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Bill discriminating apparatus

  • US 4,984,280 A
  • Filed: 06/02/1989
  • Issued: 01/08/1991
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/08/1988
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A bill discriminating apparatus having photoelectrical detecting means for scanning bills being fed along a bill feeding path with light in the direction perpendicular to the bill feeding direction and photoelectrically detecting light transmitted through or reflected by the bills and bill discriminating means for comparing a detected pattern produced based on an amount of light transmitted through or reflected by the bills detected by said photoelectrical detecting means with reference patterns and discriminating denominations, genuineness and/or condition of the bills, said bill discriminating apparatus comprising detected data storing means for temporarily storing data corresponding to at least one line of a bill photoelectrically detected by at least one scan of said photoelectrical detecting means, control means for detecting the number of said detected data for each line of the bill to be stored in said detected data storing means and detecting a condition of feeding of the bill based on the detected data of the first line of the bill to be stored in said detected data storing means, data count storing means for storing the number of the detected data corresponding to each line of the bill detected by said control means, bill feed condition storing means for storing information detected by said control means and detected pattern storing means for storing the pattern of the bill based on the detected data stored in said detected data storing means, said control means being able to write the detected data stored in said detected data on the number of the detected data corresponding to each line of the bill stored in said data count storing means and the information stored in said bill feed condition storing means so that rectangular patterns can be stored in said detected pattern storing means.

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