KR20080071028A - Image forming apparatus to prevent counterfeiting of money and method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

An image forming apparatus for preventing forgery and its forgery preventing method are provided to discriminate a counterfeit bill easily by recognizing an electronic identification tag printed by using an electronic ink. A reading target is scanned(S400) and it is determined whether the reading target is money(S410). If the reading target is money, a residual amount of electronic ink is checked(S420). If there is a residual amount of the electronic ink, a pattern of an electronic identification tag is controlled to be printed by using the electronic ink and print information is controlled to be stored in the electronic identification tag(S430). The pattern of the electronic identification tag and the reading target are printed(S440).

Description

Image forming apparatus to prevent counterfeiting and money prevention method

1 is a block diagram of an image forming apparatus for preventing forgery according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a screen showing forgery in which the pattern of the electronic identification tag is printed according to the present invention.

3 is a screen showing an example of a situation in which a counterfeit can be identified by using the counterfeit printed on the pattern of the electronic identification tag according to the present invention.

4 is a control flowchart illustrating a prevention process of an image forming apparatus for preventing forgery according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

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100 ... Image forming apparatus to prevent forgery

110 Currency reading 120 Control section

130 ...

The present invention relates to anti-counterfeiting of an image forming apparatus, and more particularly, to an anti-counterfeiting apparatus for printing a pattern of an electronic identification tag using electronic ink together with money when printing money, and a method of preventing the same. It is about.

Recently, as the economic situation worsens and the performance of image forming apparatuses such as a computer scanner, a color printer, a color copying machine, a laser beam printer, and a digital camera is greatly developed, the resolution of the image quality is also significantly advanced.

Accordingly, the currency of counterfeit bills or counterfeit securities made using image forming apparatuses capable of obtaining sophisticated images is increasing, and thus, counterfeit crimes are a serious social problem.

To prevent counterfeiting of current banknotes, checks, gift certificates and securities, various measures are made and applied to control the use of counterfeit bills and counterfeit checks that can be traded in real life.

That is, in the related art, a reader for identifying money is installed in an image forming apparatus such as a computer scanner and a color copying machine, and when it is determined that the money is used, a method of blocking source of the money is not used.

In addition, a method of outputting by omitting a portion of the image of the money or outputting by manipulating the image of the money so that the calendar's work number is not visible to the naked eye.

However, the above method can temporarily prevent the increase of counterfeit bills or counterfeit securities, but it is not a solution to solve counterfeit crimes. Therefore, users who do not use the counterfeit for bad purposes, For example, even a user who keeps a souvenir or scans the money for the purpose of testing the image forming apparatus controls the money not to be printed, so that various user needs cannot be satisfied.

Therefore, the present invention was devised to solve the above-described problems, and by recognizing the electronic identification tag printed using the electronic ink, it is possible to easily determine the counterfeit and to control the distribution of the counterfeit. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide an image forming apparatus and a method of preventing the same.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will be described below and will be appreciated by the embodiments of the invention. Furthermore, the objects and advantages of the present invention can be realized by means and combinations indicated in the claims.

The present invention for achieving the above object is a currency reading unit for determining whether the object to be read currency; A control unit for controlling a pattern of an electronic identification tag to be printed by using an electronic ink when the object to be read is currency, and controlling printing information to be stored in the electronic identification tag; And a printing unit for printing the pattern of the electronic identification tag and the object to be read.

Herein, when the object to be read is money, the controller determines whether there is remaining amount of the electronic ink, and controls the electronic star tag pattern to be printed using the electronic ink according to the remaining amount of the electronic ink or the image of the money is displayed. And control to be converted and printed.

The control unit may control to print the pattern of the electronic identification tag by using the electronic ink when the remaining amount of the electronic ink exists, and to control the printing information to be stored in the electronic identification tag. When there is no remaining amount of ink, it is characterized in that the control so that the image of the money is converted and printed.

On the other hand, the controller is characterized in that the control to output the remaining amount of the electronic ink to a predetermined screen display means.

The printing information may be at least one of information on counterfeiting, information on a date and time of reading the money, and information on an identification number of the image forming apparatus.

The present invention for achieving the above object is a currency reading step of determining whether the object to be read currency; A control step of controlling a pattern of an electronic identification tag to be printed using an electronic ink when the object to be read is currency, and controlling printing information to be stored in the electronic identification tag; And a printing step of printing the pattern of the electronic identification tag and the object to be read.

Here, in the control step, when the object to be read is money, it is determined whether the remaining amount of the electronic ink, and according to the remaining amount of the electronic ink control to print the pattern of the electronic identification tag by using the electronic ink or image of the currency Is controlled to be converted and printed.

The controlling may include controlling the electronic identification tag to be printed using the electronic ink when the remaining amount of the electronic ink exists, and controlling printing information to be stored in the electronic identification tag. When there is no remaining amount of the electronic ink, it is characterized in that the control so that the image of the money is converted and printed.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

First, FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an image forming apparatus for preventing forgery according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. The image forming apparatus 100 for preventing forgery includes a currency reading unit 110, a controller 120, and printing. The unit 130 is included.

First, the money reading unit 110 determines whether the object to be read is money.

That is, the money reading unit 110 optically scans the reading object and determines whether the scanned image is currency. Generally, the reading object 110 uses an optical sensor using a light transmission method such as visible light and infrared light. Is to determine if the currency is.

More specifically, money is determined using a general light method, a special light method, and a UV method using an ultraviolet pattern of the money.

Here, the currency is a general exchange means to facilitate the exchange and distribution of goods in an exchange economy society, it is preferable that any one of paper, checks, bills, securities.

Next, the control unit 120 controls to print the pattern of the electronic identification tag using the electronic ink when the reading object is money, and controls to print information stored in the electronic identification tag.

Here, the electronic ink is manufactured based on silver as the conductive ink, and thus, the manufacturing cost is lower than that of the conventional ink, the stability is high, and the thickness of the coating film can be formed to 1.0 or less.

Therefore, when the object to be read is money, if the pattern of the electronic identification tag is printed using the electronic ink as described above, the information of the object and the surrounding environment information are transmitted and processed using the printed electronic identification tag at a radio frequency. You can do it.

At the same time, the controller 120 controls the printing information to be stored in the electronic identification tag.

Preferably, the print information is at least one of information on counterfeiting, information on a date and time of reading the money, and information on an identification number of the image forming apparatus.

That is, the printing information can be easily detected through an electronic identification reader by storing information on counterfeiting, information on the date and time of reading the money, and an identification number of the image forming apparatus in the electronic identification tag. Printing information can be used to control the distribution of counterfeiting.

On the other hand, the control unit 120 determines whether or not the remaining amount of the electronic ink, if the reading object is a currency, and controls to print the pattern of the electronic identification tag using the electronic ink or the money depending on the remaining amount of the electronic ink It is characterized in that the image is controlled to be converted and printed.

In more detail, when the object to be read is money, it is determined whether the electronic ink is present in the electronic ink cartridge in which the electronic ink is stored, and when the electronic ink exists in the electronic ink cartridge, the control unit 120 determines the electronic ink. Control to print the pattern of the electronic identification tag by using, and to control the printing information is stored in the electronic identification tag.

If there is no remaining amount of the electronic ink, the image of the money is controlled to be converted and printed or controlled to stop printing.

As described above, in order to determine whether there is a remaining amount of the electronic ink, the control unit 120 controls the presence of the electronic ink to be output to a predetermined screen display means.

That is, by displaying the remaining amount of the electronic ink in stages by means of screen display means such as LCD, PDP, and TFT, the user who checks the remaining amount of the electronic ink can provide the electronic ink again.

After performing the above process, the printing unit 130 prints a read object along with the pattern of the electronic identification tag.

FIG. 2 is a screen showing a forgery in which a pattern of an electronic identification tag is printed according to the present invention. As shown in FIG. 2, the read object is printed to print the pattern of the electronic identification tag on the forgery. The ink is configured to print the pattern of the electronic identification tag.

On the other hand, Figure 3 is a screen showing an example of a situation that can identify the forgery using the forgery printed pattern of the electronic identification tag in accordance with the present invention, as shown in FIG. Counterfeit can be identified using an electronic reader.

For example, in detail, when the counter is printed with the counterfeit printed the pattern of the electronic identification tag, it is possible to block the use of the counterfeit by detecting that the banknote is counterfeit from the electronic reader.

In addition, when the door of the store is equipped with an electronic identification reader, it is possible to determine whether the person entering the store has a counterfeit. It can be seen that the banknotes put into the counterfeit.

Even when using public transportation, an electronic identification reader is provided on a bus or subway, so that the electronic identification reader can prevent the distribution of the counterfeit by detecting the counterfeit in the purse or bag, and damages of the general public who inadvertently possess the counterfeit. It can also be prevented in advance.

Hereinafter, the prevention process of the image forming apparatus for preventing forgery will be described.

FIG. 4 is a control flowchart for explaining a prevention process of an image forming apparatus for preventing forgery according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 4, a read object is scanned (S400), and the read object is It is determined whether the currency (S410).

If the object to be read is currency, it is determined whether the remaining amount of the electronic ink (S420).

If there is a remaining amount of the electronic ink, the electronic ink tag is controlled to print the pattern using the electronic ink, and the print information is controlled to be stored in the electronic identification tag (S430).

Next, the pattern of the electronic identification tag and the object to be read are printed (S440).

If there is no remaining amount of the electronic ink, the image of the money is controlled to be converted and printed or controlled to stop printing (S450).

On the other hand, if the reading object is not currency, the reading object is printed as it is (S460).

As mentioned above, although this invention was demonstrated by the limited embodiment and drawing, this invention is not limited by this, The person of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs, Of course, various modifications and variations are possible within the scope of equivalents of the claims to be described.

As described above, according to the image forming apparatus and the method for preventing the forgery of the present invention, there is an advantage that the forgery can be easily determined by recognizing the electronic identification tag printed using the electronic ink.

In other words, the recognition of the electronic identification tag using the electronic identification reader that is expanding around the life creates an effect that can control the distribution of counterfeit.

Claims (10)

A currency reading unit for determining whether the object to be read is currency; A control unit for controlling a pattern of an electronic identification tag to be printed by using an electronic ink when the object to be read is currency, and controlling printing information to be stored in the electronic identification tag; And And a printing unit for printing the pattern of the electronic identification tag and the object to be read. The method of claim 1, wherein the control unit, When the object to be read is money, it is determined whether or not the remaining amount of the electronic ink, and according to the remaining amount of the electronic ink control to print the pattern of the electronic identification tag using the electronic ink or control to convert the image of the currency is printed Image forming apparatus for preventing forgery, characterized in that. The method of claim 2, wherein the control unit, And controlling the printing of the electronic identification tag by printing the pattern of the electronic identification tag by using the electronic ink when the remaining amount of the electronic ink exists, and controlling the printing information to be stored in the electronic identification tag. The method of claim 2, wherein the control unit, And when there is no remaining amount of the electronic ink, controlling the image of the money to be converted and printed. The method of claim 2, wherein the control unit, And counterfeit prevention image forming apparatus, characterized in that the electronic ink is controlled to be output to a predetermined screen display means. The method of claim 1, wherein the print information, And at least one of information on counterfeiting, information on a date and time of reading the money, and information on an identification number of the image forming apparatus. A currency reading step of determining whether the object to be read is currency; A control step of controlling a pattern of an electronic identification tag to be printed using an electronic ink when the object to be read is currency, and controlling printing information to be stored in the electronic identification tag; And And a printing step of printing the pattern of the electronic identification tag and the object to be read. The method of claim 7, wherein the controlling step, When the object to be read is money, it is determined whether or not the remaining amount of the electronic ink, and according to the remaining amount of the electronic ink control to print the pattern of the electronic identification tag using the electronic ink or control to convert the image of the currency is printed A method of preventing an image forming apparatus for preventing forgery, characterized in that. The method of claim 8, wherein the controlling step, When the remaining amount of the electronic ink, the electronic ink tag using the pattern of the electronic identification tag is printed, and the print information is stored in the electronic identification tag, characterized in that for controlling the image forming apparatus for Prevention method. The method of claim 8, wherein the controlling step, And when the remaining amount of the electronic ink is absent, controls the image of money to be converted and printed.

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