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1. 发明申请

WO2003087991A2 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTHENTICATION OF A WORKPIECE USING THREE DIMENSIONAL SHAPE RECOVERY 审中-公开
标题翻译：使用三维形状恢复验证工件的系统和方法
公开(公告)号：WO2003087991A2
公开(公告)日：2003-10-23
申请号：PCT/US2003/010846
申请日：2003-04-09
申请人： THE ESCHER GROUP, LTD.
发明人： SMITH, Joshua, R.
IPC分类号： G06F
CPC分类号： G06K9/4661 , G06K9/00577 , G06K9/20 , G06K9/2063 , G06K9/3216 , G06K2209/40 , G07B2017/00443 , G07D7/004 , G07D7/12 , G07D7/20
摘要： A workpiece authentication system uses shape recovery techniques to extract explicit three dimensional ("3-D") features of the surface geometry of the designated portion of a workpiece from images produced using different lighting conditions. The system then bases authentication on the 3-D surface features. The system recovers surface normals, or equivalently gradients, for selected locations within a designated portion of the workpiece from multiple enrollment images produced under different illumination conditions. The system then encodes the surface normal information into authentication indicia that is placed on the workpiece and/or stores the surface normals or related information. Thereafter, the system determines that a given workpiece is authentic if the surface normals recovered from various verification images correspond to the stored surface normal information or the surface normal information encoded into the indicia. Alternatively, the system may use the surface normals to predict what an image should contain when the workpiece is subjected to a particular lighting condition. The system then determines that the workpiece is authentic if the predicted image and the image produced using the workpiece correspond. The system may instead encode brightness patterns associated with one or more enrollment images into the indicia. The system then recovers surface normals from images produced during verification operations, predicts what the brightness image should contain and compares the enrollment image to the prediction.
摘要翻译：工件认证系统使用形状恢复技术从使用不同照明条件产生的图像中提取工件的指定部分的表面几何形状的显式三维（“3-D”）特征。然后，该系统将基于3-D表面特征的认证。系统从在不同照明条件下产生的多个登记图像中恢复工件的指定部分内的选定位置的表面法线或等效梯度。然后，系统将表面法线信息编码到放置在工件上的认证标记和/或存储表面法线或相关信息。此后，如果从各种验证图像恢复的表面法线对应于存储的表面法线信息或编码到标记中的表面法线信息，则系统确定给定工件是真实的。或者，系统可以使用表面法线来预测当工件经受特定照明条件时图像应该包含什么。如果预测图像和使用工件产生的图像对应，则系统确定工件是可靠的。系统可以将与一个或多个注册图像相关联的亮度模式编码成标记。系统然后从验证操作中产生的图像中恢复表面法线，预测亮度图像应包含什么，并将注册图像与预测进行比较。

2. 发明申请

WO2003087990A3 ENCODING AND DECODING DATA USING ANGULAR SYMBOLOGY AND BEACONS 审中-公开
公开(公告)号：WO2003087990A3
公开(公告)日：2003-10-23
申请号：PCT/US2003/010839
申请日：2003-04-09
申请人： THE ESCHER GROUP, LTD.
发明人： METOIS, Eric
IPC分类号： G06K9/36
摘要： A system for encoding position-related information in and determining the relative position of a reader from a coded pattern represents the position-related information as modulation patterns that are radially symmetrical about respective center points having known locations. The position modulation patterns in a portion of the coded pattern have angular orientations with respect to a reference orientation which is associated with a reference modulation pattern. Based on the angular orientations of the respective position modulation patterns, the relative position of , for example, a reader in the coded pattern can be determined. The position modulation patterns are selected to have components that are localized in a Fourier transform domain. An example of a position modulation pattern is a radially symmetrical sinusoidal pattern in which spatial frequency and angular orientation are localized in the magnitude Fourier transform domain. In one embodiment of the present invention, the position information may be encoded in one or more portions of an image by varying a characteristic of one of more elements of the image in accordance with the position and reference modulation patterns. An element may be image pixels, and the coded pattern is represented by variations in the intensities of the pixels.

3. 发明申请

WO2003086759A1 DATA ENCODING AND WORKPIECE AUTHENTICATION USING HALFTONE ONFORMATIN 审中-公开
标题翻译：使用HONEFT ONFORMATIN进行数据编码和工作认证
公开(公告)号：WO2003086759A1
公开(公告)日：2003-10-23
申请号：PCT/US2003/010800
申请日：2003-04-07
申请人： THE ESCHER GROUP, LTD
发明人： METOIS, Eric , SMITH, Joshua, R. , YARIN, Paul, M.
IPC分类号： B41B15/00
CPC分类号： H04N1/52 , H04N1/32149 , H04N1/32256 , H04N1/32309
摘要： An encoding system (100) includes data in an underlying image by controlling or modifying halftone settings, which are used in the associated printing color process to produce a hard-copy document or an on screen image. The system (100) uses a halftone encoder (104) to encode the data into the image by selectively varying, in accordance with the data, the order of various color channels, and/or the screen angles using an angle table (105o) and/or spatial frequencies, or scales using a scale table (105r), of associated halftone screens. The system (100) encodes an N-bit payload in the image at the halftone encoder (104) by modifying the halftone settings of certain or all of the color channels in accordance with the data, thus using the color channels also as "data channels." The system (100) prints the encode image at a printer (108) by incorporating the modified halftone settings into the respective halftone screens, and applying the inks in a conventional manner.
摘要翻译：编码系统（100）通过控制或修改在相关联的打印颜色处理中使用的半色调设置来产生硬拷贝文档或屏幕图像，包括底层图像中的数据。系统（100）使用半色调编码器（104）通过使用角度表（105o）和/或角度表（105o）选择性地改变根据数据的各种颜色通道的顺序和/或屏幕角度来将数据编码到图像中 /或空间频率，或使用相关联的半色调屏幕的缩放表（105r）进行缩放。系统（100）通过根据数据修改某些或所有彩色通道的半色调设置，在半色调编码器（104）的图像中对N位有效载荷进行编码，从而也将颜色通道也用作“数据通道 “。系统（100）通过将改进的半色调设置结合到相应的半色调屏幕中并以常规方式应用墨水，在打印机（108）上打印编码图像。

4. 发明申请

WO0078032A3 DATA ENCODING AND DECODING 审中-公开
标题翻译：数据编码和解码
公开(公告)号：WO0078032A3
公开(公告)日：2001-05-03
申请号：PCT/US0016099
申请日：2000-06-13
申请人： ESCHER GROUP LTD , SMITH JOSHUA R
发明人： SMITH JOSHUA R
IPC分类号： G06T1/00 , H04N1/32
CPC分类号： G06T1/0071 , G06T2201/0052 , H04N1/32144 , H04N1/32352 , H04N2201/3233 , H04N2201/327
摘要： Techniques are disclosed for encoding data in, and decoding encoded data from, images. In an embodiment of a technique according to a first aspect of the invention, a function used to encode data in one region of an image is itself encoded in another region of the image. This technique of the present invention may be used to advantage in image-based watermarking applications.
摘要翻译：公开了用于对来自图像的编码数据进行编码和解码的技术。在根据本发明的第一方面的技术的实施例中，用于对图像的一个区域中的数据进行编码的功能本身被编码在图像的另一区域中。本发明的这种技术可以用于基于图像的水印应用中。

5. 发明申请

WO2003032110A2 SYTEM FOR COMBINING POSTAGE, MAILING ADDRESS INFORMATION, AND PAYMENT SERVICES 审中-公开
标题翻译：组合邮寄，邮寄地址信息和付款服务的SYTEM
公开(公告)号：WO2003032110A2
公开(公告)日：2003-04-17
申请号：PCT/US2002/030703
申请日：2002-09-27
申请人： THE ESCHER GROUP, LTD. , MURPHY, Michael, J. , SMITH, Joshua, R. , YARIN, Paul, M.
发明人： MURPHY, Michael, J. , SMITH, Joshua, R. , YARIN, Paul, M.
IPC分类号： G06F
CPC分类号： G06Q30/06 , G06Q20/12 , G07B17/00024 , G07B2017/00064
摘要： A system integrates mailing label and/or postage purchasing systems with information that is available locally at a user's workstation or local network and also information that is available globally through a postal service server. The system obtains mailing addresses locally from the user or user's network and/or globally from a postal service server. The system may thus provide an address from the user's workstation and then a more current or appropriate mailing address, based on information available through the postal service. Further, the system maintains the postage and mailing label information supplied by the user in a session that either concludes when the user prints postage stamps and mailing labels locally or continues to allow the user to print or otherwise obtain the postage and mailing labels at a Post Office that communicates with the postal service server. The system also makes available to the user other services that the system funds through a user's postage account. The system may provide services, suchas, money transfers, crediting telephone cards, and so forth, and debit the user's postal account accordingly. The system may also send status messages to the user, an intended recipient or both evidencing the transfer or delivery of funds, mail pieces, and so forth. Further, the system may be combined with a personal mail piece tracking and tracing system, to provide the user with other services that are based, in whole or in part, on information maintained by or under the control of the postal sercice.
摘要翻译：系统将邮件标签和/或邮资采购系统与用户工作站或本地网络本地可用的信息以及通过邮政服务器全局可用的信息进行整合。系统从用户或用户的网络和/或从邮政服务器全局获取本地的邮寄地址。因此，系统可以基于通过邮政服务可用的信息来提供来自用户工作站的地址，然后提供更新的或适当的邮寄地址。此外，系统维护在用户在用户在本地打印邮票和邮寄标签的会话结束时的用户提供的邮资和邮寄标签信息，或者继续允许用户打印或以其他方式获得邮政邮寄标签与邮政服务器通信的办公室。系统还向用户提供系统通过用户的邮资帐户资金的其他服务。该系统可以提供诸如汇款，贷记电话卡等服务，并相应地借记用户的邮政帐户。该系统还可以发送状态消息给用户，预期接收者或两者都证明资金的转移或递送，邮件等等。此外，系统可以与个人邮件跟踪跟踪系统组合，以向用户提供其他服务，其全部或部分地基于由邮政系统维护或由其控制的信息。

6. 发明申请

WO2007058956A3 AUTOMATED ACCOUNTING SYSTEM 审中-公开
标题翻译：自动化会计系统
公开(公告)号：WO2007058956A3
公开(公告)日：2007-11-15
申请号：PCT/US2006043830
申请日：2006-11-09
申请人： ESCHER GROUP LTD , MURPHY MICHAEL J
发明人： MURPHY MICHAEL J
IPC分类号： G06Q20/00 , G06Q40/00
CPC分类号： G06Q20/20 , G06Q20/102 , G06Q20/40 , G06Q40/02 , G06Q40/025
摘要： A multiple agency transaction accounting system includes a plurality of point of service stations that conduct, for multiple agencies, respective agency transactions that are associated with various reporting requirements, fees and commissions. A universal transaction encoding subsystem encodes the agency transaction data received from the plurality of stations into universal transaction data and supplies the encoded data to a universal transaction settlement subsystem that parses and aggregates the universal transaction data into encoded agency-specific transaction data and provides the encoded agency-specific transaction data to the respective agencies to complete the transaction accounting. The accounting system may also include a money management subsystem that processes fees and commissions associated with the agency transactions in bulk for the respective agencies. The money management subsystem may process the agency transactions as credit card transactions. The money management subsystem thus processes agency transactions paid for in cash as both a cash advance by a station credit card account and a payment to the station credit card account and agency transactions paid for by check as both a cash advance to the station credit card account and a payment to the station credit card account. Alternatively, the money management subsystem may process the agency transactions as bank account transactions in which agency transactions paid for in cash are processed as both a debit to a station bank account and a deposit to the station bank account, and agency transactions paid by credit card as a deposit to the station bank account.
摘要翻译：多代理交易会计系统包括多个服务点，为多个机构执行与各种报告要求，费用和佣金相关联的各自的代理交易。通用交易编码子系统将从多个站接收到的代理交易数据编码为通用交易数据，并将编码数据提供给通用交易结算子系统，该通用交易结算子系统将通用交易数据解析并汇总到经编码的代理交易数据中，代理特定交易数据到各机构完成交易会计。会计系统还可以包括一个货币管理子系统，用于分批处理各机构处理与代理交易相关的费用和佣金。货币管理子系统可以将代理交易作为信用卡交易处理。因此，货币管理子系统处理以现金支付的代理交易，既是由站信用卡账户提供的现金支付以及支付给站信用卡账户的支付和通过支票支付的代理交易作为向站信用卡账户的现金预付款并支付到车站信用卡账户。或者，货币管理子系统可以将代理交易作为银行帐户交易处理，其中以现金支付的代理交易作为站银行帐户的借方和到银行帐户的存款以及由信用卡支付的代理交易作为存款到车站银行账户。

7. 发明申请

WO2007058956A2 AUTOMATED ACCOUNTING SYSTEM 审中-公开
标题翻译：自动会计系统
公开(公告)号：WO2007058956A2
公开(公告)日：2007-05-24
申请号：PCT/US2006/043830
申请日：2006-11-09
申请人： THE ESCHER GROUP, LTD. , MURPHY, Michael, J.
发明人： MURPHY, Michael, J.
IPC分类号： G06Q40/00
CPC分类号： G06Q20/20 , G06Q20/102 , G06Q20/40 , G06Q40/02 , G06Q40/025
摘要： A multiple agency transaction accounting system includes a plurality of point of service stations that conduct, for multiple agencies, respective agency transactions that are associated with various reporting requirements, fees and commissions. A universal transaction encoding subsystem encodes the agency transaction data received from the plurality of stations into universal transaction data and supplies the encoded data to a universal transaction settlement subsystem that parses and aggregates the universal transaction data into encoded agency-specific transaction data and provides the encoded agency-specific transaction data to the respective agencies to complete the transaction accounting. The accounting system may also include a money management subsystem that processes fees and commissions associated with the agency transactions in bulk for the respective agencies. The money management subsystem may process the agency transactions as credit card transactions. The money management subsystem thus processes agency transactions paid for in cash as both a cash advance by a station credit card account and a payment to the station credit card account and agency transactions paid for by check as both a cash advance to the station credit card account and a payment to the station credit card account. Alternatively, the money management subsystem may process the agency transactions as bank account transactions in which agency transactions paid for in cash are processed as both a debit to a station bank account and a deposit to the station bank account, and agency transactions paid by credit card as a deposit to the station bank account.
摘要翻译：多代理交易记帐系统包括多个服务点站，其为多个代理机构执行与各种报告要求，费用和佣金相关的各个代理交易。通用交易编码子系统将从多个站接收的代理交易数据编码为通用交易数据，并将编码数据提供给通用交易结算子系统，该通用交易结算子系统将通用交易数据解析并聚合成编码机构特定交易数据，并提供编码特定于机构的交易数据到各个机构以完成交易记帐。会计系统还可以包括一个资金管理子系统，用于处理与各机构的散装代理交易相关的费用和佣金。资金管理子系统可以将代理交易处理为信用卡交易。因此，资金管理子系统处理以现金支付的代理交易，既作为站台信用卡帐户的现金预付，也作为向站台信用卡帐户支付的付款和支票支付的代理交易，既作为对站点信用卡帐户的现金预付并支付到电台信用卡账户。或者，资金管理子系统可以将代理交易处理为银行帐户交易，其中以现金支付的代理交易既作为到站台银行帐户的借记又存入站台银行帐户，以及通过信用卡支付代理交易作为存款到站台银行账户。

8. 发明申请

WO2006055515A1 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPENSING, SORTING AND DELIVERING PRESCRIPTION AND NON-PRESCRIPTION MEDICATIONS THROUGH THE POST OFFICE 审中-公开
标题翻译：通过邮政局分配，分配和交付处方和非处方药的系统和方法
公开(公告)号：WO2006055515A1
公开(公告)日：2006-05-26
申请号：PCT/US2005/041258
申请日：2005-11-15
申请人： THE ESCHER GROUP, LTD. , MURPHY, Michael, J.
发明人： MURPHY, Michael, J.
IPC分类号： B65B5/10 , G06F19/00
CPC分类号： A61J1/035 , A61J7/04 , B65B5/103 , G06F19/00 , G06F19/3462 , G06Q10/083 , G06Q10/0832 , G06Q50/22 , G06Q50/32 , G07F5/18 , G07F11/00 , G07F11/002 , G07F11/165 , G07F17/0014 , G07F17/0092 , G07F17/26 , G07F17/40
摘要： A pharmacy post office receives prescriptions and produces through an automated pill dispensing and packaging system, pharmacy letters that are sorted and delivered as first class or priority mail pieces. The system packages the prescription medication in carriers that are sized to fit into mail sorting machines that sort the first class or priority mail pieces by postal delivery routes. The pharmacy letters include patient mailing address information such that the pharmacy letters are then fed to the mail sorting machines and sorted along with the first class or priority mail pieces for delivery by the postal delivery persons along their customary routes. The system includes a robotic subsystem that dispenses the medication from pill canisters supplied by the drug companies and provides the pills to an automated packaging system. The packaging system feeds the pills into compartments of a carrier base or blister pack and prints on the carrier or applies as labels thereto drug identification information, mailing address information and tracking information, such as a machine readable code. The packaging system then assembles and seals the carrier, such that mailing address information is available for reading by mail sorting machines. The assembled pharmacy letters are then supplied to the mail sorting machines and included in the first class or priority delivery operations of the post office. A track and trace system may be included to provide a delivery schedule to the patient and/or prescribing doctor. The track and trace system is informed when the packaging system provides a pharmacy letter to the mail sorting machines, and the system determines if the pharmacy letter will be included in the same day postal delivery operations or in the next day operations. When a pharmacy letter is delivered by the postal delivery person, he or she scans the tracking code and transmits information back to the system, which then updates its delivery schedule to show the completed delivery.
摘要翻译：药店邮局通过自动药丸分配和包装系统处理和生产，作为一等或优先邮件分类和交付的药房信件。该系统将处方药物包装在承运人中，其尺寸适合于邮寄分拣机，其通过邮寄递送路线对第一类或优先邮件进行分类。药房信件包括患者邮寄地址信息，使得药房信件然后被馈送到邮件分拣机并且与第一类或优先邮件一起排序，以便邮递员按照其常规路线递送。该系统包括一个机器人子系统，其由药物公司提供的药丸分配药物，并将药丸提供给自动包装系统。包装系统将药丸送入载体基底或泡罩包装的隔室中，并在载体上印刷或作为标签施加药物标识信息，邮寄地址信息和跟踪信息，例如机器可读代码。包装系统然后组装和密封承运人，使得邮寄地址信息可用邮件分拣机读取。组装的药房信件然后被提供给邮件分拣机并且被包括在邮局的一级或优先递送操作中。可以包括跟踪和跟踪系统以向患者和/或处方医生提供递送计划。当包装系统向邮件分拣机提供药店信件时，系统通知跟踪和追踪系统，系统确定药房信件是否将被包含在同一天的邮递服务操作中或次日操作中。当邮递员发送药房信件时，他或她扫描跟踪代码并将信息发送回系统，然后系统更新其传送计划以显示完成的传送。

9. 发明申请

WO2003030105A2 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTHENTICATION AND TRACKING OF A WORKPIECE THAT INCLUDES AN OPTICALLY ACTIVE MEDIUM 审中-公开
标题翻译：用于认证和跟踪包括光学活性介质的工作的系统和方法
公开(公告)号：WO2003030105A2
公开(公告)日：2003-04-10
申请号：PCT/US2002/028350
申请日：2002-09-06
申请人： THE ESCHER GROUP, LTD
发明人： SMITH, Joshua, R. , METOIS, Eric , MURPHY, Michael, J.
IPC分类号： G07B
CPC分类号： G07F7/08 , G07B2017/00653 , G07B2017/00766 , G07D7/004 , G07D7/12 , G07F7/0813 , G07F7/0833 , G07F7/12
摘要： An inhomogeneous, optically active medium with optically active components, such as, an ink with reflective flakes or a gemstone dust, is included on or embedded in one or more portions of a workpiece. When the portions are illuminated with visible and/or ultraviolet light, the components, which are also anisotropic, provide readily detectable information that can be extracted for a string which is included on or associated with an indicium that is used to authenticate the workpiece. To verify the workpiece, the one or more portions that contain the optically active medium are again illuminated, and the string is then newly generated from various images of the appearances of the components. The newly generated string or, as appropriate, an indicium that is based on the string is then compared with a string or an indicium that is imprinted on or associated with the workpiece. If the previously and newly generated strings or indicium correspond, the workpiece is determined to be authentic. Otherwise, the workpiece is deemed to be a counterfeit.
摘要翻译：具有光学活性组分的不均匀的光学活性介质，例如具有反射薄片或宝石粉末的墨水被包含在工件的一个或多个部分中或嵌入其中。当这些部分被可见光和/或紫外光照射时，也是各向异性的组分提供了可被提取的用于对用于认证工件的标记包括在或与它相关联的串的易于检测的信息。为了验证工件，包含光学活性介质的一个或多个部分再次被照亮，然后从组件的外观的各种图像重新产生该串。然后将新生成的字符串或酌情将基于字符串的标记与压印在工件上或与工件相关联的字符串或标记进行比较。如果先前和新产生的弦或标记对应，则确定工件是真实的。否则，工件被认为是假冒的。

10. 发明申请

WO2002065329A1 PEER-TO PEER ENTERPRISE STORAGE 审中-公开
标题翻译：同行企业存储
公开(公告)号：WO2002065329A1
公开(公告)日：2002-08-22
申请号：PCT/US2002/004349
申请日：2002-02-14
申请人： THE ESCHER GROUP, LTD.
发明人： SUTHERLAND, Andrew , KLUGERMAN, Michael, Richard , O'NEILL, Donal , LUDMAN, Sandor , ZUKOVSKY, Eli
IPC分类号： G06F17/00
CPC分类号： H04L41/00
摘要： A peer-to-peer storage sytem includes a storage coordinator (12) that centrally manages distributed storage resources in accordance with system policies administered through a central administrative console (16).
摘要翻译：对等存储系统包括存储协调器（12），其根据通过中央管理控制台（16）管理的系统策略集中管理分布式存储资源。

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