Patent ID: 6039246
Filing Date: 2000-03-21
Classification: G07D

Abstract:
A notes accepting apparatus comprising:a holding unit temporarily holding plural sheets of notes inserted;a fetching unit fetching the plural sheets of notes, sheet by sheet, held by said holding unit;a characteristic data outputting unit outputting predetermined kinds of characteristic data about one sheet of note fetched by said fetching unit;a classifying unit classifying the notes fetched by said fetching unit into any one type of notes among first type notes exhibiting a high probability of being accepted, second type notes exhibiting a high probability of being forged notes, and third type notes exhibiting a smaller probability of being accepted than the first type notes and a smaller probability of being the forged notes than the second type notes, on the basis of the predetermined kinds of characteristic data outputted by said characteristic data outputting unit and predetermined condition data;a storing unit storing the notes classified as the first type notes by said classifying unit;a counting unit counting the number of sheets of the notes classified as the second type notes by said classifying unit during a period until said fetching unit fetches all of plural sheets of the notes held by said holding unit; andan information outputting unit outputting information that notes having a high probability of being forged were inserted when a count value by said counting unit exceeds a predetermined value.