example, a rejected medium) in at least one of a deposit transaction process of a medium, a withdrawal transaction process of a medium, a medium supplement process, and a medium recovery process Recovery module.

The replenishment recovery unit 15 is a replenishment recovery module for replenishing or recovering the medium.

The temporary storage unit 17 is a temporary accumulation module for temporarily accumulating the medium.

The control unit 40 is a media processing unit control unit that controls the medium storage unit 10, the storage unit, the recognition unit 20, the collection unit 13, the supplementary storage unit 15, and the temporary storage unit 17 , Deposit transactions, and withdrawal transactions.

3, the control unit 40 forms a data communication interface with the recognition unit 20 to perform data communication. For example, the control unit 40 can make a recognition request to the recognition unit 20, and the recognition unit 20 can transmit recognition information corresponding to the recognition request to the control unit 40. [

For example, when receiving the recognition request based on the recognition information from the control unit 40, the recognition unit 20 acquires the image of the medium sequentially acquired from the medium stored in the medium storage unit 10, It is possible to judge whether the images are the same or not. Accordingly, it is possible to judge whether or not the identities of the media are more exactly the same as those of determining the identities by recognizing the serial numbers by pattern-matching the serial number images of the media when judging the identity of the media. As a result, errors can be minimized in a rollback transaction or a correction transaction.

Here, the control unit 40 knows the transaction to be processed, but does not have the medium image information, and the recognition unit 20 has the medium image through the storage unit although it does not know what transaction is to be processed. That is, the information for comparing the media images and performing the rollback transaction or the correction transaction may be distributed to the recognition unit 20 and the control unit 40. Therefore, if the control unit 40 directly performs image pattern matching, the image of the medium recognized by the recognition unit 20 must be received in real time. However, since one medium is passed in 100 ms, Since the media image must be transmitted from the control unit to the control unit. Alternatively, even when the control unit 40 transmits the image information itself of the medium to the recognition unit 20 in order to check the identity of the medium, the data transfer rate may be large.

4, the control unit 40 arbitrarily generates a matching number corresponding to the image ID of each medium when requesting recognition, and generates at least one image ID and a matching number To the recognition unit (20). Then, the recognition unit 20 performs pattern matching on the image of the medium stored in the storage unit corresponding to the received at least one image ID and the image of the medium acquired from the medium sequentially emitted from the medium storage unit 10 , And transmits the matching number corresponding to the image ID of the medium determined to be the same to the control unit 40 as the recognition information. At this time, the control unit 40 can confirm the received matching number and transmit a recognition end request to the recognition unit 20. [ The control unit 40 may perform a spot correction or a rollback transaction based on the matching number received from the recognition unit 20. [ Therefore, in the present invention, in order to confirm the identity of the medium, rather than directly transmitting the image information of the medium as transmission data, the image ID and the matching number of the medium are transmitted, so that the data transmission rate can be greatly reduced.

When the recognition unit 20 recognizes the same medium as the image corresponding to the image ID received from the control unit 40 during media recognition, the recognition unit 20 returns the matching number to the control unit 40. [ That is, in the recognition unit 20, the matching number is the number information to be returned when the same medium as the image ID received from the control unit 40 is recognized. The matching number may include information to be performed by the control unit 40. However, the operation to be performed by the control unit 40 according to the matching number is different for each transaction, and a method for generating a matching number for each transaction can be varied.

If the image ID is not returned to the control unit 40 by the recognition unit 20 and the image ID is transmitted because the match number is used, the control unit 40 searches the information stored in the storage unit again for the image ID The control unit 40 must determine an operation to be performed. As a result, transaction time increases and CPU resources are wasted. In addition, the image ID is information that can distinguish the image, and the communication resource is wasted because there are more data than the matching number. Thus, using a matching number can reduce transaction time and reduce communication resources.

The matching number can be generated, for example, as shown in Table 1 in the control unit 40.

Image ID Match number 13 2 12 One 11 0 10 -One 9 -2

The present invention can be used in a rollback transaction or a remedy correction transaction.

Example  One

The rollback transaction is a function of, for example, temporarily storing the medium in the temporary storage unit 17 and returning the medium in the temporary storage unit 17 to the customer if the customer does not want to deposit the money. However, in recent years, there has been a growing demand for depositing a large amount of media at a high speed, and a function of directly depositing the medium in the media storage unit 10 without using the temporary storage unit 17 is used in combination. In this case, the rollback transaction is not supported in this case, or the serial number of the medium is recognized and stored, and the serial number stored in the medium storage unit is matched with the serial number of the medium to be rolled back to return the customer's medium did. The present invention complements recognition of a serial number image of a medium as a character, thereby ensuring the accuracy of media identity determination by pattern matching the image data itself. Stores the serial number image of the medium which has been first deposited (directly deposited in the media storage unit), and matches the image of the medium recognized at the time of rollback with the stored image by pattern matching.

Since the serial number image itself is compared rather than recognizing the serial number as a character, it is possible to determine whether the serial number is the same or not even if there is a foreign substance on the serial number or a degree of damage to the medium. In addition, since the present invention does not depend on serial number recognition, the present invention can be used without modification if a function of comparing the identity of media is required.

For example, as shown in FIG. 5, the identification information and the image of the medium are stored for the medium stored in the medium storage unit 10 at the time of depositing. Here, the mediums of indexes 20 to 11 are newly When it is determined that the money has been deposited, the control unit 40 has to perform the withdrawal transaction to the 11th medium in order to perform the rollback. The control unit 40 generates a matching number (for example, 0) for the 11th medium and transmits the image ID (for example, 11) and the matching number "0" The recognition unit 20 continuously transmits the result information according to the medium recognition from the index 20 to the control unit 40. [ When receiving the matching number "0" for the 11th medium, the control unit 40 delivers a recognition end request and completes the rollback transaction.

As another example, the control unit 40 generates a matching number for a predetermined range medium including the 11th medium as shown in Table 1, transmits corresponding image IDs and matching numbers to the recognition unit 20, It is possible to receive the corresponding matching number from the recognition unit 20. If the received matching number is larger than "0 ", the control unit 40 recognizes that withdrawal is necessary and continues the transaction. If the matching number is" 0 ", the control unit 40 transmits a recognition end request and completes the rollback transaction. Or, if it is smaller than "0", it may be recognized that a non-customer-owned medium has been withdrawn and may cause a failure.

Example  2

The present invention can be similarly applied to the case of the correction of the invisible object. For example, when the inside of the medium storage unit 10 is unclear due to the failure, the medium in the medium storage unit 10 is circulated on the medium transfer path to check the information of the medium in the medium storage unit 10, Compared with the stored information, the wastepaper is corrected.

If the serial number is recognized and the station is corrected, the serial number recognition rate is not 100%. In addition, when circulating a plurality of media, the media can not go into the same media storage unit again from the media storage unit. Because media can experience delays for a variety of reasons, it can strike media with delayed media. Accordingly, the medium can be temporarily transported to the temporary storage unit, and then can enter the medium storage unit again.

However, the present invention enables comparison by circulating only one medium using serial number image pattern matching. Further, after the medium is circulated, it is possible to reenter the medium storage unit in which the medium is discharged. Therefore, it is possible to reduce the number of media used in the correction of the in-progress material and to reduce the conveyance path through which the medium passes, thereby lowering the probability of jam occurrence.

More specifically, a method of correcting the in-progress of the media storage unit at the time of failure will be described with reference to FIG. For example, it was determined that a failure occurred during the withdrawal, and the withdrawal was made from the medium storage unit 10 to the 12th medium, but it was judged that the count was not accurately counted due to the failure. In this case, it is necessary to circulate the media in the media storage unit to check the raw materials. The control unit 40 transfers the image ID and the matching number of the two sheets downward and upward including the 11th medium (the medium which can first go out from the medium storage unit) to the recognition unit 20 as shown in Table 1, The control unit 40 receives the matching number for the medium being circulated. If the matching number (0) for 11 is returned, it is determined that the withdrawal has been completed up to 12 times, so it is judged that the correction is not necessary and the transaction is completed. However, if any other matching number is returned, a correction is made. If the matching number (-1) is returned, one piece of money has been withdrawn from the determined amount, so that the remaining amount of the medium storage unit 10 is corrected to -1, thereby correcting the waste. If it is returned without a matching number, it is judged that it is out of the range to perform the correction, and all media of the media storage unit must be withdrawn, re-deposited, and re-confirmed. Here, two images of the upper and lower media are transmitted in the image ID transmission, but this is fixed for convenience of explanation, and the value can be changed variably according to the performance of the recognition unit.

Example  3

In the present invention, it is possible to check whether or not the medium is overlapped and rejected when a withdrawal rejeze occurs. Since it is not possible to predict how many Rejec media will be generated during a withdrawal transaction, you should request image pattern matching for all media in the media repository. However, because of the number of media in the medium storage unit and the performance of the recognition unit, it is not possible to pattern match all media in real time.

As a result, unlike Embodiments 1 and 2, the image data matching is mixed with the image data correction using the serial number. That is, the control unit 40 may request the recognition unit 20 to use the determination of whether or not the images are identical based on the recognized serial numbers of the respective media and the determination as to whether they are the same by the image pattern matching.

Next, a method of correcting the withdrawal withdrawal number by using FIG. 5 will be described. For example, image pattern matching is requested only for a medium (e.g., medium 3, medium 11, medium 18) having low recognition scores among the pieces of recognition information stored in the storage unit at the time of withdrawal, Identification is made by using the serial number of the information. For example, in the case of image pattern matching, the control unit transmits the image ID and the matching number as shown in Table 2 to the recognition unit.

Image ID Match number 18 3 11 2 3 One

For example, when receiving the medium matching number 1, which has been last withdrawn from the recognition unit 20, the control unit 40 can recognize that the money has been withdrawn to the third medium, and the number of times the customer has requested the withdrawal If it is canceled, it is possible to derive the number of rejects. Alternatively, if the serial number of the last withdrawn medium is "AB00000004 ", the control unit 40 can know that the withdrawal has been made to the fourth medium. Therefore, it is possible to derive the number of re-jagged media and correct the jam of the media storage unit and the rejec box (for example, the recovery unit 13).

Alternatively, when judging whether the medium is equal to or larger than the set number of copies, the control unit 40 may request image pattern matching only for a medium whose recognition accuracy of the medium is lower than a set criterion.

Example  4

The present invention can be utilized in the same manner as withdrawal in the medium collection of a media storage (for example, a MIX cassette) in which all types of media are mixed and stored. The medium storage unit refers to a cassette through which all media other than a specific denomination medium can be deposited at the time of depositing.

Therefore, since the media of all denominations are deposited in order, when the rejection occurs during the collecting operation, it is impossible to know what kind of medium the corresponding medium is. Therefore, what kind of medium should be subtracted from the remaining amount of the medium storage portion I can not tell.

A method of correcting the residual amount upon the recovery of the MIX cassette will be described with reference to FIG. As in the third embodiment, image pattern matching is requested only for mediums with low recognition scores among cumulative information, and the identity of the remaining media is determined using the serial number of the recognition information. For example, the control unit 40 transmits an image ID and a matching number to the recognition unit 20 as shown in Table 2 when a recognition request is made.

If the control unit 40 returns the matching number 1 of the last recovered medium, it can be known that the third medium has been recovered, and the third to 20th medium including the third medium are recovered from the corresponding cassette. Thus, it can be known that the remaining amount of the cassette is the first to second media, and the remaining amount of the cassette can be corrected. Alternatively, if the control unit 40 similarly lastly retrieves the media serial number "AB00000004 ", it can be found that the medium 4 has been retrieved. Accordingly, it can be known that the remaining amount of the cassette is the first to third media, and the remaining amount of the cassette can be corrected.

Next, a medium processing method according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a medium processing method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 6, in the medium processing method according to the present invention, the recognition unit 20 acquires the image of the medium and the recognition information at the time of entering the medium into each medium storage unit 10 (S10). Then, the acquired image of the medium and the recognition information are stored in the storage unit according to the media lead-in order (S20). Next, in step S30, it is determined whether or not the image of the medium acquired from the medium sequentially discharged from the medium storage unit 10 and the image of the medium stored in the storage unit are pattern-matched during the rollback transaction or the time correction transaction. In step 30, the controller 40 generates a matching number corresponding to the image ID of each medium. The matching unit 30 identifies at least one image ID and a matching number, (20). Subsequently, the recognition unit 20 performs pattern matching on the image of the medium stored in the storage unit corresponding to the received image ID and the image of the medium acquired from the medium sequentially emitted from the medium storage unit 10, And transmits the matching number corresponding to the image ID of the medium to the control unit. Subsequently, the control unit 40 performs a spot correction or a rollback transaction based on the match number received from the recognition unit 20. [

While the present invention has been described in connection with what is presently considered to be the most practical and preferred embodiment, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiments. That is, within the scope of the present invention, all of the components may be selectively coupled to one or more of them. In addition, although all of the components may be implemented as one independent hardware, some or all of the components may be selectively combined to perform a part or all of the functions in one or a plurality of hardware. As shown in FIG. The codes and code segments constituting the computer program may be easily deduced by those skilled in the art. Such a computer program can be stored in a computer-readable storage medium, readable and executed by a computer, thereby realizing an embodiment of the present invention. As the storage medium of the computer program, a magnetic recording medium, an optical recording medium, a carrier wave medium, or the like may be included.

Also, the terms "comprises", "comprising", or "having" described above mean that a component can be implanted unless specifically stated to the contrary, But should be interpreted to include additional components. All terms, including technical and scientific terms, have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs, unless otherwise defined. Commonly used terms, such as predefined terms, should be interpreted to be consistent with the contextual meanings of the related art, and are not to be construed as ideal or overly formal, unless expressly defined to the contrary.

The foregoing description is merely illustrative of the technical idea of the present invention, and various changes and modifications may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the essential characteristics of the present invention. Therefore, the embodiments disclosed in the present invention are intended to illustrate rather than limit the scope of the present invention, and the scope of the technical idea of the present invention is not limited by these embodiments. The scope of protection of the present invention should be construed according to the following claims, and all technical ideas within the scope of equivalents should be construed as falling within the scope of the present invention.

10: Media storage unit 13:
15: replenishment recovery unit 17: temporary storage unit
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Claims (9)

A media storage for storing the medium;
A recognition unit for acquiring an image of the medium and recognition information for specifying the medium;
A storage unit for storing images and recognition information of each medium according to a media lead-in sequence of the medium storage unit; And
And a control unit for controlling the medium storage unit, the storage unit, and the recognition unit,
Wherein the control unit generates a matching number corresponding to an image ID of each medium when the recognition unit requests recognition, transmits at least one image ID and a matching number to the recognition unit,
Wherein the recognizing unit pattern-matches the image of the medium stored in the storage unit corresponding to the received image ID and the image of the medium acquired from the medium sequentially emitted from the medium storage unit, And transmits the matching number to the control unit. The method according to claim 1,
The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, when receiving the recognition request based on the recognition information from the control unit, the recognition unit pattern-matches the image of the medium acquired from the medium sequentially discharged from the medium storage unit and the image stored in the storage unit To determine whether or not the recording medium is a recording medium. 3. The method of claim 2,
Wherein the recognition information includes a serial number of each recognized medium, a recognition accuracy, a category, and an image ID. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the control unit performs a spot correction or a rollback transaction based on the matching number received from the recognition unit. The method of claim 3,
Wherein the control unit requests the recognition unit to use the determination as to whether or not there is an identicality based on the recognized serial number of each medium and the determination as to whether the image is identical by image pattern matching. The method of claim 3,
Wherein the control unit requests the image pattern matching only for a medium whose recognition accuracy of the recognition request medium is lower than a set criterion when determining the identity of the medium with a predetermined number or more. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the image of the medium is a serial number image. Acquiring an image of a recognition unit medium and recognition information for specifying the medium in each medium storage unit;
Storing an image of the acquired medium and recognition information in a storage unit according to a media lead-in order; And
Determining whether the images are identical or not by pattern matching an image of a medium acquired from a medium sequentially discharged from the medium storage unit and an image of a medium stored in the storage unit at the time of a rollback transaction or a time correction transaction,
The method of claim 1,
The control unit generating a matching number corresponding to the image ID of each medium, transmitting at least one image ID and a matching number to the recognition unit,
The recognition unit performs pattern matching of the image of the medium stored in the storage unit corresponding to the received image ID and the image of the medium acquired from the medium sequentially emitted from the medium storage unit, And transmitting the corresponding matching number to the control unit. 9. The method of claim 8,
Wherein the step of determining whether or not the coincidence includes the step of the control section performing a correction or rollback transaction based on the matching number received from the recognition section.

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