Abstract: The bill counter has thickness detection units 31, 32, and 33 for detecting the thickness of a bill passing through a transport passage. The thickness detection units 31, 32, and 33 are separately placed on the transport passage. Waveform outputs from the thickness detection units 31, 32, and 33, provided by detecting the thicknesses of predetermined parts of bill passing through the transport passage are compared with waveform data previously stored in a storage unit and the number of bills passing through the transport passage is determined.

Abstract: The present invention has its object to provide a document authenticity discriminating apparatus, in which authenticity can be discriminated with high accuracy at the time of discriminating authenticity of a presented document by acquiring picture images making use of a wavelength characteristic with respect to transmissivity and reflectance of light, and subjecting the acquired picture images to numeric conversion to find feature quantities, and a document authenticity discriminating method. The present invention is characterized by making use of a wavelength characteristic for a document with respect to transmissivity and reflectance of light, extracting feature quantities, in which wavelength characteristic is subjected to numeric conversion, on the basis of picture images of the document picked up by light sources having a plurality of wavelengths, and discriminating authenticity of the document from the feature quantities.

Abstract: The bill counter has thickness detection units 31, 32, and 33 for detecting the thickness of a bill passing through a transport passage. The thickness detection units 31, 32, and 33 are separately placed on the transport passage Waveform outputs from the thickness detection units 31, 32, and 33, provided by detecting the thicknesses of predetermined parts of bill passing through the transport passage are compared with waveform data previously stored in a storage unit and the number of bills passing through the transport passage is determined.