Abstract:
A pattern discriminating apparatus with an interval integrating section for integrating detection signals from a detecting section for each of a number of intervals of a bill. A bill is supplied to the detecting section which detects, for example, a magnetism pattern of the bill. The detection signal from the detecting section is supplied to the interval integrating section as well as to a total integrating section. The total integrating section integrates the detection signals for one bill. The signals from the interval integrating section are temporarily stored in a memory section, are supplied to a smoothing section, and are smoothed thereby. The smoothed signal is supplied to normalizing section to be normalized based on the signal supplied from the total integrating section. The normalized signal and a signal output from a pattern memory section are supplied to a subtracting section for taking the difference between these two signals for each of the intervals. The difference signal thus obtained from the subtracting section is integrated in a difference integrating section for each interval and is then supplied to a discriminating section. Based on the signal from the difference integrating section, the discriminating section discriminates the authenticity, denomination and top or bottom surface of the bill.
Abstract:
United States paper currency can be denomination sensed by a system for scanning a predetermined path along one surface and comparing the resultant scan against a standard for a particular denomination. Subsequently, it is determined whether the scanned currency is of a particular denomination or is questionable. The one surface can be an obverse surface of paper currency, the predetermined path of the obverse surface can be magnetically scanned; the scanning direction occurs along a major axis of the currency; and the scanned currency can be sorted in accordance with the determination. Various denominations can be determined at one time either in seriatim or in parallel. In a particular form, the denomination of United States Federal Reserve Notes are sensed by magnetically scanning at least three parallel predetermined paths of an obverse surface of a note to be denomination sensed, comparing the results of the scanning against a like plurality of standards for each of the various denominations of one, two, five, ten, twenty, fifty and one hundred dollars, and determining whether the scanned note is of such one, two, five, ten, twenty, fifty, one hundred dollar denominations or is questionable. The scanned Notes are sorted in accordance with the determination.
Abstract:
An apparatus for processing paper sheets, in which one lot of paper sheets are set in a supply section and supplied one after another to an inspection station which makes optical, magnetic and mechanical inspections for sorting the sheets into at least three categories of sheets, i.e. valid, damaged, uncountable, and directs the valid sheets to a collection receptacle and the damaged and uncountable sheets to another collection receptacle. Each collection receptacle is provided with a counter and the sum of the counters is compared with the number of sheets in one lot. If the comparison results are correct, a subsequent lot is fed from the supply section to be processed. Once an uncountable sheet has been inspected, the counter of the collection receptacle receiving the damaged and uncountable sheets is inhibited and the total number of sheets contained in this collection receptacle must be input by an operator through a keyboard to perform the comparison step.
Abstract:
A process for authenticating recording media which are to be safeguarded against falsification and which possess discrete regions of an exchange-anisotropic magnetic material, by comparison of the polarity of a residual magnetization which is left over, because of the exchange anisotropy of the magnetic material, from a predetermined initial magnetization after exposure of the material to a specific temperature cycle and, subsequently, to a magnetic AC field which decreases to zero, with the polarity of a residual magnetization formed in the same way from an opposite initial magnetization, and an apparatus for carrying out the said process.
Abstract:
A magnetic detection device for use in a bank note discriminating apparatus is proposed. A magnetic pattern which has been already formed on each bank note by applying the magnetizable printing ink thereon is detected by a magnetic detecting head of the device. The device further includes a conveyer driven at a conveying speed of V.sub.1, and a positioning roller rotated at a circumferential speed of V.sub.2. According to this invention, the speed V.sub.2 is adjusted to be approximately equal to or only slightly higher than the speed V.sub.1. According to another feature of this invention, the detection face of the magnetic head is spaced from the opposing peripheral face of the positioning roller by a gap D which is greater than the thickness T of the bank notes to be handled. By the use of the device of this invention constructed and operated as aforementioned, the magnetic detecting head is prevented from picking up noise signals caused by impulsive force applied thereon by the impinging leading end of the inserted bank note or uneven compression force otherwise applied thereon by the bank note which is bent on or above the magnetic head when the speed V.sub.2 is appreciably different from the speed V.sub.1 to accelerate or decelerate the travelling speed of the bank note just above the magnetic head.
Abstract:
A security paper which contains a security device e.g. a strip, thread or planchette having at least two machine verifiable security features thereon, one of which is a magnetic material, which may be magnetically coded or printed in a predetermined pattern on the device, and a second of which is a luminescent material, an X-ray absorbent or a metal. The provision of several features on one device provides a large increase in document security.
Abstract:
A transaction accounting system for the automated royalty accounting of copyright-coded paper documents. The system includes a document copier, a copier access control system which includes a transaction data terminal for input of transaction information such as the date of the transaction, coded copyright information such as contained in the standard serial numbering or standard book numbering systems, user identification and number of copies to be produced. The access control system includes enabling circuits to access the copier upon completion of the data input and one or more data recorders and/or data transmitters to permit use of telephone line transmission of the transaction data and/or other transmitting facilities to communicate with a royalty accounting system. The documents are copyright coded with an optically transparent, electrically conductive coating. The system includes a decoder with its output connected to the transaction data terminal to input the document data. A keyboard is also furnished for input of other data. The access control system is provided with a delete sequence to delete a previously recorded transaction; an override sequence operation to access to the copiers with incomplete or no transaction data; a tranmit sequence operation for data transmission to a remote computer and the like; and an incorrect mode selection to correct for mistakes in input information. The input terminal is also provided with a self-prompting display to facilitate input of transaction data in the proper sequence.
Abstract:
A method of manufacturing documents such as paper money, credit cards, identification cards and the like in a manner so as to prevent forgeries thereof, comprises the steps of producing a base material, coating fibers with a magnetic or magnetizable material, and embedding the fibers into the base material during the production of the base material; an apparatus for checking the authenticity of documents such as paper money, credit cards, identification cards, and the like comprises in combination a document having fibers which are coated with a magnetic or magnetizable material embedded therein, detecting means for scanning the document to determine the number of magnetic particles present in the document, and means for moving the document and the detecting means relative to each other so as to provide a scanning trace, the document and the detecting means being disposed in a close relationship to each other.
Abstract translation:1476681安全文件DASY INTER SA 1974年5月9日[1973年5月11日1973年6月6日1974年4月10日] 20587/74标题D2B [也在部门B5 B6和G4]通过将文件的至少一部分嵌入预定数量的 通过提供具有铁磁材料涂层的纤维物质,每单位面积的铁磁颗粒的数量或其部分对文件进行分类而形成的铁磁性颗粒每个文档或其部分的每单位面积的铁磁颗粒。 纤维状物质可以是有机的。 棉纤维,塑料或碳纤维。 铁磁材料可以是Fe,Co,Ni,铬-镍合金或铬 - 二氧化镍。 铁磁材料的涂层可以电镀或通过气相沉积,喷涂,浸渍或印刷施加,并且可以覆盖纤维状物质的一部分或全部。 铁磁颗粒在其制造过程中可以并入纸中,并且可以以条形的方式布置在纸中。 用非磁性金属涂覆的纤维如 Al,Sn可以位于铁磁颗粒的条之间,使得不存在光学可识别的差异。 铁磁颗粒可以垂直于纸的平面排列。
Abstract:
An improved ferromagnetic currency validator which permits hand held operation. Means in the hand held device detect speed of movement across the bill being validated and open a gate of variable length in response thereto to measure proper positioning and ferromagnetic content of lines on the bill.
Abstract:
A gripper on endless chains is actuated by a sensor to latch over the leading edge of a document, such as a paper bill, upon insertion thereof into a machine, and simultaneously a magnetic scanning head is lowered against the bill to perform a magnetic ink test. Thereafter, the chains are operated so as to transport the document along a chain run to an inspection station where it pauses for photoelectric inspection at a number of key spots, whereby validity and denomination are determined. Thereafter, the chains advance the bill to the end of the chain run, whereupon the gripper is unlatched and a flipper deflects the document either to a reject slot or an escrow receptacle.