Abstract: A radio tag reading device includes a placement table, an antenna, a reader, a sensor, and a controller. The antenna is configured to communicate with wireless tags within a communication range covering a placement region of the placement table. The reader is configured to output commodity information based on a signal received by the antenna from wireless tags. The sensor is configured to detect a user near the placement region of the placement table. The controller is configured to start a reading operation by activating the reader and causing the antenna to start emitting radio waves upon the sensor detecting the user near the placement region.

Abstract: A system or method may implement an overdraft prediction analysis to predict whether an account overdraft is about to occur. The overdraft prediction analysis may be based on: 1. customer account data, such as current account balance, historical balances, historical withdrawals, historical deposits balance trends, and the like; 2. account transaction data, such as routine or recurring account transactions, timing of transactions, amount, deposit or withdrawal transactions, and the like; 3. location data, such as locations of past purchases or payments; and 4. time and date data, such as dates and times of past transactions. Other factors, such as credit score, loan activities, social data, or the like also may be used for the overdraft prediction analysis. Once an overdraft situation is predicted, the system or method may provide options for the users to avoid or mitigate the potential account overdraft.

Abstract: A portable transaction module to be placed at a space where business transactions between a teller and a customer are performed is provided. The portable transaction module includes a portable unit, and a customer-side digital module unit, for inputting information necessary for the business transactions, mounted at one side of the portable unit.

Abstract: A system including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform facilitating display of instructions to a user interface of a mobile device of a user on how to rotate a medication package in front of a camera of the mobile device to capture a video of a rotated view of a non-planar surface of the medication package; capturing, using the camera, the video of the rotated view of the non-planar surface; generating, using an input pre-processing algorithm, a series of images from the video; recognizing, using an output post-processing algorithm, respective words from the respective machine-readable text data; merging, using a merging algorithm, the respective words from the images to create lines of text; and extracting, using a machine learning algorithm, prescription data associated with prescription data fields from the lines of text. Other embodiments are described.

Abstract: A method for enabling, via a digital wallet application, a smart card to operate as a primary smart card for a plurality of a user's smart cards. The primary smart card may include a microprocessor, a touch screen, a wireless interface and an embedded subscriber identification module (“E-SIM”) card. The method may include retrieving on the primary smart card, from the digital wallet application, a list of a plurality of smart cards, displaying on the touch screen of the primary smart card, a selectable list of the plurality of smart cards, receiving, via the touch screen, a selected smart card and storing the card data on the E-SIM of the primary smart card. When the primary smart card is within a pre-determined proximity to a point-of-sale (“POS”) device, the primary smart card may be configured to transmit the card payment data stored on the E-SIM to the POS device.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method in which an application server of a distributed system provides data, the method including performing event watching on a ZooKeeper server, receiving information related to a change of a first field included in first data from the ZooKeeper server according to a result of the event watching, reading the first data from a first storage when a request signal for the first data is input from a client, and changing a value of the first field included in the read first data on the basis of the information received from the ZooKeeper server and providing the first data with the changed value of the first field to the client.

Abstract: An enhanced display reticle for a range finding device, the reticle including a display in communication with a rangefinder and an inclinometer, the display defining a live angle meter and a power meter, the live angle meter including a plurality of incline hashes, the power meter including a plurality of strength hashes; a processor configured to illuminate one or more of the plurality of incline hashes in response to a signal from the inclinometer; illuminate one or more of the plurality of strength hashes in response to a signal received from the laser rangefinder.

Abstract: Computer-implemented techniques and systems for generating vehicle profiles may include scanning a plurality of vehicles, each vehicle located at a respective vehicle location, identifying respective vehicle locations for each of the plurality of vehicles, based on scanning the plurality of vehicles, associating a vehicle identification tag for each vehicle with its respective vehicle location, interpreting a signal to determine a user location, determining that the user location is within a threshold distance from a first vehicle location of a first vehicle from the plurality of vehicles, providing a first vehicle identification tag corresponding to the first vehicle based on determining that the user location is within the threshold distance, generating a first vehicle profile based on the first vehicle identification tag, and providing the first vehicle profile to a user device.

Abstract: A carrier tape has at least two conductive rails affixed at opposite edges of the carrier tape. The purpose of the conductive rails is to provide power to smart labels mounted to the carrier tape for charging the batteries of each of the smart labels or transferring data to or from the smart labels. Holes are pierced into the conductive rails and the carrier tape to make a jagged edge at the backside of each hole in the carrier tape. The jagged edge of each of the holes of the conductive rail and the carrier tape on one layer connects with the conductive rail of the layer immediately adjacent. The smart labels are mounted to the carrier tape with an adhesive. A transport package holds a carrier tape which retains the smart labels and the conductive rails and is configured to transfer charging current or data to the smart labels.

Abstract: Various switchable RFID devices are disclosed. These switchable RFID devices may include one or more RFID tags and one or more switches. Some of these one or more switches are optionally wireless. In various embodiments, the switchable RFID devices include cellular phones, security devices, identity devices, financial devices, remote controls, and the like. The switchable RFID devices are optionally disposed in a cellular phone.

Abstract: A multi-functional optical illuminator comprises: a light pipe (302) with an open frame structure for visual aiming of the illuminator to facilitate an alignment of a barcode; and a circuit board (304), attached to a back opening of the light pipe (302), comprising six dark field LEDs (308) for generating six dark field illuminations and two bright field LEDs (306) for generating bright field illuminations; wherein, the two bright field LEDs (306) produce two alternating point sources for providing bright field illuminations in different directions to minimize a specular reflection hot spot without using any diffuser during the bright field illuminations; wherein, chamfered inner edges of the light pipe (302) emit the dark field illuminations in different orientations from the light pipe (302). The illuminator is designed to provide dual-field, multi-color, multi-directional illumination.

Abstract: An inspection system of a chip includes a reading device and a determining unit. The reading device is configured to count a number of chips stored in a storage case, the chips associated with a table game and including a chip having a radio tag, read the radio tag while the chips are stored in the storage case, and acquire chip information. The determining unit is configured to compare the chip information of the chips in the storage case with a physical number of the chips in the storage case, determine that there is an abnormal chips among the chips stored in the storage case based on a determination that the counted number of the chips does not match a physical number of the chips in the storage case, and output a result associated with an indication of the abnormal chip.

Abstract: The disclosed technology provides enhanced financial statements such as credit statements that provide customized payment options to a customer that takes into account the total amount owed by the customer, and past payments made by the customer. The customized payment options are determined with the goal of providing more payment options that encourage financial health, while not overwhelming the customer with too many options or irrelevant options. The customized payment options can be displayed in an interactive user interface for paying a credit statement that can visually inform a user of the benefit of the respective payment options with respect to the impact of the respective payment option on the customer's financial health—at least as it pertains to a credit account for which the statement was issued.

Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein describe systems and methods for heat sinks within light fixtures. In embodiments, the heat sink may be a passive system that creates a cross-flow thermal management system to dissipate large amounts of heat in a slim light fixture. Embodiments may utilize a series of wings assembled in a linear design that are positioned perpendicular to the length of the light fixture to preserve the cross-flow heat sink.

Abstract: Security flaps for use with cash trays and cash trays including such security flaps are disclosed. An apparatus includes a cash tray having a base and a plurality of walls that extend from the base and define a plurality of paper-currency compartments. A plurality of distal edges of the walls define openings of the paper-currency compartments. A spring-biased security flap is coupled to the cash tray and adapted to engage or be immediately adjacent the distal edges of the walls of at least one of the paper-currency compartments to cover the corresponding opening.

Abstract: Example methods and apparatuses to mitigate specular reflections and direct illumination interference in bioptic barcode readers are disclosed. An example method includes creating a first sub-field of view passing through a first window, creating a second sub-field of view passing through a second window, while activating a first illumination source to illuminate the first sub-field of view and deactivating a second illumination source associated with the second sub-field of view, capturing first images of the first sub-field of view, while activating the second illumination source to illuminate the second sub-field of view and deactivating the first illumination source, capturing second images of the second sub-field of view, and attempting to decode a barcode within at least one of the first images and the second images.

Abstract: A method of decoding a barcode includes capturing an image of the barcode, dividing the image of the barcode into a plurality of rows and columns, each column corresponding to one encoded character of the barcode, using a number of trained image classifiers on each row to determine a predicted character for each column of the row, for each column, determining an output character for the column based on each of the predicted characters associated with the column, and for each column, outputting the output character. Also, a system for decoding a barcode that implements the method.

Abstract: Machine vision devices with configurable illumination and aiming pattern generation are disclosed. An example system includes a housing having a cavity; an imaging sub-assembly mounted in the cavity including: an imager configured to capture an image; an aiming light source mounted in the housing configured to generate a collimated beam of light, an illumination light source configured to generate illumination light; and interchangeable first and second cover plates configured for mounting to the housing in front of the imaging sub-assembly to form an external cover for the housing and sealably protect the imager from an environment, wherein the first and second cover plates have respective passive optical elements that modify the collimated beam of light to form respective aiming patterns, and wherein at least one of the first cover plate or the second cover plate has a third optical element that modifies the illumination light.

Abstract: A mobile telephone case includes a case body that defines a pocket for holding a mobile telephone. A card holder module is attached to the case body. The card holder module includes a hollow card holder body. An IC payment card is slidably mounted within the card holder body. When by sliding motion the IC payment card is moved to an actuated position, a set of contact pads on the card is exposed to allow the IC payment card to engage in a contact card payment account transaction.

Abstract: An RFID tag includes an RFID device, an output device and a controller. The RFID device includes a storage from and into which information is readable and writable from a reading/writing apparatus through wireless communication. The output device outputs information. The controller reads information for output from the storage and controls the output device. The storage includes a first region into which the information for output is written and a second region separate from the first region. The controller updates data of the second region in response to updating output of the output device.