Abstract: A mechanized store uses a mobile device to authenticate the user. Items removed from one or more displays of the mechanized store by the user are tracked and a list of items removed by the user is updated. The list of items removed is linked with an account of the user.

Abstract: The present description relates to a 2D visual code based on the superposition of pure flat waves framed in black, designed to be read at long distances, with different types of degradation (noise, blurring or movement) and in adverse lighting conditions. To this end, the information carrying elements are waves that are distributed over the whole image. The combination of waves with different directions, frequencies, amplitudes and phases permits generating a high number of configurations that may be decoded in a robust and efficient manner.

Abstract: A device for printing a QR code comprises: at least one processor; and at least one memory in which instructions are stored, the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor, causing the at least one processor to perform an operation, wherein the at least one processor receives QR data from a server, generates a first QR image on the basis of the QR data, performs image-conversion processing for the first QR image to generate a second QR image, stores the second QR image in the memory, and prints the second QR image stored in the memory on a curved body.

Abstract: A label printing module can be configured to perform at least two actions in response to a request to create a label for an item. The label printing module can create a print job that will produce a physical label for the item. In addition, the label printing module can cause a digital label to be created and stored in a digital label database, which can be accessible via the Internet. The digital label can include an identifier that is uniquely associated with the item to which the physical label corresponds. The digital label can be associated with an Internet address. The Internet address of the digital label can be included in a machine-readable object on the corresponding printed physical label. Someone who has the item corresponding to the printed physical label can view informational content within the corresponding digital label by using a reader to read the machine-readable object.

Abstract: A barcode reader configured to capture interleaved frame types optimized for vision capture and barcode capture are disclosed herein. An example barcode reader is configured to operate in a pre-determined repetitive pattern of capturing a first frame and capturing a second frame over a reading cycle having a fixed duration after a triggering event, wherein the first frame is captured over a first exposure period having a first duration, and the second frame is captured over a second exposure period having a second duration, and wherein the first frame is associated with a first brightness parameter, and the second frame is associated with a second brightness parameter.

Abstract: A method and a corresponding system are disclosed for recording multimodal user interaction with an item in a networked system. The networked system includes a server device network-connected to one or more client user device(s). A data record is generated for the item, comprising data representative thereof and including at least image data depicting the item. A unique identifier code is associated with the data record, wherein the association of the unique identifier code with the image data in the record defines an avatar of the item in the system. Copies of the avatar are distributed to client user devices in the network, and the unique identifier code is encoded into a machine-readable tag secured to each physical embodiment of the item outside the network. At each client user device, each digital user interaction with an avatar and each analogue user interaction with a physical item is logged. At the server, each logged user interaction is matched against the item data record and recorded.

Abstract: A disclosed managing apparatus and image forming apparatus management system ensure confidentiality of information in an image forming apparatus while usability is maintained. An image forming apparatus acquires IC card identifying information with an IC card reader. A management server acquires a user ID associated with the acquired IC card identifying information and use limit information concerning use of the image forming apparatus. A process is performed in the image forming apparatus in accordance with the use limit information.

Abstract: To provide a safe RFID data collecting device and an RFID data collection system with which there is no leakage of information being written to an RFID tag or information being read from the RFID tag, even if communication with the RFID tag is intercepted. This RFID data collecting device includes an RFID reader 10, a wired and wireless LAN connecting unit 20, a portable telephone communication unit 30, and a system control unit 40 including a processor 41 and a memory 42, wherein: the system control unit 40 is provided with a common key system encryption/decryption function; data written to an RFID tag 80 are encrypted before being written; data read from the RFID tag 80 are decrypted after being read; and a common key for encryption/decryption is saved in a SIM card 32 provided in the portable telephone communication unit.

Abstract: A Barcode System with Re-publishable Content or Tasks consists of a data server with User Data Management module and 2D Barcodes Management module, mobile communication devices with 2D barcode scanners, user ID recognition module and task reader, and 2D barcodes whose destination URLs are quizzes or games based on the users' skill levels. The Barcode gives certain users permission to select from the tasks received by scanning the barcode and republish them to other users' ebooks. There are also some settings in the barcode to control skill subscription, and valid dates etc. Once the user scanned the 2D barcodes, and finished the tasks, the results will be uploaded to the data server to re-evaluate the user's skill level and assign the next sets of tasks.

Abstract: Scannable thumbnails for identifying data objects stored on a database. A method includes identifying a data collection comprising one or more data objects stored on a database and receiving a thumbnail selection to represent the data collection, wherein the thumbnail selection comprises one or more of an image from the data collection, a graphic, or text. The method includes generating a scannable code associated with the data collection merging the scannable code with the thumbnail selection to generate a scannable thumbnail.

Abstract: An electronic voting system is described that utilizes printed vote records (PVRs) in which a voter's vote selections are recorded in voter readable characters. Optical character recognition (OCR) techniques may then be utilized to scan the PVR to record the voter's selections. The OCR data is then utilized to generate the cast vote record. Thus, the electronic voting system directly interprets the voter selections from the PVR just as the voter sees the data. In this manner “what you see is what you get” printed vote record data is provided for a voter's viewing and that same data is used to generate the cast vote record.

Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for accessing links based on encoded objects. For example, a messaging application implemented on a client device determines a location of the client device and identifies a content item previously accessed by a threshold number of client devices at the location, the content item being previously accessed by each of the client devices responsive to scanning a physical object that encodes a link to the content item. The messaging application displays a notification that identifies the content item without the client device scanning the physical object and, in response to receiving input, accesses the link to present the content item without the client device scanning the physical object.

Abstract: Systems and methods for issuing, by an officer, a citation to an offender associated with a legal violation is described herein. The method can include acquiring, via an optical scanner, personal information associated with a driver license of the offender and vehicle information associated with a vehicle associated with the offender and with the legal violation. One or more databases can be queried to identify personal information associated with the offender, vehicle information associated with the vehicle, and one or more remedial options in response to the citation. A handheld device can generate the citation by including the personal information, the vehicle information, the legal violation, and an indication of the remedial option. The offender can sign the ticket electronically to generate the executed ticket. The executed ticket can be transmitted to a smart phone or a printing device, or an email account associated with the offender.

Abstract: An information medium according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes two or more data layers provided on a support base. The two or more data layers have two or more pieces of visible information recorded on the two or more data layers. The two or more pieces of visible information are obtained by decomposing two-dimensional visible information and thereby allowing synthesis of the two or more pieces of visible information to result in the two-dimensional visible information.

Abstract: A code display medium includes a code image display portion which arranges a plurality of code images side by side in a circumferential direction around an axis of screw fastening and which displays the plurality of code images so as to be optically readable, each of the plurality of code images including identification information for identifying at least one of a fastening material for the screw fastening and/or an object to be fastened by the screw fastening and a fixing portion which fixes the code image display portion to a position that is on the object to be fastened and that can be simultaneously captured with the fastening material in a state where the screw fastening is performed.

Abstract: Graphic code processing includes displaying a graphic code scanning interface that is used for previewing at least one frame of acquired scanning image. In response to n graphic codes being included in the at least one frame of scanning image, recognition is performed on the n graphic codes to obtain n contact accounts. A service processing interaction region is displayed that includes contact controls corresponding to the n contact accounts. The service processing interaction region is configured to provide a service corresponding to at least one contact account in the n contact accounts. The n contact accounts can be obtained by scanning codes in batches to add friends and transmit files.

Abstract: Techniques for optimizing one or more imaging settings for a machine vision job are provided. An example method includes configuring a machine vision job by setting a plurality of banks of imaging parameters, with each of the plurality of banks of imaging parameters being different from each other; transmitting the machine vision job to an imaging device; and executing the machine vision job on the imaging device to: (a) capture an image with the imaging device operating pursuant to one of the plurality of banks of imaging parameters; (b) attempt to decode a barcode within the image; (c) responsive to successfully decoding the barcode within the image, successfully ending the barcode reader tool; and (d) responsive to unsuccessfully decoding the barcode within the image, repeating (a)-(d) with another one of the one of the plurality of banks of imaging parameters.

Abstract: The present technology discloses smart labels to monitor physical parameters, and for traceability and authentication of objects, documents or people. This active and multifunctional label is based on spectrally and spatially multiplexed Quick Response (QR) codes (A). Spectrally selectivity is achieved using luminescent materials and spatially multiplexing is achieved using different patterns (B) combining both to design improved QR codes able to store information at different layers of accessibility. This brings advantages over the actual scenario of QR codes wherein the amount of storage information increases up to three times, adding the capability to sense physical parameters and allow to control the provided information, creating public and restricted access. To access and read the content of each layer, different illumination is used (C) to (E) and is processed using a device or via dedicated applications.

Abstract: A medium storage device includes: a safe having, at a rear portion, an entrance for replenishment and recovery to which a transit cassette is connectable; an identification unit serving to identify whether a medium is a normal medium or a rejection medium; a temporary holding unit configured to temporarily accommodate a medium; a recycle cassette configured to accommodate the medium identified as the normal medium; a conveyance path configured to convey the medium between the identification unit, the temporary holding unit, and the recycle cassette; a control unit configured to control the conveyance path such that the medium replenished from the transit cassette is conveyed to the temporary holding unit, the medium conveyed to the temporary holding unit is conveyed to the identification unit, and the medium identified as the normal medium in the identification unit is conveyed to the recycle cassette.

Abstract: An electronic voting system is described that utilizes printed vote records (PVRs) in which a voter's vote selections are recorded in voter readable characters. Optical character recognition (OCR) techniques may then be utilized to scan the PVR to record the voter's selections. The OCR data is then utilized to generate the cast vote record. Thus, the electronic voting system directly interprets the voter selections from the PVR just as the voter sees the data. In this manner “what you see is what you get” printed vote record data is provided for a voter's viewing and that same data is used to generate the cast vote record.