US 12,073,278 B2
Electronic payment terminal and corresponding method for optimising operation and computer program
Jérôme Andre, Montoison (FR); Olivier Soleilhavoup, Lyons (FR); and Yann Granddidier, Lemps (FR)
Assigned to BANKS AND ACQUIRERS INTERNATIONAL HOLDING, Paris (FR)
Appl. No. 17/778,631
Filed by BANKS AND ACQUIRERS INTERNATIONAL HOLDING, Paris (FR)
PCT Filed Nov. 3, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/080813
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 20, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/099108, PCT Pub. Date May 27, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 1913032 (FR), filed on Nov. 21, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0414354 A1, Dec. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. G06K 7/08 (2006.01)
CPC G06K 7/087 (2013.01) 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic payment terminal comprising:
at least one processor;
a housing in the form substantially of a right-angled parallelepiped formed by an assembly of a plurality of faces including a top face intended to face a user of said electronic payment terminal;
a magnetic-memory card reader and a groove, referred to as a card passage, wherein a magnetic-memory card is intended to slide; and
at least one first front camera,
wherein said card passage extends in a plane substantially parallel to said top face of said electronic payment terminal, at one end of said housing of said electronic payment terminal, a part of a bottom wall of said card passage extending beyond a top wall of said card passage,
wherein said at least one first front camera is integrated in said end of said electronic payment terminal, in a plane substantially parallel to said top face of said electronic payment terminal, below said bottom wall of said card passage extending beyond the top wall of said card passage,
wherein a visual cone of said first front camera is oriented mainly in a direction going from said bottom wall towards said top face of said electronic payment terminal, wherein the first front camera is configured to detect presence of a magnetic-memory card, when the user slides the magnetic-memory card in the card passage, and to take an image and transmit the image to the at least one processor, and
wherein the at least one processor is configured to validate the detection of the presence of the magnetic-memory card with image recognition and transmit a message for deactivating a contactless functionality of the payment terminal.