Patent ID: 8503796

Claim:
A method for use in automatic validation of a sheet media item, a valid sheet media item having at least two classes, with at least two classes corresponding to two different orientations of the valid sheet media item upon presentation for validation, the method comprising: storing in a digital memory a single template that comprises a single segmentation map for the valid media item that applies to both of said at least two classes corresponding to two different orientations, and at least two one-class classifiers for the valid sheet media item that work in conjunction with the single segmentation map, each one-class qualifier corresponding to one of the at least two classes corresponding to two different orientations; accessing by a computer the single template; applying by the computer each of the one-class classifiers to an image of the sheet media item to generate a result set for each of the multiple classes; and for each of the multiple classes, analyzing by the computer the result set and assessing whether the sheet media item belongs to that class.