Patent ID: 9208632
Filing Date: 2015-12-08
Classification: G07D

Abstract:
1. A bill recognizing and counting apparatus comprising: an operation unit configured to receive a setting of a given bill processing mode from a plurality of bill processing modes, wherein the plurality of bill processing modes includes a denomination mode for recognizing a denomination, and a counting mode for performing only counting; a feeding and transporting unit that has variable speed function; a transport-path switching unit configured to switch a transport route of a given bill from a main transport path to a branched transport path; a detecting unit configured to detect a skew of the given bill; a control unit configured to perform control for changing a processing speed, which indicates a number of bills to be processed per unit time, according to the given bill processing mode; and a recognizing unit configured to perform 1) denomination recognizing when the given bill processing mode is the denomination mode, and 2) only counting of bills when the given bill processing mode is the counting mode, wherein, when the given bill processing mode is the denomination mode, the control unit is configured wherein, when the given bill processing mode is the counting mode, the control unit is configured