Wincor Nixdorf International Gmbh

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Alexander Drichel

Steffen Priesterjahn

Michael Nolte

Dinh-Khoi Le

Dieter Schliebe

Torsten Wiesinger

Dinh Khoi Le

The invention relates to a device () for reading a magnetic stripe and/or chip card comprising a card reader () for reading out data from the magnetic stripe and/or chip card, said card reader having a transport path () along which the magnetic stripe and/or chip card is moved when it is inserted into the card reader () and/or when it is removed from the card reader () and/or is received during the readout of data. Further, the device () has an image capturing unit () for capturing images of the card reader (), the card reader () being designed such that by means of images captured by the image capturing unit () it can be detected whether a skimming module is inserted into the transport path () of the card reader ().

Device for reading a magnetic stripe and/or chip card having a camera for the detection of inserted skimming modules

The invention relates to a method for OCR detection of valuable documents in a cash dispenser in the case of which an image of the valuable document is detected by means of a digital video or matrix camera. A Hough transformation is used to calculate edge lines of the valuable document and a rotation angle is calculated therefrom such that the edges of the valuable document are aligned with the image edges. The detected image is homogenized to compensate an inhomogeneous image background. This is followed by OCR detection of alphanumeric information on the valuable document.

Method and apparatus for OCR detection of valuable documents by means of a matrix camera

A method is provided for avoiding false alarms on a self-service terminal, in particular an ATM. The ATM has at least one camera and at least one alarm unit that generates alarms when the ATM is attacked, and a network connection to a network to pass on the alarms to a customer. The method includes generating an alarm by the alarm unit and storing alarm images from the camera from which the alarm was derived; before passing on the alarm to an operator via a digital network, comparing the digital alarm images with templates stored on the ATM and that characterize a false alarm, and if a correlation with the templates is established, the alarm is ignored; otherwise the alarm is passed on to the consumer by the network.

Method and device for avoiding false alarms in monitoring systems

A device () for reading a magnetic stripe and/or chip card has a card reader () for reading out data from the magnetic stripe and/or chip card, said card reader having a transport path () along which the magnetic stripe and/or chip card is moved when it is inserted into the card reader () and/or when it is removed from the card reader () and/or is received during the readout of data. Further, the device () has an image capturing unit () for capturing images of the card reader (). The card reader () is designed to use images captured by the image capturing unit () to detect whether a skimming module is inserted into the transport path () of the card reader ().

An automated teller machine (ATM) is proposed having a control panel (CP) that has elements () arranged therein that are provided for users of the automated teller machine (ATM) and that has a camera (CAM) to detect manipulation attempts on the automated teller machine (ATM). The camera (CAM) is mounted in a housing section of the automated teller machine (ATM) surrounding the control panel (CP) and aligned in such a way that the camera (CAM) captures images of at least two of the elements () arranged in the control panel (CP). In particular, the camera (CAM) captures image of the money dispensing compartment () and the keypad () in order to unequivocally detect any overlays installed there and similar manipulation or skimming attempts.

Automated teller machine comprising camera to detect manipulation attempts

An automated teller machine is proposed having at least one camera to detect manipulation attempts that captures images of one or more elements arranged in the control panel, such as a keypad, cash-dispensing drawer, card entry slot and generates image data from a plurality of individual image recordings (F, F, F). The at least one camera is connected to a data processing unit that preprocesses the image data generated (individual image data) into a resulting image (R). The preprocessed image data of the resulting image (R) can be computed, for example, by exposure blending from the individual images (F, F, F) and represent a very good data base for data evaluation to detect manipulation.

Automated teller machine comprising at least one camera that produces image data to detect manipulation attempts

The invention proposes an automated teller machine having different control elements, such as a card entry slot (), for example, wherein at least one camera (CAMK) is integrated in a control element, the card entry slot (), for example, and captures images of a plurality of sub-regions attributed to said control element (), such as an interior region, outer region and overhead region. Lighting (L) that illuminates one or some of the partial regions, the interior region or the slit region of the card entry slot (), for example, can also be arranged, thereby also improving the image. In addition, the construction can be furnished with a light-conducting material (K) over which light produced by the lighting (L) can be guided and distributed.

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Bielefeld, Germany

Alexander Drichel