Patent ID: 8639015

Claim:
A currency bill processing device comprising: an input receptacle configured to receive a stack of currency bills; an image scanner configured to obtain image data that is reproducible as a visually readable image of one or more portions of at least one side of each currency bill; a transport mechanism that transports each of the currency bills, one at a time, from the input receptacle, past the image scanner, to at least one output receptacle; one or more processors configured to extract a serial number and one or more additional characters from the image data for each currency bill; a memory configured to store serial number information and corresponding additional character information uniquely identifying genuine currency bills; at least one of the one or more processors configured to compare extracted serial number and extracted corresponding one or more additional characters with the stored serial number information and corresponding additional character information; at least one of the one or more processors configured to identify as a suspect currency bill any currency bill from the stack that does not have the extracted serial number and extracted corresponding one or more additional characters matching the stored serial number information and corresponding additional character information; and a display configured to display an image associated with at least a portion of the image data for a currency bill identified as a suspect currency bill.