Abstract: A medium processing method includes receiving, by a primary processing machine, a customer's request for medium processing; in a case where the processing is first processing, storing, by the primary processing machine, a medium targeted for the first processing in the primary processing machine, and accordingly completing the first processing; and in a case where the processing is second processing, providing, by the primary processing machine, a customer with information for guiding the customer to a secondary processing machine.

Abstract: A facility access system for facilitating on-site access to physical assets, comprising a physical structure having one or more actuated features each configured to provide selective access to one or more secured physical assets for retrieval by on-site personnel, including an optical unit configured to receive a unique code from the on-site personnel. A computing platform configured to validate the unique code received by the optical unit, provide a present status of the one or more secured physical assets based on the unique code, negotiate access to the one or more secured physical assets that corresponds to the unique code thereby permitting selective access for retrieval by the on-site personnel, a sensor configured to sense the transfer of the one or more secured physical assets, and wherein the present status is updated to transferred when the on-site personnel takes possession of the one or more physical assets.

Abstract: Disclosed is a device for assessing and/or rehabilitating the upper limbs of a subject including a display surface, a detection surface, and a processing unit. Also disclosed is a system and an apparatus including the device, and computer-implemented methods using the device.

Abstract: Systems and methods include extracting item parameters from images of items positioned at a POS system. Item parameters associated with each item when mapped into a feature vector for each item are indicative as to an identification of the item. The feature vectors are analyzed to determine whether item parameters when combined and mapped into the feature vectors match a corresponding feature vector stored in a database. The database stores different combinations of item parameters as mapped into different stored feature vectors with different stored feature vectors associated with different items thereby identifying each item based on each different combination of item parameters as mapped into each stored feature vector associated with each item. Each item positioned at the POS system is identified when the feature vectors associated with each item match a corresponding stored feature vector as stored in the database.

Abstract: In some embodiments, a monitoring system may include an RFID reader mounted to a support structure. The RFID reader may be configured for continuously scanning for RFID tagged items within a field and issuing an alert when an alert condition has been triggered.

Abstract: In order to facilitate transfer of ownership of a huge amount of cash between a plurality of bases, a cash handling system includes: a cash handling apparatus configured to handle banknotes whose ownership is to be transferred between a first owner and a second owner, and generate cash data including serial numbers of the banknotes and attribute information regarding whereabouts of the banknotes; and a management apparatus configured to obtain the cash data from the cash handling apparatus, perform a process of transferring the ownership of the banknotes from the first owner to the second owner if the attribute information satisfies a condition that allows the second owner to own the banknotes, and perform a process of transferring the ownership of the banknotes from the second owner to the first owner on condition that the attribute information satisfies a condition that allows the first owner to own the banknotes.

Abstract: Systems and techniques include using a sensor of a computing device to detect the presence of a first portion of a code, the code including at least the first portion and a second portion, where the first portion of the code is decodable and includes an identifier and the second portion of the code is non-decodable. The computing device recognizes the identifier in the first portion of the code and obtains instructions for decoding the second portion of the code using the identifier and/or data associated with the identifier. The instructions to decode the second portion of the code are processed to generate a decoded second portion of the code. The computing device performs an action defined in the decoded second portion of the code.

Abstract: A camera based code reader for reading an optical code on an object in a relative movement to the code reader has a linear image sensor to record a respective image line and a control and evaluation unit having at least one first pre-processing unit and a further processing unit. The first pre-processing unit is connected to the image sensor and is configured to read image line by image line in the course of the relative movement, to rescale a respective image line with a zoom factor z in a pre-processing, and then to forward it to the further processing unit. The further processing unit is configured to read the optical code from the image lines. The image sensor has a plurality of linear arrangements of light reception elements. Some of the light reception elements are sensitive to white light and some are respectively sensitive to only one color.

Abstract: The present application provides an optical information collector and a method thereof. The optical information collector includes an image sensor, configured to collect image data of optical information; a decoding unit, configured to decode the image data based on a preset decoding algorithm; a central processor, configured to control the image sensor to collect the image data and control the decoding unit to decode the image data upon triggering. Once triggered, the central processor issues an instruction to discard N frames of image data in a specific frame number, where the N frames of image data in a specific frame number is image data that was previously collected and remaining in the optical information collector upon triggering, which can prevent residual image data from being decoded and outputted, causing a decoding error, thereby improving a decoding efficiency.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a tag suitable for use with pets and other animals. The tag may be a glass tag that includes an antenna, a first circuit block and a second circuit block. The antenna has a common core having a coil wound around the core. The coil interconnects a first antenna pad, a second antenna pad and a third antenna pad; a first circuit block having a first and a second contact pad, the first and second antenna pads interconnected to the first and second contact pads respectively. The second circuit block has a third and a fourth contact pads. The second and third antenna pads interconnected to the third and fourth contact pads respectively. The first circuit block may be an RFID integrated circuit and the second circuit block may be an NFC IC.

Abstract: A method includes performing, by a terminal with an access card, a first relay attack check for the access card in accordance with a local value associated with the terminal and a local value associated with the access card; determining, by the terminal, that the access card has passed the first relay attack check, and based thereon, performing, by the terminal with the access card, an authentication check of the access card in accordance with the local value associated with the terminal, the local value associated with the access card, and a local challenge value associated with the terminal; and determining, by the terminal, that the access card has passed the first relay attack check and the authentication check, and based thereon, validating, by the terminal, the access card.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a handheld scanner and a scanning method for the handheld scanner. The handheld scanner includes a texture camera, a first black-and-white camera and a second black-and-white camera, where the first black-and-white camera and the second black-and-white camera are spaced apart from each other; and the handheld scanner further includes a laser projector, and the texture camera and the first black-and-white camera are respectively arranged at two sides of the laser projector. When a highly reflective or dark object is scanned, textures are obtained by the texture camera while laser scanning is performed; and after point cloud fusion is completed, texture images are screened and fused according to a shooting angle and the highlight degree of the image, so that the overall texture image of point cloud is obtained.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a medium processing apparatus, including: a housing provided with a surface facing a customer operating the medium processing apparatus; and a rolled coin device housed in the housing and configured to process rolled coins formed by bundling a plurality of loose coins. The surface of the housing includes a designated area located in a height range conforming to Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) standard with respect to a height direction of the medium processing apparatus, and a rolled coin dispensing port of the rolled coin device for dispensing the rolled coins is arranged in the designated area.

Abstract: An identification card includes a ceramic substrate with opposite surfaces, and an accommodating part. A marking joint part is arranged in the accommodating part, and the orthogonal projection of the accommodating part on the ceramic substrate covers the orthogonal projection of the marking joint part on the ceramic substrate. The marking joint part includes a bearing layer and a marking part arranged on the bearing layer. The bearing layer and the marking part are of an integrated structure. The ceramic substrate is provided with an accommodating part for setting a marking joint part to ensure the flatness of the identification card, and the orthogonal projection of the accommodating part on the ceramic substrate covers the orthogonal projection of the marking joint part on the ceramic substrate.

Abstract: A host device comprising an input/output (I/O) port, a first sensor, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to determine a cassette is docked with the host device, receive a transaction request requiring a specific denomination for dispensing, cause a picker system of the cassette to retrieve a target bill from a storage position of a bill storage component of the cassette based on the specific denomination for the transaction request and a storage position for a bill matching the specific denomination where the cassette is configured to generate a bill list comprising bill information for each bill of the plurality of bills including a respective denomination and the storage position for each bill, and cause the I/O port to dispense the target bill.

Abstract: A noncontact communication medium includes a resonance circuit configured to resonate using an induced current induced by the antenna coil to generate an alternating current voltage, and a control circuit. The resonance circuit includes a variable condenser connected in parallel to the antenna coil, and a variable resistor connected in parallel to the antenna coil. The control circuit adjusts capacitance of the variable condenser to cause the resonance circuit to resonate at a predetermined resonance frequency, and adjusts a resistance value of the variable resistor to adjust a Q value. The noncontact communication medium operates using power based on a direct current voltage obtained by rectifying the alternating current voltage. And the communication is communication using a signal corresponding to a waveform of the alternating current voltage.

Abstract: A method for identity (ID) verification, including: acquiring one or more ID indications of at least one item using a handheld verifying device; automatically verifying by the verifying device a desired relation between the one or more acquired ID indications and stored verification data associated with the verifying device; physically marking the item using the verifying device with a verifying marking if the desired relation is automatically verified.

Abstract: Provided is a layer structure, preferably a security form in a book cover, particularly preferably a security form in a book cover for identification or security documents, comprising at least a) a first radiation-engravable layer a) containing at least one polymeric material; and b) at least one further layer b) containing at least one polymeric material, preferably a thermoplastic elastomer, preferably a thermoplastic polyurethane with a hardness of ?40 Shore A according to DIN ISO 7619-1-2012-2 to ?95 Shore D according to DIN ISO 7619-1-2012-2; wherein the further layer b) overlies the first layer a) at least partly to form an overlapping region, and wherein a coherent engraving partly extends in the overlap region, preferably in the further layer b), and partly in the portion of layer a) that extends outside the overlap region, most preferably exclusively in the further layer b).

Abstract: The invention provides an authenticatable ballot and method wherein a printable substrate is provided with at least one of overt authenticating indicia and covert authenticating indicia. The overt and covert authenticating indicia provide a means for voters and ballot counting entities to authenticate ballots by verifying the presence of sanctioned overt and covert authenticating indicia. The overt authenticating indicia is observable by the human eye without the use of any specialized tool or light source. The covert authenticating indicia are not readily apparent to the human eye and require the indicia to be resolved using a specialized tool, such as an ultraviolet or infrared light source.

Abstract: A venue automation environment is disclosed in which various forms of automation and user integration can be managed across one or more activities at one or more venues. Venue automation and integration can include automation at various stages of participant engagement including before, during, and after visiting one or more venues and participating in one or more activities at a venue. Venue automation and integration can include automated itinerary generation, activity reservation, participant identification, access control, payment managing, scoring, media capture (e.g., audio, photo, and video), and venue management.