Abstract: A data generation apparatus includes: a separation unit that separates a serial number region and a background region from an original image of a paper currency that includes a serial number; a character image acquisition unit that identifies each of characters included in the separated serial number region, and acquires a character image of each of the identified characters; a background image acquisition unit that acquires a background image by complementing the serial number region in the separated background region; a pre-processing unit that generates a serial number image by combining the character images; an incorporation unit that incorporates the serial number image at a position corresponding to the serial number image in the background image; and an output unit that outputs image data in which the serial number that is combined by the pre-processing unit is associated with an incorporated image generated by the incorporation unit.

Abstract: An image apparatus includes an imaging unit, a housing that houses the imaging unit, a wiring substrate, and a stopper that sandwiches the wiring substrate between the housing and the stopper. The housing has a protruding part that protrudes from a back surface of a side opposite to a front surface on the side of the imaging unit in the wiring substrate. The stopper has an engagement part that engages with an outer peripheral surface of the housing, and a hook part that is hooked onto an inner peripheral surface of the protruding part of the housing.

Abstract: A paper-sheet-thickness detecting sensor of the present invention includes: an oscillator that outputs high-frequency signals with frequencies corresponding to positions in a horizontal direction that is orthogonal to a direction in which a paper sheet is transported; a signal electrode to which the high-frequency signals output by the oscillator are applied; a plurality of detection electrodes that face the signal electrode across a transportation path for the paper sheet and that individually detect detection signals that correspond to the positions; a plurality of resonance circuits that each have one end connected to one end of each of the plurality of detection electrodes and that have resonance frequencies equal to the frequencies allocated to the positions; and a broadband amplifier to which another end of each of the plurality of resonance circuits is connected and that outputs outputs of the plurality of resonance circuits as one piece of sensor output information.

Abstract: A printer apparatus includes a memory unit configured to record a first correction value, a print unit configured to print print data on a first medium by feeding the first medium on the basis of the first correction value when the print data is received from a printer control apparatus, a sensor unit configured to measure a measurement value corresponding to a feeding error of the first medium, a measurement value transmission unit configured to transmit the measurement value to the printer control apparatus, and a correction value update unit configured to update the first correction value to a second correction value received from the printer control apparatus, wherein the print unit prints the print data on a second medium by feeding the second medium on the basis of the second correction value when a retry command is then received from the printer control apparatus.

Abstract: A paper sheet accommodation apparatus includes: a supply reel which supplies a wound band-like material; a winding drum around which a paper sheet is wound together with the band-like material that is supplied from the supply reel; and a roller member which is disposed along an axial direction of the winding drum and presses the band-like material and the paper sheet that are wound around the winding drum against the winding drum. The roller member includes a first roller portion in contact with the band-like material, and a second roller portion in contact with the paper sheet in the axial direction of the winding drum.

Abstract: The image processing apparatus is configured by including a palm luminance estimation unit and a surface reflected component enhancement unit that separate low-frequency components from a signal indicating luminance values of pixels of an input image, a denoising processing unit that executes a denoising process for the signal from which the low-frequency components have been separated, and a merging unit that generates an image by merging the signal after the denoising process and the low-frequency components.

Abstract: An image processing device is provided that enables an operator to reduce time and effort, and that enables an image to be read stably without receiving the influence of a shadow generated after calibration. The image processing device includes: a tint component removing unit that removes a tint component from a captured image; a character information removing unit that removes character information from an image obtained by removing the tint component; a dividing unit that performs grouping on the captured image according to a combination of hue and saturation; a calculating unit that calculates, for each group, correction data for correcting the shadow in accordance with an image obtained by removing the character information and an image obtained by grouping; and a correcting unit that corrects the captured image in accordance with the calculated correction data.

Abstract: A biometrics authentication device is configured to include: a filter that extracts from an input image directional features that respectively correspond to directions different from each other; an perpendicular filter that, from among the directional features extracted from the filter, decreases a luminance value of the entirety of a directional feature that corresponds to a prescribed direction, increases a luminance value of the entirety of a directional feature that corresponds to a direction perpendicular to the directional feature that corresponds to the prescribed direction, and outputs other directional features with no change; a non-directional feature generation processing unit that generates a non-directional feature on the basis of the directional features output from the perpendicular filter; a matching processing unit that obtains a similarity between the non-directional feature and a registered non-directional feature stored in a storing unit; and a determining unit that determines identity by

Abstract: The image processing apparatus is configured by including a palm luminance estimation unit and a surface reflected component enhancement unit that separate low-frequency components from a signal indicating luminance values of pixels of an input image, a denoising processing unit that executes a denoising process for the signal from which the low-frequency components have been separated, and a merging unit that generates an image by merging the signal after the denoising process and the low-frequency components.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: a wiring board; an imaging unit with an imaging element implemented on the wiring board; a frame-like housing that accommodates the imaging unit and that has an opening formed thereon in an optical axis direction of the imaging unit; a top cover located on the housing; a light source that emits light to be sent to outside via the top cover; a light guide body that guides the light emitted from the light source; and a light blocking body that blocks light around the imaging unit, wherein the imaging unit, the light guide body, and the light blocking body are disposed with a gap between the top cover, and the housing includes a top-cover supporting unit, at least a portion of which supports the top cover at a periphery of the opening.

Abstract: A stopper mechanism of a slide rail for protecting a slide rail that is attached to a housed unit has an auxiliary slider that moves to a first position so as to become closer to the housed unit in a state where the housed unit is housed in a main body, and which moves to a second position so as to become more distant from the housed unit in a state where the houses state has been pulled out of the main body, and a stop unit configured to stop the pulling-out of the housed unit by stopping the auxiliary slider that has moved to the second position.

Abstract: A paper sheet handling apparatus includes: a paper sheet insertion unit into which a plurality of paper sheets are inserted; a first plate provided at the paper sheet insertion unit; a second plate provided at the paper sheet insertion unit and that holds the plurality of paper sheets in a sandwiching manner with the first plate; a pressure distribution sensing sheet provided to at least one of the first or second plate and that senses a pressure distribution on the plurality of paper sheets held by the first and second plates; and a controlling unit that determines the presence/absence of a foreign body according to the pressure distribution sensed by the pressure distribution sensing sheet.

Abstract: A paper sheet stacking unit (paper sheet stacking apparatus) includes a coil provided in a stacking space with an axis of the coil intersecting an expected stacking surface and a bottom end of the coil being in proximity to the expected stacking surface. The coil spins about the coil axis, while holding a rim of an entering bill, to move the entering bill toward the expected stacking surface, and then releases the hold of the rim of the entering bill to stack the bill on the expected stacking surface. The coil also presses the bills stacked on the expected stacking surface. That is, the coil has both functions of guiding unit and pressing unit of bills.