Abstract: A banknote image processing device of the present disclosure includes a storage unit and a processor, the storage unit stores an image of a normal banknote therein, and the processor performs pseudo-damage processing that imitates damage caused on the normal banknote, on the image.

Abstract: A paper sheet storage apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to deposit and withdraw a paper sheet under control of a POS terminal that performs an accounting process at a cash register, identify a product placed on a lower tier of a cart in a passage of the cash register, and transmit information about the product identified to the POS terminal.

Abstract: A roll support device includes: a shaft portion that supports a center hole of a rolled medium in which a medium is wound; a first guide member with which one end surface of the rolled medium in an axial direction of the shaft portion is in contact; a second guide member that is provided on the shaft portion and regulates, in the axial direction, an inner peripheral side of another end surface of the rolled medium in the axial direction; and a third guide member that regulates, in the axial direction, an outer peripheral side of the other end surface of the rolled medium supported by the shaft portion.

Abstract: A communication method includes performing authentication through data communication encrypted by a first encryption scheme by a first processor installed outside a storage box in an automatic teller machine and a second processor installed in the storage box, and transmitting an instruction to the second processor through data communication encrypted by a second encryption scheme, in a case where the authentication has been performed normally by the first processor.

Abstract: A paper sheet handling apparatus includes: an accumulation part in which paper sheets are accumulated; and a guide part on which at least leading-edge sides of the paper sheets within the accumulation part in an entering direction of the paper sheets entering the accumulation part are placed, wherein the guide part extends in the entering direction obliquely upward and is lowered under a weight of the paper sheets.

Abstract: A degradation judgement system includes a field repair unit that is provided in a banknote handling apparatus, a vibration detection sensor, a judgement unit, and a notification unit, wherein the field repair unit includes a rubber part, the vibration detection sensor measures vibration data by detecting vibration of the field repair unit, the judgement unit judges a degree of deterioration of the rubber part included in the field repair unit based on a peak of a vibration amplitude that is obtained from the vibration data and based on a root mean square of the vibration amplitude, and the notification unit gives a notification of the judged degree of deterioration.

Abstract: In a pseudo vascular pattern generation device 10, a processor 11 generates a first image in which white noise has been added to a gray image, generates a second image in which the white noise included in the first image has been diffused, generates a third image in which a blood vessel enhancement filter has been applied to the second image, generates a fourth image in which a region of interest has been set to the third image, and generates a fifth image including the pseudo vascular pattern based on the fourth image.

Abstract: A paper sheet stacking device includes: a conveyance mechanism that conveys paper sheets; a stacking mechanism including a stacking space in which the paper sheets, which are conveyed by the conveyance mechanism, are stacked, a first space regulating member that moves in a thickness direction of the paper sheets in the stacking space, a support member that extends in the moving direction of the first space regulating member and supports one side of the paper sheets in the stacking space, and a second space regulating member that is provided to face the support member and moves in a direction toward and away from the support member; and a controller that controls the stacking mechanism. The controller controls a position of the second space regulating member in accordance with an outer dimension of the paper sheets that are conveyed into the stacking space by the conveyance mechanism.

Abstract: A bill handling apparatus enables insertion of a deposited object therein from an insertion slot, the object including a bill containing a metallic component. The bill handling apparatus includes a memory and processing circuitry coupled to a memory and configured to estimate a number of bills in the object that has been inserted, obtain an actually measured metal quantity in the object that has been inserted, estimate a threshold that is a quantity of metal in the object that has been inserted, based on the number of bills estimated by the first estimating and a reference metal quantity corresponding to one of the bills, the reference metal quantity having been determined beforehand, make a comparison between the actually measured metal quantity and the threshold, and determine, based on a result of the comparison, whether or not the object that has been inserted is a bill or bills only.

Abstract: A banknote handling apparatus includes a plurality of storage mechanisms that are provided for each type of paper sheet and store a corresponding paper sheet, a distinguishing unit that distinguishes a first paper sheet input, a detection unit that detects that the first paper sheet is conveyed to a corresponding storage mechanism specified according to a result of distinguishing, and a drive control unit that controls driving of a gate portion that switches a conveyance pathway to the corresponding storage mechanism according to a positional relationship between the first paper sheet and a forward paper sheet conveyed earlier than the first paper sheet when conveyance of the first paper sheet is detected.

Abstract: A roll supporting device includes: a pair of supporting rollers which support an outer circumferential surface of a rolled medium, and which are provided so as to rotate together with the rolled medium; a side wall which has a reference surface coming into contact with one end surface of the rolled medium in an axial direction along a central axis of the rolled medium; and a pair of restricting members which press another end surface of the rolled medium toward the reference surface. The pair of supporting rollers are disposed on both sides of the central axis of the rolled medium when viewed in the axial direction of the rolled medium. The pair of restricting members are disposed outside a space between the pair of supporting rollers in a circumferential direction of the rolled medium, and are respectively adjacent to the supporting rollers, and are provided so as to be movable independently from each other.

Abstract: A printer includes a medium feeding device that is one of different types of medium feeding devices including a first medium feeding device that feeds an elongate medium from a first print medium including the medium, and a second medium feeding device that feeds the medium from a second print medium including the medium and a plurality of wireless communication elements provided at intervals in the longitudinal direction of the medium, and a printing device including a printing portion that performs printing on the medium fed from one of the medium feeding devices. The printing device includes a connector portion that is selectively connectable to the common connection portion of each of the different types of medium feeding devices. The second medium feeding device includes a wireless communication portion that communicates with the wireless communication elements, and a terminal portion that connects the wireless communication portion to the printing device.

Abstract: A conveyance route switching mechanism and a paper sheet handling apparatus that includes the conveyance route switching mechanism include a driving source, a gate, a first gear, and an internal gear. The driving source includes a driving shaft. The gate includes a gate shaft, and a blade that is provided on the gate shaft, and switches conveyance routes of paper sheets. The first gear is provided on the gate shaft. The internal gear meshes with the first gear. According to rotation of the driving shaft, the gate shaft rotates on an axis of the gate shaft, and revolves with the driving shaft as a rotation center while the first gear meshes with the internal gear.

Abstract: A method including correcting output of an image sensor unit based on correction information of the image sensor unit that captures and discriminates a paper sheet. A apparatus includes an image sensor unit which includes an image capturing element that captures a banknote so as to discriminate the banknote, a controller that controls the image sensor unit, and a first attachment part, to which the image sensor unit is attached to be detachable, and which includes a connection terminal that connects the image sensor unit and the controller with each other, and which is arranged in a conveyance path for conveying the banknote.

Abstract: A management apparatus capable of reducing troubles with cash operations to be performed by store clerks and decreasing the costs for store operations is provided. A self-payment system includes a scanning station, a payment station, and a management server. The payment station includes a money-insertion acceptance unit for accepting insertion of cash upon payment for a product to be purchased that has been registered on the basis of the scanning station, and a money-ejection acceptance unit for accepting ejection of cash on the basis of a manipulation performed by a customer on the payment station.

Abstract: A paper sheet storage device includes a storage space in which paper sheet is stored; a mounting table that is provided in the storage space and on which the paper sheet is accumulated and placed; a support base that supports the mounting table; a first lifting lowering mechanism that lifts and lowers the mounting table between a high position and a low position relative to the support base; and a second lifting lowering mechanism that lifts and lowers the support base in the storage space. The support base and the first lifting lowering mechanism are disposed within a projection area in which the mounting table is projected on a plane orthogonal to a lifting lowering direction in which the support base is lifted and lowered by the second lifting lowering mechanism.

Abstract: A control unit transmits an initial value of a position ID to a cassette control unit at a top in a daisy chain by a serial line. Having received the position ID from the control unit or the cassette control unit of a previous stage in the daisy chain, the cassette control unit recognizes it as a position ID of its own cassette. Where there is a following cassette control unit in the daisy chain, the cassette control unit calculates a position ID of the following cassette control unit to transmit to the following cassette control unit.

Abstract: A printing system includes a printing device including a thermal head that prints print content on a print medium; and an information processing apparatus that controls the printing device. The information processing apparatus comprises a processor configured to detect, from print image data from a server, a position of a control target portion including a specific portion in a print image corresponding to the print image data. The processor is configured to generate printing control information for printing the control target portion. The processor is configured to transmit the print image data, the position of the control target portion, and the printing control information to the printing device. The printing device executes different printing controls for the control target portion and a portion other than the control target portion based on the print image data, the position of the control target portion, and the printing control information.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a light irradiating unit that irradiates light to a living body, a ranging unit that measures a distance to the living body, a plurality of lenses having respectively different focal lengths at which an image of a living body to which the light is irradiated is formed, an imaging device that generates a plurality of living body images that are images of the living body by respectively capturing an image of the living body through the lenses, and an image selecting unit that selects one out of the living body images based on the measured distance to the living body.

Abstract: A banknote handling apparatus includes a distinguishing unit that distinguishes respective paper sheets input, a first storage mechanism that temporarily stores the respective paper sheets distinguished, a plurality of second storage mechanisms that are provided for each type of paper sheet and store the corresponding paper sheet, a determination unit that determines a conveyance order of conveying the respective paper sheets from the first storage mechanism to any of the second storage mechanisms on a basis of a result of distinguishing, and a drive control unit that controls activation and stop of respective drive apparatuses that, on a basis of the conveyance order, drive each of the plurality of second storage mechanisms to store the respective paper sheets in the corresponding second storage mechanism.