JPH0511348B2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] (Industrial Application Field) The present invention relates to a passbook entry device, and more specifically, the passbook entry device uses optical printed line number detection to determine the validity of a page to be printed on a passbook. This is related to the processing to be performed.

(Prior Art) Recently, financial institutions such as banks have been using passbook entry devices that automatically print entries into passbooks in order to improve their services. This device is used by the user opening the passbook page to be printed and inserting the passbook. In this case, if the bankbook is inserted into the wrong page, printing will be performed over printed lines or printing will be carried out onto unprinted pages. Therefore, it becomes important to judge the validity of the inserted passbook page. This validity judgment is performed in the conventional apparatus as follows. First, data indicating the number of lines to start printing is included in the magnetic stripe attached to the passbook, and this data is read by the device. Alternatively, data indicating the number of lines to start printing is stored in a center connected to the device, and this data is recognized by the device through communication. On the other hand, the number of printed lines of the target page is optically read by an optical sensor within the device. Then, the data on the number of lines to start printing is compared with the number of printed lines read optically.
The page being opened is judged to be correct or not based on whether the difference falls within a certain tolerance range.

When reading the number of printed lines using an optical sensor within the device, the quality and accuracy of printing on the passbook depends on the device that printed on the passbook. Therefore, the above-mentioned allowable value is set based on the data in the magnetic stripe or the center management data, assuming variations in the clarity of the print and the accuracy of the print position.

(Problem to be solved by the invention) However, in the above device, the permissible range is set on the premise that one line is printed for one entry, so in special subjects such as regular subjects, ,
When multiple lines are printed for one item, the tolerance check is not applicable, and there is a problem in that the validity of the page cannot be checked.

This invention eliminates the problem of not being able to check the validity of the page when printing multiple lines for regular subjects, etc. mentioned above, and even when printing multiple lines for each subject, the printing target The purpose of the present invention is to provide a passbook entry device that can correctly check the validity of pages.

(Means for Solving the Problems) The present invention is directed to a bankbook recording device that is connected to a sensor for sending and receiving transaction information and performs automatic bankbook entry, and in order to solve the problems of the prior art, it is possible to transaction item recognition means for recognizing transaction items to be processed; printing start line information extraction means for extracting print start line information stored in the magnetic stripe of the passbook or a center connected to exchange transaction information; and target page of the passbook. a printed line information reading means for optically reading the printed line information by scanning the line information, and a printed line number for extracting the number of printed lines determined in advance as a fixed value per transaction item recognized by the transaction item recognition means. and tolerance range means for setting a tolerance range based on the print start line information obtained by the print start line information extractor and the number of print lines per transaction item extracted by the print line number extractor. and permissible range determining means for determining whether the relationship between the printing start line information and the printed line information obtained by the printed line information reading means is within a permissible range set by the permissible range means. It has

(Function) If the transaction item is one in which one line is printed for each transaction, the validity of the target page of the passbook will be determined as before.

If the transaction item is a special item such as a regular account and multiple lines are printed for each item, the validity of the target page is determined as follows. The print start line information extraction means extracts print start line information stored in the magnetic stripe of the passbook inserted by the user or in a center connected to exchange transaction information. The printed line information reading means scans the target page of the bankbook, that is, the opened page of the bankbook, and optically reads the printed line information.

On the other hand, the transaction item recognition means recognizes the transaction item to be printed, and the print line number extraction means extracts the number of print lines determined as a preliminary fixed value for each recognized transaction item.

The permissible range setting means sets a permissible range based on the print start line information obtained by the above print start line information extraction means and the number of print lines per transaction item extracted by the above print line number extractor. do.
Then, the permissible range determining means determines whether the relationship between the print start line information and the printed line information is within the permissible range set by the permissible range setting means. If it is within the allowable range, it is determined that the target page is valid, and if it is not within the allowable range, it is determined that the page was opened by mistake and the passbook was inserted.

Therefore, even if multiple lines of printing are required for each transaction item, the validity of the target page can be correctly determined, and the problems of the prior art described above are solved.

(Example) An example of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a passbook recording device 1 according to this embodiment. This passbook recording device 1 includes a control device 2, a passbook transport mechanism 3, a passbook magnetic stripe reading mechanism 4, a passbook magnetic stripe writing mechanism 5, an optical page, a printed line detection mechanism 6, a passbook printing mechanism 7, and input/output control. It is composed of circuit 8. Note 9
is the center.

In addition, we will take as an example a case where a passbook includes multiple items such as ordinary transaction items and periodic items.

The control device 2 controls the operation of the entire mechanism and circuits of the passbook recording device 1, and also controls the flow of transaction processing. The passbook transport mechanism 3 transports the inserted passbook for magnetic stripe reading, writing, printing, ejection, etc. A passbook magnetic stripe reading mechanism 4 reads information from a magnetic stripe attached to a passbook, and a passbook magnetic stripe writing mechanism 5 writes information to the magnetic stripe. An optical page/printed line detection mechanism 6 scans the print surface of the bankbook to optically detect page marks and printed lines. The bankbook printing mechanism 7 performs recording printing on the bankbook. The input/output control mechanism 8 controls communication between the passbook recording device 1 and the center 9.

Next, the operation of the embodiment having the above configuration will be explained with reference to the operation flowchart shown in FIG.

When the user inserts the passbook into the passbook recording device 1 (step 101), the passbook is absorbed (step 102).
The passbook transport mechanism 3 transports the passbook to a magnetic stripe reading mechanism 4 for reading the magnetic stripe. The passbook magnetic stripe reading mechanism 4 reads data from the magnetic stripe attached to the passbook (step 103), and the data is stored in the control device 2. Next, the control device 2 controls the passbook conveyance mechanism 3, and the passbook is conveyed to the optical page and printed line detection mechanism 6. Then, the optical page/printed line detection mechanism 6 scans the print surface of the passbook and reads the page mark and printed line (steps 104 and 105), and reads the read page mark value,
The number of printed lines is stored by the control device 2. Next, the control device 2 retrieves the item information to be traded that has been read and stored from the magnetic stripe, and recognizes the number n of printed lines per item of interest. The number of lines printed per item n is, for example, one line for the transaction date, deposit amount, and deposit balance for ordinary items, and one line for regular items, as well as the one line for the maturity date, interest rate, etc. This is a predetermined fixed value such as one line and two lines in total, and is stored in the control device 2. According to the transaction item, the number of print lines n (integer) stored in this control device 2 is retrieved and recognized. Another method is to optically read the subject information recorded on the corresponding page, for example, as a page mark, and recognize the number n of printed lines per subject. In this case, the above-mentioned page mark may directly include the subject information, or may not directly include the subject information, but may recognize the subject of the open page from, for example, page information printed on each page (step 106). Then, the control device 2 recognizes the number of lines a to be printed next from the previously stored passbook stripe data,
Tolerance range data corresponding to the number of lines to be printed next is extracted from tolerance range data stored in advance for each print line. In this case, the tolerance data stored for each print line may be different for each print line, or may be the same for each print line. Then, the previously obtained value n is multiplied by the value of the extracted tolerance range data to calculate the tolerance range expansion data m (step 107). Note that the control device 2 may be provided with data for expanding the allowable range in advance. Next, the control device 2 compares the expanded data m of the permissible range with the previously stored number of printed lines (step 108), and if the number of printed lines is outside the range of m, it is determined that an incorrect page has been inserted. The user is then instructed to judge and control the passbook transport mechanism 3 to return the passbook and insert the correct page (step
109). If the number of printed lines is within the range m, it is determined that a valid page has been inserted, and the bankbook transport mechanism 3 is controlled so that the printing start position of the bankbook is at the position a described above (step 110). When the line setting to the print start line is completed, the control device 2 controls the input/output control circuit 8 to transmit a bookkeeping transaction request message to the center 9,
The center 9 returns the unrecorded print data (step 111). The control device 2 controls the input/output control circuit 8 to take out the unrecorded printing data, and controls the bankbook printing mechanism 7 to perform recording and printing on the bankbook (step 112). Furthermore, the control device 2 determines the completion of bookkeeping, controls the passbook transport mechanism 3 to transport the passbook to the passbook magnetic stripe writing mechanism 5, updates the data on the magnetic stripe (step 113), and then controls the passbook transport mechanism 3 and returns the passbook to the user (steps 114 to 116).

(Effects of the Invention) As described above in detail, in the present invention, the printed information obtained by the printing start line information extraction means and the printed line information reading means are compared, and the relationship between the two is determined by one transaction item. It is determined whether or not the number of printed lines is within a set tolerance range, and the validity of the target page of the passbook is determined based on the result of this determination. As a result, even when multiple prints are made for one item in a special subject such as a regular subject, it is possible to very accurately judge whether the correct page of the passbook is opened or not, and the validity of the page to be recorded.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a passbook recording device according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation of the device shown in FIG. 1...Passbook recording device, 2...Control device, 3...
Passbook transport mechanism, 4... Passbook magnetic stripe reading mechanism, 5... Passbook magnetic stripe writing mechanism, 6...
Optical page, printed line detection mechanism, 7... passbook printing mechanism, 8... input/output control circuit, 9... center.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. In a passbook recording device that automatically records printed data of predetermined transaction entries in a passbook, a transaction entry recognition means for recognizing the transaction entries to be printed, and a connection to the magnetic stripe of the passbook or for exchange of transaction information. a printing start line information extraction means for extracting printing start line information stored in a center where the transaction has been carried out; a printed line information reading means for scanning the target page of the passbook and optically reading the printed line information; a printing line number extraction means for extracting the number of printing lines determined in advance as a fixed value for each transaction item recognized by the item recognition means; printing start line information obtained by the printing start line information extraction means; Tolerance range means for setting a tolerance range based on the number of printed lines per transaction item retrieved by the printed line number extraction means, and the printed line information obtained by the printed line information and the printed line information reading means. 1. A passbook entry device, comprising: permissible range determining means for determining whether a relationship with completed bank information is within a permissible range set by said permissible range setting means.