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(11) | EP 1 862 978 A3 |
| (12) | EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION |
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| (54) | Paper sheet identifying and checking apparatus |
| (57) In a paper sheet identifying and checking apparatus (1) including a conveying path
(3) to convey a bill (6), a line sensor (23) including a plurality of light sensor
elements arranged on the conveying path in a string in a conveying width direction,
and an identifying module (35) to identify the paper sheet on the basis of a binary
image (B) produced by the line sensor by reading the paper sheet, the direction of
arranging the sensor elements is inclined with respect to the conveying width direction
of the conveying path.
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