Systems and methods are described for providing an interface and implementing rules and metrics received from the interface regarding the selection of sponsored content networks that provide sponsored content items. This may include providing mediation code to a publisher for inclusion in publisher content provided to a user device, the mediation code associated with a table of sponsored content networks, receiving an image of a sponsored content item and a sponsored content network identifier from the user device, analyzing the image of the sponsored content item, the analysis generating extracted image data from the sponsored content item, categorizing the sponsored content item based on the extracted image data and the sponsored content network identifier, receiving an instruction to filter the sponsored content networks exceeding a metric based on a category, and updating the table of sponsored content networks to remove a particular sponsored content network.

Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods, and computer program products for integrated device connectivity and agile device control for dynamic object tracking and management. In this regard, embodiments of the invention provide provides a comprehensive integrated platform for dynamic inventory construction and tracking, dynamic food item identification, expiration tracking, dynamic inventory construction, recipe generation, interactive meal planning and guided cooking, in real-time. The system is also configured for establishing operative communication with a plurality of auxiliary devices for achieving the foregoing. The system may initiate a presentation of parameters identified by the auxiliary devices on a user interface associated with a user device.

A method of obtaining contact information for a person or an entity is disclosed. The method comprises detecting a name of the person or the entity in a frame from a screen of a device; determining a presence status for the detected name based on one or more connectivity status for the detected name in one or more communication applications and/or one or more databases, where the one or more communication applications operate on the device from which the frame originates and where the one or more databases are accessible on the device; displaying the presence status on the screen of the device.

Systems and methods for automatic enrollment and identity verification based upon processing a captured image of a document are disclosed herein. Various embodiments enable, for example, a user to enroll in a particular service by taking a photograph of a particular document (e.g., his driver license) with a mobile device. One or more algorithms can then extract relevant data from the captured image. The extracted data (e.g., the person's name, gender, date of birth, height, weight, etc.) can then be used to automatically populate various fields of an enrollment application, thereby reducing the amount of information that the user has to manually input into his mobile device in order to complete the enrollment process. In some embodiments, a set of internal and/or external checks can be run against the data to ensure that the data is valid, has been read correctly, and is consistent with other data.

The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for transaction auditing. One example method includes receiving receipt data associated with an entity. Policy questions associated with the entity are associated with at least one policy question answer that corresponds to a conformance or a violation of a policy selected by the entity. For each policy question, a machine learning policy model is identified for the policy question that includes, for each policy question answer, receipt data features that correspond to the policy question answer. The machine learning policy model is used to automatically determine a selected policy question answer to the policy question by comparing features of extracted tokens to respective receipt data features of the policy question answers that are included in the machine learning policy model. In response to determining that the selected policy question answer corresponds to a policy violation, an audit alert is generated.

A smartphone may be freely moved in three dimensions as it captures a stream of images of an object. Multiple image frames may be captured in different orientations and distances from the object and combined into a composite image representing an image of the object. The image frames may be formed into the composite image based on representing features of each image frame as a set of points in a three dimensional point cloud. Inconsistencies between the image frames may be adjusted when projecting respective points in the point cloud into the composite image. Quality of the image frames may be improved by processing the image frames to correct errors. Reflections and shadows may be detected and removed. Further, optical character recognition may be applied. As the scan progresses, a direction for capturing subsequent image frames is provided to a user as a real-time feedback.

A device comprises a sensor and processing circuitry coupled to the sensor. The sensor is configured to obtain authentication information from an identification label of a cartridge of an electronic vaping device. The processing circuitry is configured to perform authentication of the cartridge based on the authentication information; and determine whether to unlock a battery section of the electronic vaping device to power the cartridge based on a result of the authentication of the cartridge.

Systems and methods for performing OCR of an image depicting text symbols and imaging a document having a plurality of planar regions are disclosed. An example method comprises: receiving a first image of a document having a plurality of planar regions and one or more second images of the document; identifying a plurality of coordinate transformations corresponding to each of the planar regions of the first image of the document; identifying, using the plurality of coordinate transformations, a cluster of symbol sequences of the text in the first image and in the one or more second images; and producing a resulting OCR text comprising a median symbol sequence for the cluster of symbol sequences.

A magnetic ink reading device includes a housing having a slot through which a medium is inserted, a roller driven by a motor by which the medium is conveyed along a conveyance path, one or more sensors arranged along the conveyance path and configured to detect the medium at one or more respective positions, a magnetic head configured to read a magnetic pattern formed on the medium with magnetic ink, and a controller. The controller is configured to control the motor to convey the medium inserted through the slot, measure a length in a conveyance direction of the medium using outputs from the sensors, and control the magnetic head to read the magnetic pattern from the medium while controlling the motor to continuously convey the medium for a period corresponding to the measured length.

A method for authenticating an object, comprising determining a physical dispersion pattern of a set of elements, determining a physical characteristic of the set of elements which is distinct from a physical characteristic producible by a transfer printing technology, determining a digital code associated with the object defining the physical dispersion pattern, and authenticating the object by verifying a correspondence of the digital code with the physical dispersion pattern, and verifying the physical characteristic.