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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 02, 2001
Douglas U. Mennie, Barrington, IL (US);
Bradford T. Graves, Arlington Heights, IL (US);
Richard A. Mazur, Naperville, IL (US);
Cummins-Allison Corp., Mt. Prospect, IL (US);
Abstract
A currency identification system for identifying currency bills of different denominations of a plurality of currency systems. The device includes a discriminating unit for discriminating the identity a bill, the discriminating unit retreiving characteristic information from the bill. Furthermore, a memory stores master characteristic information associated with each genuine bill which the system is capable of identifying; the memory storing master characteristic information associated with at least one genuine bill from at least two currency systems. A signal processor compares the retrieved characteristic information with master characteristic information associated with at least one genuine bill; the signal processor generating an indication of the identity of said bill based on the comparison when the bill is one that the system is capable of identifying.