Method for determining a sorting result for a security document and means for carrying out the method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10096193-B2
Application number	US-201515121628-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 26, 2015
Priority date	Feb 28, 2014
Publication date	Oct 9, 2018
Grant date	Oct 9, 2018

Abstract

A method for establishing a sorting result for a value document while employing sensor data for the value document and pre-specified classification parameters, includes a pre-specified classification method carried out while employing the sensor data and the classification parameters. The method involves carrying out pre-specified substeps such that at least some of which are making a respective decision, and because of the carried out substeps a class is established as a sorting result. At least upon making the decisions at least one classification parameter associated with the respective decision and/or at least part of the sensor data and/or at least one substep result obtained upon carrying out a preceding substep is respectively employed.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for establishing a sorting result for a value document while employing sensor data for the value document which are capturable or were captured by means of a value-document processing apparatus with one or a plurality of sensors, and while employing pre-specified classification parameters, comprising
carrying out a pre-specified classification method wherein the sensor data and at least one of the classification parameters are used and pre-specified substeps are carried out, at least some of said substeps containing the making of a respective decision, and after carrying out the substeps a class is established as a sorting result,
wherein at least when making the decisions at least one classification parameter associated with the respective decision and/or at least part of the sensor data and/or at least one substep result that was obtained upon carrying out a preceding substep is respectively employed, and
wherein for the established sorting result a display device is so actuated that it shows at least a section of a graph illustrating the course of the classification method and having nodes and edges respectively connecting at least two of the nodes,
wherein the nodes comprise
a starting node,
at least one substep node representing one of said substeps necessary for obtaining the sorting result, and
at least one result node representing a possible sorting result, and

wherein the edges connect the nodes in such a way that the nodes connected by said edges represent a sequence, given by the classification method, of substeps represented by the nodes, and
wherein those edges are marked that form a continuous path from the starting node to the result node representing the sorting result, said path representing the course of the classification method for the sensor data, and/or wherein as edges only those edges are shown that form a continuous path from the starting node to the result node representing the sorting result, said path representing the course of the classification method for the sensor data, and/or wherein those nodes are marked that are directly connected by edges which form a continuous path from the starting node to the result node representing the sorting result, said path representing the course of the classification method for the sensor data.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the classification method is capable of being carried out on the value-document processing apparatus.

3. The method according to claim 1 , which is carried out on a value-document processing apparatus which comprises the display device.

4. The method according to claim 1 , which is executed on a data processing device which has the display device.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the display device is so actuated that at least the classification parameters employed for establishing the sorting result are displayed, wherein the classification parameters employed upon the execution of the substep corresponding to the node are preferably displayed at the nodes of the path.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the display device is so actuated that adjacent to at least one of the substep nodes the result of the carrying out of the substep represented by the substep node is displayed.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the display device is so actuated that the marked edges or the marked nodes are marked in color.

8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the display device is so actuated that marked edges are displayed with a pre-specified line shape which differs from the line shape employed for displaying other edges or from the line shapes employed for displaying other edges.

9. The method according to claim 1 , wherein only those nodes are displayed that lie in the continuous path.

10. The method according to claim 1 , wherein only those edges are displayed that lie in the continuous path.

11. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the display device is so actuated that the display is updated after the carrying out of one substep in each case or of a pre-specified number of substeps in each case, so that the part of the path is represented that corresponds to the hitherto carried out substeps, wherein the mode of display of the part of the path preferably corresponds to the mode of display of the path.

12. The method according to claim 1 , wherein after termination of the classification method for the sensor data for the value document at least one user input is captured, and when the latter represents a value for one of the classification parameters said value for the classification parameter is stored, and the classification method with the then present classification parameters, and the actuating of the display device, are carried out.

13. The method according to claim 1 , wherein for at least one of the carried out substeps the data employed upon its carrying out are stored in a storage device.

14. A computer program with program code upon whose execution by means of a data processing device which has a display device, the method according to claim 1 is executed.

15. A physical data carrier on which a computer program according to claim 14 is stored.

16. A system for establishing a sorting result for a value document while employing sensor data for the value document which are capturable or were captured by means of a value-document processing apparatus with one or a plurality of sensors, and while employing pre-specified classification parameters, having a data processing apparatus and having a display device, wherein the data processing device comprises at least one processor and a storage in which a computer program according to claim 14 is stored which is executable by means of the data processing device, wherein the at least one processor actuates the display device.

17. An apparatus for processing value documents, having a feeding device for feeding single or singled value documents to be processed,
an output device having at least one output portion for receiving processed value documents,
a transport device for transporting single or singled value documents from the feeding device to the output device,
a sensor device for capturing sensor data for a value document transported by the transport device, and
a system according to claim 16 for processing the captured sensor data which is connected to the sensor device via a signal connection.

Assignees

• Giesecke & Devrient Gmbh
• Giesecke & Devrient Currency Technology Gmbh

Inventors

• Smith Paul

Classifications

• B42D25/29

  Securities; Bank notes · CPC title

• G07D7/181

  Testing mechanical properties or condition, e.g. wear or tear (G07D7/16 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G07D7/12 Primary

  Visible light, infrared or ultraviolet radiation · CPC title

• G07D7/04

  Testing magnetic properties of the materials thereof, e.g. by detection of magnetic imprint (G07D7/01 takes precedence) · CPC title