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WO1999049423A1 - Appareil pour recevoir et accepter des jetons - Google Patents

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WO1999049423A1
WO1999049423A1 PCT/DK1999/000172 DK9900172W WO9949423A1 WO 1999049423 A1 WO1999049423 A1 WO 1999049423A1 DK 9900172 W DK9900172 W DK 9900172W WO 9949423 A1 WO9949423 A1 WO 9949423A1
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Torben Ellgaard
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Ascom Nordic A/S
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07D—HANDLING OF COINS OR VALUABLE PAPERS, e.g. TESTING, SORTING BY DENOMINATIONS, COUNTING, DISPENSING, CHANGING OR DEPOSITING
    • G07D5/00—Testing specially adapted to determine the identity or genuineness of coins, e.g. for segregating coins which are unacceptable or alien to a currency
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07D—HANDLING OF COINS OR VALUABLE PAPERS, e.g. TESTING, SORTING BY DENOMINATIONS, COUNTING, DISPENSING, CHANGING OR DEPOSITING
    • G07D2205/00—Coin testing devices
    • G07D2205/001—Reconfiguration of coin testing devices
    • G07D2205/0011—Reconfiguration of coin testing devices by downloading test parameters, e.g. remotely

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  • the present invention relates to an apparatus for receiving and accepting tokens and especially to an apparatus, which may be, remote controlled to accept tokens not previously accepted by the apparatus.
  • Apparatus of the present type are typically apparatus performing a service, such as pay phones, performing the service after insertion and acceptance of a coin.
  • apparatus of this type have a part generating parameters relating to tokens received thereby. These parameters are compared to criteria, which the parameters of a given token are to fulfil, before the token is accepted. Different types of tokens, such as coins with different monetary values, normally have different parameters and therefore different criteria.
  • the parameters derived from a given token will differ between apparatus, as the measurements or derivations of these parameters normally comprise an uncertainty relating to the manufacturing processes used for manufacturing the apparatus. Such differences may stem from mechanical uncertainties in the positioning or manufacturing of the parts defining the positions where the measurements are performed at the tokens, or the parts of the apparatus performing these measurements.
  • the apparatus normally when apparatus of this type are to be calibrated to accept a new type of token, the apparatus, or at least the part thereof evaluating the token, is brought to a central location where a number of tokens of the new type are introduced in the apparatus or part thereof in order to generate or provide parameters for these tokens. These generated parameters are subsequently used for calculating or generating the criteria for use in that specific apparatus for that specific new type of token, where after these criteria are fed to the apparatus.
  • This is a labour intensive step, which also removes the apparatus from their operating positions or renders these inoperative during calibration.
  • An alternative way is to have a trusted person visit and calibrate all apparatus at their sites of operation using a set of calibration tokens.
  • the invention addresses this problem, and in a first aspect, relates to an apparatus for performing a service upon receiving and accepting a token, the apparatus comprising: means for receiving a token, means for deriving one or more parameters relating to the token, storing means for holding criteria relating to the derived one or more parameters, and means for accepting the token based on a determination of whether the derived one or more parameters fulfil the criteria, means for receiving initial information comprising initial criteria relating to parameters of tokens of a new type of token, means for, on the basis of the initial criteria, generating final criteria on the basis of subsequently derived parameters relating to a number of subsequently received tokens of the new type of token, the final criteria being more restrictive than the initial criteria, and means for transferring the final criteria to the storing means, so as to adapt the accepting means to subsequently accept a token of the new type of token, when derived parameters relating thereto fulfil the final criteria, 3
  • the apparatus is adapted to perform the service in response to receiving and accepting each of the number of subsequently received tokens of the new type of token.
  • a standard calibration may be provided and transmitted to a number of apparatus, where after, in each apparatus, an apparatus specific calibration is performed on the basis of parameters derived by the specific deriving means - parameters derived from a number of subsequently received tokens of the new type.
  • the apparatus performs the service expected by the user
  • the user of the apparatus will not note that the apparatus is, in fact, in the process of being calibrated to the new type of token.
  • the apparatus may, during this process, accept tokens, which might not be accepted, when the apparatus is fully calibrated. This is not possible for the user to notice.
  • performing the service will make the users think that the apparatus has already been calibrated, and fraudulent attempts to diverge the calibration will be prevented or at least greatly reduced. Also, a certain amount of fraud or monetary loss may be accepted due to the large savings on manpower relating to the previous labour-consuming manner of calibrating the apparatus.
  • a new type of token is a token, which was not acceptable by the apparatus at the time of receipt of the initial information relating to that type of token.
  • narrower criteria means criteria which, compared to the wider criteria, are fulfilled by a relatively smaller number of tokens of a given type, where the tokens have differing parameters.
  • the criteria comprise a number of intervals, the means for accepting the token being adapted to accept the token, if the derived parameters lie within the intervals. Normally, there will be one interval for each derived parameter, and the token will only be accepted if all parameters lie within their respective intervals.
  • the initial criteria suitably comprise a number of initial intervals of initial sizes, and wherein the generating means are adapted to narrow the initial intervals - such as to final intervals of predetermined widths.
  • the criteria may specify a relation, which should exist between the parameters in order for the token to be acceptable.
  • the apparatus will be adapted to receive and accept not only a single type of token but a number of types at the time of calibration to yet another type of token.
  • the receiving means are adapted to receive tokens of a number of predetermined types
  • the deriving means are adapted to derive one or more parameters relating to tokens of the predetermined types, the parameters relating to one type of token being distinguishable from those relating to another type of token
  • the storing means are adapted to hold criteria relating to derived parameters from each of the number of predetermined types of tokens.
  • a number of different schemes may be derived for the generation of the final criteria.
  • the main feature is that parameters relating to a number of tokens of the new type are used in the apparatus specific calibration.
  • the generating means may be adapted to generate the final criteria on the basis of parameters derived from subsequently received tokens, the number of which is less than a total number of subsequently received tokens of the new type of token. In this situation, it should be determined which of the subsequently received tokens are to be used in the generation of the final criteria. This determination may be a stochastical selection - or tokens with a predetermined spacing - such as every third token - may be selected.
  • the generating means may be adapted to generate the final criteria on the basis of parameters derived from subsequently received tokens, the number of which is at least substantially equal to a total number of subsequently received tokens of the new type of token. In this situation, no selection may be required.
  • a further alternative or option is one wherein the generating means are adapted to generate the final criteria on the basis of parameters derived from a predetermined number of subsequently received tokens of the new type of token. This number of tokens will depend on the desired precision of the calibration or the expected variation of the parameters of the tokens. Normally, parameters from at least 10 tokens, such as at least 50 tokens, preferably at least 100 tokens, such as 100-200 tokens are used in the calibration.
  • the calibration may proceed until the criteria have been altered to a given degree compared to the initial criteria.
  • the calibration may proceed until all intervals are reduced to a given degree or to predetermined widths.
  • the means for receiving the initial information preferably comprise means for communicating with a remote computer means generating or providing the initial information.
  • the generating means comprise a controlling means adapted to perform actions defined by a set of instructions, the generating means are controllable by the controlling means, the remote computer is adapted to generate or provide the set of instructions, and that the means for receiving the initial information are adapted to receive the set of instructions and forward these to the controlling means.
  • the calibration is remote controllable to a degree where new schemes, for e.g. selecting which of subsequently received tokens are to be used in the calibration, may be subsequently devised and programmed centrally. Also, the manner in which the initial criteria are narrowed into the final criteria may be devised and altered without having to remove the apparatus from their operative positions.
  • the set of instructions may be parameters for use in a more fixed calibration procedure taking place in the apparatus.
  • Parameters of this type may specify the number of tokens to be used in the calibration, how, if applicable, to select these from those received, how to reduce the initial criteria to the final criteria - and any demands put on to the final criteria. Also that 6
  • the possibility to calibrate the apparatus in its operative position has several advantage over the existing factory calibration. There is no need to remove the apparatus, or at least a part of it, and transport it to the factory. Since the users of the apparatus are supplying the tokens used for calibration during normal operation, a large number of tokens can be used in determining the correct final criteria, and thus giving a better confidence.
  • the remote computer may be adapted to generate or provide, in the set of instructions, instructions relating to - a subsequent number of subsequently received tokens of the new type of token, and/or information relating to which of the subsequently received tokens of the new type of token, the parameters of which are used by the generating means in the generation of the final criteria.
  • the remote computer may be adapted to generate or provide the initial information comprising initial criteria determined on the basis of parameters derived from a number of tokens of the new type of token having been introduced into one or more means for deriving one or more parameters relating to the tokens.
  • the initial criteria may be derived in a manner so as to be sufficiently broad to take into account the variation of the parameters of the tokens of the new type and the variation of the derived parameters due to manufacturing variations of the deriving means of the apparatus.
  • the one or more means for deriving the one or more parameters may be selected at the factory due to their standard or typical responses and retained for subsequent initial calibration of the remaining means which are used in the field.
  • the generating means may be adapted to generate the final criteria in a number of steps, where the tokens of the new type received subsequently to the receipt of the initial information are received over a period of time during which the steps take place, each step being performed on the basis of parameters derived from previously received tokens.
  • the generating means may be adapted to, in a step, generate intermediate criteria representing criteria more narrow than the initial criteria and broader than the final criteria. In that manner, the criteria relating to the new type of token gradually approach the final criteria.
  • the accepting means are adapted to accept tokens of the new type of token (subsequent to that step and before the next step), if parameters derived from a received token of the 7
  • the generating means are adapted to perform a subsequent step of the generation of the final criteria on the basis of the parameters derived from the accepted token of the new type.
  • the criteria gradually narrow, and only tokens of the new type fulfilling the gradually narrowing criteria are accepted and used in the subsequent steps in the calibration.
  • the criteria, which the tokens of the new type are to fulfil are restricted gradually, as knowledge is obtained relating to the actual read-outs of the deriving means.
  • the decision to use or discard parameters from a received token fulfilling the intermediate criteria, in the generation of the next intermediate criteria can be made to depend on how close the parameters of the received token are to a current statistical measure of the parameters. It is preferred to use a median estimate as the statistical measure of a parameter. By comparing a parameter of the received token with its median estimate, a decision is made to either use or discard the parameter value in the calculation of the next intermediate criteria. In one situation the decision is derived from the median estimate, the parameter, and a predetermined value.
  • the decision making property described above is a special case of utilising a general function to derive a weight factor for the current parameter value, and use this weight factor in the calculation of the next intermediate criteria.
  • the generating means may be adapted to generate the final criteria in a single step. In that manner, the parameters relating to the all required subsequently received tokens of the new type are firstly derived, where after the generation of the final criteria takes place.
  • the present apparatus may be used for receiving and accepting any type of token.
  • the most widely used apparatus of that type would be one used for tokens representing a monetary value, such as coins or notes.
  • the parameters derived from the tokens and used in the determination of whether the tokens are acceptable will depend on the actual token. Naturally, the parameters should be ones varying between the types of tokens.
  • the new type of token may be a token having, compared to previously acceptable tokens, a different - physical size, such as a different weight, thickness, width, height and/or diameter, 8
  • composition of the material forming the token such as a different alloy, metal, paper quality and/or - optical properties, such as a different reflection, transmission or fluorescence, such as at one or more predetermined wavelengths,
  • tokens of the new type do or do not have a watermark and/or other characteristics, such as indentations, recognisable outer contours, and/or embedded characteristics, such as metal wires.
  • the apparatus preferably further comprises means for holding received tokens.
  • the holding means are adapted to store those tokens of the new type of token the parameters of which are used by the generating means, it is firstly ensured that the same token cannot be used repeatedly and thereby "misguide" the calibration into assuming that the variation of the parameters of the tokens of the new type is very small, and secondly, fraudulent or incorrect tokens used for misguiding the calibration will be revealed when collected.
  • An alternative or optional manner of revealing or preventing fraud would be one wherein the apparatus is adapted to forward information relating to the final criteria to the remote computer, when the final criteria have been generated. In this manner, it may be evaluated whether the final criteria could have been obtained by using tokens of the new type or whether the final criteria deviate sufficiently for it to be possible that they may be obtained by using other tokens. In that manner, the apparatus may be "reset" by annulling the previous calibration relating to the new type of token and provided with initial information in order to start a new calibration.
  • Apparatus according to the invention comprise pay phones and pay terminals used at gas stations or for offering other products for sale.
  • the means for performing the service are means for enabling a user to perform a telephone conversation or means enabling a user to purchase gas or other products.
  • the invention in a second aspect, relates to a method of updating an apparatus as those mentioned above, the method comprising: receiving the initial info ⁇ nation and deriving therefrom the initial criteria, during or subsequent to receipt and acceptance of a number of subsequently received tokens of the new type and derivation of parameters relating thereto, narrowing the initial criteria to generate final criteria, and subsequent to acceptance of a token of the new type, performing the service.
  • the generation of the final criteria is obtained in a number of steps wherein intermediate criteria are generated which are narrower than the initial criteria and broader than the final criteria.
  • the intermediate criteria relating to a step may be generated from the intermediate criteria relating to a previous step and parameters derived from one or more received tokens of the new type which fulfil the intermediate criteria relating to the previous step.
  • the method may comprise generating, at a location remote from the apparatus, the initial information comprising the initial criteria and additional information for controlling the generation of the final criteria, where the initial criteria may be generated on the basis of parameters provided by inserting a number of tokens of the new type of token into at least one means for providing parameters.
  • the generation of the final criteria may be based on parameters derived from a predetermined number of subsequently received tokens of the new type, or the generation of the final criteria may be based on parameters derived from a subset of the subsequently received tokens of the new type, where the tokens of the subset of the subsequently received tokens can be selected randomly from the subsequently received tokens.
  • the method further comprises the step of holding those of the tokens of the new type the derived parameters of which are used in the generation of the final criteria.
  • FigJ is a schematic view of a pay phone according to the preferred embodiment of the invention.
  • FigJ diagrammatically illustrates the key components of a pay phone 5 set to operate according to the invention.
  • the outer housing 10 of the pay phone contains a coin check unit 30, a modem circuit 70, a MPU system 40, an EEPROM memory device 50 connected to the MPU system 40 through a 10
  • the pay phone 5 is connected to the telephone network with the line cable 20.
  • the line cable 20 is also connected to a remote facility computer 80.
  • a handset 100 and a coin inlet 95 are provided for the pay-phone user.
  • the line cable 20 is used to transmit a voice signal from the person using the handset 100 to make an ordinary phone call.
  • the line cable 20 is also during quiet periods typically at night, utilised to transmit data information regarding the current operation status of the payphone 5 to the remote facility computer 80, by utilising the modem 70.
  • This ensures that the condition of a large number of pay phones can be monitored from the central facility computer 80, and it ensures that an error or a need for maintenance occurring on any pay phone 5 is quickly detected.
  • the data transmitting capability of the pay-phone 5, likewise makes it possible for the remote computer 80 to transmit data to the pay-phone 5, and this possibility is used in the present invention to adapt the pay-phone 5 to accept new coin denominations.
  • the MPU system 40 comprises a microprocessor (not illustrated) which controls the operation of the coin check unit 30.
  • the microprocessor loads an operation program from the EEPROM 50 through data line 60, and this operation program is responsible for the functions of the coin check unit 30.
  • the coin runs through a channel 35 to the coin check unit 30.
  • the coin check unit 30 includes a coin measurement unit, which contains two magnetic coupled coils physically arranged to lie on the same longitudinal axis with a narrow air gap between them. The air gap is suitable for the passage of a coin runway.
  • One coil is used as a transmission coil and is supplied with a 32 kHz sine wave signal from an oscillator.
  • the sine wave signal is transmitted to the second coil by means of a mutual magnetic coupling between the coils.
  • the magnitude of the 32 kHz sine wave signal on the secondary coil By measuring the magnitude of the 32 kHz signal on the secondary coil at four different positions of the coin on the runway, characteristic values for a specific coin denomination are obtained.
  • the four different positions, at which the magnetic coupling measurement takes place, are defined by four LED's and four phototransistors arranged along the coin runway, each LED and phototransistor being positioned on opposite sides of the runway, and being positioned just before the coin enters the air gap between the coils.
  • an inductive measurement is triggered at known positions of the passing coin.
  • the five measurement values PI, P2, P3, P4, P5 are coin parameters which are specific for a coin denomination.
  • the coin parameters PI - P5, which are the results of a passing coin, are latched in a register in the coin check unit 30, and the register is accessible by the CPU contained in the MPU system 40, by means of data line 90.
  • the role of the operation program in the MPU system 40 is to read the five coin parameters PI - P5 obtained during the coin measurement procedure and compare the parameters with values contained in a coin table in the EEPROM 50.
  • the operation program accepts the coin as valid, if PI - P5 all fit within corresponding parameter intervals or acceptance windows around the parameter mean values for a given coin denomination.
  • the mean value and acceptance window for each parameter PI - P5, for each coin denomination in the coin table have previously been found during a calibration procedure of the coin check unit 30 at the factory.
  • the calibration procedure has to be carried out on each coin check unit 30, due to a unit to unit random variation in measurement results from a given population of coins.
  • the variation in measurement results is the result of production tolerances on the coin check unit 30, which include: sensitivity of LED's, phototransistor sensitivity, magnetic coupling between coils, mechanical tolerances.
  • the correct mean values and acceptance windows for each coin denomination on a specific coin check unit 30 have previously been obtained by inserting a known coin population in each unit 30, recording the readout values, transferring the values to a PC program for statistical analysis, and letting the PC program calculate suitable mean values and acceptance windows for the unit 30 in question.
  • the calculated mean values and acceptance windows for a coin denomination are finally transferred to the coin table in the EEPROM 50. 12
  • the operation program in the MPU system 40 includes a sub-program, which in the preferred embodiment can be activated from the remote facility computer 80.
  • the sub-program performs a dynamic calibration of the coin check unit 30 in order to make the pay phone 5 accept a new coin denomination.
  • An initial coin table for the new coin denomination, which the pay-phone 5 has to accept, is transmitted from the remote facility computer 80 to the MPU system 40, and the dynamic calibration sub-program is activated.
  • This initial coin table has wider acceptance windows for coin parameters of the new coin denomination than the ordinary acceptance windows obtained by the described factory calibration procedure. The wider windows are necessary due to the unit-to-unit random variation on measurement values of coin parameters.
  • the initial coin table and the calibration algorithm uses the following variables:
  • MEDIAN is a byte holding the current value of the median for a coin parameter.
  • COUNT is a 2 byte variable holding the current number of coins that have passed the window defined by TRACKWIN.
  • FLAG is a 2-byte variable storing possible MEDIAN adjustments of all parameters PI - P5, until the next coin is cashed. A total of 5 FLAG variables are used.
  • ADJUST is a byte variable containing a signed counter for a coin parameter.
  • MINWIN is a byte variable for a coin parameter, in which byte the 4 MSB represent the minimum allowed distance from the MEDIAN to the upper limit of the acceptance window, and the 13
  • TRACKWIN is a byte variable, which holds the width of the acceptance window for a coin parameter. TRACKWIN is centred around the current value of the variable MEDIAN. The measurement value of a coin parameter, has to be within this window to affect an adjustment of the MEDIAN.
  • THRESHOLD is a byte variable, its value determines whether a given value of ADJUST will trigger a movement of the MEDIAN.
  • MINCOUNT is a byte. A number of approved coins larger than this variable has to be inserted in a coin check unit 30 before a boundary movement of the acceptance window is approved.
  • STOPCOUNT is a byte. The calibration procedure terminates when this value has been reached for variable COUNT.
  • MIN, MAX is the smallest and the largest value respectfully of a coin parameter in the coin table.
  • the difference between MIN, MAX is the width of the acceptance window for the coin parameter.
  • the values of MIN and MAX are altered dynamically during the calibration procedure in order to make the acceptance window narrower.
  • TRACKWIN ensures that only coins, which parameter values are reasonably close to the current median estimates, are used in the adjustment of the medians. This ensures that a large number of counterfeit coins with parameter values close to MIN values or MAX values, are not used to move the MEDIAN value in a wrong direction.
  • the dynamic calibration sub-program When the preset minimum value for the width of the acceptance window, defined by means of MINWIDTH, has been reached, the dynamic calibration sub-program has completed its task.
  • the modified values for variables MIN and MAX of parameters PI - P5 in the coin table are stored permanently in the EEPROM 50.
  • the control of the pay phone 5 is transferred back to the main part of the operation program, and the pay phone 5 accepts the new coin denomination.
  • the coin table acceptance window width for the new coin denomination, at the end of the dynamic calibration procedure, has been contracted to the final value defined by variable MINWIDTH.
  • Each pay phone 5 just has to receive a standardised file, which is sent from the remote computer 80 by means of modem 70 and line cable 20.
  • the file contains the initial coin table and the calibration algorithm variables for the new coin denomination, and the pay-phone 5 is adjusted to the new coin denomination by means of the calibration sub-program which utilises coins inserted by the users during normal operation of the pay-phone 5, to find the correct coin parameter values PI PS for each coin check unit 30.

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On décrit un appareil qui reçoit et accepte des jetons (tels que des pièces de monnaie ou des billets de banque) et effectue une calibration pour s'adapter à un nouveau type de jeton à sa position d'utilisation normale. Pendant cette calibration, les jetons du nouveau type sont utilisés pour restreindre les critères déterminant leur acceptation ou rejet. Les critères par défaut sont téléchargées à partir d'un ordinateur éloigné et la calibration s'effectue avec les jetons insérés par des utilisateurs pendant l'exploitation normale. L'utilisateur ne peut pas s'apercevoir que l'appareil effectue une calibration en même temps qu'il accomplit le service après acceptation d'un jeton du nouveau type. De même, pour prévenir ou limiter la fraude, l'appareil peut recevoir l'instruction de ne pas utiliser tous les jetons du nouveau type acceptés pendant la procédure de calibration. Pour vérifier de manière plus poussée la précision de la calibration, l'appareil peut comprendre un moyen pour retenir au moins les jetons du nouveau type déjà utilisés pendant la procédure de calibration.
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DE69903010T DE69903010D1 (de) 1998-03-24 1999-03-24 Vorrichtung und verfahren zum empfangen und akzeptieren von wertmarken
AT99911625T ATE224570T1 (de) 1998-03-24 1999-03-24 Vorrichtung und verfahren zum empfangen und akzeptieren von wertmarken
EP99911625A EP1066604B1 (fr) 1998-03-24 1999-03-24 Appareil et procede pour recevoir et accepter des jetons
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