Document authentication method and apparatus
AssigneeAccudent PTY LTD
InventorMartin Alan Scott Graham
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Abstract
Documents (eg., bank notes, travellers cheques, credit cards) (10) are authenticated by scanning the documents for one or more identifying features and/or indicia (11–19), comparing the sanned features/indicia (11–19) with stored information in a database and transmitting a signal indicating the authenticity, or otherwise, of the documents (10). In another aspect, documents that are being deposited into a receptacle are scanned for identifying features and/or indicia and the features and/or indicia are recorded in a card. Access to the documents in the receptacle is possible only by the presentation of the card to a reader associated with the receptacle.
Claims9
Apparatus for document inventory including:
- means for scanning each document to obtain (a) identifying information and (b) changeable information on one or more pre-existing features and/or indicia for each document as each document enters a receptacle for documents;
- means for storing of the identifying information of each document in a memory connected to the receptacle;
- means for comparing the scanned changeable information with a master file in the memory and for updating the master file to record changes in the scanned changeable features and/or indicia of the document;
- means for scanning an exiting document as the exiting document exits the receptacle to obtain the same identifying information of the exiting document as obtained during entry into the receptacle;
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- means for deleting the identifying information of the exiting document from the memory such that the memory only has identifying information for documents presently in the receptacle.
A method of document inventory including the steps of:
- scanning each document to obtain (a) identifying information and (b) changeable information for one or more pre-existing features and/or indicia of each document as each document enters a receptacle for documents;
- storing of the identifying information of each document in a memory connected to the receptacle;
- comparing the scanned changeable information with a master file in the memory and updating the master file to record changes in the scanned changeable features and/or indicia of the document;
- scanning an exiting document as the exiting document exits the receptacle to obtain the same identifying information of the exiting document as obtained during entry into the receptacle;
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- deleting the identifying information of the exiting document from the memory such that the memory only has identifying information for documents in the receptacle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.