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

US8391583B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Cummins-Allison Corp. · US

Inventors

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

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 14, 2010
• Grant date: Mar 5, 2013
• Expiry date: Jul 8, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07D7/003
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Currency bills are received, transported, and imaged to produce image data from which a visually readable image of each currency bill can be reproduced. Each of the currency bills includes a denomination, a serial number, and a set of secondary identifiers. One of the currency bills is determined to be a suspect bill. The suspect bill serial number is attempted to be extracted from the image data associated with the suspect bill. In response to failing to extract a complete serial number of the suspect bill, a serial number field in a suspect report is populated with a serial number snippet image.