Abstract: A method for determining the authenticity of an identity document is provided that includes capturing, by an electronic device, image data of an identity document. The identity document has a first side and a second side. The image data includes an image of the first side and an image of the second side. The first side includes data about a person associated with the identity document and second side includes a PDF417 barcode which has features. The method also includes determining a class of the identity document. The features of the PDF417 barcode adhere to criteria established for the determined class of the identity document. Moreover, the method includes analyzing the features of the PDF417 barcode for anomalies. In response to determining the features of the PDF417 barcode are free of anomalies, the identity document is determined to be authentic. Otherwise, the identity document is determined to be fraudulent.

Abstract: A method of reading machine-readable marks on a movable support and object of a sample instrument. The method includes capturing a first image of the moveable support as the moveable support moves from a first position to a second position using an image capture device; determining whether a first fiducial machine-readable mark on the moveable support is in the first image; determining, when the first fiducial machine-readable mark is in the first image, whether a first machine-readable mark on a first object coupled to the moveable support is in the first image at a predetermined position relative to the first fiducial machine-readable mark; and associating information decoded from the first machine-readable mark on the first object with a first location on the moveable support associated with the first fiducial machine-readable mark.

Abstract: A device and method for waveform transmission of transaction card data to a merchant point-of-sale device are provided. The device includes a memory device for storing data, a processor, and a transmitter. The device is programmed to receive transaction card data that mimics data stored within a magnetic stripe associated with a transaction card, convert the transaction card data to a first data file for storage within the memory device, transmit the first data file to the transmitter, and transmit a first waveform from the transmitter to the POS device, wherein the first waveform includes changes in a magnetic field that represent the transaction card data.

Abstract: Systems, methods and tools for securely scheduling appointments, maintenance and repairs of vehicles. The system may be an automated service kiosk available 24 hours a day. A customer can schedule services, drop off and pick up keys for receiving service at any time that may be convenient for the customer, without regard for the normal operating hours of the service provider and may do so without having to interact with an employee of the service provider. Automated customer recognition may be performed using license scanning or biometric scanning. The user may select a service from a menu of services and deposit keys (or key fobs) within the kiosk system or receive keys therefrom. Upon returning to complete the service transaction customers may scan a paper or digital receipt provided during the initial scheduling of the service and tender payment via the kiosk or using digital currency.

Abstract: Systems, devices and automated processes provide robust, computationally-efficient and secure protection of media content or other electronic data stored on a user-supplied storage device through the use of efficient file system encryption. Only certain portions of the content are encrypted by the host device, thereby reducing the computational demand in comparison to encrypting all of the content. By selecting the particular portions to encrypt, the formatting and structure of the stored data can be concealed, thereby making the use of the unencrypted content very difficult, if not impossible.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for identifying a narrow-strip two-dimensional bar code. One of the methods includes obtaining an image of the narrow-strip two-dimensional bar code. A first positioning graph and a second positioning graph are detected in the image. A target region is determined from the image based on center positions of the first positioning graph and the second positioning graph, where the target region includes a rectangular region corresponding to the narrow-strip two-dimensional bar code. A data region is determined from the target region, and two-dimensional bar code data is determined from the data region.

Abstract: To suppress an increase in processing time due to a load of inference processing while improving reading accuracy by the inference processing of machine learning. An optical information reading device includes a processor including: an inference processing part that inputs a code image to a neural network and executes inference processing of generating an ideal image corresponding to the code image; and a decoding processing part that executes first decoding processing of decoding the code image and second decoding processing of decoding the ideal image generated by the inference processing part. The processor executes the inference processing and the first decoding processing in parallel, and executes the second decoding processing after completion of the inference processing.

Abstract: A first computing device of a multi-part code system includes one or more optical scanners and a network application associated with a network computing device of the multi-part code system. The network application is operable to obtain a second portion of a code associated with a second computing device. The network computing device generated the code for an interaction between the first and second computing device. The network application is further operable to display the second portion of the code on a display area of an interactive display, receive a first portion of the code, and instruct a user to drag the first portion of the code to the display area to align with the second portion of the code. When the first and second portions of the code are aligned, the network application produces the code and sends a finalized interaction notification to the network computing device.

Abstract: A device (12, 312, 494) operates to cause financial transfers responsive to data read from data bearing records. The device includes a reader (20, 314) that is usable to read check data from financial checks. The reader is also usable to read record document data such as an invoice or other remittance advice. At least one circuit (54, 332) of the device is operative to cause a determination to be made that check data and/or record document data corresponds to stored data. Responsive to the determination, check data and record data are made available to a payee terminal (346). The device may be operable responsive to receipt of embedded instructions from a check payment website to capture image data corresponding to an image of a financial check and to send the image data to a remote computer as indicated by the embedded instructions.

Abstract: An object ID-centered workflow method utilizes an object identifier (ID) associated with an object. Forensic identification of serialization elements of the object ID enables access to a registry of workflows.

Abstract: Described is a digitized mail control system. The system may include a server having a memory storing mail data associated with a user and a user computing device coupled to the server. The server may be programmed to receive an access signal from the user computing device that has accessed the system. In response to receiving the access signal, the server may process the user data and locate the stored mail data associated with the user data. The server may then create and send for execution on the user computing device instruction to display mail data including sender information and action buttons associated with predetermined actions to take in response to the sender information. The server may receive a signal including a selected action associated with a selected action button with regard to a selected sender and automatically execute program code corresponding to the selected action.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for demonstrating a personalized automated teller machine (ATM) presentation to a user may include: obtaining transaction data of the user via a device associated with the user; obtaining, via the one or more processors, geographic data of the user based on the transaction data; generating, via the one or more processors, ATM data based on the geographic data of the user; obtaining, via the one or more processors, user feedback data based on the ATM data, wherein the user feedback data comprises a selection of an ATM of the list of the ATMs; transmitting, to the selected ATM of the list of the ATMs, presentation data based on the transaction data and the user feedback data; and demonstrating, via the selected ATM of the list of the ATMs, the personalized ATM presentation to the user based on the presentation data.

Abstract: The disclosure describes one or more implementations of a neural network architecture pruning system that automatically and progressively prunes neural networks. For instance, the neural network architecture pruning system can automatically reduce the size of an untrained or previously-trained neural network without reducing the accuracy of the neural network. For example, the neural network architecture pruning system jointly trains portions of a neural network while progressively pruning redundant subsets of the neural network at each training iteration. In many instances, the neural network architecture pruning system increases the accuracy of the neural network by progressively removing excess or redundant portions (e.g., channels or layers) of the neural network. Further, by removing portions of a neural network, the neural network architecture pruning system can increase the efficiency of the neural network.

Abstract: A recorder for documenting that a shaft in a rotating machine has been rotated while the rotating machine is stored or otherwise out of service. The recorder includes an elongated strip that is wound on a reel disposed adjacent the shaft. The reel is rotatable about an axle that is spaced away from the shaft. A free end of the strip is secured to an outer surface of the shaft and spools onto the shaft as the shaft is rotated, and which unwinds the strip from the reel. Markings are on the strip representing distance from the free end, which visually indicate occurrence and amount of shaft rotation. Types of markings include different colors or patterns, and which change at distances corresponding to shaft circumference. Alternatively, the markings are metered increments illustrating linear distance.

Abstract: There is provided an information code in which first cells have lightness that is intermediate between lightness of second cells and lightness of a predetermined marginal area. The first cells and the second cells are configured to have a difference in lightness therebetween sufficiently smaller than a difference in lightness between the first cells and the predetermined marginal area, in a predetermined area occupying at least a part of the code area. There is also provided an information code reader in which colors of an image of the information code captured by an imaging unit are corrected such that the difference in lightness between the first and second cells increases. Using the corrected image, decoding processing is performed to decode the information code.

Abstract: Provided herein are various embodiments of using machine readable technologies for the smart shipping of multiple products. An embodiment operates by receiving a request from a seller to ship a plurality of items that have been sold via an electronic marketplace. Information pertinent to shipping each of the plurality of items is predicted. A shipping company to ship the plurality of items is selected and provided the predicted information. A single machine readable code for shipping the plurality of items using the identified shipping company is determined based at least in part on the predicted information. A confirmation is received from the computing system of the shipping company responsive to the single machine readable code being scanned by a computing device of the computing system of the shipping company, the confirmation indicating that one or more of the plurality of items have been received by shipping company for shipment.

Abstract: A transaction or identification card has a width, a length, and at least one planar surface extending across the width and length. The card includes a dynamic feature including an actuator having an inactivated position and an activated position, wherein the inactivated position has at least one reversible difference from the activated position relative to the planar surface of the card.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to color localizing machine-readable indicia (e.g., a 1D or 2D barcode) found in imagery, and related image processing technology. One implementation involves locating regions associated with a first color and locating regions associated with a second color and creating a centroid for each of the located regions. A metric can be established for a color region couple comprising a located first color region and a located second color region, the metric including: i) a distance between a located first color region centroid and a located second color region centroid, and ii) a ratio of areas of the located first color region and the located second color region. Of course, other implementations, technology and combinations are provided.

Abstract: A system providing self-service access to locked merchandise comprising: (a) providing a fixture that restricts access to the locked merchandise, wherein the fixture can automatically lock or unlock, allowing or restricting access to the locked merchandise; (b) providing a means of uniquely identifying an individual attempting to access the merchandise; (c) measuring a set of behaviors of the individual during any time the fixture is an open mode; (d) assessing whether the set of behaviors of the individual are suspicious or not relative to a set of suspicious event thresholds; (e) storing the individual and their set of behaviors as accessible records in at least one database; and (f) providing an algorithm which determines future access privileges of the individual to the enclosure based on a set of variables.

Abstract: This invention provides an aimer assembly for a vision system that is coaxial (on-axis) with the camera optical axis, thus providing an aligned aim point at a wide range of working distances. The aimer includes a projecting light element located aside the camera optical axis. The beam and received light from the imaged (illuminated) scene are selectively reflected or transmitted through a dichoric mirror assembly in a manner that permits the beam to be aligned with the optical axis and projected to the scene while only light from the scene is received by the sensor. The aimer beam and illuminator employ differing light wavelengths. In a further embodiment, an internal illuminator includes a plurality of light sources below the camera optical axis. Some of the light sources are covered by a prismatic structure for close distance, and other light sources are collimated, projecting over a longer distance.