Abstract: A cover, of a cash inlet of a cash handling apparatus, comprises an upper surface and a base. The upper surface is shaped to have an opening for depositing cash into the cash inlet and to block intrusion of liquid from above into the cash inlet. The base includes a groove to receive the liquid that has been received on the upper surface and which has flowed along the upper surface. The upper surface has a slope upon which the liquid flows in a first direction, and the groove receives the liquid having flowed in the first direction along the slope, and the liquid is discharged in a second direction different from the first direction.

Abstract: A valuable-medium monitoring system of the present disclosure includes terminal devices and a server, the terminal devices each including a controller that extracts information on a valuable medium and determines whether or not the valuable medium is a circulation-unsuitable medium based on the extracted information on the valuable medium; and a transmitter that, in response to a determination that the valuable medium is a circulation-unsuitable medium, transmits information on the circulation-unsuitable medium to the server, the server including: a memory that stores pieces of information on circulation-unsuitable media, the pieces of information being grouped into groups; and a transmitter that, in response to transmission of information on a circulation-unsuitable medium from one of the terminal devices, transmits a specific group of information on a circulation-unsuitable medium to which the circulation-unsuitable medium corresponds to any other terminal devices satisfying a predetermined condition.

Abstract: A money handling system includes a plurality of money handling apparatuses and a management apparatus. Each money handling apparatus includes an operation input device and performs a money depositing process and/or a money dispensing process.

Abstract: A sheet handling device disclosed here includes a receiving port, a transport mechanism that transports a sheet received into a housing through the receiving port, and a recognition circuit having a first passing port and a second passing port through which the sheet transported by the transport mechanism passes and recognizing the sheet passing the first passing port and the second passing port. The first passing port is positioned apart from the receiving port in a first direction. The transport mechanism has a first path which is part of a transport path connecting the receiving port and the first passing port to each other. The first path is inclined, with respect to the first direction, apart from the first passing port while extending from the receiving port to the first passing port.

Abstract: A financial transaction validation system comprises processing circuitry configured to: receive transaction information, relating to a transaction, and a validation slip image corresponding to the transaction information; generate a validation string corresponding to the validation slip image; merge the validation string with the validation slip image to generate a modified slip image; and store, in a database, the modified slip image in association with a transaction identifier corresponding to the transaction.

Abstract: A sheet storing device includes: a rotary drum; at least one tape that wraps a sheet around the rotary drum; and at least one first pressing member that is shifted from the tape along an axis of the rotary drum and presses the sheet against the outer circumferential surface of the rotary drum. The first pressing member presses the sheet against the rotary drum at or near a starting point at which the tape to be wound on the rotary drum first comes into contact with the rotary drum.

Abstract: In order to drop a coin into an opening formed in a transport path for sorting coins, a coin handling apparatus includes: a transport path having a transport surface in which the opening for dropping a coin is formed; a conveyor configured to transport a coin on the transport surface along the transport path; a gate including a plurality of members configured to move between a closed position for closing the opening such that a coin transported by the conveyor is not dropped into the opening, and an opened position for opening the opening such that the coin is dropped into the opening; and a drive motor configured to drive the plurality of members to control the gate to move between the closed position and the opened position.

Abstract: A sheet transport apparatus includes a first direction changing roller arranged along a transport path, wherein a sheet is transported along the transport path; a second direction changing roller disposed on the transport path, wherein the first direction changing roller and the second direction changing roller are next to each other in a direction perpendicular to the transport path, and the first direction changing roller and the second direction changing roller change an orientation of the sheet from a first orientation to a second orientation; and a control circuit configured to control one of the first direction changing roller and the second direction changing roller so that the first direction changing roller rotates slower than the second direction changing roller so as to change the orientation of the sheet from the first orientation to the second orientation.

Abstract: The present invention comprises: a depositing section; a withdrawal section; a first storage unit which is installed within a storage housing that is lockable, the first storage unit being used in at least one of depositing processing of the sheet and withdrawal processing of the sheet; an attachment section which detachably attaches a second storage unit to an outside of the storage housing, the second storage unit being used in at least one of the depositing processing and the withdrawal processing and storing the sheet in a state of being isolated from an outside of the second storage unit; a transport unit which transports the sheet among the depositing section, the withdrawal section, the first storage unit, and the second storage unit; and a control section which controls the transport unit to perform at least one of the above two processing.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a medium processing apparatus, including: a banknote device configured to process a banknote, including a banknote device door arranged at an opening of a safe box and being movable between an open position and a closed position; a banknote device lock configured to switch the banknote device door between a locked state and an unlocked state; a loose coin device configured to process a loose coin, including a loose coin device door arranged at an opening of a safe box and being movable between an open position and a closed position; a loose coin device lock configured to switch the loose coin device door between a locked state and an unlocked state, wherein the banknote device lock and the loose coin device lock perform a switching between the locked state and the unlocked state independently from each other.

Abstract: A coin feeding device (for example, feeding unit 20) includes: a disk 22 having a plurality of protrusions 22b at a surface, the disk 22 disposed so as to be rotatable in a tilted state and configured to catch coins by the protrusions 22b to move the coins upward while rotating; a cover 21 configured to form a space for storing a coin between the cover 21 and the surface of the disk 22; a guide 26 configured to guide a peripheral edge of a coin such that a part of the coin having been caught by each protrusion 22b and moved upward protrudes from the disk 22; and a taking-out unit (for example, taking-out mechanism 28) configured to grip only one coin protruding from the disk 22, remove the coin from the disk 22, and discharge the coin to outside of the disk 22.

Abstract: A money handling method to be executed by a money handling machine including a body and an extension unit. The method includes: instructing the extension unit to replenish the body with money with a specified denomination; replenishing the body from the extension unit in accordance with the instruction; recognizing a denomination of each of the money sent from the extension unit; storing the money in a first storage unit associated with a first denomination in a first case where the denomination recognized is the first denomination identical to the specified denomination; storing money in a second storage unit in a second case where the denomination recognized is a second denomination different from the specified denomination; and continuing the replenishment with the money using the extension unit as instructed in both the first case and the second case.

Abstract: A sheet storing device includes: a rotary drum; a tape that winds a sheet on the rotary drum; a guide that guides the tape and the sheet to be wound on the rotary drum; and a frame that accommodates the rotary drum and the guide. The frame includes a first frame and a second frame. The first frame and the second frame are connected movably relative to each other to change the frame between an open state and a closed state. The second frame supports the guide to cause at least a part of the guide to move relative to the second frame in a direction away from the second frame in the open state.

Abstract: A sheet storing device includes: a rotary drum; at least one tape that wraps a sheet around the rotary drum; and at least one first pressing member that is shifted from the tape along an axis of the rotary drum and presses the sheet against the outer circumferential surface of the rotary drum. The first pressing member presses the sheet against the rotary drum at or near a starting point at which the tape to be wound on the rotary drum first comes into contact with the rotary drum.

Abstract: A storage stores money. An outlet can receive money delivered from the storage therein. The outlet is configured to allow the money to be removed from the inside of the outlet. A detector detects a removal action associated with removal of money from the outlet. The controller switches a process on money remaining in the outlet based on a detection result of the detector.

Abstract: In order to ensure security related to money handling by using an easy user authentication method, a money handling system includes: a money handling apparatus to perform money handling; an input terminal configured to receive an input of authentication information for authenticating a user of the money handling apparatus, and transmit the authentication information to an authentication server which performs a first authentication process for the user based on the authentication information; and a control device including processing circuitry configured to receive user information of the user from the authentication server based on a result of the first authentication process, and perform a second authentication process for the user based on the user information.

Abstract: A money handling apparatus performs a money dispensing process, the money handling apparatus including a storage cassette, a plurality of storage units and processing circuitry. The storage cassette is detachably mounted to the money handling apparatus, and the storage cassette to store money for a replenishment process. The plurality of storage units store money. The processing circuitry is configured to receive a designation of a processing time of the replenishment process, and control the replenishment process based on the processing time so that a storage unit of the plurality of storage units is replenished with money fed out from the storage cassette.

Abstract: A learning model generates a plurality of prototype vectors and generates an integrated similarity vector that indicates similarity between an input image and each prototype for a plurality of prototypes in accordance with similarity between one prototype vector and each pixel vector in a feature map acquired from an CNN. An image processing apparatus obtains prototype belongingness (distributed prototype belongingness) for each image by distributing prototype belongingness of a belonged prototype of each class to each of two or more images that belong to one class. Then, the learning model is subjected to machine learning in accordance with the distributed prototype belongingness of each prototype vector for each image so that each prototype vector is brought closer to any pixel vector in the feature map corresponding to each image.

Abstract: A currency information provision system (1) comprises: a database server (2) in which currency image information is stored as one type of currency information about multiple types of currency; and an information processing terminal (3) that acquires target image information (IA), which is image information for a search object, and transmits the target image information (IA) to the database server (2), the database server (2) comparing the target image information (IA) with the currency image information, and thereby searching a candidate currency estimated to be the same type as currency included in the search target, from among the multiple types of currency, and transmitting the currency information (IB) of the candidate currency to the information processing terminal (3), and the information processing terminal (3) providing currency information for the candidate currency.

Abstract: A paper sheet processing device includes a housing, a control board disposed in the housing, and at least one conductive wire having a first end connected to the control board. The housing includes a first side wall and a second side wall connected to both ends of a bottom. At least one hole is provided at at least one of the first side wall and the second side wall so as to penetrate therethrough from inside of the housing to outside thereof. The hole allows a second end of the wire to extend from inside of the housing to outside thereof.