In one exemplary embodiment in accordance with the disclosure, an image processing system is configured to use a distance authentication template to execute a detection procedure that detects at least one non-linear distortion in a subject image. The distance authentication template can be generated by mapping a set of spatial coordinates of three features in a distortion-free image to a set of pixel coordinates of the three features in the distortion-free image. Addressing a non-linear distortion in the subject image can include performing remedial actions to remedy the non-linear distortion, or taking into consideration the non-linear distortion when using the distance authentication template to identify one or more features in the subject image.

An automatic teller machine includes a banknote conveyance channel, a banknote recycling channel, and a banknote circulation channel. The banknote conveyance channel includes an annular channel, a first branch channel, a second branch channel, a third branch channel, a fourth branch channel, and a fifth branch channel. A banknote-in mechanism communicates with the annular channel via the first branch channel. A temporary storage mechanism communicates with the annular channel via the second branch channel. A banknote-out mechanism communicates with the annular channel via the third branch channel. Two ends of an identification mechanism communicate with the annular channel via the fourth branch channel and the fifth branch channel, respectively. A recycling box communicates with the banknote conveyance channel via the banknote recycling channel. A circulation box communicates with the banknote circulation channel via the banknote circulation channel.

A money handling apparatus 10 for handling money includes a storage and feeding unit 150, 270 configured to store the money and feed out the stored money, a dispensing unit 172, 260 configured to eject the money to an outside, a transport unit 170, 264 configured to transport the money fed out from the storage and feeding unit 150, 270 to the dispensing unit 172, 260, and a control unit 12 configured to perform dispensing process of the money by the dispensing unit 172, 260 by controlling at least one of the storage and feeding unit 150, 270 and the transport unit 170, 264. The control unit 12 performs the dispensing process of the money at an arbitrary timing after certain process of the money is performed.

An apparatus for aligning notes of value along a transport path has a note reader with a scanning line with areas detection areas there along. The scanning areas are arranged along a line orthogonally with respect to a central axis of the transport path. A first and at least one second transport elements serve to transport the note along the transport path in at least one transport direction. The transport elements each contact the note in a contact area. At least one aligning apparatus is used for aligning the note, which is arranged between the first and second transport elements and forms a section of the transport path. The note reader detects the trailing edge of the note in a first scanning area and in a second scanning area.

In order to perform high-accuracy authentication of a forgery prevention medium having a forgery prevention structure, a forgery prevention structure provided in or on a medium for performing authentication of the medium includes: an anisotropic resonator that resonates in response to being irradiated with a first terahertz electromagnetic wave at a first frequency, a transmissivity of the first terahertz electromagnetic wave changes with a polarization direction of the first terahertz electromagnetic wave, and an isotropic resonator that resonates in response to be irradiated with a second terahertz electromagnetic wave at a second frequency, a transmissivity of the second terahertz electromagnetic wave does not change with a polarization direction of the second terahertz electromagnetic wave.

A cash processing device according to the present invention includes plural banknote storage sections, a storage status manager, and a display controller. The plural banknote storage sections store banknotes. The storage status manager manages a storage status in each of the banknote storage sections. According to the storage status in each of the banknote storage sections, the display controller displays a display screen to suppress a specific transaction from out of plural transaction types and/or to encourage a transaction other than the specific transaction from out of the plural transaction types.

In a general aspect, orientation information is used to generate a unique code. In some aspects, orientation information is extracted from an object. The object includes multiple elements, and the orientation information indicates the relative spatial orientations of the respective elements. The orientation information can be extracted, for instance, by a scanner system that detects the elements. A unique code is generated for the object based on the orientation information. In some examples, the elements are diamond particles that each have one or more color centers, and the orientation information is extracted by detecting the color centers.

The invention relates to a method for authenticating a security marking including at a long afterglow compound capable of emitting long afterglow luminescence light in a given wavelength region, the method allowing to detect a presence and an amount of said long afterglow compound based on comparison of a measured initial intensity value of a spectral component of the emitted light within said wavelength region and associated afterglow time with corresponding reference values representative of a reference amount value of a genuine long afterglow compound. The invention also relates to a reader and system operable to implement the steps of the method.

An automated machine 1 is provided to comprise a communications device 5 for receiving remotely operable signals emitted from a mobile terminal 10 to produce monetary signals corresponding to money amount data in the remotely operable signals, a bill acceptor 4 for validating bills inserted from the outside to produce the monetary signals when bill acceptor 4 judges the inserted bill to be genuine and for relaying the monetary signals from communications device 5, a control device 8 that has built-in program software to produce drive signals of the amount corresponding to the monetary signals in accordance with the program software when control device 8 receives the monetary signals from bill acceptor 4. In another aspect, communications device 5 may receive the remotely operable signals emitted from mobile terminal 10 to produce the monetary signals corresponding to the money amount data in the remotely operable signals and receive the monetary signals from bill acceptor 4 and send them to control device 8.

A counterfeit paper currency detector includes a casing receiving a delivering device, a driving device, and a paper currency detection device. The casing includes a paper currency inlet at an end thereof and a paper currency outlet at another end thereof and aligned with the paper currency inlet. The delivering device includes a delivering body having two ends intercommunicating with the paper currency inlet and the paper currency outlet, respectively. The driving device is mounted at upper and lower sides of the delivering body and is configured to drive a bill inputted via the paper currency inlet to move through the delivering body and then exit the paper currency outlet. The paper currency detection device is mounted to a rear end of the delivering device and is configured to examine whether the bill passing through the delivering body is a counterfeit bill.