Patent ID: 8391583
Filing Date: 2013-03-05
Classification: G06K,G07D

Abstract:
1. A method of processing currency bills in a document processing system, the method comprising: receiving currency bills in an input receptacle of the document processing system, each of the currency bills being associated with a denomination, a serial number, and a set of secondary identifiers; transporting the currency bills from the input receptacle in a serial fashion, past an image scanner, to one or more output receptacles; imaging each of the currency bills via the image scanner to produce image data from which a visually readable image of each currency bill can be reproduced; determining that one of the currency bills is a suspect bill; attempting to determine the denomination of the suspect bill; attempting to extract the serial number from the image data associated with the suspect bill; attempting to extract the set of secondary identifiers from the image data associated with the suspect bill; and in response to determining that a currency bill is a suspect bill, generating a suspect report, the suspect report including a denomination field, a serial number field, and a plurality of secondary identifier fields, the act of generating the report comprising: