Owner Ingenia Holdings Limited

Inventors Cowburn, Russell Paul

Agent Shelston IP

Pub. Number AU-B-2005220385

PCT Pub. Number WO2005/088533

Priority 0405641.2 12.03.04 GB; 60/601,463 13.08.04 US; 60/610,075 15.09.04 US; 0420524.1 15.09.04 GB

Filing date 9 March 2005

Wipo publication date 22 September 2005

Acceptance publication date 15 July 2010

G06K 7/10 (2006.01) Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers - by electromagnetic radiation, e.g. optical sensing

G06K 5/00 (2006.01) Methods or arrangements for verifying the correctness of markings on a record carrier

G06K 9/00 (2006.01) Methods or arrangements for reading or recognising printed or written characters or for recognising patterns, e.g. fingerprints

G06K 9/52 (2006.01) Methods or arrangements for reading or recognising printed or written characters or for recognising patterns, e.g. fingerprints - by deriving mathematical or geometrical properties from the whole image

G06K 9/82 (2006.01) Methods or arrangements for reading or recognising printed or written characters or for recognising patterns, e.g. fingerprints

G06K 19/06 (2006.01) Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings - characterised by the kind of the digital marking, e.g. shape, nature, code

G06K 19/067 (2006.01) Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings - Record carriers with conductive marks, printed circuits or semiconductor circuit elements, e.g. credit or identity cards

G06K 19/14 (2006.01) Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings - the marking being sensed by radiation

G07D 7/00 (2006.01) Testing paper currency, securities, bonds, or similar valuable papers for genuineness

G07D 7/20 (2006.01) Testing paper currency, securities, bonds, or similar valuable papers for genuineness