Method of counting currency
AssigneeSilverbrook Research Pty Ltd
InventorsKia Silverbrook, Paul Lapstun
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Abstract
A method of counting currency documents including a plurality of coded data portions thereon. Each coded data portion is indicative of an identity of the currency document and the method includes, sensing at least one coded data portion for each currency document using a sensing device. This is used to generate indicating data, which is transferred to a computer system, to allow the computer system to determine the identity for each currency document. The identity is then used to determine a value for each currency document, allowing the documents to be counted.
Claims19
A method of counting the value of a plurality of currency documents, each currency document having disposed thereon or therein coded data including a plurality or coded data portions, each coded data portion being at least partially indicative of an identity of the currency document, the method including, in a sensing device:
- sensing at least one coded data portion for each currency document;
- determining a scanning time at which the sensing device sensed the coded data portion of each currency document;
- determining, from the sensed coded data portion and determined scanning time, a unique identity of each currency document;
- determining, using each determined identity, a value for each currency document;
- and,
- counting the value of the currency documents using the determined values.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.