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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2009
Hiroki Hamasaki, Hyogo, JP;
Hiroki Hamasaki, Hyogo, JP;
Glory Ltd., Himeji-shi, JP;
Abstract
A paper sheet recognition apparatus includes a sensor that measures feature amounts of a paper sheet; a recognition unit that recognizes whether the paper sheet is genuine or counterfeit, and fit or unfit, based on the feature amount; a memory unit that stores therein a plurality of pieces of different category classification pattern information prepared for each category for classifying the paper sheets into a plurality of categories, which is obtained by combining the feature amounts; and a category determining unit that determines a category of the recognized paper sheet using a recognition result in the recognition unit and the category classification pattern information.