摘要 |
<p><P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a token identification device preventing false recognition that a token is input by an illegal act to camouflage the input of the token. <P>SOLUTION: This token identification device 1 includes: a casing 2 forming a passage 6 through which a token flows down; an imaging portion 4 disposed so as to set a part of the passage 6 as a photographic range, and generating an image of the photographic range; and a control circuit 51 extracting a region wherein an article inserted into the passage is captured from the image, and deciding that a token is input when the outer shape of the region accords with the outer shape of the token. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT</p> |