| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 8251282 |
Card reader device with sensor for sensing card trapping device |
August 28, 2012 |
| A card reader device has a card entrance for receiving a card and a card enclosure in registration with the card entrance. The card enclosure defines an area in which the card is read. The card reader also has a card transport mechanism for drawing a card into the card enclosure and |
| 8116995 |
Media characterization |
February 14, 2012 |
| Methods and apparatus for media characterization in a self-service terminal are described. The media us characterized in the self-service terminal by passing it by two electrodes and measuring the impedance across those two electrodes. The media is characterized by analyzing the meas |
| 7800088 |
Security markers for identifying a source of a substance |
September 21, 2010 |
| A method of identifying a source of a substance incorporating one or more luminescent markers comprises illuminating the substance to stimulate emission from at least one of the luminescent markers. A luminescent signature is generated from the detected luminescent emission. The source |
| 7490780 |
Card reader |
February 17, 2009 |
| A method is provided of operating a card reader having a substantially planar delivery path which lies in a first plane and which extends between a mouth region of the card reader and a data reader portion of the card reader. The method comprises projecting light across the planar de |
| 7490764 |
Secure enclosure for sub-assembly of self service equipment |
February 17, 2009 |
| Housings are typically used to protect sub-assemblies in self-service equipment such as key-pad assemblies in automated teller machines (ATMs), self-service kiosks, pay-as-you-go photocopiers and the like. There is a need to secure those housings to prevent access to and tampering of the |
| 7469825 |
Self-service terminal |
December 30, 2008 |
| A self-service terminal (22) that includes an optical system (28) for detecting a terminal overlay or artifact. |
| 7436313 |
Penetration screen |
October 14, 2008 |
| A penetration screen is disclosed which comprises a substantially planar substrate with, at least, one electrical circuit disposed thereon. The electrical circuit is configured such that, at least, one section of the circuit is electrically isolatable from the remainder of the circuit |
| 7354003 |
Card reader |
April 8, 2008 |
| A card reader comprises a mouth region for receiving a card having stored data to be read and a data reader region for reading the stored data. The reader is arranged to deliver a card received at the mouth region to the data reader region via a delivery path. The delivery path is arrang |
| 7256398 |
Security markers for determining composition of a medium |
August 14, 2007 |
| A method of determining a component of a medium comprises illuminating the medium to excite a marker associated with the component. Detected photoluminescent emission from the marker in response to the excitation is compared with one or more emission profiles. The component is identi |
| 7128259 |
Detector |
October 31, 2006 |
| A detector (10) for detecting an object (42) in a media item (40), such as a check or banknote is described. The detector (10) comprises first electrically conducting means (14), such as a roller, disposed on one side of a media path (32); second electrically conducting means (16), s |
| 6793134 |
Self-service terminal |
September 21, 2004 |
| A self-service terminal (12) having a wireless communication port (28) for interacting with a user's portable device (60 or 70) is described. The terminal (12) may be an ATM, and includes a biometric device (35) for capturing biometric data from a user at the terminal (12). The terminal |
| 6510985 |
Automatic teller machines |
January 28, 2003 |
| An automatic teller machine has not only a main store comprising a number of cassettes (38, 40, 42, 44, 46 and 48) holding stacks of banknotes but also faster operating auxiliary stores (4 and 5) which hold limited numbers of the most popular denominations of banknote. A request for cash |
| 6400276 |
Self-service terminal |
June 4, 2002 |
| A monitoring system for use with a self-service terminal (25) having a user interface is described. The system comprises: image capture means (30) for capturing images of at least part of the user interface; image storage means (34) for storing at least one image captured by the image ca |
| 6378770 |
Automated teller machines and method of replenishing the same |
April 30, 2002 |
| In an ATM, bank notes remaining within currency cassettes 40 of the cash dispenser 18 are transferred to an auxiliary storage device 54 before the cassettes 40 are removed from the ATM and replaced by full cassettes during a replenishment sequence, so as to avoid handling of non-empty |
| 5918748 |
Automatic teller machines |
July 6, 1999 |
| An automatic teller machine has an input hopper (20) into which checks and banknotes for deposit can be put. An imaging and sorting device (22) separates the banknotes and checks from each other. The banknotes are fed to a temporary banknote storage device (24) and the checks are fed to |
