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WO/2017/017435A1
An automated ticket vending system comprises multiple individual ticket vending machines in a shared physical location, a control system, and a communications facility for supporting communications between the individual ticket vending m...  
WO/2016/199074A1
A coin counting and sorting device is capable of counting and sorting various denominations of coin irrespective of form and weight. A transporter system picks up coins from a coin hopper system to capture coin images with a camera and t...  
WO/2016/161393A9
An embodiment of this disclosure provides an apparatus (400), including a control blade (410) configured to move (412) by rotating or translating. The apparatus also includes a magnet (450) coupled to the control blade. The apparatus als...  
WO/2016/162378A1
The invention relates to a method for determining the fill level of at least one coin tube that can be filled with coins, the method comprising the following steps: capturing at least one spatially resolved image of the upper face of the...  
WO/2016/150655A1
The invention relates to a device for determining the filling level of at least one coin tube that can be filled with coins, comprising at least one optical radiation transmitter that is arranged in a defined position relative to the at ...  
WO/2016/152125A1
Provided is a coin identification device (1), comprising: an image capture unit (3) which captures an image of the entirety of a coin (10) while a conveyance unit (2) is conveying the coin along the y-axis; a center x-coordinate acquisit...  
WO/2016/125508A1
A wrapped coin processing device equipped with: a wrapped coin characteristic value detection unit (50), which is arranged downstream from storage units (10) in the direction in which wrapped coins are transported by a transport unit (40...  
WO/2016/042851A1
[Problem] To improve accuracy of detection of the outer diameter of various types of coins. [Solution] A coin processing device 1 is provided with: a material-quality detection sensor 4a having a first coil L1 and a second coil L2 that f...  
WO/2016/009171A1
An apparatus comprising a money item sensor comprising an electrical oscillator operable at a plurality of different oscillating frequencies to sense at least one property of money items. The oscillator is configured to trigger changes i...  
WO/2016/000405A1
A thickness detection device, which is used for avoiding the condition where abnormal features, such as foreign matter and damaged apertures, pass through a gap, so that the thickness detection device does not have a detection blind area...  
WO/2015/196932A1
A coin detection system comprises an excitation coil (3), a radial magnetic gradiometer (5), an axial magnetic gradiometer (6), a signal excitation source (1), a drive circuit (2), an analog front-end circuit (7) and a processor (8). Aft...  
WO/2015/120852A1
The invention relates to a device for generating image information from an object to be captured, particularly for reproducing said object two-dimensionally with a 3D appearance or sculptural effect, comprising an image capturing device ...  
WO/2015/108690A1
Systems and associated methods for coin discrimination are disclosed herein. Disclosed methods for discriminating coins include recognizing strings of alphanumerical characters of the coin using Optical Character Recognition (OCR). The m...  
WO/2015/091561A1
The invention relates to a coin processing device (10) and a corresponding method for classifying coins using the coin processing device (10). For this purpose, the coin processing device (10) comprises at least one computerized controll...  
WO/2015/056563A1
Provided is a coin identification device that can accurately identify coins that have been plated. An identification sensor (3) is arranged at a position in a wall surface of a coin passage (2) in which a coin (1) rolls, said position be...  
WO/2015/057265A1
A method and apparatus including the steps of establishing a defining attributes of a respective coin based at least upon a predetermined ratio of weight per unit of volume or upon topological features of one or more predominant surfaces...  
WO/2015/045812A1
Provided is a device (1) for identifying coin-shaped identification objects (2) that is able to identify coin-shaped identification objects quickly. This device (1) for identifying coin-shaped detection objects identifies the authenticit...  
WO/2015/038808A1
According to some embodiments of the present invention, a system for detecting counterfeit or altered coins or bullion includes a sensor system, an alternating current (AC) power supply electrically connected to the sensor system, a dete...  
WO/2015/031922A1
In order to test the profile of the surface of an object with a surface relief, such as a minted coin, for the purpose of determining the authenticity of objects, the following steps can be carried out: a) registering the profile of the ...  
WO/2015/008513A1
Provided is a device for identifying coin-shaped bodies to be detected which identifies the authenticity of coin-shaped bodies to be detected, and which is capable of identifying a plurality of types of bodies to be detected having ident...  
WO/2015/000630A1
The present invention relates to a coin recognition apparatus for recognition of acceptable coins. The apparatus comprised a coin inlet, a downwardly sloping coin chute defining a path for travel of the coins, an image sensor arranged to...  
WO/2014/207290A1
A method for applying an anti-counterfeit signature on a product, and an anti-counterfeit signature. The method comprises selecting a substrate and a type of signature and forming a signature of the selected type on the substrate with at...  
WO/2014/192378A1
Provided is a magnetic-sensor-containing apparatus for identifying a coin-shaped detection object, wherein the configuration can be simplified despite said apparatus being capable of minimizing any reduction in external-electromagnetic-r...  
WO/2014/181584A1
Provided is a medallion discrimination device for the purpose of discriminating the authenticity of a medallion used in a game machine such as a slot machine, wherein a reduction over time in the precision with which medallions are discr...  
WO/2014/161893A1
A coin checking apparatus (2, 24, 34, 48, 56) comprises a coin path (4) and an optical sensor (8). The optical sensor (8) comprises a laser diode (10) configured to emit light, an optical guide (14) configured to direct the light from th...  
WO/2014/147413A1
The present invention relates to a device for determining the characteristic impedance spectrum of a token such as a monetary coin, said device comprising: • a point impedance transducer having an inducing element for inducing an ultra...  
WO/2014/119193A1
Provided is a coin-shaped detection object identification device capable of appropriately identifying objects to be detected, even if a plurality of coin-shaped objects to be detected pass continuously therethrough with no interval. This...  
WO/2014/113865A1
A method of producing an authenticatable article. An overt feature is produced in the article using a fabricating technique which is selected based on a material of the article so as to produce the overt feature having predetermined, rep...  
WO/2014/102433A1
The invention relates to a system and method for cataloging coins, said system comprising: coin conveying means for conveying deposited coins to image-capture means that are used to capture and record images of the obverse and reverse of...  
WO/2014/083319A1
A fraud prevention apparatus for a coin payout unit comprises a sensor comprising an electrical oscillator for detecting coins in a coin outlet path; and one or more controllers configured to cause an expected change in the oscillating f...  
WO/2014/080880A1
Provided is a device for identifying a coin-shaped object to be detected, the device enabling the suppression of a decrease over time in the identification accuracy of the coin-shaped object to be detected, and enabling the simplificatio...  
WO/2014/066014A1
A handling apparatus comprising an offset sampling module and a digital processing module is described herein. The offset sampling module is configured to provide a sampled signal by sampling at least one signal at a sampling frequency t...  
WO/2014/040718A1
The invention relates to a coin with a disc-shaped coin body (1), which has a rim (4). To provide the coin with an additional security feature that is protected as far as possible from stresses and/or environmental influences, the rim (4...  
WO/2013/184292A1
Systems and associated methods for optical coin discrimination are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method for discriminating coins includes obtaining a digital image of a coin, identifying the outline of the coin using a suitable ...  
WO/2013/176750A1
The present disclosure is directed to an automated precious metal bullion authentication apparatus and system that, without human intervention, develops and disseminates information to enable a user to distinguish between genuine and non...  
WO/2013/170664A1
An image information processing technology, especially a method and a device for rapidly classifying a thin-sheet medium according to image information. The method comprises: obtaining image information of a thin-sheet medium to be ident...  
WO/2013/138152A1
A coin tester includes a coin sensor which outputs a measurement signal which is influenced by the presence of a coin. A memory device stores an impedance model of the coin sensor and the model representing an expected influence of a coi...  
WO/2013/112864A1
A coin sorter machine including an encoder and a sensor assembly more accurately determines the position of coins in a coin sorting path to facilitate coin sorting. The coin sorter uses a coin size attribute to more accurately calculate ...  
WO/2013/057378A1
The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for authenticating solid objects by means of an electromagnetic acoustic transducer technique.  
WO/2013/057377A1
The present inventions relate to coins and tokens manufactured from metal(s), alloy(s) or metal containing material(s). More specifically, they relate to coin structures which enable a coin (100, 300) to be nondestructively authenticated...  
WO/2013/037057A1
A system and method for determining whether a coin or other valuable object is authentic is presented. In one configuration a method for validating a valuable object includes attaching a validation device to the valuable object. The vali...  
WO/2013/016100A1
A coin sorting plate for receiving and sorting a stream of coins by the diameter and hence the denomination of the coin has a number of coin recesses that extend along the path of the coin stream. Each coin recess is sized to receive a r...  
WO/2012/145842A1
A method includes: capturing an image of a coin, locating an acquisition area of the image using a landmark of the coin, the acquisition area comprising a feature unique to the coin and generating a digital representation of the acquisit...  
WO/2012/123600A1
The invention advocated relates to a coin-recycling device that can be fitted to automatic and self-service teller machines, which is characterized in that it has a single receiving unit, a general reservoir, where all the coins to be re...  
WO/2012/116981A1
A sensor apparatus for a coin validator comprises first and second sensor arrays (A, B) placed on a coin path, wherein the sensor arrays are linear optical arrays extending transverse to the direction of movement of coins along the coin ...  
WO/2012/089353A1
Apparatus for recognizing coins and other coin-like conveyed goods (4) using a conveyor (1) for transporting the singularized conveyed goods (4), wherein the conveyor (1) runs in a recognition area of a detector (3), and has a centering ...  
WO/2012/050107A1
Coins (100) are conveyed one by one, and a slit-patterned light that has passed through a slit pattern (113), in which a first region through which a first color component passes and a second region through which a second color component...  
WO/2012/038670A1
The invention relates to a device for selecting tokens or coins (1), including: an area for measuring the characteristics of the token or coin; a unit (301) for optically recognising the token or coin, the recognition unit being arranged...  
WO/2012/031777A1
The invention relates to a device for testing the thickness of a coin, wherein said device is provided with a coin running channel having side walls and a first and a second light barrier, each of which penetrates the coin running channe...  
WO/2012/015984A2
A device for sensing predetermined characteristics of an object such as a coin or a token in order to determine its validity or genuineness and in some cases its denomination, the device including a combination of optical and electromagn...  

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