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Automated currency processing system

  • US 6,678,401 B2
  • Filed: 01/09/2002
  • Issued: 01/13/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/13/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A currency bill evaluation device for receiving a stack of currency bills and rapidly evaluating all the currency bills in the stack, the device comprising:

  • an input receptacle for receiving a stack of currency bills to be evaluated;

    an output receptacle for receiving the currency bills after the currency bills have been evaluated;

    an image scanner;

    a transport mechanism for transporting the currency bills, one at a time, from the input receptacle to the output receptacle along a transport path past the image scanner to obtain currency bill images;

    the image scanner automatically evaluating each currency bill image and identifying from the currency bill image a serial number for each currency bill; and

    a memory storing the serial number of each currency bill in the stack and storing the currency bill images.

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