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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2015
Applicant:
Giesecke & Devrient Gmbh, München, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
GIESECKE+DEVRIENT CURRENCY TECHNOLOGY GMBH, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G07D 7/20 (2016.01); G06T 7/11 (2017.01); G07D 7/183 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00442 (2013.01); G06T 7/11 (2017.01); G07D 7/183 (2017.05); G07D 7/20 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10004 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30176 (2013.01);
Abstract
There is described a method for examining a value document while employing a digital image of the value document which comprises pixels, wherein the image is examined for the presence of at least one irregularity relating to a pre-specified property of the value document, when such an irregularity is found an examination region representing the irregularity is fixed in dependence on the size and/or position and/or form of the irregularity in the image, and for checking the irregularity only a part of those pixels of the digital image that correspond to the examination region is employed.