Patent ID: 8459436
Filing Date: 2013-06-11
Classification: G06K,G06Q,G07B,G07D

Abstract:
1. A method of processing substitute currency media, comprising: transporting a stack of substitute currency media via a transport mechanism, in a serial fashion, along a transport path, each substitute currency medium having a barcoded pattern printed thereon; scanning the barcoded pattern on each transported substitute currency medium with a barcode scanner to obtain a scanned barcode number for each substitute currency medium; imaging each transported substitute currency medium with an image scanner to generate image data that is reproducible as a visually readable image of each of the substitute currency media; using a controller, determining, from the image data associated with each of the substitute currency media, a determined barcode number for each substitute currency medium; and performing an image quality check of the generated image data by determining for each substitute currency medium if the determined barcode number from the image data matches the scanned barcode number.