A smart reading device for a water meter and a controlling method thereof are provided. The smart reading device includes a fixing component, a casing, an image capturing component, an image analyzing component, and a transmitting component. The fixing component is used to be fixed onto the water meter. The casing is disposed on the fixing component. The image capturing component is disposed in the casing for capturing a numerical display area of the water meter so as to obtain a water consumption image. The water consumption image is analyzed by the image analyzing component or a relay device to obtain a water consumption value. The transmitting component is used for transmitting the water consumption value or the water consumption image to the relay device.

The equipment management device includes an information collection unit, a specific state detection unit, a cause estimation unit, and a countermeasure process execution unit. The information collection unit acquires a video of a conference room or a sound of the conference room. The specific state detection unit detects that equipment provided in the conference room is in a specific state on the basis of a result of analyzing the video or the sound. The cause estimation unit acquires equipment information about the equipment when the equipment has been detected to be in the specific state and estimates a cause of the specific state on the basis of the equipment information. The countermeasure process execution unit selects and executes a countermeasure process to be executed on the basis of the estimated cause.

Media processing systems and techniques are described. A media processing system receives image data that represents an environment captured by an image sensor. The media processing system receives an indication of an object in the environment that is represented in the image data. The media processing system divides the image data into regions, including a first region and a second region. The object is represented in one of the plurality of regions. The media processing system modifies the image data to obscure the first region without obscuring the second region based on the object being represented in the one of the plurality of regions. The media processing system outputs the image data after modifying the image data. In some examples, the object is depicted in the first region and not the second region. In some examples, the object is depicted in the second region and not the first region.

A display apparatus for generating multimedia content and an operation method thereof are provided. The display apparatus includes a display, a memory storing one or more instructions, and a processor configured to execute the one or more instructions stored in the memory. The processor is configured to obtain plot information of the multimedia content, and generate sequence information including one or more sequences of the multimedia content corresponding to the plot information by using a first artificial intelligence (AI) model, generate scene information based on the sequence information by using a second AI model, generate the multimedia content based on the scene information, and control the display to output the multimedia content.

The present invention is a message updating system for an electronic label. The system comprises a message updating device, wherein a controller thereof controls a power-supply transmission unit and a message-update transmission unit to respectively transmit a charging signal and a message-updating to the electronic label for charging the electronic label and updating label information of the electronic label. A detection device picks up the label information to generate label content information, transmits the label content information to the controller to make the controller compare the label content information with update comparison information, and generates an alert message if the label content information is different from the update comparison information. The present can charge the electronic label that is mounted on an article and update label information simultaneously while the article is being transported.

A method to automatically adjust a user interface of a mobile device for readability is provided. A processor retrieves an external capture of a display of a mobile device. A processor converts text in the external capture to a computer readable format. A processor determines a readability index of the external capture based on a comparison of the text in the external capture to user interface data of the mobile device. A processor, in response to the readability index being below a threshold value, adjusts at least one display parameter of a user interface of the mobile device.

According to an embodiment, a reading system includes a reader and a calculator. The reader reads, from a character image, a character that is displayed by a segment display. The calculator performs one of first, second, third, or fourth processing. In the first processing, the calculator calculates a first score based on a state of pixels of the character. In the second processing, the calculator calculates a second score based on a match ratio between the pixels and the extracted pixels. In the third processing, the calculator calculates a third score based on a ratio of a length of the character image in first and second direction. In the fourth processing, the calculator calculates a fourth score based on a comparison result between the detected result and preset patterns. The calculator calculates a certainty of the reading by using one of the first, second, third, or fourth score.

Computing devices and methods for reading gauges are disclosed. A gauge reading method includes capturing image data corresponding to a captured image of one or more gauges, detecting one or more gauges in the captured image, cropping a detected gauge in the captured image to provide a use image including the detected gauge, and classifying the detected gauge to correlate the detected gauge with a template image. The gauge reading method also includes attempting to perform feature detection rectification on the use image to produce a rectified image of the detected gauge, performing template matching rectification on the use image to produce the rectified image responsive to a failure to perform the feature detection rectification, and estimating a gauge reading responsive to the rectified image. A computing device may implement at least a portion of a gauge reading method.

A smart reader system for a scale having a display is disclosed. The smart reader system includes an image capture device for capturing an image of the display; and an attachment device for mounting on the scale, the attachment device configured to receive the image capture device; and a computing device configured to identify, using a machine learning model, a weight from the image of the display.

A non-intrusive detection method for detecting at least one pop-up window button of the pop-up window includes the following steps: retrieving a screen image on a display device; comparing the screen image with a preset screen image and generating a differential image area according the screen image and the preset screen image; determining the differential image area as the pop-up window when the differential image area is greater than an image area threshold value; selecting a plurality of contour lengths of the pop-up window matching up with a contour length threshold value by Canny edge detector; and analyzing the contour lengths according to Douglas-Peucker algorithm and an amount of endpoints to generate a contour edge corresponding to the pop-up window button.