Because neighboring frames may affect how a current frame is perceived, we examine different neighborhoods of the current frame and select a neighborhood that impacts the perceived temporal distortion (i.e., when frames are viewed continuously) of the current frame most significantly. Based on spatial distortion (i.e., when a frame is viewed independently of other frames in a video sequence) of frames in the selected neighborhood, we can estimate initial temporal distortion. To refine the initial temporal distortion, we also consider the distribution of distortion in the selected neighborhood, for example, the distance between the current frame and a closest frame with large distortion, or whether distortion occurs in consecutive frames.

The present invention relates to a method for correcting a fragmentary or deformed quadrangular image. The method comprises five steps, i.e. detection of an edge point, elimination of an abnormal edge point, straight-line fitting, vertex calculation and image correction. The method for correcting a fragmentary or deformed quadrangular image is applied to a recognition method and a recognition system for papers, such as valuable documents, bills, identity cards, etc., and can rapidly conduct edge detection and tilt correction on images of valuable documents, bills or papers which are fragmentary or deformed.

Various embodiments disclosed herein are directed to methods of capturing Vehicle Identification Numbers (VIN) from images captured by a mobile device. Capturing VIN data can be useful in several applications, for example, insurance data capture applications. There are at least two types of images supported by this technology: (1) images of documents and (2) images of non-documents.

Disclosed are automated biometric enrollment workflow (ABEW) systems and method implemented on a mobile communications device that includes a processor, memory and a display. The method is executed by the processor and includes opening of ABEW user interface (UI), initiating automated biometric enrollment workflow in which first biometric mode of the automated biometric enrollment workflow is started, a biometric sensor/scanner connected to mobile communications device scanning or reading a first biometric, wherein the first biometric is associated with the first biometric mode, analyzing the quality of the read/scanned first biometric, determining if the quality is sufficient, if the quality is insufficient, repeating the scanning/reading, analyzing and determining for the first biometric until the quality of the first biometric is sufficient and if the quality is sufficient, storing the first biometric.

An appearance presentation system is provided. The appearance presentation system can present the appearance of an object to be monitored at a position that the user designates in an image such that the user can previously grasp the extent to which the image to be captured with a camera is suitable for an image recognition process. A display control unit 10 displays, on a display device, an image obtained by superimposing an object indicator indicating the object to be monitored on an image to be captured when the camera of which position and posture are determined shoots a predetermined region to be monitored. A position designation reception unit 4 receives the designation of the position of the object indicator in the image. An image generation unit 3 generates an image to be captured when the camera shoots a state in which the object to be monitored is placed at a position that is in the region to be monitored and that corresponds to the position designated in the image. Then, the display control unit 10 extracts a part corresponding to the object to be monitored from the image generated in the image generation unit 3, and displays the part on the display device.

The quality at which camera data (e.g., images, video, and/or audio captured by a camera device) is transmitted and/or stored may be adjusted based on the application of analytic techniques. For example, a camera processing device may receive camera data and receive information relating to conditions external to the capturing of the camera data. The camera processing device may control the resolution associated with the camera data based on the information relating to the conditions.

An improved method for verifying whether a character-recognition technology has correctly identified which characters are represented by character images involves displaying the uncertain character images in place of their respective hypothesis characters in a document being read a verifier. The verifier may mark incorrectly spelled words containing the uncertain character images. Based on the markings, a system adjusts a confidence level associated with the hypothesis about the uncertain character in order to obtain a confirmed hypothesis linked to the uncertain character.

A delivery processing apparatus has a recognition unit and a determination unit. The recognition unit executes recognition processing for recognizing information that is provided on a delivery target item based on an image obtained by shooting an image of the delivery target item. The determination unit determines whether or not to extend the recognition processing performed by the recognition unit, based on a degree of progress of the recognition processing that has been performed by the recognition unit in a period from when the information recognition processing was started by the recognition unit until a predetermined time has elapsed, and an extension rate, which indicates a ratio of the number of times that the recognition unit has extended the recognition processing to the number of times that the recognition unit has performed the recognition processing.

According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes: capturing an image of a document using a camera of a mobile device; performing optical character recognition (OCR) on the image of the document; extracting an identifier of the document from the image based at least in part on the OCR; comparing the identifier with content from one or more reference data sources, wherein the content from the one or more reference data sources comprises global address information; and determining whether the identifier is valid based at least in part on the comparison. The method may optionally include normalizing the extracted identifier, retrieving additional geographic information, correcting OCR errors, etc. based on comparing extracted information with reference content. Corresponding systems and computer program products are also disclosed.

An automatic adjustable display system and this adjusting method and device are provided to realize automatic adjustment of display system, so as to provide users with optimal viewing angle and viewing height. In the display system, an image acquiring unit is configured to acquire user images; a control unit is configured to receive and analyze the user images to determine user state information, and if the user state information meets a first preset condition, the control unit generates a first adjusting instruction for adjusting a distance between the display unit and the user and sends the first adjusting instruction to an implementing unit; the implementing unit is configured to receive the first adjusting instruction sent by the control unit and adjust the distance between the user and the display unit according to the first adjusting instruction.