Apparatus and system for imaging currency bills and financial documents and method for using the same

US8162125B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Cummins-Allison Corp. · US

Inventors

• Frank M. Csulits · Gurnee, US
• William J. Jones · Kenilworth, US
• Douglas U. Mennie · Barrington, US
• Matthew L. Anderson · Salem, US
• Robert J. Klein · Chicago, US
• Ralf H. Jaeger · Kildeer, US
• David R. Badalamenti · Arlington Heights, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 13, 2010
• Grant date: Apr 24, 2012
• Expiry date: Apr 13, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07F7/04
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An input receptacle receives currency bills and checks. A transport mechanism transports the bills and checks along a transport path to an output receptacle. An image scanner, adjacent the transport path, is configured to generate one or more electrical signals from which image data can be derived. The image data is reproducible as a visually readable image of at least a portion of each of the plurality of documents. A controller is configured to determine a denomination of each of the currency bills. In response to the controller not determining a denomination of one of the currency bills, the controller flags the currency bill as a no-call document by causing at least a portion of the image data to be displayed as a visually readable image of the flagged currency bill on the display.