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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2013
Giesecke & Devrient Gmbh, Munich, DE;
Thomas Hildebrandt, Pliening, DE;
GIESECKE & DEVRIENT GMBH, Munich, DE;
Abstract
For continuously singling value documents from a value document stack, the value document stack is lifted and fed toward the singler. For controlling the feed of the value document stack, an image of a side of the value document stack is recorded and evaluated, in order to recognize the edges of the individual value documents. The feed of the value document stack is controlled in dependence on the number of value document edges which are ascertained in the recorded image. If the number of value document edges cannot, or not sufficiently, be ascertained, additionally a brightness of the image in this image portion is ascertained. Upon the singling of the value documents imaged in this image portion the feed of the value document stack is controlled in dependence on the brightness ascertained in this image portion.