Microfilm camera

• US 5,469,241 A
• Filed: 04/19/1993
• Issued: 11/21/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/1992
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Takahashi, Yutaka, Shidara, Shinichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Gellner, Michael L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): MALLEY, DANIEL PATRICK
• Application Number:
  US08/047,295
• Time in Patent Office: 946 Days
• Field of Search: 355/40, 355/41, 355/64, 355/65, 235/379
• US Class Current: 355/64
• CPC Class Codes: G07D 7/04 Testing magnetic properties of the materials thereof, e.g. by detection of magnetic imprint G07D7/01 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G07D 7/06 using wave or particle radiation
• CPC Class Codes: G07D 7/12 Visible light, infrared or ultraviolet radiation

Abstract

Improvement in the microfilm camera for reading an amount of money of an addressed bill or check brought into a bank, the amount of money being written in the column for writing the amount of money by the drawer of the addressed bill or check, for printing the read amount of money for magnetic ink character recognition (MICR) and for photographing the image of the addressed bill or check on a microfilm. The improved microfilm camera, provided by the invention, comprises an OCR for reading the amount of money written by the drawer, an MICR printer disposed downstream of the OCR for printing the amount of money read by the OCR, and an optical system for photographing the image of the addressed bill or check on a microfilm after the addressed bill or check is printed for MICR by the MICR printer.

By the use of the improved microfilm camera of the invention, the amount of money written in each bill or check is printed for MICR automatically without the need of manual input operation thereby improving the operation efficiency and diminishing the occurrence of mistakes input operation.

Claims

1. A microfilm camera for reading an amount of money of an addressed bill or check brought into a bank, said amount of money being written in a column for writing said amount of money by a drawer of said addressed bill or check, for printing said amount of money for magnetic ink character recognition (MICR) and for photographing an image of said addressed bill or check on a microfilm, comprising:

an optical character reader (OCR) for reading said amount of money written by said drawer, an MICR printer disposed downstream of said OCR for printing said amount of money read by said OCR, and

an optical system for photographing said image of said addressed bill or check on said microfilm after said addressed bill or check is printed for MICR by said MICR printer.

2. The microfilm camera of claim 1, further comprising:

rejecting means for rejecting to discharge said addressed bill or check when said amount of money cannot be read by said OCR, and

a keyboard for inputting said amount of money of said rejected addressed bill or check by manual operation.

3. The microfilm camera of claim 2, wherein said rejecting means is disposed between said OCR and said MICR printer and wherein said rejected addressed bill or check is returned back to a position between said OCR and said MICR printer after said amount of money has been inputted through said keyboard by said manual operation.

4. The microfilm camera of claim 2, wherein said rejecting means is disposed downstream of said optical system so that said rejected addressed bill or check is printed for MICR after said image has been photographed by said optical system.

5. The microfilm camera of claim 1, further comprising an MICR reader disposed downstream of said OCR for reading classifying data of said addressed bill or check, said classification data being preliminarily printed for MICR, a controller for classifying and totalizing plural addressed bills or checks by referring to outputs from said OCR and said MICR reader, and recording means for recording a result of classification and totalization on said microfilm.

6. The microfilm camera of claim 2, further comprising an MICR reader disposed downstream of said OCR for reading classification data of said addressed bill or check, said classification data being preliminarily printed for MICR, a controller for and totalizing plural addressed bills or checks by referring to outputs from said OCR and said MICR reader, and recording means for recording a result of classification and totalization on said microfilm.

7. The microfilm camera of claim 3, further comprising an MICR reader disposed downstream of said OCR for reading classification data of said addressed bill or check, said classification data being preliminarily printed for MICR, a controller for classifying and totalizing plural addressed bills or checks by referring to outputs from said OCR and said MICR reader, and recording means for recording a result of classification and totalization on said microfilm.

8. The microfilm camera of claim 4, further comprising an MICR reader disposed downstream of said OCR for reading classification data of said addressed bill or check, said classification data being preliminarily printed for MICR, a controller for classifying and totalizing plural addressed bills or checks by referring to outputs from said OCR and said MICR reader, and recording means for recording a result of classification and totalization on said microfilm.

9. The microfilm camera of claim 1, further comprising first display means for displaying an image of said amount of money read by said OCR, second display means for displaying said column, in which the amount of money is written, of said addressed bill or check at a position close to said displayed image displayed by said first display means, and feed control means for intermittently feeding addressed bills or checks in response to instructions fed through an instruction key.

10. A microfilm camera for reading an amount of money of an addressed bill or check brought into a bank, said amount of money being written in a column for writing said amount of money by a drawer of said addressed bill or check, for printing said amount of money for magnetic ink character recognition (MICR) and for photographing an image of said addressed bill or check on microfilm, comprising:

an optical character reader (OCR) for reading said amount of money written by said drawer,

an MICR printer disposed downstream of said OCR for printing said amount of money read by said OCR,

an optical system for photographing said image of said addressed bill or check on said microfilm after said addressed bill or check is printed for MICR by said MICR printer,

rejecting means for rejecting to discharge said addressed bill or check when said amount of money cannot be read by said OCR, and

a keyboard for inputting said amount of money of said rejected addressed bill or check by manual operation,

wherein said rejecting means is disposed downstream of said optical system so that said rejected addressed bill or check is printed for MICR after said image has been photographed by said optical system.

11. The microfilm camera of claim 10, further comprising an MICR reader disposed downstream of said OCR for reading classification data of said addressed bill or check, said classification data being preliminarily printed for MICR, a controller for classifying and totalizing plural addressed bills or checks by referring to outputs from said OCR and said MICR reader, and recording means for recording a result of classification and totalization data on said microfilm.