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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2002
Applicant:
John Alan Skinner, Hampshire, GB;
Inventor:
John Alan Skinner, Hampshire, GB;
Assignee:
De la Rue International Limited, Basingstoke, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A document handling machine comprised a detector system () for detecting one or more characteristic features of documents. A control system () performs a number of functions related to information obtained from the detector system () and/or the manner in which documents are handled. The control system () includes a memory () for storing a set of codes, each code corresponding to a respective one of the functions, and is adapted to enable a function to be performed if a supplied enabling code corresponds in a valid manner with one of the stored function codes.