Patent ID: 6661910
Filing Date: 2003-12-09
Classification: G06K,G06Q,G06T

Abstract:
A system for accepting deposits of documents including currency bills and checks, the system comprising:an input receptacle adapted to receive a plurality of documents associated with a deposit transaction, the documents including one or more currency bills and one or more checks; an image scanner; a currency denominator; a transport mechanism adapted to transport the documents, one at a time, from the input receptacle past the image scanner and the currency denominator to one or more output receptacles, the image scanner being adapted to obtain an image of each passing document as well as process the obtained images to extract serial number data from the currency bills and MICR data from the checks, and the currency denominator being adapted to denominate those documents which are currency bills; a memory adapted to store an image file for the deposit, the image file including the images of all documents as well as the extracted serial number data for the imaged currency bills and the MICR data for the imaged checks.