Image analysis – Applications – Personnel identification
Patent
1996-01-02
1998-11-17
Mancuso, Joseph
Image analysis
Applications
Personnel identification
382137, G06K 900
Patent
active
058388141
ABSTRACT:
A check permitting confirmation that a check was drawn by an authorized maker at the time of transaction is disclosed. Such check includes a picture of the authorized maker and an electronically-scannable means for informing the bank whether the check was transacted with the authorized maker present. The picture may include stenganographic identification coding which may be computationally-correlatable with an invisible, but photostatically-incompetent, bank mark. Confirmation of endorsement by the person or entity to whom the draft is drawn is effectuated by providing for a plurality of unique codes associated with the identity of an endorser. Such unique codes preferably include a "made payable to code" and an "endorsement code". Preferably the present invention provides for means for the drawee of the draft to confirm that sufficient funds are available in the account upon which the draft is drawn. Such means may include incorporation onto the draft itself of electronically-readable information correlatable with the account from which the draft is drawn.
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