Scanner using optical positioning tracking
AssigneeNCR Atleos Corporation
InventorPeter Roy Vettraino
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Abstract
A valuable media item scanner is provided. The scanner includes a printed circuit board (PCB), an infeed slot, connected to a tube, and the tube further connected to an outfeed slot. The PCB is connected to optical tracking sensors situated along the tube and two contact image sensors (CISs) opposing one another on opposite sides of the tube. The PCB further includes a processor that executes firmware causing the processor to perform operations to dynamically assemble a final front surface image and a final back surface image of the media item as the media item is passed through the infeed slot into the tube and out the outfeed slot by using movement data provided by the optical tracking sensors and using image frames provided by the CISs.
Claims20
A valuable media item scanner, comprising:
- a printed circuit board (PCB) comprising a processor and firmware executed by the processor;
- optical tracking sensors connected to the PCB;
- contact image sensors (CISs) connected to the PCB;
- and
- the firmware when executed by the processor cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
- dynamically assembling a front surface image and a back surface image of a media item passed through a tube using image frames provided from the CISs along with media item movement data provided by the optical tracking sensors;
- and
- providing the front surface image and the back surface image to a media handling device for a media operation being processed on a transaction terminal associated with the media item.
A transaction terminal, comprising:
- a media handling device comprising a valuable media item scanner;
- the valuable media item scanner comprising:
- a processor,
- optical tracking sensors;
- and
- contact image sensors (CISs);
- wherein the processor is configured to use movement data obtained from the optical tracking sensors for a media item passing through a tube and image frames obtained from the CISs of the media item passing through the tube to dynamically assemble a final front surface image and a final back surface image of the media item, and wherein the processor is further configured to provide the final front surface image and the final back surface image of the media item to the media handling device during a media operation being processed by the transaction terminal.
A method of operating a valuable media item scanner, comprising:
- receiving movement data for a media item pushed through a tube of the valuable media item scanner by a customer, wherein the movement data is received from optical tracking sensors situated along the tube;
- receiving front image frames from a front contact image sensor (CIS) situated along the tube and back image frames from a back CIS as portions of the media item pass between the front CIS and the back CIS while being pushed by the customer through the tube;
- using the movement data to dynamically assemble the front image frames into a final front surface image of the media item and to dynamically assemble the back image frames into a final back surface image of the media item;
- and
- providing the final front surface image and the final back surface image to a media handling device for processing a media operation associated with the media item on a transaction terminal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.