Described herein is a method and system for sorting and delivering postal items. The method includes overlaying a grid onto a sorting area; the grid system includes rows and columns of cells. A set of coordinates is used to indicate to the carrier where an address associated with a piece of mail is located in the sorting area. The method also includes guiding a carrier along the route and indicating to the carrier where mail associated with the address has been sorted.

A hardware accelerator can receive, from a host processor, a slice of input data at a time-step. The hardware accelerator can process the input data using a machine learning model deployed on the hardware accelerator to compute a respective probability among multiple probabilities for each of multiple classes. The respective probability for each class being a likelihood that content in the slice belongs to the class. The hardware accelerator can determine, from the multiple probabilities, a preset number of highest probabilities for the slice of input data. The hardware accelerator can transmit the preset number of highest probabilities for the slice to the host processor. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.

Systems and methods for extracting information from a sheet of material to facilitate organization of information from paper, and other physical writing surfaces are provided. An example system includes a sheet of material and a device for scanning the sheet with an optical sensor. The sheet of material includes an indication region. The indication region allows for indictors to be marked corresponding with at least one a corresponding subregion to be extracted. The sheet of material further includes at least one fiducial mark for identifying a boundary of the sheet. The device includes a processor operably coupled to the optical sensor for causing the optical sensor to scan the sheet and detect a boundary thereof using the fiducial marks and further identify a designated subregion of the sheet. Upon identification of the designated subregion, the processor is configured to extract information contained in the designated subregion for organization of information.

Systems and methods for extracting information from a sheet of material to facilitate organization of information from paper, and other physical writing surfaces are provided. An example system includes a sheet of material and a device for scanning the sheet with an optical sensor. The sheet of material includes an indication region. The indication region allows for indictors to be marked corresponding with at least one a corresponding subregion to be extracted. The sheet of material further includes at least one fiducial mark for identifying a boundary of the sheet. The device includes a processor operably coupled to the optical sensor for causing the optical sensor to scan the sheet and detect a boundary thereof using the fiducial marks and further identify a designated subregion of the sheet. Upon identification of the designated subregion, the processor is configured to extract information contained in the designated subregion for organization of information.

A portable electronic device having a touch screen with a floating soft trigger icon for enabling various functions of the electronic device, such as bar code reading, capturing RFID data, capturing video and images, calling applications, and/or placing phone calls. The floating trigger icon is displayed on the touch screen to enable easy identification and access of the trigger icon. The trigger icon may be selected via application of various unique control gestures to configure the electronic device. Based on the selected mode or function of the device, the trigger icon may alter its appearance to facilitate use of the device. The operation and functionality of the trigger icon may be programmed to customize operation of the device.

A portable electronic device having a touch screen with a floating soft trigger icon for enabling various functions of the electronic device, such as bar code reading, capturing RFID data, capturing video and images, calling applications, and/or placing phone calls. The floating trigger icon is displayed on the touch screen to enable easy identification and access of the trigger icon. The trigger icon may be selected via application of various unique control gestures to configure the electronic device. Based on the selected mode or function of the device, the trigger icon may alter its appearance to facilitate use of the device. The operation and functionality of the trigger icon may be programmed to customize operation of the device.

A method of outputting digital ink data includes: detecting one or more pieces of stroke data; judging whether the one or more pieces of stroke data form a complete unit of semantics; in a case that the one or more pieces of the stroke data form the complete unit of semantics, aggregating the one or more pieces of stroke data into one message; and outputting the aggregated one or more pieces of stroke data together in the one message.

Described herein are computerized methods and systems for authentication of a physical document. An image capture device coupled to a mobile device captures a sequence of images of a physical document as at least one of the physical document or the image capture device is rotated, during which the mobile device tracks the physical document throughout the sequence of images, and adjusts operational parameters of the image capture device based upon imaging conditions associated with the physical document. The mobile device selects images from the sequence of images and classifies the physical document using the selected images. The mobile device identifies a region of interest in the physical document using the selected images and the classification. The mobile device reconstructs the region of interest, generates an authentication score for the document using the reconstructed region of interest, and determines whether the physical document is authentic based upon the authentication score.

Described herein are computerized methods and systems for authentication of a physical document. An image capture device coupled to a mobile device captures images of a physical document, during which the mobile device adjusts operational parameters of the image capture device, resulting in a sequence of images captured using different capture settings. The mobile device partitions the sequence of images into subsets of images, wherein each subset comprises images with a similar alignment of the physical document and captured using the same capture settings. The mobile device processes the subsets of images to identify a region of interest in each image. The mobile device generates a representation of the identified region of interest using the processed images, generates an authentication score for the document using the representation of the identified region of interest, and determines whether the physical document is authentic based upon the authentication score.

Provided is a work record extraction device that can correctly select a drawing element corresponding to handwriting even if there is a handwriting deviation when position coordinates are collated between handwritten data overwritten on drawing data by manual input and a drawing element on the drawing data. The work record extraction device according to the invention sets, around a drawing element, a boundary area including at least a part of the drawing element, determines whether handwritten data passes through at least a part of the boundary area, and determines that the handwritten data passes through the drawing element in a case where the handwritten data passes through at least a part of the boundary area.