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Method and apparatus for currency discriminator and authenticator
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Inventors: Graves, Bradford T.; Jones, William J.; Mennie, Douglas U.; Csulits, Frank M.;
Assignee: Cummins-Allison Corp. (Mt. Prospect, IL)
Primary Examiner: Tran; Phuoc
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Arnold, White & Durkee
A currency authenticator having a plurality of sensitivity settings comprising a first characteristic detector. The first characteristic detector retrieves first characteristic information from a bill to be authenticated and generates an output signal. The currency authenticator further comprises a unit for selecting one of a plurality of sensitivity settings, a unit for storing reference information associated with each of the sensitivity settings, and a unit for comparing the output signal to the reference information associated with the one of the plurality of sensitivity settings selected by the unit for selecting. The unit for comparing indicates that the bill is counterfeit if the output signal does not satisfactorily compare with the reference information. The unit for storing reference information stores reference information for a plurality of denominations of bills. The unit for storing stores reference information associated with each of the sensitivity settings for each of the plurality of denominations. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION It is a principal object of the present invention to provide an improved method and apparatus for identifying, authenticating, and counting currency bills comprising a plurality of currency denominations.
It is another object of this invention to provide an improved method and apparatus of the above kind which is capable of efficiently discriminating among, authenticating, and counting bills of several currency denominations at a high speed and with a high degree of accuracy.
It is another object of the present invention to provide an improved method and apparatus for authenticating documents which improves the ability of a system to accurately reject improper documents while reducing the likelihood of rejecting genuine documents.
Briefly, in accordance with the present invention, the objectives enumerated above are achieved by scanning a bill for first and second characteristic information, utilizing the first characteristic information to determine the denomination of a scanned bill, and using the second characteristic information to verify the genuineness of the bill.
More particularly, a currency evaluation device, according to the present invention, comprises detection circuitry for detecting first and second characteristic information from a scanned bill, a memory for storing sets of genuine first and second characteristic information for a plurality of denominations of genuine bills, and signal processing means for comparing the detected first and second characteristic information with the stored genuine first and second characteristic information.
The signal processing means performs a first comparison whereby the detected first characteristic information is compared with the stored sets of genuine first characteristic information.
This first comparison results in either an indication of the denomination of the scanned bill or an error.
The results of the first comparison are used to streamline a second comparison between detected and stored second characteristic information
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