Hitachi-Omron Terminal Solutions, Corporation

Yuji Nagaya

Tatsuhiko Kagehiro

Hiroshi Sako

Hiroto Nagayoshi

Toshiro Uemura

Tomoyo Takai

A bill handling apparatus having a thickness detection sensorfor detecting the thickness of bills; optical sensorsandfor acquiring images of the profiles and surfaces of the bills; a judgment unit for judging the positions and directions of folds of the bills with the use of signals obtained with the thickness detection sensorand the optical sensorsand; and a control unit for exercising control such that if a judgment result of the judgment unit shows that the position and direction of a fold of a folded bill are unlikely to cause double bill transfer during bill transfer by considering the relationship of the folded bill to a bill located immediately before or after the folded bill, the folded bill is kept in the apparatus without being returned to the user.

Paper handling apparatus and method therefor

A system and method are provided for tracing bank notes or, specifically, counterfeit money. In one example of the tracing system, an automatic teller machine (ATM) electronically connected to one or more devices is provided. The one or more devices comprise a deposit device configured to receive an initial bank note; an image extraction device configured to extract one or more initial images from the initial bank note; a transaction log device configured to attach a transaction log to the one or more initial images, wherein the deposit device is further configured to receive a subsequent bank note, wherein the image extraction device is further configured to extract one or more subsequent images from the subsequent bank note; and a comparison device configured to compare the one or initial images to the one or more subsequent images in order to obtain a comparison result.

System and method for tracing bank notes

Paper currency is conveyed to a resend areawhen deposited paper currency is folded paper currency, wherein a front corner thereof, relative to the direction of conveyance, is folded, based on information that is read in from a sensor unit. In the resend area, the folded location is up. The folded paper currency is resent within the resend area. The action of the conveying rollersandcorrects the fold of the paper currency within the resend area

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Yuji Nagaya