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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2014
Cummins-allison Corp., Mt. Prospect, IL (US);
Douglas U. Mennie, Barrington, IL (US);
Antony D. Susai, St. Charles, IL (US);
William J. Jones, Barrington, IL (US);
Frank M. Csulits, Gurnee, IL (US);
Matthew L. Anderson, Salem, WI (US);
Robert J. Klein, Chicago, IL (US);
Ralf H. Jaeger, Kildeer, IL (US);
David R. Badalamenti, Arlington Heights, IL (US);
Dale E. Beutel, Grayslake, IL (US);
Cummins-Allison Corp., Mt. Prospect, IL (US);
Abstract
Currency bills are transported past an image scanner to one or more output receptacles. Each of the bills is imaged to produce image data from which a visually readable image of each bill can be reproduced. The serial number, denomination, and/or secondary identifiers of a bill is attempted to be extracted and/or determined from the image data associated with the bill. The serial number of the bill has an integer number, X, of characters. One or more of the X characters of the serial number of the currency bill is not extracted with a predetermined confidence. In response to failing to extract all of the X characters of the serial number of the bill with the predetermined confidence, a serial number field in an electronic record associated with the bill is populated with a serial number snippet image. The electronic record is stored in a non-transitory memory.