Patent Document ID: 20020154808
Application ID: 10042069
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A banknote counting and discrimination device for receiving a stack of banknotes, rapidly counting and discriminating the banknotes in the stack, and then re-stacking the banknotes comprising: an input receptacle for receiving a stack of banknotes to be discriminated; a full image scanner for obtaining a full image of the banknotes and for discriminating the denomination of the banknotes using an image or portions of an image obtained from the full image scanner; one or more output receptacles for receiving the banknotes after being discriminated by the full image scanner; a transport mechanism for transporting the banknotes, one at a time, from the input receptacle past a sensor of the full image scanner and to the one or more output receptacles; one or more counters keeping track of the value of banknotes discriminated; and value indicating means for an operator of the device to indicate the value of any banknotes whose denomination are not determined by the full image scanner, the banknotes whose denomination are not determined by the full image scanner being no call banknotes, the means appropriately effecting the one or more counters; wherein the operation of the device is suspended when the full image scanner is unable to identify the denomination of a banknote.