Patent ID: 6082518
Filing Date: 2000-07-04
Classification: G07D

Abstract:
A money screening method comprising the steps of detecting features of a coin rolling through a coin passage by a at least one sensor disposed along the coin passage, judging genuineness of the coin based on a detection result, accepting the coin if it is judged as genuine in the judgment and returning the coin if it is judged as counterfeit in the judgment, wherein:an output of the sensor is summarized to a specific number of data;the summarized data is converted to basic pattern data;the converted basic pattern data is compared with reference data which has been set in advance for each money type;genuineness of the coin is judged based on a comparison result; andthe summarization is implemented by selecting specified number of data out of change points where the output of the sensor changes from ascending to descending and from descending to ascending, and the conversion is implemented by rearranging the summarized data in specified sequence.