EP0744716A3 - Method and apparatus for authenticating documents - Google Patents

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EP0744716A3
EP0744716A3 EP96303493A EP96303493A EP0744716A3 EP 0744716 A3 EP0744716 A3 EP 0744716A3 EP 96303493 A EP96303493 A EP 96303493A EP 96303493 A EP96303493 A EP 96303493A EP 0744716 A3 EP0744716 A3 EP 0744716A3
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Heather L. Cumming
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NCR International Inc
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07D—HANDLING OF COINS OR VALUABLE PAPERS, e.g. TESTING, SORTING BY DENOMINATIONS, COUNTING, DISPENSING, CHANGING OR DEPOSITING
    • G07D7/00—Testing specially adapted to determine the identity or genuineness of valuable papers or for segregating those which are unacceptable, e.g. banknotes that are alien to a currency
    • G07D7/06—Testing specially adapted to determine the identity or genuineness of valuable papers or for segregating those which are unacceptable, e.g. banknotes that are alien to a currency using wave or particle radiation
    • G07D7/12—Visible light, infrared or ultraviolet radiation
    • G07D7/1205—Testing spectral properties

Abstract

In a method and apparatus for authenticating documents, at least one small area (22) on a document (12) being tested is sensed by a spectroscope (26), and the light intensity at a plurality (e.g. 50) of spectral points is measured by a photodiode array (30). The resulting signals are digitized in an analog-to-digital converter (38) and the resulting data is stored. This data is then analyzed by discriminant analysis, whereby the intensity values treated as components of a vector are multiplied by one or more sets of weighting coefficients (discriminant functions) to provide a set of discriminant function values. A distance measurement between this set of values and the centroid of a corresponding set of values for genuine documents is compared with a threshold value to determine the authenticity of the document (12).
EP96303493A 1995-05-25 1996-05-16 Method and apparatus for authenticating documents Revoked EP0744716B1 (en)

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GBGB9510678.7A GB9510678D0 (en) 1995-05-25 1995-05-25 Method and apparatus for authenticating documents
GB9510678 1995-05-25

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EP0744716A2 EP0744716A2 (en) 1996-11-27
EP0744716A3 true EP0744716A3 (en) 1996-12-18
EP0744716B1 EP0744716B1 (en) 1999-12-29

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DE (1) DE69605854T2 (en)
ES (1) ES2140787T3 (en)
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US4526466A (en) * 1983-09-01 1985-07-02 Rca Corporation Technique for verifying genuineness of authenticating device
WO1985002928A1 (en) * 1983-12-27 1985-07-04 Bergstroem Arne Apparatus for authenticating bank notes
US4577235A (en) * 1984-08-20 1986-03-18 The Mead Corporation Text/continuous tone image decision processor
US5304813A (en) * 1991-10-14 1994-04-19 Landis & Gyr Betriebs Ag Apparatus for the optical recognition of documents
US5392364A (en) * 1991-05-23 1995-02-21 Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Object inspection method employing selection of discerning features using mahalanobis distances

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US4526466A (en) * 1983-09-01 1985-07-02 Rca Corporation Technique for verifying genuineness of authenticating device
WO1985002928A1 (en) * 1983-12-27 1985-07-04 Bergstroem Arne Apparatus for authenticating bank notes
US4577235A (en) * 1984-08-20 1986-03-18 The Mead Corporation Text/continuous tone image decision processor
US5392364A (en) * 1991-05-23 1995-02-21 Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Object inspection method employing selection of discerning features using mahalanobis distances
US5304813A (en) * 1991-10-14 1994-04-19 Landis & Gyr Betriebs Ag Apparatus for the optical recognition of documents

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GB9510678D0 (en) 1995-07-19
EP0744716A2 (en) 1996-11-27

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