US 8,929,640 B1 · Apparatus and system for imaging currency bills and financial documents and method for using the same

Abstract

Currency bills are transported past an image scanner to one or more output receptacles. Each of the bills is imaged to produce image data from which a visually readable image of each bill can be reproduced. The serial number, denomination, and/or secondary identifiers of a bill is attempted to be extracted and/or determined from the image data associated with the bill. The serial number of the bill has an integer number, X, of characters. One or more of the X characters of the serial number of the currency bill is not extracted with a predetermined confidence. In response to failing to extract all of the X characters of the serial number of the bill with the predetermined confidence, a serial number field in an electronic record associated with the bill is populated with a serial number snippet image. The electronic record is stored in a non-transitory memory.

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Dependent claims

A method of generating electronic records using a document processing system, the method comprising the acts of:

receiving a plurality of currency bills in an input receptacle of the document processing system, each of the currency bills including a denomination, a serial number, and a set of secondary identifiers;
transporting the currency bills from the input receptacle in a serial fashion, past an image scanner, to one or more output receptacles;
imaging each of the currency bills using the image scanner to produce image data from which a visually readable image of each currency bill can be reproduced;
attempting to extract, from the image data associated with each of the currency bills, the serial number of each currency bill, the serial number of each currency bill having an integer number of characters;
failing to extract all of the characters of the serial number of a currency bill with a predetermined confidence;
and
for each currency bill for which one or more of the characters of the corresponding serial number failed to be extracted with the predetermined confidence, generating an electronic record including a serial number field populated with a corresponding serial number snippet image.

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A document processing apparatus for generating electronic records, the apparatus comprising:

an input receptacle configured to receive currency bills, each of the currency bills including a denomination, a serial number, and a set of secondary identifiers;
an image scanner configured to image each of the currency bills to produce image data from which a visually readable image of each currency bill can be reproduced;
a transport mechanism for transporting the currency bills from the input receptacle in a serial fashion, past the image scanner, to one or more output receptacles;
and
one or more processors and one or more memory devices, the one or more memory devices storing instructions that, when executed by at least one of the one or more processors, implement the following acts:
(i) attempting to extract the respective serial number from the corresponding image data associated with each currency bill, the serial number of each currency bill having an integer number of characters;
(ii) failing to extract all of the characters of the serial number of a currency bill with a predetermined confidence;
and
(iii) for each currency bill for which one or more of the characters of the corresponding serial number failed to be extracted with the predetermined confidence, generating an electronic record including a serial number field populated with a corresponding serial number snippet image.

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A currency bill processing apparatus for generating electronic records, the apparatus comprising:

an input receptacle configured to receive currency bills, each of the currency bills having an associated denomination, serial number, and set of secondary identifiers;
an image scanner configured to image each of the currency bills to produce image data from which a visually readable image of each currency bill can be reproduced;
a transport mechanism for transporting the currency bills from the input receptacle in a serial fashion, past the image scanner, to one or more output receptacles;
and
one or more processors and one or more memory devices, the one or more memory devices storing instructions that, when executed by at least one of the one or more processors, implement the following acts:
(i) determine that at least one of the currency bills is a genuine bill;
(ii) attempt to extract, from the image data associated with the at least one genuine currency bill, the serial number of the at least one genuine currency bill;
(iii) fail to completely extract the serial number of a currency bill of a genuine currency bill with a predetermined confidence;
and
(iv) generate an electronic record associated with each genuine currency bill for which the corresponding serial number failed to be completely extracted with the predetermined confidence;
and
(v) populate a serial number field in the electronic record with a corresponding serial number snippet image.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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