Paper sheet recognition device and paper sheet recognition method

A paper-sheet recognition apparatus that recognizes a paper sheet, the paper-sheet recognition apparatus comprising:

• a paper-sheet information acquisition unit that acquires paper-sheet information including an image data of the paper sheet;
• a candidate narrowing-down unit that narrows down a number of type candidates of the paper sheet to a small number of types based on the image data included in the paper-sheet information;
• a type determining unit that determines one type from the type candidates narrowed down by the candidate narrowing-down unit based on the image data included in the paper-sheet information;
• an authenticity recognition unit that recognizes authenticity of the paper sheet as to each of the type candidates narrowed down by the candidate narrowing-down unit;
• an execution instructing unit that issues an instruction such that the type determining unit and the authenticity recognition unit are operated concurrently;
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• a final judgment unit that performs a final judgment on the paper sheet by combining the type determined by the type determining unit and an authenticity recognition result corresponding to the type from among authenticity recognition results of the candidate types recognized by the authenticity recognition unit.