Abstract: A system and a method facilitating access to and use of contextual identity information during law enforcement encounters for minimizing confrontational tensions are disclosed. A user updates information corresponding to a user, his/her associates, and a vehicle on a government server and an insurance server. A law enforcement official uses a law enforcement device to access the government server, the insurance server, and a law enforcement server. The law enforcement official accesses the government server, the law enforcement server, and the insurance server to verify the identification of the user and the vehicle. The system allows the law enforcement official to have required information on the law enforcement device to verify the identification of the user and the vehicle. The law enforcement official verifies the identification at ease thereby reducing potential hostile situations with the user.

Abstract: The present innovative solution solves the problem of managing secure documents so that they can be verified, and protected from tampering and illegal printing. A legal document is converted to a secure document by embedding into the legal document one or more security codes that have been encrypted with a standard of proprietary cryptographic algorithm. The security codes are supplemented by a QR code associated with the archive location of each page of the secure document, and stored at a server or database. The security codes stored in the document and can be printed together with the document, as a form of watermark, using UV-sensitive ink or toner at a security printer. The security codes are encrypted and can be printed on varying locations in the secure document pages, which are defined in a geolocation template, separately transmitted in encrypted format.

Abstract: A method is introduced to personalize a self-driving motor vehicle, which promises to provide an experience as if the self-driving motor vehicle is driven by the mind of a passenger the first time it operates on a freeway.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a memory storing an agreement term log notified on each login and an agreement term on each service; and at least one processor, when in a, agreement terms notification, where, after a login on a first service, a second service different from the first service is logged in without a login operation of the user by using authentication information on the first service in order to transition from the first service to the second service, not notify an agreement term on the second service to the user if the agreement term on the second service is identical in the log to an agreement term notified on the first service, and notify the agreement term on the second service to the user if the agreement term on the second service is different in the log from the agreement term notified on the first service.

Abstract: For protecting confidential information in a printed document, the invention provides a system and method for, on one hand, encrypting the confidential content of the document and then printing the part or parts of the document with confidential information in an encrypted form and the rest of the document in a non-encrypted form, and, on the other hand, decrypting the encrypted document content for display and use or for printing. In addition, for preventing unauthorized copying and tampering of a printed document, the invention provides a system and method for managing a unique tag, which is attached to the document and which authenticates the document.

Abstract: Embodiments included herein generally relate to using non-audio data embedded in an audio signal. More particularly, embodiments relate to using non-audio data embedded into the audio signal to control an audio configuration of a plurality of speakers and/or to measure a delay of a playback device.

Abstract: A system and method for providing access to data of a first party including receiving information for identifying the first party, authenticating the first party using the received information for identifying the first party and generating a first read-only personal identification number (PIN). The first read-only PIN is associated with a first set of access rights for the data of the first party and provided to a second party. The first read-only PIN is stored with the first set of access rights in a computer database. A third party receives the first read-only PIN from the second party, authenticates the received first read-only PIN using the stored first read-only PIN and provides the second party with access to at least a portion of the data of the first party using the first set of access rights associated with the first read-only PIN if the received first read-only PIN is authenticated.

Abstract: Method to authenticate a substrate based on unique microstructure inherent to a region of interest of a substrate surface of the substrate, comprising the steps: (a) emitting photons from a light source onto the region of interest; (b) emitting ultrasound waves from a ultrasound source onto the region of interest; (c) capturing at least one image of the region of interest in one or both of the following two ways: (i) capturing a light image in the presence of ultrasound to obtain at least one captured image of the region of interest, or (ii) capturing an ultrasound echo image in the presence of IR or near IR light to obtain at least one captured image of the region of interest; and (d) comparing the at least one captured image with at least one reference in order to determine authenticity of the substrate.

Abstract: Provided is a method and an apparatus for indicating minimum exposure of a surface to UVC light emitted by a source during a decontamination process to achieve a desired level of pathogen reduction. The apparatus includes a photochromic material to be applied to, or applied adjacent to the surface. The photochromic material is to exhibit a visible response to receiving the minimum exposure to the UVC light, and exhibit the visible response to a lesser extent after the photochromic material ceases to be exposed to the UVC light emitted by the source. A protective layer of material that is substantially transparent to the UVC light emitted by the source is positioned over the photochromic material to be disposed between the source and the photochromic material during the decontamination process.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods and a system for customizing operation of a self-driving motor vehicle according to operation behaviors preferred by an individual passenger wherever needed, promising to provide an experience as if the self-driving motor vehicle is driven by the mind of the passenger the first time it operates on a public roadway.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods and a system for customizing operation of a self-driving motor vehicle according to operation behaviors preferred by an individual passenger wherever needed, promising to provide an experience as if the self-driving motor vehicle is driven by the mind of the passenger the first time it operates on a public roadway.

Abstract: A protocol and a system for customizing driving operation of and legalizing self-driving motor vehicles are introduced as an alternative solution to state-of-the-art technologies in development and marketing of the self-driving motor vehicles, promising to enable a self-driving motor vehicle to provide an experience as if being driven by the mind of a passenger the first time it serves on a public roadway.

Abstract: An access manager determines whether access will be granted to a guarded species or space utilizing a controller including a digital processor with a memory for storing an ID library and a transducer block coupled with the processor for accessing a plurality of different ID types and an actuator block coupled with the processor for unblocking a normally locked portal to the guarded space.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an embedding device and an image output device. The embedding device is configured to embed a pair of identical electronic information in a pair of electronic embedment areas outside a print guarantee area and within a printable area of a recording medium. The pair of electronic embedment areas is along a pair of opposite sides of the recording medium. The image output device is configured to print out an image with the pair of identical electronic information embedded on the recording medium.

Abstract: A protocol and a system for customizing driving operation of and legalizing self-driving motor vehicles are introduced as an alternative solution to state-of-the-art technologies in development and marketing of the self-driving motor vehicles, promising to enable a self-driving motor vehicle to provide an experience as if being driven by the mind of a passenger the first time it serves on a public roadway.

Abstract: An authentication system includes: a reading unit that (i) reads ID information as a response to a first read command being a command to which only a first type of contactless communication terminal responds, and outputs the ID information and type information indicating that a contactless communication terminal is of the first type, and (ii) reads ID information as a response to a second read command being a command to which both the first and second types of contactless communication terminals respond, and causes additional issuance of the first read command, and when succeeding in reading ID information as a response to the additionally issued first read command, outputs the ID information and type information indicating the first type; an authentication unit that, when a user list includes an output pair of ID information and type information of the communicating contactless communication terminal, authenticates a user associated with output pair.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for impersonating target user accounts via account redirection. In one aspect, a request may be received at a service issued from a temporary account of the service accessed by a client application. It may be determined whether the temporary account is stored in a mapping table comprising one or more temporary accounts mapped to a corresponding impersonation token. When it is determined that the temporary account is stored in the mapping table, the corresponding impersonation token mapped to the temporary account may be identified. The request may be processed in an impersonation mode based on the identified impersonation token.

Abstract: In a computer-implemented method for identifying altered digital video content, a digital video content item is accessed. A visually identifiable region is identified within the digital video content item. A mask is applied to the visually identifiable region of the digital video content item, wherein the mask blocks the visually identifiable region of the digital video content item. The digital video content item with the mask is compared to other digital video content items, wherein the comparing disregards the visually identifiable region according to the mask. Provided the digital video content is identified as similar to at least one other digital video content item, the visually identifiable region of the digital content video item is compared to a visually identifiable region of the at least one other digital video content item.

Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products for processing video of tax documents and associated verbal input provided by a user and populating at least a portion of an electronic tax return with processing results. A video/voice processor associated with a tax return preparation application executed by a computing apparatus such as mobile communication device receives a video of a tax document and voice data. The document type is determined using video and/or voice data. Voice to text conversion can be used to determine what a user said about the document to determine the document type. Tax data determined from the video is used to populate a field of the electronic tax return. A front facing camera may be used to take a video of a tax document while a rear facing camera is used to detect a facial expression, which may result in certain dialogue with the user.

Abstract: A system and computer-implemented method for providing access to data of a first party including receiving information for identifying the first party, authenticating the first party using the received information for identifying the first party and generating a first read-only personal identification number (PIN). The first read-only PIN is associated with a first set of access rights for the data of the first party and provided to a second party. The first read-only PIN is stored with the first set of access rights in a computer database. A third party receives the first read-only PIN from the second party, authenticates the received first read-only PIN using the stored first read-only PIN and provides the second party with access to at least a portion of the data of the first party using the first set of access rights associated with the first read-only PIN if the received first read-only PIN is authenticated.

Abstract: A workpiece having an identification code is arranged on a workpiece carrier having coded therein, by a pattern made from a plurality of mutually separate regions of different density, at least one character of the identification code. The workpiece and carrier are scanned together by computed tomography, the regions or part of the regions and the densities thereof in the computed tomography scan are ascertained, the scan is oriented in response to at least the location of a straight line through two of these regions, the character that is coded by way of the density pattern of the plurality of regions is determined in the scan, and the oriented scan is processed in response to the coded character.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for enhanced user biometric authentication are described. In one example, authenticating a user includes storing user authentication pairs in a memory of an authenticator device, each authentication pair comprising an instruction prompt and a stored corresponding user response biometric to the instruction prompt. A request to authenticate a user is received at the authenticator device from an authentication requestor device. An instruction prompt is output from a selected authentication pair, and a current user response to the instruction prompt is received. A current user biometric is generated from the current user response. An identity of the user is authenticated by comparing the current user biometric to the stored corresponding user response biometric for the instruction prompt output.

Abstract: A user is initially trained for voice authentication within a messaging platform session. After training and during the same session or a different session with the messaging platform session or with a different messaging platform, and when the user requests during such session a sensitive operation be performed on behalf of the user with an external service, a randomly generated voice challenge is delivered to the user during that session. If a returned voice recording from the user is authenticated in response to the issued voice challenge, then the sensitive operation is performed on behalf of the user during the session.

Abstract: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a verification system including a processor adapted to generate a glyph for at least one component of a computing system, a display adapted to display the glyph, and a scanner adapted to scan the glyph from the display. The computing system includes the processor and the display. The scanner is adapted to verify the at least one component of the computing system based at least in part on the glyph.

Abstract: A contactless communication circuit (card) communicates with a proximity coupling device (reader). The card hosts at least two applications. The card initializes an identifier of a communication protocol to a first value. In response to a failure of a transaction with the reader, the card increments a counter. When the counter reaches a threshold, the card changes the identifier to a second value.

Abstract: A hybrid currency banknote includes a banknote having visible markings. One or more light-controlling elements and a controller are embedded in or on the banknote. The controller is electrically connected to the one or more light-controlling elements to control the one or more light-controlling elements. A power input connection is electrically connected to the controller, or one or more light-controlling elements, or both. A power source can be connected to the power input connection, for example a piezoelectric or photovoltaic power source. In response to applied power, the controller causes the one or more light-controlling elements to emit light. A value can be stored in a memory in the controller and displayed by the light-controlling elements. The value can be assigned or varied by a hybrid currency teller machine.

Abstract: A hybrid document includes a document having visible markings, one or more light-controlling elements embedded in or on the document, and a controller including a circuit having a non-volatile memory. The controller is embedded in or on the document and electrically connected to the one or more light-controlling elements for controlling the one or more light-controlling elements. A power input connection is electrically connected to any one or all of the controller, the circuit, the memory, or the one or more light-emitting elements. The memory stores a state and the circuit causes the one or more light-controlling elements to indicate the state. A hybrid document validation machine is adapted to accept one or more of the hybrid documents, change the state of the hybrid documents, and optionally display the state on a display.

Abstract: An IC card includes a first visible layer including a natural material having a unique visual pattern. A storage device is configured to store a digital reference image of the unique visual pattern to be visually compared with the unique visual pattern for authentication. An authentication method based on the IC card is also provided.

Abstract: Techniques have been developed for transmitting and receiving information conveyed through the air from one portable device to another as a generally unperceivable coding within an otherwise recognizable acoustic signal. For example, in some embodiments in accordance with the present invention(s), information is acoustically communicated from a first handheld device toward a second by encoding the information in a signal that, when converted into acoustic energy at an acoustic transducer of the first handheld device, is characterized in that the acoustic energy is discernable to a human ear yet the encoding of the information therein is generally not perceivable by the human. The acoustic energy is transmitted from the acoustic transducer of the first handheld device toward the second handheld device across an air gap that constitutes a substantially entirety of the distance between the devices.

Abstract: The invention provides a system and method for secure document verification. In the preferred embodiment, embedded information consists of marks embedded in the interior of the document and are comprised of regions that have refractive index modified to carry information. In the preferred embodiment the marks are not discernable by conventional imaging, spectroscopic or optical polarization techniques, but are discernably by interferometric techniques, such as optical coherence tomography. Multiple alternate embodiments are taught.

Abstract: An operation method of an electronic device is provided. The operation method includes registering, as reference signature data, at least one handwritten signature inputted into the electronic device by a user input means, authenticating an inputted handwritten signature by comparing data of the inputted handwritten signature with the registered reference signature data when the handwritten signature is inputted by the user input means, and further registering, as reference signature data, handwritten signature data regarding the inputted handwritten signature when the inputted handwritten signature is authenticated normally as a result of the authentication.

Abstract: An authentication system includes: a reading unit that (i) reads ID information as a response to a first read command being a command to which only a first type of contactless communication terminal responds, and outputs the ID information and type information indicating that a contactless communication terminal is of the first type, and (ii) reads ID information as a response to a second read command being a command to which both the first and second types of contactless communication terminals respond, and causes additional issuance of the first read command, and when succeeding in reading ID information as a response to the additionally issued first read command, outputs the ID information and type information indicating the first type; an authentication unit that, when a user list includes an output pair of ID information and type information of the communicating contactless communication terminal, authenticates a user associated with output pair.

Abstract: A method for generating an assent indication in a document approval and review function can include loading a document for editing in a document editor and determining a set of authors for the document. The method also can include modifying a title of the document to include an identity of at least one of the authors in the set. Finally, the method can include changing a visual appearance in the title of an identity of the assenting author responsive to one of the authors in the set assenting to a publication of the document.

Abstract: An anti-counterfeiting serialization method. The method can include receiving an input serial number, locating a seed character at a predetermined position in the input serial number, determining, based on the seed character, a first output position for an incrementing character of the input serial number, determining, based on the incrementing character, at least one second output position for at least one remaining character of the input serial number, and generating an output serial number having the incrementing character in the first output position and at least one remaining character in the at least one second output position.

Abstract: A system for registering a birth includes a processor and storage device. A location of a user is determined, using a first location detection method. The location of the user is verified, using a second location detection method. A security key is established with a registration authority according to the location. A birth registration report is generated in compliance with the birth registration requirements according to the location. The birth registration report comprises identification of the location, a picture of the newborn child, and a time stamp that identifies a time and date of the birth. The birth registration report is encrypted according to the security key, which prevents altering the birth registration report. The birth registration report is transmitted in encrypted format to a registrar of birth records for the location. The birth registration report is stored in encrypted format on a computerized device.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for deterring the reverse engineering of computer software code. The method involves the recognition of an unauthorized access attempt by one of a plurality of linked sub-processes embedded in the computer software code. In response to the unauthorized attempt, each of the sub-processes begins a recursive execution, resulting in computer system resources being increasingly diverted to the linked sub-processes, making it difficult to continue unauthorized attempts to access the computer software code.

Abstract: An RFID reading device according to the present invention includes: response requesting unit (20) configured to output a response request signal to a wireless tag; response reception unit (24) configured to extract an ID of the wireless tag and detecting a signal collision of a response from the wireless tag, based on a response signal output from the wireless tag in response to the response request signal; reading result acquisition unit (25) configured to acquire a read tag number indicating the number of wireless tags from which the corresponding ID has been successfully read; collision occurrence status acquisition unit (26) configured to count the number of time slots in which the signal collision has occurred and calculating the number of collisions; and reading result complementing unit (27) configured to estimate the number of readable wireless tags based on the read tag number and the number of collisions.

Abstract: Provided is a document managing apparatus that can eliminate the complexity of operation related to designation of confidential information, and yet reliably prevents leakage of confidential information. First, a receiving circuit receives target files from a client terminal. Therefore, a file managing circuit manages, of the received target files, a file that is designated as confidential, having been subjected to output restriction, as a confidential designated file. In addition, the file managing circuit manages a file that is not designated as confidential, as a user file. In addition, the file analyzing circuit compares the user file with the confidential designated file. If the content of the user file is similar to the content of the confidential designated file at a rate equal to or higher than a certain value (for example, 80%), the file analyzing circuit applies output restriction to the user file.

Abstract: An intermediate device is operated to play back an acoustic configuration file for an end-user device. The acoustic configuration file can embed configuration parameters that are detectable by the end-user device. In particular, the end-user device can use the configuration parameters in conjunction with performing select operations, such as operations to configure the end-user device for communication with the network service.

Abstract: Techniques have been developed for transmitting and receiving information conveyed through the air from one portable device to another as a generally unperceivable coding within an otherwise recognizable acoustic signal. For example, in some embodiments in accordance with the present invention(s), information is acoustically communicated from a first handheld device toward a second by encoding the information in a signal that, when converted into acoustic energy at an acoustic transducer of the first handheld device, is characterized in that the acoustic energy is discernable to a human ear yet the encoding of the information therein is generally not perceivable by the human. The acoustic energy is transmitted from the acoustic transducer of the first handheld device toward the second handheld device across an air gap that constitutes a substantially entirety of the distance between the devices.

Abstract: A videoconferencing system has a videoconferencing unit that use portable devices as peripherals for the system. The portable devices obtain near-end audio and send the audio to the videoconferencing unit via a wireless connection. In turn, the videoconferencing unit sends the near-end audio from the loudest portable device along with near-end video to the far-end. The portable devices can control the videoconferencing unit and can initially establish the videoconference by connecting with the far-end and then transferring operations to the videoconferencing unit. To deal with acoustic coupling between the unit's loudspeaker and the portable device's microphone, the unit uses an echo canceller that is compensated for differences in the clocks used in the A/D and D/A converters of the loudspeaker and microphone.

Abstract: In an embodiment, to deter or delay counterfeiting/cloning of a replacement component of a host device, the replacement component is provided with a code value. The code value is generated from a value of at least one physical parameter of the replacement component and is stored on the replacement component. The host device determines whether the replacement component is authentic if the stored code value matches a reference code value.

Abstract: A method for processing data and a message are provided. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal, first switch information, entering a first working mode, and classifying data stored on the terminal; in a first screen lock state or the first working mode, when a notification message related to the data is received, displaying the notification message related to the data; receiving second switch information, entering a second working mode, and hiding, according to classification of the data, data of a specified category; in a second screen lock state or the second working mode, when a notification message related to the data of the specified category is received, hiding the notification message; and receiving the first switch information, entering the first working mode, and displaying the data of the specified category and the notification message that are hidden.

Abstract: An industrial-enabled mobile electronic device, such as a personal mobile phone or tablet computer, allows a user to wirelessly interact with industrial devices for a variety of purposes. The mobile electronic device can communicate with an industrial device to read and write configuration settings, read and view log data, send commands to the industrial device, and other such functions. The mobile electronic device can perform various types of analysis on images and video of the industrial device captured by the mobile electronic device, including identifying and translating a model or device number printed on the device, or translating error codes displayed by the industrial device. The mobile electronic device can also retrieve additional information about the industrial device or the device's stored data via interaction with a remote technical support service, and can be used to facilitate dialog with a remote technical support person.

Abstract: Method for antiforgery marking and authentication of printed products, includes the following steps: printing sample prints with a given printer of an image that is to be associated to a product (P); digitally acquiring the prints, to obtain digital images; processing the images acquired for extracting therefrom one or more intrinsic characteristics identifying the printer used; and incorporating in the printed product (P) an identification marking containing information associated to the printed product and to the characteristics identifying the printer and a print of the image.

Abstract: A request to print a file at a printer is received at a first computer system over a public network. Responsive to receiving the request, an indication of the request is exposed to the printer to enable fulfillment, by the printer, of the request to print the file.

Abstract: Techniques have been developed for transmitting and receiving information conveyed through the air from one portable device to another as a generally unperceivable coding within an otherwise recognizable acoustic signal. For example, in some embodiments in accordance with the present invention(s), information is acoustically communicated from a first handheld device toward a second by encoding the information in a signal that, when converted into acoustic energy at an acoustic transducer of the first handheld device, is characterized in that the acoustic energy is discernable to a human ear yet the encoding of the information therein is generally not perceivable by the human. The acoustic energy is transmitted from the acoustic transducer of the first handheld device toward the second handheld device across an air gap that constitutes a substantially entirety of the distance between the devices.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for carrying out a screening process and a control system, comprising the following steps: Detecting an intention of a person to pass through; transmitting notification data indicating the control intention of the person and comprising data (ID data) identifying the person to a control authority; comparing the data (ID data) identifying the person to examination information of a control database and generating the check data necessary for the screening process; transmitting the check data to at least one control device of at least one control station; recording control information of the person by means of the control device; evaluating the control information based on the check data, and generating a control decision and outputting the control decision.

Abstract: A method and apparatus to integrate a plurality of sets of authorized credentials from a plurality of building tenants is disclosed, using networking techniques to allow partitioned access to common resources shared by those tenants.

Abstract: A security document is disclosed which includes an electrical circuit embedded in a document substrate, where the electrical circuit includes a power source with at least one electroactive polymer power generator, and an optical display including at least one electroluminescent display element and at least one nanohole array which forms a layer of the electroluminescent display element. Security features comprising nanohole arrays are also provided. A method of authenticating a security document is disclosed, including illuminating an encoded nanohole array in the security document with a focused light beam or laser light source emitting at least one defined wavelength of incident light, detecting a transmitted portion of the incident light transmitted through the nanohole array with an optoelectronic sensor, analyzing at least one wavelength of the transmitted portion of light to produce a detected signal, and comparing the detected signal with an authentication signal to authenticate the security document.