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US 2022/0147728 A1Published application
Card reader
OwnerHin Leong Taninventor
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Abstract
A card reader includes a camera mounted on card reader housing and a card input tray supported by the card reader housing. The card input tray provides automated alignment of a card by being at an inclined angle sufficiently steep so that when the card is placed into a front of the card input tray, the card will tend to slide to a back of the card input tray and rest against a back wall of the card input tray, the back wall aligning the card to minimize document skew when scanning. Diffused light is used to illuminate the card when the card is within the card input tray.
Claims20
A card reader, comprising:
- card reader housing, the card reader housing having an interior surface;
- a camera mounted on the card reader housing;
- a card input tray supported by the card reader housing, the card input tray providing automated alignment of a card by being at an inclined angle sufficiently steep so that when the card is placed into a front of the card input tray, the card will tend to slide to a back of the card input tray and rest against a back wall of the card input tray, the back wall aligning the card to minimize document skew when scanning;
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- a diffuser light panel oriented to provide diffused light that illuminates the card when the card is within the card input tray.
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A card reader, comprising:
- card reader housing, the card reader housing having an interior surface;
- a camera mounted on the card reader housing;
- a card input tray supported by the card reader housing, a bottom of the card input tray including a cut-out region that goes all the way through the bottom of the card input tray so that the cut-out region exposes a portion of a bottom surface of a card and allows the portion of the bottom surface of the card and a corresponding top surface portion of the card to be grasped by a thumb and forefinger of the user for removal of the card from the input tray;
- a reflective diffuser that both reflects and diffuses light;
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- a light source oriented to direct light away from the card and toward the reflective diffuser;
- wherein the reflective diffuser is oriented so that light from the light source is reflected and diffused to illuminate the card when the card is within the card input tray.
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A card reader, comprising:
- card reader housing;
- a camera mounted on the card reader housing;
- a card input tray supported by the card reader housing, a bottom of a card input tray including a cut-out region that goes all the way through the bottom of the card input tray so that the cut-out region exposes a portion of a bottom surface of the card and allows the portion of the bottom surface of the card and a corresponding top surface portion of the card to be grasped by a thumb and forefinger of the user for removal of the card from the input tray, wherein the card input tray provides automated alignment of the card by being at an inclined angle sufficiently steep so that when the card is placed into a front of the card input tray, the card will tend to slide to a back of the card input tray and rest against a back wall of the card input tray, the back wall aligning the card to minimize document skew when scanning;
- a reflective diffuser that both reflects and diffuses light;
- and
- a light source oriented to direct light away from the card and toward the reflective diffuser;
- wherein the reflective diffuser is oriented so that light from the light source is reflected and diffused to illuminate the card when the card is within the card input tray.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.