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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2017
Wincor Nixdorf International Gmbh, Paderborn, DE;
Torsten Wiesinger, Untergruppenbach, DE;
Alexander Drichel, Bielefeld, DE;
Steffen Priesterjahn, Paderborn, DE;
Dieter Schliebe, Bad Wuennenberg, DE;
Wincor Nixdorf International GMBH, Paderborn, DE;
Abstract
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 ().