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6155483 Selective release MICR mechanism  
A point of sale (POS) receipt printer that includes a selective release mechanism that converts the printer into a check account verifying machine. The conversion mechanism magnetizes and...
6125196 Method for identifying suspect items in an out-of-balance transaction  
A method for detecting the most likely source of an error in a document image processing system which processes sets of related documents. A set of characteristics is selected as being indicative...
6097834 Financial transaction processing systems and methods  
In accordance with the present invention, financial transaction processing systems and methods are provided. One preferred embodiment of a method according to one aspect of the present invention...
6038553 Self service method of and system for cashing checks  
An automated self service method of and system for cashing checks, typically without human intervention. The system includes a check cashing database that contains customer records for registered...
5963659 Method and apparatus for correcting erroneously decoded magnetic ink characters  
A method and apparatus for storing and retrieving images of documents, e.g. checks. The method comprises placing a plurality of documents in a document imaging machine and forming an electronic...
5887075 Method, and apparatus and article of manufacture for filtering periodic noise from a magnetic read head  
A method, apparatus and article of manufacture is disclosed for eliminating periodic noise detected by a magnetic read head. In particular a time varying signal electrical signal is provided by a...
5867585 Curvilinear pressure pad for improved MICR reading and method  
A reader and pressure pad apparatus is disclosed for urging documents with various physical characteristics to conform to the shape of the reader, increasing the efficiency of the reader. The...
5825946 Check-reading machine  
The present invention features a check-reading and check-validation machine having a programmed microprocessor, a photo-sensor, a magnetizing unit, a magnetic head reader, feed rollers and a...
5825506 Method and apparatus for image processing at remote sites  
An image processing and retrieval system in which images are captured and stored at the remote site where the document processor is located which codelines from the documents are captured and...
5796086 Read head bracket for magnetic reader  
A magnetic reader having a rotatable roller that forms a nip with a magnetic read head through which an article bearing magnetizable characters is driven along a predetermined path of travel. The...
5784503 Check reader utilizing sync-tags to match the images at the front and rear faces of a check  
An electronic document-imaging arrangement wherein imaging means generates imaging-bits representing a given document and transfers these bits on a "per-document basis" to various successive...
5751842 Document transaction apparatus  
A self-service financial document processing terminal (10) accepts from a user a document (100) to be processed for a financial transaction such as depositing a cheque or paying a bill. After...
5729621 Method and apparatus for magnetic ink character recognition using a magneto-resistive read head  
A signal extraction and character recognition system is provided for an MICR system using E13B font characters and a magneto-resistive read head. Each character is treated as defining a block...
5671291 Process and device for character recognition, in particular for standardized character type E-13B  
A wave form representative of the character to be recognized is converted digitally. For each set of N sample reference signals initially acquired, the absolute value of the difference between the...
5627909 Method for encoding MICR documents  
A method is provided for automatically printing a unique serial number on MICR documents wherein the serial number may be used to identify the source of the document. If problems occur during...
5566256 Miniature MICR document reader with power management and motorized conveyance  
A magnetic ink character recognition (MICR) system includes power management features so as to permit the unit to be powered by the auxilliary power provided by a generic host (e.g., an electronic...
5524063 Character reading apparatus  
An apparatus for reading a series of magnetic characters on a bank check is herein disclosed. The characters are preprinted in a certain way within a predetermined area of the check. Also, the...
5308959 Magnetic stripe and magnetic ink character recognition reader  
A magnetic stripe and magnetic ink character recognition (MICR) reader is disclosed. A longitudinally extending magnetic stripe channel in the reader housing is sized to slidingly receive a medium...
5257319 Character recognition apparatus  
A character recognition apparatus uses a magnetic head to read magnetic printed coded characters from a passing cheque 10. A head 24 using a circuit including a delay line 58 drives a controller 76...
5140368 Character printing and recognition system  
A character printing and detection system in which a toner image is fixed to a sheet with each character of the toner image being inverted so that the normally leading edge of each character is the...
5134663 Center line magnetic ink character recognition system  
A system and method for recognizing magnetic ink character records (MICR) by establishing a centerline between the first and last peaks of a scanned magnetic-electrical read out, which centerline...
5121437 MICR character reader independent of document transport speed  
A method and apparatus for recognizing MICR characters having positive peak values, negative peak values, and substantially zero values occurring at predetermined clock positions along the...
5091961 Magnetic ink character decoder  
A bank check reader operative without the necessity of a constant rate of check movement is achieved by imposing a set of flux reversals over the magnetic ink characters to be read. The flux...
5054092 Hand-operated low cost magnetic character recognition system  
A low cost, highly accurate hand operated magnetic character recognition document reader magnetically recognizes magnetic ink (MICR) characters imprinted on documents manually conveyed past a...
5026974 Method for recognizing the leading edge of a character in E13B font  
A method for locating the start of a MICR character in E13B font so as to facilitate character recognition. A Calculated Character Start Position (CCSP) is generated by using a predetermined number...
5014324 MICR character reader using magnetic peaks to update timing clocks  
An apparatus for use in reading magnetic waveforms, like E13B, which are printed on a carrier like financial documents or checks. The waveforms include positive and negative peak values and...
4984281 Magnetic ink character recognition system  
In a magnetic ink character recognition system provided in a magnetic ink character reader, the system includes; a read unit for detecting magnetic flux generated from each magnetic ink character...
4922086 Write head apparatus for recognizing magnetic characters and method therefor  
A system for recognizing characters printed in magnetic ink on a document has a write head including a permanent magnet and soft iron pole pieces curving arcuately from opposite poles of the magnet...
4914710 MICR document smear test machine  
A smear test machine for diagnosing problems associated with reader sorters used to process documents having magnetic ink characters printed thereon includes read heads which are closely juxtaposed...
4797938 Method of identifying magnetic ink (MICR) characters  
A method of improving the accuracy of identifying or reading magnetic ink characters (MICR) of the type used on checks and other documents, by choosing key values of a waveform selected using one...
4776021 Speed compensation scheme for reading MICR data  
A method and apparatus for providing a speed compensation scheme for reading MICR data on a document. The magnetic waveform for a character is sampled at periodic rates and converted to first bytes...
4748673 Reader for reading magneto-optical characters, with the options of printing them or storing them  
A reader for reading magneto-optical characters, with the options of printing them or storing them. A track is provided for driving a check from an inlet plate (T1) over various portions of path...
4547899 Waveform matching system and method  
A method and system of matching first and second waveforms, each having identifiable features, for identification purposes. The method includes the steps of obtaining from the first waveforms...
4510615 Magnetic character reader with double document detection  
A multi-gap magnetic character reader is provided with the ability to automatically detect double documents. Where only weak signals are sensed, all signals are combined and compared to a...
4441204 Apparatus for recognition of stylized characters  
Character recognition apparatus for the recognition of stylized E13B characters are provided wherein the siganls resulting from the reading of a character by a reading head 17 are sampled to be...
4399553 Character reader  
A character reader recognition data extracting device for use in an optical character reader system for reading characters printed in magnetized ink. Characters printed in magnetized ink on a...
4356472 Character recognition system  
A character recognition system including a timing subsystem, comprising a base oscillator or clock, and timing circuits driven by the base clock to provide a plurality of timing pulses for timing...
4277689 Document reader  
An optical character reader for conversion of information to a machine readable code from a strip of alpha-numeric characters on the face of a document. It includes an elongated document slot along...
4245211 MICR Waveform analyzer  
A MICR waveform analyzer for reading E-13B magnetic ink characters including a digital phase lock loop to locate the character, a Normalizer to compress data and equalize ink strength dynamic...
4243983 Method and apparatus for detecting the multiple feeding of documents  
A method and apparatus for detecting a multiple-feed situation with regard to documents having encoding arranged thereon in a predetermined manner and with the documents being moved along a...
4148010 Magnetic ink character reader system  
A magnetic character reader system for reading and identifying magnetized characters printed on a document such as a check, in which analog waveforms derived from scanning the characters are...
4143355 Character recognition system  
A character recognition system such as employed for determining characters formed with magnetically impregnated ink on a check wherein a plurality of sequential pulses are generated for each of a...
4143356 Character recognition apparatus  
A magnetic character recognition system is disclosed for reading magnetized characters printed on a document such as a check, which system determines the magnitude and position of each of the peaks...
3818446 MAGNETIC INK CHARACTER TRANSITION READER  
Magnetically saturated, magnetic ink characters on a check blank are passed by a mechanical check handler under a magnetic read head. A positive signal is generated in the head each time it moves...
3689743 MAGNETIC CHARACTER READER  
Disclosed is magnetic character reader which records an ac signal on discontinuous portions of magnetic material and detects the prerecorded signal as a function of character width to decode the...
3629829 CHARACTER RECOGNITION CIRCUITRY  
This invention is directed to method and apparatus for the reading and identification of characters on business documents and the like. Analog wave forms derived from scanning the characters are...
3571793 CHARACTER RECOGNITION SYSTEMS  
An E13B character recognition system comprising a read head beneath which a character to be recognized is passed to produce a digital signal which is stored in a shift register the content of which...
3541508 CHARACTER READING SYSTEM  
3432809 DEVICE FOR CHARACTER RECOGNITION  
3391387 Character recognition system  
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