Inventors:
Paul Stolis - Canton MI
John D. Vala - Plymouth MI
Clive E. Catchpole - Birmingham MI
Johan P. Bakker - West Bloomfield MI
Gary B. Copenhaver - Canton MI
David J. Concannon - Farmington Hills MI
Robert T. Rourke - Troy MI
David J. Valice - Troy MI
Assignee:
Unisys Corp - Blue Bell PA
International Classification:
G06K 700
Abstract:
In a check processing array, an imaging/illumination arrangement for illuminating and imaging checks at one or several imaging sites as they are rapidly, continuously transported past two or more imaging stations, each station having, as its illumination source, a hollow Lambertian integrating vessel, housing lamps which project a highly uniform, diffuse Lambertian illumination-beam to its respective imaging site.