Abstract: Methods, secure elements, validation entities, and computer program products for effecting secure communication of payment information to merchants for Internet-based purchases. Payment information for a user's real payment information is installed in a secure element of a computer, the payment information may comprise a pseudo PAN number for the portable consumer device provided by a validation entity. The secure element is shielded from the computer's operating system to thwart hacker attacks. The user accesses the secure element to make a purchase. In response, the secure element contacts the validation entity with the pseudo account number, and in response obtains dynamic payment information that the secure element can used to effect the payment. The dynamic payment information comprises an account number that is different from the pseudo PAN, and which has at least one difference which respect to the user's real payment information.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a front end assembly including a headlamp assembly. The headlamp assembly includes a housing that defines a cavity and an outer lens that closes the cavity. A low beam headlamp assembly is located within the cavity. A shared cover lens is located within the cavity. The shared cover lens has an illumination region. A first light guide device directs a beam of light at the illumination region. A second light guide device directs a beam of light at an area offset from the illumination region and also at the illumination region.

Abstract: A registration settlement apparatus comprises a first determining module configured to determine contents of a transaction in response to an operation by a first operator; a second determining module configured to determine contents of the transaction in response to an operation by a second operator facing the first operator across the registration settlement apparatus; a determination control module configured to enable one of the first and second determining modules, and to switch to the determining module enabled for the determination on contents of a transaction started thereafter in response to a button operation by the second operator before the determination on contents of one transaction is started; and a settlement module configured to perform a settlement processing of calculating a settlement amount based on the contents of the transaction determined by the determining module enabled, and settling the calculated settlement amount in response to an operation by the first operator.

Abstract: A backlight module and a display device are disclosed. The display device includes: a reflective plate; a light guide plate disposed on the reflective plate; a turning film disposed on the light guide plate, wherein the turning film comprises a plurality of grooves on a surface thereof facing to the light guide plate; an optical film disposed on the turning film; a display panel disposed on the optical film; and a micro-structure film disposed on the optical film, wherein the display panel and the micro-structure film are arranged in a stack, the micro-structure film includes a first layer and a second layer, and an interface between the first layer and the second layer is formed of a multi-curve structure.

Abstract: The present invention provides systems and methods capable of collecting and analyzing a multi-fields two-dimensional code. A system in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention comprises at least one mobile terminal, a communication network and at least one server, wherein the at least one mobile terminal and the at least one server are both coupled to the communication network. The mobile terminal comprises a collecting module for collecting the multi-fields two dimensional code in an optical manner; a decoding module for decoding the collected multi-fields two dimensional code; and an identifying module for identifying the multiple fields by applying a predetermined rule. The server comprises a memory and an analyzing module for analyzing the multi-fields two-dimensional code. Other embodiments are also described.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic glow stick comprising a stick body which is a tubular body, at least one handle in a plugged connection with an end of the stick body, a battery pack which is disposed in the handle and connected with the handle in a detachable way, and a light emitting element which is connected with the battery pack and electrically connected with batteries in the battery pack. The batteries can charge the light emitting element, and the light emitting element can project light in the stick body such that the stick body glows. The electronic glow stick has advantages of simple structure, low cost and high durability because of no circuit board; additionally, damaged parts can be exchanged instead of replacing the whole unit, thus effectively saving use cost; moreover, the handle is detachably connected with the stick body, so the whole glow stick has diversified structures.

Abstract: A card registry system is configured to automatically identify financial card information in one or more credit files associated with a consumer and populate a card registry account of the consumer with the identified financial card information. Once the financial card information has been obtained from the credit file(s), the card registry system may transmit cancellation and/or reissuance requests to the respective card issuers in the instance that one or more cards are compromised, so that the financial cards may be easily and efficiently cancelled and/or reissued at the request of the consumer.

Abstract: Described is a flexible and customizable physical access control system that allows for a smart device to execute an authentication application that users subscribe to for various physical locations with pre-determined rule sets that correspond to registration information of the physical location's qualifications and rules sets. A user's smart device is used as a credential for large number of locations so long as that location is in the subscriber network.

Abstract: A network translation computing device for processing consolidated messages is disclosed. The network translation computing device receives a web-based authentication response including a plurality of data elements in a web-based format. The network translation computing device translates the plurality of data elements from the web-based format to a network-based format. The network translation computing device generates a network-format authorization request message including the plurality of data elements in the network-based format. The network translation computing device transmits the network-format authorization request message to an issuer of the transaction card to initiate an authorization process of the transaction.

Abstract: At least some embodiments of the present invention generally relate to the field of optics, and more specifically, to compact optical arrangements for use in imaging engines likes the ones used in handheld barcode readers. In an embodiment, an imaging engine having a field of view (FOV) includes an imaging sensor and an optical lens configured to (i) fold the FOV once between the imaging sensor and an exit window of the imaging engine and/or the window of a barcode reader within which the imaging engine may be implemented, and (ii) correct for field curvature.

Abstract: This invention provides a system and method for decoding symbology that contains a respective data set using multiple image frames of the symbol, wherein at least some of those frames can have differing image parameters (for example orientation, lens zoom, aperture, etc.) so that combining the frames with an illustrative multiple image application allows the most-readable portions of each frame to be stitched together. And unlike prior systems which may select one “best” image, the illustrative system method allows this stitched image to form a complete, readable image of the underlying symbol. In an illustrative embodiment the system and method includes an imaging assembly that acquires multiple image frames of the symbol in which some of those image frames have discrete, differing image parameters from others of the frames.

Abstract: An automated package-handling support solution receives video observation of a target area in a package-handling facility that includes packages. A display device is configured to produce video images visible from the target area. An operator support system processes the motion-video observation to detect the packages in the target area and retrieve a package-specific routing-related attribute and a package-specific property for each of the packages. The system generates the video output to include a first portion representing the video observation of the packages, and a second portion that includes a package-specific dynamic informational overlay corresponding to each of the packages.

Abstract: A tag adapted to be applied to an object is disclosed. The tag includes a wireless communication interface, a processor and a memory. A univocal code, a cipher key and a count value are store in the memory. The tag generates a dynamic code as a function of the cipher key and the count value. Next, the tag varies the count value according to a determined operation, and stores the varied count value in the memory. The tag transmits the univocal code and the dynamic code to a reader device. The tag may transmit the univocal code and the dynamic code in a URL.

Abstract: A method for identifying a simulated social media account history is provided. The method may include querying a social media account to obtain social media identification information. The querying may determine whether the account history includes one or more parameters that indicate whether the social media account is related to an automated entity or a human entity. The parameters may include at least one of less than a threshold number of friends on the account; more than a threshold frequency of historic ticket purchases per unit time; disparate location of historic ticket purchases per unit time and/or a historic record of less than a threshold reaction time to a plurality of ticket offers.

Abstract: Systems and techniques for a low power wrist-worn RFID reader capable of reading RFID tags within the area of a localized personal body network. The wrist-worn reader provides a means for tracking how a user interacts with their environment. The wrist-worn reader may distinguish between tagged objects within the range of the reader and objects held by the user. The reader may also distinguish when a tagged object has been picked up and when it has been released.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel and a backlight unit. The backlight unit includes a light source, a first substrate on which the light source is mounted, a driving substrate which supplies driving power to the light source, a second substrate connecting the first substrate to the driving substrate, a connector mounted on the driving substrate and coupled to the second substrate, and a dam mounted on the driving substrate and facing the connector with the second substrate interposed therebetween. The dam restricts movement of the second substrate in a direction away from the connector.

Abstract: A medium storage box according to an embodiment includes: a cassette body having a storage space in which a medium is stored; a cassette door coupled to the cassette body to open or close the storage space; a door opening detection unit for generating an open detection signal when the cassette door is opened; a microcomputer for determining that the cassette door is opened when receiving the open detection signal, and for storing the determined opening information of the cassette door in a cassette memory; and a battery for supplying power to the door detection unit and the microcomputer, wherein when the open detection signal is generated in the door opening detection unit, the battery supplies power to the microcomputer.

Abstract: A method for automatically electronically associating vessel identity information of a vessel with an unassociated telemetric device, the unassociated telemetric device comprising a processor and being configured to detect and transmit quantity or usage data and being configured with a location sensing device, wherein the unassociated telemetric device is configured to communicate with a remote server, the method comprising the steps of: the remote server receiving the vessel identity information comprising a deployment location for the unassociated telemetric device; the unassociated telemetric device operating in accordance with an automatic action rule; in response to the unassociated telemetric device operating in accordance with the automatic action rule, the processor receiving location information of the unassociated telemetric device from the location sensing device; the unassociated telemetric device transmitting the location information; the remote server receiving the location information; the remo

Abstract: A wireless IC device includes a wireless IC chip arranged to process a radio signal, a power-supply circuit board that is connected to the wireless IC chip and that includes a power supply circuit including at least one coil pattern, and a radiation plate arranged to radiate a transmission signal supplied from the power-supply circuit board and/or receiving a reception signal to supply the reception signal to the power-supply circuit board. The radiation plate includes an opening provided in a portion thereof and a slit connected to the opening. When viewed in plan from the direction of the winding axis of the coil pattern, the opening in the radiation plate overlaps with an inner area of the coil pattern and the area of the inner area is approximately the same as that of opening.

Abstract: Methodologies, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for reading machine readable features of objects. A local terminal generates a temporary object number corresponding to an unreadable object and captures an image of the unreadable object. A message is sent to a number of portable devices requesting that a duplicate of the unreadable object be located and that a machine readable feature on the duplicate object be read. Once a duplicate object is located, one of the portable devices reads a machine readable feature on the duplicate object, and the portable device calls a service offered by a server to retrieve a data value corresponding to the duplicate item from a database. This data value is then sent to the local terminal invoking a service offered by the terminal to replace the temporary object number with the data value corresponding to the duplicate item.