Abstract: A paper sheet recognition apparatus, a paper sheet management apparatus, and paper sheet recognition method for performing recognition process for the paper sheets such as banknotes, checks, bills and exchange coupons, wherein image data of the paper sheets are acquired, and identification data that is printed on the paper sheets to identify the paper sheets uniquely are extracted in accordance with the acquired image data, while managing the identification information extracted correspondingly to the registration numbers marked on the paper sheets and the acquired image data, thereby allowing to precisely identify whether or not the paper sheets are judged to be legitimate bills by the paper sheets recognition apparatus.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a bill discriminating and counting apparatus having a function of handling bills of a plurality of currency systems with one machine. That is to say, by providing a plurality of START/STOP keys for starting discriminating and counting of the bills, and by assigning the bills of different currency systems to each of them, the bills of a plurality of currency systems may be handled only by operating the START/STOP key corresponding to the currency system, without performing selection and setting of the currency system each time.

Abstract: According to the present invention, pieces of data of states of sensors and actuators in a bill discriminating and counting apparatus are stored in a ring memory at constant time intervals, among these stored data, both the data involved in an error are associated with the error events and stored in a non-volatile memory or a hard disk when the error is occurred in the bill discriminating and counting apparatus, and then the data is read from the non-volatile memory or hard disk to analyze the error. Specifically, digital port input and output information (states of sensors and actuators), analog sensor voltage, and analog motor current value are stored in a memory at constant time intervals since the power is turned on or the counting is started, and the stored port information and voltage are stored in the non-volatile memory or the like along with contents of abnormality when the abnormality is occurred.

Abstract: A paper sheet handling machine has a taking-in unit that takes in paper sheets one by one, a transport state detection unit that detects a transport state of each of the paper sheets taken in by the taking-in unit, a transport unit that transports the paper sheets taken in by the taking-in unit, a recognition unit that recognizes kinds of the paper sheets transported by the transport unit, first and second stacking units that have stackers to stack the paper sheets transported by the transport unit, respectively, and a control unit that judges abnormally transported paper sheets according to a detection result of the transport state detection unit, judges specific normal paper sheets, specific abnormal paper sheets or non-specific paper sheets according to a recognition result of the recognition unit, and controls the transport unit to transport the paper sheets judged as the specific abnormal paper sheets or the non-specific paper sheets to the first stacking unit and transport the paper sheets judged as the

Abstract: An automatic dealing machine installed in a gaming facility and configured to be operated by a customer comprises a casing configured for storing therein a plurality of handling units, a chip handling unit located in the casing and adapted for handling chips, and a banknote handling unit located in the casing and adapted for handling banknotes. The chip handling unit includes a chip insertion port through which the chips can be inserted into the chip handling unit from the exterior of the casing, a chip determination portion adapted for determining the kind of each chip inserted through the chip insertion port, and a chip calculation portion adapted for calculating the number of the chips, for each kind, determined by the chip determination portion and total amount of money.

Abstract: A sort pattern creating method for creating a sort pattern is provided, for a banknote handling apparatus 100 in which banknotes are stacked in the sort pattern so that the task required for setting the sort pattern can be simplified and a wrong operation by an operator can be prevented.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a bill discriminating and counting apparatus having a function in which two operators can commonly operate the one apparatus. That is, two pairs of a process instruction button for instructing start/stop of a discriminating and counting process and an approval button for approving counting result are provided, two independent storage areas are provided in a storage area in which the counting result is stored, the counting result is stored in the corresponding storage area while each storage area is associated with the pair of the process instruction button and the approval button, and two operators can commonly use the one bill discriminating and counting apparatus by providing occupation switching means for switching an occupation state of the bill discriminating and counting apparatus and occupation state display means for displaying a current-occupation state.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a bill discriminating and counting apparatus having a function of handling bills of a plurality of currency systems with one machine. That is to say, by providing a plurality of START/STOP keys for starting discriminating and counting of the bills, and by assigning the bills of different currency systems to each of them, the bills of a plurality of currency systems may be handled only by operating the START/STOP key corresponding to the currency system, without performing selection and setting of the currency system each time.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a bill discriminating and counting apparatus including a display section which can perform display written in plural languages. The bill discriminating and counting apparatus includes a second storage area in which display data of a mother language can be written in addition to a first storage area in which data for the display written in commonly-used English is stored, and the display written in the mother language can be performed by writing the display data written in the mother language in the second storage area in the country where the bill discriminating and counting apparatus is used.

Abstract: According to the present invention, pieces of data of states of sensors and actuators in a bill discriminating and counting apparatus are stored in a ring memory at constant time intervals, among these stored data, both the data involved in an error are associated with the error events and stored in a non-volatile memory or a hard disk when the error is occurred in the bill discriminating and counting apparatus, and then the data is read from the non-volatile memory or hard disk to analyze the error. Specifically, digital port input and output information (states of sensors and actuators), analog sensor voltage, and analog motor current value are stored in a memory at constant time intervals since the power is turned on or the counting is started, and the stored port information and voltage are stored in the non-volatile memory or the like along with contents of abnormality when the abnormality is occurred.

Abstract: To provide a bill counter that does not require designation of detectors effective for authenticity/counterfeit determination corresponding to counterfeit preventive countermeasures and yet enables counting only by designation of kinds of bills issued by the nations concerned. The present invention is a bill counter comprising, a bill type memory means wherein kinds of bills and detector groups selected among the plural kinds of detectors with different determining principles are related with each other and memorized in advance, and a bill type selecting means for selecting the bill types memorized in the bill type memory means as counting objective bills, characterized by that corresponding to the selection of bills by the bill type selecting means, the corresponding detector groups memorized in advance in the bill type memory means are specified, and authenticity/counterfeit determination is conducted by the specified detector groups.

Abstract: The present invention provides a bill receiving/processing machine, which has a simple configuration having no temporary reserving section, and has no need of manually sorting the approved bills even in the case where a fault is generated, and can rationally carry out cancel processing with respect to a transaction such that a bill has been already sent to a stacker after money denomination discriminating/counting handling is completed.

Abstract: A paper sheet processor includes a paper sheet setting portion for setting a plurality of paper sheets approximately uniformed in face-and-back orientation, a feeding section for sequentially introducing the paper sheets set on the paper sheet setting portion one after another, a discriminator for discriminating at least face-and-back orientation of each paper sheet introduced, a first stacker as a main stacker, a second stacker as a sub-stacker having a smaller capacity than that of the first stacker, and a controller for controlling such that the paper sheet first fed and discriminated in face-and-back orientation by the discriminator and any paper sheets subsequently fed and discriminated to have the same face-and-back orientation as that of the first fed paper sheet are stacked in the first stacker, and the other paper sheets discriminated to be different in face-and-back orientation from the first fed paper sheet are stacked in the second stacker.

Abstract: To provide a bill counter that does not require designation of detectors effective for authenticity/counterfeit determination corresponding to counterfeit preventive countermeasures and yet enables counting only by designation of kinds of bills issued by the nations concerned. The present invention is a bill counter comprising, a bill type memory means wherein kinds of bills and detector groups selected among the plural kinds of detectors with different determining principles are related with each other and memorized in advance, and a bill type selecting means for selecting the bill types memorized in the bill type memory means as counting objective bills, characterized by that corresponding to the selection of bills by the bill type selecting means, the corresponding detector groups memorized in advance in the bill type memory means are specified, and authenticity/counterfeit determination is conducted by the specified detector groups.

Abstract: The present invention provides a bill receiving/processing machine, which has a simple configuration having no temporary reserving section, and has no need of manually sorting the approved bill even in the case where a fault is generated, and can rationally carry out cancel processing with respect to a transaction such that a bill has been already sent to a stacker after money kind discriminating/counting handling is completed.