An approach for enhancing a video stream. The approach processes a video stream and identifies frames comprising text. The approach marks text extraction locations and extracts the text from the frames. The approach determines if a mirroring effect should be applied to the text and applies if applicable, creating enhanced text. The approach inserts the enhanced text and smooths the edges of the inserted enhanced text. The approach merges the frames with the enhanced text into the video stream, creating an enhanced video stream and sends the enhanced video stream to requesting users.

Disclosed herein are devices and methods for determining the identity of markings on tires. A portable tire scanner can comprise one or more light sources and detector that reflect light off tire markings and capture imagery of them. The scanner is operable to process the imagery to determine the identity of the markings. The marking can be the same color as the area of the tire around the marking (e.g., black-on-black) and the scanner can identify the marking by determining angular edges of the markings. Plural light sources and/or detectors can be used to provide plural perspectives to better determine the edges of the markings. The housing can have a form factor that allows the scanner to be hand-held, such that a user can aim the scanner at tires even while on a vehicle or in hard to reach positions. The scanner can be used to scan and identify several tire marking in succession.

The present disclosure relates to a supplementary device for attachment to an injection device including an imaging arrangement configured to capture an image of a moveable number sleeve of the injection device, a plurality of light sources, and a processor arrangement configured to control operation of the imaging arrangement and the plurality of light sources and to receive image data from the imaging arrangement. In some instances, the processor arrangement is configured to activate the plurality of light sources sequentially and to combine multiple images captured by the imaging apparatus under different illumination conditions into a single image.

An apparatus and a method recognizes stamped characters, detects stamped depths of characters using the same, and/or accurately recognizes characters even when an image distortion occurs at stamped portion due to different stamped depths of characters.

System and method for encryption currency counter measure and deterrence against counterfeiting. The system tracks the FSN for each FRN, from the time a serial number is assigned to a new bill, until the time the bill is retired from circulation.

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.

A region of a drug to be identified is detected from a captured image generated by imaging the drug to be identified that is imparted with engraved mark and/or print. The region of the drug to be identified in the captured image is processed to acquire an engraved mark and print extraction image that is an extracted image of the engraved mark and/or print of the drug to be identified. The engraved mark and print extraction image is input, and a drug type of the drug to be identified is inferred to acquire a candidate of the drug type of the drug to be identified.

System and method for encryption currency counter measure and deterrence against counterfeiting. The system tracks the FSN for each FRN, from the time a serial number is assigned to a new bill, until the time the bill is retired from circulation.

System and method for encryption currency counter measure and deterrence against counterfeiting. The system tracks the FSN for each FRN, from the time a serial number is assigned to a new bill, until the time the bill is retired from circulation.

An approach for enhancing a video stream. The approach processes a video stream and identifies frames comprising text. The approach marks text extraction locations and extracts the text from the frames. The approach determines if a mirroring effect should be applied to the text and applies if applicable, creating enhanced text. The approach inserts the enhanced text and smooths the edges of the inserted enhanced text. The approach merges the frames with the enhanced text into the video stream, creating an enhanced video stream and sends the enhanced video stream to requesting users.