Secure point of sale device employing capacitive sensors

Details Secure point of sale device employing capacitive sensors Secure point of sale device employing capacitive sensors

2007-08-27

2010-11-30

Wu, Daniel (Department: 2612)

Communications: electrical

Condition responsive indicating system

Specific condition

C340S568100, C340S568700, C340S570000, C340S539230

Reexamination Certificate

active

07843339

ABSTRACT:
A point of sale device including a housing, a protected enclosure located within the housing, information storage functionality located within the protected enclosure and storing information to be protected information, a capacitance sensor based security system including at least one capacitance sensor operative to sense the capacitance of at least one of at least part of the housing and at least part of the protected enclosure at a reference time and thereafter and to provide an alarm indication of at least a predetermined change in the capacitance sensed by the at least one capacitance sensor.

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