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

US8428332B1 · 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
• Gary P. Watts · Buffalo Grove, US
• John E. Jones · Winnetka, US
• Ralf H. Jaeger · Kildeer, US
• David R. Badalamenti · Arlington Heights, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 13, 2010
• Grant date: Apr 23, 2013
• Expiry date: Mar 12, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07F19/202
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A batch of bills is received, transported, and imaged to produce image data. The image data is reproducible as a visually readable image of at least a portion of each of the plurality of currency bills. Each currency bill includes a respective serial number. The serial numbers are extracted from the image data for each of the currency bills. Each extracted serial number is compared with a plurality of serial numbers in a currency bill database to determine if a currency bill associated with an extracted serial number is a suspect currency bill. One of the plurality of currency bills is determined to be a suspect currency bill based on the comparing. In response to determining the suspect currency bill, at least a portion of the produced image data is displayed as a visually readable image of the suspect currency bill on a display unit of the document processing system.