Apparatus and system for imaging currency bills and financial documents and method for using the same

摘要

A device has a deposit, a sell, and an audit mode of operation to monitor and reconcile bills. The device includes a memory storing records, an input receptacle to receive bills, an image scanner to image bills, a transportation mechanism to transport bills, and one or more processors. In the deposit mode, the one or more processors extract serial numbers and generate records. Each record includes a physical bill location field to indicate the location that the bill is expected to be physically located. In the sell mode, the one or more processors update the physical bill location fields to indicate that the expected physical bill location is a second location. In the audit mode, the one or more processors determine if each record corresponds with an audit record and generate an indication that the teller drawer is balanced responsive to a determination that each audit record corresponds with a respective record and a determination that each record corresponds with an audit record.

主权项

1. A method of monitoring currency bills within a teller drawer and reconciling currency bills in the teller drawer at a shift end, wherein a memory stores a teller drawer file including a teller drawer record for each currency bill which is expected to be in the teller drawer, each teller drawer record having a physical bill location field, the physical bill location field for each teller drawer record associated with a bill expected to be in the teller drawer indicating that the expected physical location of the respective bill is the teller drawer, the method comprising:
operating a document processing device in a deposit mode, wherein the document processing device performs the acts of:
receiving a plurality of deposit-currency-bills in an input receptacle of the document processing device;transporting the plurality of deposit-currency-bills from the input receptacle past an image scanner to one or more output receptacles;imaging the plurality of deposit-currency-bills to produce image data that is reproducible as a visually readable image of at least a portion of each one of the plurality of deposit-currency-bills;extracting a serial number from the image data for each one of the deposit-currency-bills;generating a teller drawer record for each one of the plurality of deposit-currency-bills, each teller drawer record including a plurality of fields including a serial number field, an image field, and a physical bill location field, the physical bill location field for each teller drawer record associated with one of the deposit-currency-bills indicating that the deposit-currency-bill is expected to be physically located in the teller drawer; andelectronically storing the teller drawer records associated with the deposit-currency-bills in the teller drawer file; operating the document processing device in a sell mode, wherein the document processing device performs the acts of:
receiving a plurality of sell-currency-bills in the input receptacle of the document processing device, the sell-currency-bills having been removed from the teller drawer;transporting the plurality of sell-currency-bills from the input receptacle past the image scanner to the one or more output receptacles;imaging the plurality of sell-currency-bills to produce image data that is reproducible as a visually readable image of at least a portion of each one of the plurality of sell-currency-bills; andextracting a serial number for each one of the sell-currency-bills from the image data; updating each teller drawer record in the teller drawer file that is associated with a sell-currency-bill to indicate that the expected bill location of the sell-currency-bill is a second location; operating the document processing device in an audit mode, wherein the document processing device performs the acts of:
receiving a plurality of audit-currency-bills in the input receptacle of the document processing device, the plurality of audit-currency-bills including all of the bills in the teller drawer;transporting the audit-currency-bills from the input receptacle past the image scanner to the one or more output receptacles;imaging the audit-currency-bills to produce image data that is reproducible as a visually readable image of at least a portion of each one of the audit-currency-bills;extracting a serial number for each one of the audit-currency-bills from the image data; andgenerating an audit record for each one of the audit-currency-bills, each audit record including the extracted serial number for an associated one of the audit-currency-bills; determining if each audit record corresponds with a respective teller drawer record in the teller drawer file, the respective teller drawer records each being associated with a currency bill expected to be in the teller drawer; determining if each teller drawer record in the teller drawer file corresponds with an audit record; and responsive to a determination that each audit record corresponds with a respective teller drawer record in the teller drawer file and a determination that each teller drawer record in the teller drawer file corresponds with an audit record, generating an indication that the teller drawer is balanced.