Patent Document ID: 9292737
Application ID: 13844748

Base Claim:
1. A payment document classification system, comprising: a communication unit which receives an image of a payment document captured by a mobile device; a preprocessing unit which extracts at least one feature from the image; a comparison unit which compares the at least one extracted feature with at least one known feature of a payment document type to determine a likelihood that the payment document matches the at least one payment document type, wherein the comparison unit is further configured to compare a plurality of extracted features with a plurality of known features in a series, starting with an extracted feature which requires the least computation time of the plurality of extracted features; and a classification unit which classified the payment document as at least one payment document type based on the likelihood that the payment document matches the at least one payment document type.

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Claim 18:
18. The payment document classification system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one extracted feature is a geometric feature which includes an aspect ratio of the payment document.