Abstract: “Non-fungible anti-counterfeit photo-chromic nano-micro three-dimensional tags/labels are designed in such a manner that duplication and counterfeiting of the labels are prevented. The label comprises of a frame quick response (QR) code part (103), which surrounds a three-dimensional sticker part, which consists of a foundation paper (113) made of cellulose, a non-fungible three-dimensional (3D) structure and a fade-resistant transparent plastic sheet (201). The structure consists of multi-colored micro particles (107), silica-infused 3D macro particles (109) and the photo-chromic nano particles (111). The sheet is laminated on the paper after application of dense coating of particles.

Abstract: A system to provide users with a means for accessing media content directly, by performing operations that include: causing display of a media item within a graphical user interface at a client device, the graphical user interface including a set of graphical elements; receiving a selection of a graphical element from among the set of graphical elements within the graphical user interface; generating a reference to the media item based on the selection of the graphical element; encoding a matrix barcode with the reference to the media item; and generating a presentation of the media item that includes a display of the matrix barcode at a position within the media item.

Abstract: Provided is a security code. The security code including a first region and a second region includes a metal layer, a first dielectric pattern provided on the metal layer in the first region, a polymer pattern provided on the metal layer in the second region, a first metal pattern provided on the dielectric pattern, and a second metal pattern provided on the polymer pattern, wherein the polymer pattern includes a material different from that of the first dielectric pattern, and a thickness of the polymer pattern is different from a thickness of the first dielectric pattern.

Abstract: An interactive data object map system is disclosed in which large amounts of geographical, geospatial, and other types of data, geodata, objects, features, and/or metadata are efficiently presented to a user on a map interface. The interactive data object map system allows for rapid and deep analysis of various objects, features, and/or metadata by the user. A layer ontology may be displayed to the user. In various embodiments, when the user rolls a selection cursor over an object/feature an outline of the object/feature is displayed. Selection of an object/feature may cause display of metadata associated with that object/feature. The interactive data object map system may automatically generate feature/object lists and/or histograms based on selections made by the user. The user may perform geosearches, generate heatmaps, and/or perform keyword searches, among other actions.

Abstract: A method for authorizing a financial operation is disclosed, the method comprising: receiving operation data related to a financial operation; obtaining a first biometric mathematical representation of a user; storing an operation mathematical representation representing operation data and the first biometric mathematical representation in an authorization dataset; receiving the authorization dataset; obtaining the operation mathematical representation and the first biometric mathematical representation from the received authorization dataset; receiving a capture of a second image of the user; generating a second biometric mathematical representation of a user; determining a matching score by comparing the first biometric mathematical representation and the second biometric mathematical representation; authenticating an identity of the user; obtaining the operation data from the operation mathematical representation; and authorizing the financial operation if the identity is authenticated and the operation da

Abstract: In some implementations, a server device may generate a machine readable code that conveys first information associated with a first entity. The server device may provide an indication of the machine readable code that indicates the first information. The server device may obtain a request to update information conveyed by the machine readable code, the request including an indication of at least one of the machine readable code or the first information. The server device may modify the first information conveyed by the machine readable code to second information, based on the request and based on authenticating the request, wherein the second information includes a first secure information layer indicating the first information and a second secure information layer indicating information indicated by the request. The server device may provide, to the communication device, an indication of at least one of the machine readable code or the second information.

Abstract: A system for collection and tracking of a sample for testing is provided, which includes a kit having a housing configured for storing a sample therein and a label for adhering to the housing upon contact. The label further includes images orientated both horizontally and vertically, each displaying the same readable context able to be scanned. The images are positioned such that the position of the label on the housing and the orientation of the reader scanning the images minimally affects the ability to read the images.

Abstract: Systems, devices and methods are directed to robotic assembly of a piece of furniture. The systems include a robot including a base, a robotic arm coupled to the base and a multi-functional robotic head coupled to the robotic arm. The multi-functional robotic head includes a camera configured to scan a barcode positioned on a part presented to the robot. The barcode provides instructions to the robot for attaching one or more hardware components to the part to assemble the piece of furniture. The multi-functional robotic head also includes a first applicator mechanism configured to apply an adhesive to the part; a first gripping mechanism configured to grip a first hardware component to be maneuvered by the robotic arm to a first position to be attached to the part, and a first attachment mechanism configured to attach the first hardware component to the part at the first position.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a screen protector that not only protects screens but also includes at least one image that is visible based on activation of a display area of a screen and a privacy filter. The privacy filter can be part of the screen protector. In one example, a method of making a privacy screen protector for a screen, includes: (1) adding at least one image to a surface of a substrate and (2) adding a privacy filter to the substrate that includes a viewing angle, wherein visibility of the at least one image is based on the viewing angle of the privacy filter and on activation of a display area of a screen onto which the screen protector is installed.

Abstract: Packaging comprising: (a) a prepaid card at least partially enclosed within the packaging, the prepaid card including a barcode at least partially visible through a cutout in the packaging; and (b) a reference barcode located on the packaging, wherein the reference barcode is compared to the barcode of the prepaid card to ensure the reference barcode has the same or similar design to that of the barcode of the prepaid card to identify counterfeit or tampered with packaging.

Abstract: A corner marking method, a parameter calibration method, and an electronic device are provided. The corner marking method includes: acquiring a target image, the target image including at least a portion of a target chessboard; detecting corners in the target image; performing a chessboard reconstruction based on detected corners to acquire a reconstructed chessboard; if the reconstructed chessboard contains one or more of tagging squares, acquiring one of the tagging squares of the reconstructed chessboard as a reference square; acquiring an identification and orientation of the reference square based on a tag of the reference square; marking corners in the reconstructed chessboard based on the identification and orientation of the reference square. Even if the target image does not contain a complete target chessboard, the corner marking method described in the present disclosure is still capable of marking corners in the target image.

Abstract: A method for authenticating a high-value item, wherein an optically identifiable code is generated and applied to the item by being integrated into a surface region of the item that is provided with graphics or a surface structure, wherein the code is in the form of a two-dimensional arrangement of code elements and the outline of the two-dimensional arrangement is adapted to the outline of the surface region or of part of a surface region, and wherein the code is linked to an information source that provides information, able to be displayed on a display, in relation to the item, and wherein a reader, such as for example a smartphone, is provided with programming for detecting and reading the code and, when the code is read, the link to the information source is activated and the information is displayed on the display of the reader.

Abstract: A container for a foodstuff or beverage preparation machine, the container for containing beverage or foodstuff material and comprising a code encoding preparation information, the code comprising a reference portion and a data portion: the reference portion comprising an arrangement of at least two reference units defining a reference point and a reference line r extending from said point; the data portion comprising a data unit arranged on an encoding line D, the encoding line D extending from the reference point and arranged at an angle a to the reference line r, the data unit arranged a distance d from the reference point as a variable to at least partially encode a parameter of the preparation information.

Abstract: Embodiments pertain to systems configured to and methods for analyzing a scene comprising one or more objects. The system may be configured to perform the following: obtaining a set of optically encrypted image data describing a scene, including applying an optical manipulation to light incoming to an image acquisition device, whereby the image acquisition device outputs the set of optically encrypted image data, and wherein the optical manipulation is based on an encryption key; providing the set of optically encrypted image data to a machine learning model trained in accordance with the encryption key; and receiving from the machine learning model a prediction related to the scene.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system and method for extracting a region of interest from a captured image of an item. The system may include a reader configured to capture an image of an item having a computer readable code positioned thereon. The system may also include a processor in data communication with the reader and configured to generate captured image data, the captured data comprising binary image data and identify a first pixel region representing the computer readable code from the binarized image data. The processor may be further configured to remove a second pixel region other than the first pixel region from the binarized image data and store or process only first binarized image data representing the first pixel region.

Abstract: Systems and methods of authenticating a product are provided. Such systems may include an asset verifier system including an image comparator and an image data store, an asset registration station communicable with the asset verifier system, and an asset verification software application in a verification device communicable with the asset verifier system. The product to be authenticated may be a physical asset having at least one heterogeneous visual feature, or a group of visually homogenous products uniquely arranged.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a frequency selective security paper and a method for manufacturing the same. The frequency selective security paper according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention may include: a drafting paper for forming a paper; a frequency resonator formed on one surface of the drafting paper and formed in a form of a meandering line or a capacitor so as to resonate to a designated frequency when passing through a security search device; and a coating liquid including the frequency resonator therein and formed on the drafting paper.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable media are configured to perform operations comprising determining, by a device, one or more parameters and associated parameter values of a network operating condition; generating, by the device, a code based on the one or more parameters and associated parameter values; and providing, by the device, the code through an interface of the device, the code processable by a computing system.

Abstract: A process for activating tracking labels of an item tracking system that uses a printer to activate labels as they are printed for use. Electronic tracking labels may have a removable portion that breaks an electrical circuit when removed; breaking the circuit activates the label. A printer with a label cutter may be used when labels are prepared for use, and the printer may be configured to cut off the removable portion of the label during label printing. This method automates label activation as part of the label preparation process. The printer may be programmed to position the boundary between the removable portion of the label and the rest of the label under the cutter, for example using knowledge of the label's layout. A printed, activated label output from the printer may be placed directly on an item to be tracked.

Abstract: The invention generally provides a connector recording system or platform that includes a recording system designed to interact with a connector system to read an indicia and then transfer, store, and display information associated with the positioning of the connector system in the installed component or device. The connector system includes a male housing assembly, a female housing assembly coupled to the male housing assembly in a connected state, and a connector position assurance assembly with the indicia and a locking member that is movable between locked and unlocked positions. In the locked position, the locking member secures the male housing assembly to the female housing assembly and the indicia can be read by the scanner to signal that the connector position assurance assembly is in the locked position. In the unlocked position, the indicia is in a state that does not allow the scanner to obtain information from the indicia.

Abstract: Methods for constructing, generating, and reading a dot-matrix code, dot-matrix code generating and reading terminals, and a dot-matrix code system. The method for constructing a dot-matrix code includes: constructing a plurality of information units arranged in an N×N matrix; configuring the plurality of information units as information unit modules and/or marker unit modules; storing, in each of the information unit modules, a value based on a relative position of the information point within the corresponding information unit module; signaling identification information of the dot-matrix code through an arrangement of a subset of the information points, wherein the subset of the information points are contained in the marker unit modules.

Abstract: A full-color protected document, and methods and systems for making same, secured by a removable Scratch-Off Coating, where the protection against document alteration and/or copy type attacks is provided by digitally imaging Benday patterns and/or digital imaged background patterns around the variable indicia. By printing Benday patterns and/or imaged background using the same process color imagers, usability and integrity of the protected document are achieved relative to the consumer's perspective while at the same time providing a more secure, less expensive, and more aesthetically pleasing document design.

Abstract: A high precision optical tag includes gradient features at the corners. The gradient features transition from a darker pattern proximal to the corner of the tag to a lighter pattern distal to the corner. The gradient facilitates rapid and computationally efficient determination of the corners of the optical tag at high resolution, such as to a pixel-level within an image. Once the corners of the optical tag are precisely identified, a boundary of the tag may be determined. In one implementation, with the precise information about the corners and boundary of the optical tag in the image, a pose of the camera relative to the optical tag may be determined.

Abstract: In one aspect, a 2D machine readable code is mimicked by a collection of graphic elements. This can involve choosing a location, within an input 2D code block, at which correlation between a first graphic element and the input 2D code block is maximized. An area around this location is then disqualified from further consideration. A second location is next chosen, within the input 2D code block but outside the disqualified area, at which correlation between a second graphic element and the input 2D code block is maximized. The process continues in this fashion, adding graphics and removing additional areas from consideration, until a threshold number of graphic elements has been placed. The elements are then assembled in their corresponding locations to yield a composite image block that provides features mimicking that of the input 2D code block, thereby enabling the composite image block to be decoded by a compliant code reader. A great variety of other signal rich art arrangements are also detailed.

Abstract: Printing a code on a flexible medical solution container includes providing a flexible medical solution container which is at least partially light transmissive, storing in a memory circuit a code comprising numbers and translating the code comprising numbers using a bar code symbology, the bar code symbology defining dark areas and light areas. The method includes applying a light-reflective ink to the container based on the bar code symbology, wherein the light-reflective ink is applied in areas defined by the dark areas, and applying a light-absorbing ink to the container based on the bar code symbology, wherein the light-absorbing ink is applied in areas defined by the light areas. The applied light-reflective ink and light-absorbing ink results in a code which represents a reversal of the dark and light areas defined in the bar code symbology.

Abstract: A receiving unit receives configuration information for analyzing a set of a plurality of dynamically-displayed two-dimensional codes and evaluation information for evaluating the result of analysis, a photographing unit photographs a dynamically-displayed two-dimensional code, an analysis unit analyzes the photographed two-dimensional code based on the configuration information, and an evaluation unit evaluates the result of analysis in the analysis unit based on the evaluation information.

Abstract: A portable dimensional reference (PDR) that is transportable to a tower site and deployable on site at ground level near a tower. The PDR includes a pair of target pads and multiple connecting segments, which may be attached end-to-end between the target pads. The target pads are marked with respective targets that enable photogrammetry software to identify the targets, their locations, and the distance between them with high precision, enabling the software to apply the known distance as a scale constraint for accurately scaling dimensions of imaged components of the tower.

Abstract: A QR code according to an embodiment includes a code frame formed from a first frame and a second frame spaced a predetermined distance apart from the first frame inside the first frame; one or more position detection patterns arranged in a space formed by means of the interval between the first frame and the second frame; a data pattern in which a plurality of codes are recorded on the basis of information data formed from a plurality of first data cells and a plurality of second data cells arranged along the outer circumferential surface of the code frame in the space; and an image inserted into an image area formed inside the second frame.

Abstract: The present disclosure includes in one instance an optical article comprising a data rich plurality of retroreflective elements that are configured in a spatially defined arrangement, where the plurality of retroreflective elements comprise retroreflective elements having at least two different retroreflective properties, and where data rich means information that is readily machine interpretable. The present disclosure also includes a system comprising the previously mentioned optical article, an optical system, and an inference engine for interpreting and classifying the plurality of retroreflective elements wherein the optical system feeds data to the inference engine.

Abstract: Optical articles including a spatially defined arrangement of a plurality of data rich retroreflective elements, wherein the plurality of retroreflective elements comprise retroreflective elements having at least two different retroreflective properties and at least two different optical contrasts with respect to a background substrate when observed within an ultraviolet spectrum, a visible spectrum, a near-infrared spectrum, or a combination thereof.

Abstract: A method and system for rendering a watermark with near perfect infrared colors can involve providing an infrared pattern ink having a color with a lower spectral reflectance in an infrared spectrum, replacing the color having the lower spectral reflectance with a replacement color constituting a combination of colors having a higher spectral reflectance in the infrared spectrum, them matching in a visible spectrum, the replacement color with the color having the lower spectral reflectance in the infrared spectrum, and rendering a watermark as a metameric color pair including the infrared pattern ink and replacement color. Alternatively, a watermark may be created by defining a first color pattern having a CMYK value derived from a particular LAB value with a lower toner stack and a higher reflectance in an infrared spectrum as compared to a second color pattern having a second CMYK value derived from the same LAB value.

Abstract: The method, system, and non-transitory computer-readable medium embodiments described herein provide for identifying invalid identification documents. In various embodiments, an application executing on a user device prompts the user device to transmit an image of the identification document. The application receives an image including the identification document in response to the identification document being within a field of view of a camera of the user device. The identification document includes a plurality of visual elements, and one or more visual elements of the plurality of visual elements are one or more invalidating marks. The application detects a predetermined pattern on the identification document in the image, the predetermined pattern formed from the one or more invalidating marks. The application determines that the identification document is invalid based on the detected predetermined pattern.

Abstract: An information obtaining method includes obtaining an image of a design printed on a printing target. The design includes an identifier corresponding to specific information. The information obtaining method further includes identifying the identifier included in the design based on the image; and obtaining the specific information corresponding to the identifier based on the identifier.

Abstract: Methods and systems, including processor-readable storage media, for interacting in a social media environment via a mobile device involving profile information that includes a multicolor profile displayable graphic based on profile questions having answers with different shades of question color associated with an answer. The social media environment may include an augmented reality user interface for displaying real world images obtained via a camera of the mobile device along with a virtual object representing items including, but not limited to, a marketing opportunity, another user of the system, profile information of another user of the system, a content item corresponding to another user of the system.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a card body for a chip card, includes the steps of: supplying a metallic base body with two opposite main faces and a circumferential peripheral face connecting the two main faces, wherein in the base body a module opening for receiving a chip module has already been produced or will still be produced in a module opening zone, and producing a slot on the peripheral face between the two main faces. The slot is formed from the peripheral face up to the module opening or up to the module opening zone. An entry angle (?) of the slot into at least one of the two main faces is not equal to ninety degrees with respect to the main face.

Abstract: Systems, including processor-readable storage media, for interacting in a social media environment via a mobile device involving profile information that includes a multicolor profile displayable graphic based on profile questions having answers with different shades of question color associated with an answer and presentation of a marketing opportunity based on profile information. The social media environment may include an augmented reality user interface for displaying real world images obtained via a camera of the mobile device along with a virtual object representing items including, but not limited to, a marketing opportunity, another user of the system, profile information of another user of the system, a content item corresponding to another user of the system.

Abstract: A medical apparatus is adapted to facilitate a transfer of data to a computer system using a mobile device. The apparatus has a store of data, a display and a controller that generates a barcode encoding an access address for the computer system and the data, and displaying the barcode on the display.

Abstract: A method of generating a barcode pattern includes: identifying a silhouette comprising a boundary within which a barcode pattern is to be printed; generating a barcode pattern comprising multiple instances of a two-dimensional barcode, in which the instances include barcodes of at least two different sizes; and generating a print file that includes information for printing the barcode pattern within the silhouette.

Abstract: A quality management system for products including a multiplicity of barcoded quality indicators, a barcode indicator reader and a product type responsive indication interpreter, each of the barcoded quality indicators including a first barcode including at least one first colorable area, the first barcode being machine-readable before exceedance of the at least one time and temperature threshold, at least a second barcode including at least one second colorable area, the second barcode not being machine-readable before exceedance of the at least one time and temperature threshold, a coloring agent located at a first location on the indicator and a coloring agent pathway operative to allow the coloring agent to move, from the first location to the first and second colorable areas simultaneously thereby causing the first barcode to become unreadable and at the same time causing the second barcode to become machine-readable.

Abstract: A system and method for providing non-binary profile mapping of individuals according to the present invention is disclosed. The system includes a memory having instructions stored thereon and a processor configured to execute the instructions on the memory to cause the electronic apparatus to perform the method. The method receives user profile data from an external user, the user profile data comprises captured media having a user image and user characteristic information data, pre-processes a user image into training, testing, and updating learning networks, stores processed user profile data into a database, receive user synthetic profile data to create a synthetic profile representation, adjust the synthetic profile representation in response to user input, generates a first set of matching results from processing the synthetic profile representation against user profile data from the database using the learning networks, and provides the first set of matching results for selection.

Abstract: The invention relates to the field of the protection of security documents such as for example banknotes and identity documents against counterfeit and illegal reproduction. In particular, the present invention provides security documents and decorative articles comprising one or more optical effect layers (OELs) and methods for producing said OELs, said OELs comprising magnetically oriented platelet-shaped magnetic or magnetizable pigment particles in an at least partially cured coating layer (×10) and exhibiting an eye-catching optical effect thus allowing an observer to easily authenticate said OELs upon titling at viewing/observation angles between about ?45° and about +45°.

Abstract: An electronic component (for example, an electrolytic capacitor) includes an internal element (for example, a capacitor element) and a packaging (for example, a case). The production lot for the internal element includes a plurality of subunits. The packaging is provided with an identifier for identifying the plurality of subunits. By this configuration, it is possible to provide an electronic component capable of specifying production information, a production method for the electronic component, a management method for the electronic component, and a program. The identifier may be provided on the packaging as a display. Further, the identifier may be a one-dimensional code or a two-dimensional code.

Abstract: A novel optically readable identification code and a toy with identification code with which a toy main body can be prevented from having the appearance compromised as much as possible are provided. A toy with identification code 10 includes a toy main body 11 with a surface provided with an identification code portion 12 including an optically readable identification code 13. The identification code 13 includes a plurality of dark color portions and a plurality of light color portions, and a chromatic color having an intensity lower than an intensity of a chromatic color used for the dark color portions is used for the light color portions.

Abstract: A system and method are provided for authorizing temporary use of accounts. The method is executed by a system and includes detecting that an account holder has selected a payment card to be shared with a recipient, the payment card being associated with an account. The method also includes determining a spending limit for the payment card by the recipient that has been set by the account holder and generating a pending transaction for the payment card with an amount corresponding to the spending limit and against which purchases made by the recipient are deducted. The method also includes providing the recipient with an electronic mechanism to add a temporary payment card to an application on a mobile device associated with the recipient, the temporary payment card being linked to the account to have purchases made using the temporary payment card be applied to that account.

Abstract: A quality management system for products including a multiplicity of barcoded quality indicators, a barcode indicator reader and a product type responsive indication interpreter, each of the barcoded quality indicators including a first barcode including at least one first colorable area, the first barcode being machine-readable before exceedance of the at least one time and temperature threshold, at least a second barcode including at least one second colorable area, the second barcode not being machine-readable before exceedance of the at least one time and temperature threshold, a coloring agent located at a first location on the indicator and a coloring agent pathway operative to allow the coloring agent to move, from the first location to the first and second colorable areas simultaneously thereby causing the first barcode to become unreadable and at the same time causing the second barcode to become machine-readable.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing device to realize more efficient reading of a target code. The information processing device includes an acquisition unit that acquires a target code from a captured image to acquire information from the target code. The acquisition unit acquires a target code from a captured image of a tile code in which a plurality of identical target codes are arranged at predetermined intervals.

Abstract: An encoding method is illustrated. The method includes receiving data to be encoded onto a storage media, wherein the data corresponds to an item and is assigned to a data category. Further, the method includes parsing data into a plurality of data portions, based on one or more first characteristics associated with each of one or more characters in the data. The method further includes encoding, by the processor, the plurality of data portions using a plurality of encoding schemes, to generate a data packet, such that a first data portion of the plurality of data portions is encoded using a first encoding scheme of the plurality of encoding schemes and a second data portion of the plurality of data portions is encoded using a second encoding scheme of the plurality of encoding schemes, wherein the first encoding scheme is different from the second encoding scheme. Furthermore, the method includes transmitting the data packet, wherein the data packet is configured to be stored in the storage media.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for detecting a modulating element of an object are described in which signal values are obtained from one or more optical detectors. A determination is made if there is a time dependent variation in the obtained signal values at the one or more optical detector and a modulating element is detected based on the determination.

Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of emission areas that emit light, a plurality of touch electrodes disposed in a light blocking area surrounding the plurality of emission areas, in which the touch electrodes sense a touch, a first insulating layer disposed on the plurality of touch electrodes, and a plurality of light blocking parts disposed on the first insulating layer and overlapping the plurality of touch electrodes. A part of the plurality of light blocking parts includes a code pattern formed by an insertion portion inserted into the first insulating layer and overlapping the plurality of touch electrodes, and another part of the plurality of light blocking parts includes a non-code pattern formed by not having the insertion portion.

Abstract: Exemplary embodiments use a single, physical embodiment that compiles independent machine-readable codes together with little to no space in between codes. This physical embodiment is in two primary forms—adhesive tape or fabric strips with hook and loop backing. A code reader device, with software compatible with the machine-readable codes, can rapidly or simultaneously aggregate independent codes together on the physical embodiment in order to assign them to one or more digital addresses.