Card or media combined readers featuring single target area
View Patent ↗A card validator or, more generally, a combined reader includes a plurality of readers for validating a corresponding plurality of card and document types. The validator or combined reader includes the housing containing the plurality of readers wherein the readers are independent from each other and spaced at different locations within the housing and disposed therein to read cards presented to the card validator or combined reader at a single target area. The housing is configured to direct a user presentation for the provided card at the signal target area. Each of the individual readers is modular within the housing and is disposed within a modular reception location therein for facilitating performance certification of the modular readers therein separately from certification of the entire multi-card validator system.
1. A card validator including a plurality of readers for validating a corresponding plurality of card types, comprising:
a housing containing the plurality of readers including a contactless reader, an EMV contactless reader or a barcode reader wherein the readers are spaced at different locations within the housing and disposed therein to read cards presented to the card validator at a single target area and wherein the plurality of readers are disposed at a housing location wherein a beam from the barcode reader is focused on an EMV target of the EMV contactless reader;
wherein the housing is configured to direct a user presentation of a card to be read at the single target area; and
wherein the single target area comprises a spaced reading area between a source point of an optical beam from the bar code reader and an opposed surface area of the housing immediately adjacent the EMV readers for variable disposition and positionings of the user presentation of the card to be read in the spaced area.
2. The card validator of claim 1 wherein the contactless reader is modular and disposed within a modular reception location in the housing.
3. A validating system for documents presented by a user for reading, comprising:
a housing for a plurality of reading devices for performing the reading wherein the devices are disposed at different locations in the housing to share a single target area for document disposition by the user for the reading, and wherein the single target area is disposed at a housing location apparent to the user in a spacing between the plurality of reading devices; and
wherein the single target area comprises a spaced reading area in the spacing in which distinct documents for distinct ones of the reading devices are positioned for variable disposition and positionings of a user presentation of the document to be read for the reading.
4. The validating system of claim 3 comprising an on-board or stationary platform validator, kiosk or ticket vending machine.
5. The validating system of claim 3 wherein the reading devices comprise optical scanners, biometric detectors, document readers, bar code readers, contactless card readers, contactless EMV smart card readers or smartphones readers.
6. The validating system of claim 3 wherein the reading devices are modular with respect to the housing for removal and installation as a modular component thereof.