Abstract: A processing system is provided. The processing system includes: a sensor module configured to obtain a first image including a first reflected view of an input object within a sensing region associated with an input surface; and a determination module configured to: determine a first position of the input object within the first image; and determine a distance of the input object from the input surface using the first position.

Abstract: An anti-disassembling device for an electronic product includes a case, a linear movement device, a circular movement device and an optical encoder. At least one retractable transmission member is connected to the case. The circular movement device is located in the case and has an encoding disk, which has multiple slots defined therethrough and teeth are defined in the periphery thereof. The at least one retractable transmission member is engaged with the teeth to rotate the encoding disk. The optical encoder has a lighting module which emits light beams through the slots of the encoding disk and a photosensitive module receives the light beams and sends a signal to the storage unit of the electronic product. The retractable device rotates when the electronic product is disassembled.

Abstract: Methods of and systems for illuminating objects using planar laser illumination beams having substantially-planar spatial distribution characteristics that extend through the field of view (FOV) of image formation and detection modules employed in such systems. Each planar laser illumination beam is produced from a planar laser illumination beam array (PLIA) comprising an plurality of planar laser illumination modules (PLIMs). Each PLIM comprises a visible laser diode (VLD, a focusing lens, and a cylindrical optical element arranged therewith. The individual planar laser illumination beam components produced from each PLIM are optically combined to produce a composite substantially planar laser illumination beam having substantially uniform power density characteristics over the entire spatial extend thereof and thus the working range of the system.

Abstract: Apparatus for counting and selectively voiding tickets. An input bin is provided wherein a stack of tickets are initially queued. Using a conveyor, each ticket is advanced from the input bin past a sensing device. The sensing device detects the presence of each ticket and produces a signal indicative of the passage of each ticket past the sensing device. This signal is conveyed to an electronic counting device that maintains a cumulative total count of the tickets. The apparatus may be set to continuously count any tickets placed in the input bin or set to stop after counting a predetermined number of tickets. The apparatus also includes a punch that is selectively controlled to enable the optional voiding of each ticket as it is counted.

Abstract: A card convey device includes a card convey unit, a punching unit, a counting unit, and a control unit. The card convey unit selectively conveys a card in a discharging direction and an opposite direction thereto. The punching unit punches the card which slows down, while the card is conveyed by the card convey unit in the discharging direction. The counting unit is enabled after a punching operation is performed by the punching unit, and counts the number of times of repetition of a reciprocal card convey operation in the opposite direction and the discharging direction. The control unit controls a convey operation of the card convey unit and repeatedly reciprocally conveys the card in the opposite direction and the discharging direction until the count value of the enabled counting unit reaches a predetermined count value. When the count value of the counting unit reaches the predetermined count value, the control unit conveys the card in the discharging direction and discharges the card.

Abstract: A card puncher for punching as a yardstick of use a card for getting coupon tickets on and used as tickets on omibuses and electric trains, and a method of controlling the card puncher. Data on a target quantity of conveyance of the card correponding to a position where the card is punched is stored in memory. A card conveyer is driven to convey the card by a quantity corresponding to data on the target quantity of conveyance stored in the memeory. A quantity of coast of the card after the drive of the card conveyer is teminated is measured. If the sum of the target quantity of conveyance and the measured quantity of coast of the card is within a predetermined allowable limit, the card is punched. If otherwise, data on the target quantity of conveyance in the memory is corrected such that the sum falls within the predetermined allowable limit, the card is returned to a position where the punching starts and the punching operation is retried.

Abstract: To indicate the number of uses of a card of the type which is magnetically encoded for plural uses, a hole is punched in the card, the distance of the hole from one end of the card progressively increasing with each use. Since the card is continuously moving as it is being punched, the punch element is pivoted to an actuating lever and pivots against the force of a spring as the card moves. The spring returns the punch to initial position when the card has passed the punch station. A solenoid pivots the actuating lever. Provision is made for adjustment of the distance of penetration of the punch. A resilient roller engaging the face of the card opposite the punch backs up the punch.

Abstract: An assembly for processing paper tape for data processing and communication applications. The punch and reader are in a common housing which includes a self contained chad box. The assembly has a substantially flat bottom surface thus permitting the assembly to be mounted on a table. The entire operating mechanism is arranged such that it is mechanically isolated from the housing.The punch and reader assemblies utilize identical paper drive assemblies which are mechanically linked by a rigid bar. The one drive assembly is driven from an eccentric which in turn is driven by a flexible belt coupled to a motor pulley.

Abstract: A ticket reading device for reading a ticket having at least one row of indicia thereon as disclosed including means at a loading station for accepting the ticket and sensing its presence when presented for reading, means for moving the ticket from the loading station past a reading station at which the indicia is progressively translated into an electrical signal representative thereof and means at a cancellation station for identifiably marking the ticket upon successfully traversing the reading station. A ticket is also disclosed including two spaced and parallel rows of coded indicia each row being fully representative of the same predetermined information as the other but reproducing it by a different code.

Abstract: A credit card processing system involving the use of a machine for reading the data encoded in the magnetic stripe of such a card and for printing such data in MICR characters, at the point of sale, along the bottom of the merchant's bank sales slip copy of each transaction under the credit card. The machine also has means for selecting any one of four punches for making a punch out in said bank copy in any one of four predetermined optional ABA standards positions to designate the transaction as a credit or charge transaction and whether it is to be processed by EDP or EFT procedures. The system also includes all of the various instrumentalities necessary to process each transaction, guided by the punch out information, through the merchant's bank, the clearing house, and the issuer institution for final posting and billing.