| 摘要 |
There is provided a bill recognizing and counting apparatus capable of performing different operations between during and after the banking hours at bank branches efficiently and quickly by a single machine. The bill recognizing and counting apparatus has, as bill processing modes, a denomination mode for recognizing a denomination, a counting mode for performing only counting, a different-denomination recognition mode for recognizing a different denomination, and an authenticity determination mode for determining authenticity. The bill recognizing and counting apparatus includes a feeding and transporting mechanism having a continuously or two or more discretely variable speed function and a control unit that performs control for changing a processing speed, which indicates the number of bills to be processed per unit time, according to the bill processing mode. When the bill processing mode is in the counting mode, the different-denomination recognition mode, or the authenticity determination mode, the control unit increases the processing speed by setting the feeding and transporting mechanism to a higher speed than the speed set in the denomination mode. The increase in speed is in accordance with a reduced time necessary to process a reduced amount of data associated with the denomination mode. |
