De La Rue International Limited

Glory Global Solutions (international) Limited

Bryan James Christophersen

John Alan Skinner

Olivier Martin

Michael Eugene Bielamowicz

Steven Michael Hosking

Simon George Calverley

Peter Dilwyn Evans

Dominik Cipa

Gunnar Kunz

Ulrich Marti

Colin Peter Brotherston

James William Long

Jaime Rosello Sallen

Stefan Albert

Symon Patrick Ashby Buckman

Jeremy Stuart Michael Fox

Douglas Jay Wielard

Jeremy Russel Leach

A computer implemented method for validating the identity of a controller for an automated banking machine based on displayed indicia. The method includes detecting access to a secure compartment of an automated banking machine, displaying a security indicia visible from the secure compartment, receiving the security indicia at an input device and a first controller accessible from outside of the secure compartment, and validating the identity of the controller based on the received security indicia.

System and method for validating a controller for an automated banking machine using a displayed indicia

A terminal for use in a retail banking system comprises an interface for receiving multiple types of personal authentication elements. An authentication request for a user is associated with one or more of these types of element. The terminal also comprises a security module for providing access to a plurality of different access spaces of the system, each space comprises a different respective function or combination of functions of the system. For each access space, the security module provides a mapping between that access space and a respective one or more of the types of personal authentication element. Based on this mapping, the security module is thus configured to grant the user with access to one of the access spaces on condition of being mapped to the one or more types of personal authentication element associated with the authentication request for the user, and on condition those elements are verified.

Security system

A controller comprising: a database; a control module associated with the database; and a network interface configured to connect, over a network, to a plurality of workstations and at least one machine for performing operations to handle cash and/or other physical financial documents. The network interface receives requests from at least some of the workstations over the network, each comprising a request to pre-order a respective one of the operations. The requests are stored in the database. The network further receives, over the network, a signal from or on behalf of a slave module of the machine for retrieving one of the requests from the database. The control module processes the signal and in response releases the respective operation, the release comprising issuing an instruction to the slave module over the network controlling the machine to perform the respective operation to handle the cash and/or other physical financial document.

Cash and/or financial document handling system

A method and apparatus for identifying a document (). The method comprises exposing the document (), such as a banknote, to infrared radiation; detecting infrared radiation reflected from a plurality of regions of the document () to generate at least one test pattern; determining if the or each test pattern satisfies a predetermined relationship with a predetermined pattern or patterns corresponding to a known document; and, if the predetermined relationship is satisfied, identifying the document () as being the same as the known document.

Method and apparatus for identifying documents

A document (e.g. banknote) authenticating apparatus comprises a transport system () for transporting banknotes. An inspection device () is provided past which banknotes are transported by the transport system, the inspection device including a UV source () such as a LED and a UV detector () arranged to irradiate a banknote and to detect reflected UV respectively. A processor () is responsible to the reflected UV to determine the authenticity of the banknote. The inspection device () includes a reference surface () over which the banknotes are transported in use, the reference surface being exposed to UV radiation from the source () in the absence of a banknote so as to generate a reference level signal, and being oriented such that the banknotes are delivered at an acute angle to the surface whereby passage of a banknote across the surface effects a cleaning action on the surface.

Document authenticating apparatus and method

A document feeder comprises an input hopper () into which batches of documents with interleaved separators () are loaded in use, each separator carrying data related to the associated batch. A feed system () withdraws documents and separators singly from the input hopper. A sensing system () obtains information about the documents and separators. The sensing system includes a data sensor () located so as to read separator data while the separator () is in the input hopper ().

Document feeder and method

A method of inspecting documents of value, the method comprises: a) obtaining images of one or more parts of the document from radiation received from that part or those parts of the document () in respective different wavelength bands; b) performing an analysis of one of said images to identify a first type of class within which the document of value is included; and c) performing an analysis of another of said images using corresponding predetermined data relating to members of the first type of class identified in step b) so as to determine a second type of class within which the document of value is included.

Document monitoring method

A method of processing documents of value. The method including detecting a visible pattern on at least one side of a document; detecting the response of at least one side of the document to infrared radiation; comparing the detected visible pattern to one or more predetermined patterns and identifying the document if the detected visible pattern is sufficiently similar to the or one of the predetermined patterns; and determining from the response to infrared radiation if the document is authentic.

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Hampshire, United Kingdom

Bryan James Christophersen