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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 11, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2012
Applicants:
Keiju Nakagawa, Tatsuno, JP;
Minoru Higashiyama, Himeji, JP;
Hideki Takahashi, Ichikawa, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Glory Ltd., Himeji-Shi, Hyogo-Ken, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G07D 9/00 (2006.01); G07D 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The coin handling apparatus configured to handle the first coin of the first nation and the second coin of the second nation includes a recognition unitconfigured to recognize a coin and detects a feature amount of the recognized coin. The recognition unitis configured to regard the recognized coin as the first coin when the feature amount of the detected coin conforms to feature amount information including a feature amount of the first coin and a feature amount of the second coin.