Systems and methods for capturing visible information

• US 10,496,919 B2
• Filed: 08/30/2018
• Issued: 12/03/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/10/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Capital One Services LLC (Capital One Financial Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Capital One Services LLC (Capital One Financial Corporation)
• Inventors: Edwards, Joshua, Zhao, Jiawei
• Primary Examiner(s): Hess, Daniel A
• Application Number:
  US16/117,314
• Publication Number:
  US 20190026623A1
• Time in Patent Office: 460 Days
• Field of Search: 235380
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/0725 the arrangement being a circuit for emulating a plurality of record carriers, e.g. a single RFID tag capable of representing itself to a reader as a cloud of RFID tags
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/16 the marking being a hologram or diffraction grating
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/18 Constructional details
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3567 Software being in the reader
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2210/32 Image data format
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 9/00 Image coding bandwidth or redundancy reduction for static pictures H04N1/41; coding or decoding of static colour picture signals H04N1/64; methods or arrangements for coding, decoding, compressing or decompressing digital video signals H04N19/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/0806 Details of the card record carriers per se G06K

Abstract

A transaction card construction and computer-implemented methods for a transaction card are described. The transaction card has vector-formatted visible information applied by a laser machining system. Systems and methods are disclosed for enabling the sourcing of visible information using a scalable vector format. The systems and methods may receive a request to add visible information to a transaction card and capture an image of the visible information. The systems and methods may capture data representing the image. The systems and methods may also determine an ambient color saturation of the image. Further, systems and methods may translate the image based on the ambient color saturation of the image. The systems and methods may also map the translated image to a bounding box and convert the mapped image into vector format. In addition, the systems and methods may provide the converted image to a laser machining system.

Claims

1. A system for sourcing visible information using a scalable vector format, comprising:

one or more memory devices storing instruction; and

one or more processors configured to execute the instruction to perform operations comprising;

capturing data representing a first image of visible information, the first image comprising a plurality of pixels, the pixels being represented in the data by color information values;

determining a first ambient color saturation of the first image, wherein the first ambient color saturation comprises an average of the color information values of the plurality of pixels;

translating the data representing the first image to data representing a first translated image by translating the color information values of the pixels, the pixels being translated based on whether the color information values of the pixels exceed a threshold of the color information value of the first ambient color saturation;

determining that a customer approves of a display of the first translated image;

storing, in a customer authentication database, the data representing the first translated image based on the determination that the customer associated with the first image approves of the first translated data.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the color information values comprise at least one of a red-green-blue (RGB) value, a cyan-magenta-yellow-black (CMYK) value, a hue-saturation-lightness (HSL) value, a hue-saturation-value (HSV) value, a HEX value, or a pantone matching system (PMS) value.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the first image comprises a signature.

4. The system of claim 1, the operations further comprising:

for at least one of the pixels;

determining whether the color information value of the one pixel is less than the color information value of the first ambient color saturation;

in response to determining that the color information value of the one pixel is less than the color information value of the first ambient color saturation;

setting the color information value of the one pixel to a color information value of a first color; and

in response to determining that the color information value of the one pixel does not exceed the color information value of the first ambient color saturation;

setting the color information value of the one pixel to a color information value of a second color.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein:

the first color is black; and

the second color is white.

6. The system of claim 1, the operations further comprising:

acquiring approval information from the customer; and

determining, based on the approval information, whether the customer approves the visible information.

7. The system of claim 6, the operations further comprising further comprising:

in response to determining that the customer does not approve the visible information;

capturing data representing a second image of the visible information, the second image comprising a plurality of pixels, the pixels being represented by color information values;

determining a second ambient color saturation of the second image, the second ambient color saturation being represented by a color information value; and

translating the data representing the second image to data representing a second translated image by translating the color information values of the pixels, the pixels being translated based on whether the pixel color information color information values exceed the color information value of the first ambient color saturation; and

in response to determining that the customer approves the visible information,

storing, in the customer authentication database, the data representing the first translated image.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the first image comprises personal information.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the first image comprises financial information.

10. A system for sourcing visible information using a scalable vector format, comprising:

one or more memory devices storing instruction; and

one or more processors configured to execute the instruction to perform operations comprising;

capturing data representing a first image of a first signature, the first image comprising a first pixel and a second pixel, the first pixel being represented in the data by a first color information value, and the second pixel being represented in the data by a second color information value;

determining an ambient color saturation of the first image, the ambient color saturation being represented by a third color information value that is the average of the first and second color information values;

translating the data representing the first image to data representing a first translated image by determining whether the first color information value is darker than the third color information value, wherein;

in response to determining that the first color information value is darker than the third color information value, setting the color information value of the first pixel to a color information value of a first color; and

in response to determining that the first color information value is not darker than the third color information value, setting the color information value of the first pixel to a color information value of a second color;

determining that a customer approves of a display of the first translated image; and

storing, in a customer authentication database, the data representing the first translated image based on the determination that the customer approves of the first translated image.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the color information value comprises at least one of a red-green-blue (RGB) value, a cyan-magenta-yellow-black (CMYK) value, a hue-saturation-lightness (HSL) value, a hue-saturation-value (HSV) value, a HEX value, or a pantone matching system (PMS) value.

12. The system of claim 10, the operations further comprising:

acquiring approval information from the customer; and

determining, based on the approval information, whether the customer approves the first signature.

13. The system of claim 12, the operations further comprising:

in response to determining that the customer does not approve of the visible information;

receiving data representing a second image of a second signature, the second image comprising a third pixel and a fourth pixel, wherein the third pixel is represented by a third color information value, and wherein the fourth pixel is represented by a fourth color information value;

determining a second ambient color saturation of the second image, the second ambient color saturation being represented by a fifth color information value that is the average of the third and fourth color information values;

translating the data representing the second image by determining whether the third color information value is darker than the fifth color information value;

in response to determining that the third color information value of the ambient color saturation is darker than the fifth color information value, setting the color information value of the third pixel to the color information value of the first color;

in response to determining that the third color information value of the ambient color saturation is not darker than the fifth color information value, setting the color information value of the third pixel to the color information value of the second color; and

in response to determining that the customer approves of the visible information;

storing, in the customer authentication database, the data representing the first translated image.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein:

the first color is black; and

the second color is white.

15. A system for sourcing visible information using a scalable vector format, comprising:

one or more memory devices storing instruction; and

one or more processors configured to execute the instruction to perform operations comprising;

receiving a request to add first visible information to a transaction card;

capturing data representing a first image of the first visible information, the first image comprising a plurality of pixels represented by color information values;

determining a first ambient color saturation of the first image, wherein the first ambient color saturation comprises an average of the color information values of the plurality of pixels;

translating the data representing the first image by translating the color information values of the pixels, the pixels being translated based on whether the color information value of the pixels exceed a threshold of the color information value of the first ambient color saturation;

mapping the data representing the translated image to a bounding box;

converting the data representing the mapped image into a vector format; and

providing the data representing the converted image data to a laser machining system, the data configured to cause the laser machining system to modify a card.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the color information values comprise at least one of a red-green-blue (RGB) value, a cyan-magenta-yellow-black (CMYK) value, a hue-saturation-lightness (HSL) value, a hue-saturation-value (HSV) value, a HEX value, or a pantone matching system (PMS) value.

17. The system of claim 15, the operations further comprising:

determining whether the color information value of at least one of the pixels is less than the color information value of the ambient color saturation;

in response to determining that the color information value of the at least one pixel is less than the color information value of the ambient color saturation, setting the color information value of the one pixel to a color information value of a first color;

in response to determining that the color information value of the at least one pixel is not less than the color information value of the ambient color saturation, setting the color information value of the one pixel to a color information value of a second color; and

storing, in a customer authentication database, the data representing the first translated image based on a determination that a customer associated with the first image approves of the visible information.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein:

the first color is black; and

the second color is white.

19. The system of claim 15, the operations further comprising:

acquiring approval information from the customer; and

determining, based on the approval information, whether the customer approves the visible information.

20. The system of claim 19, the operations further comprising:

in response to determining that the customer does not approve of the visible information;

capturing data representing a second image of the visible information, the second image comprising a plurality of pixels, the pixels being represented by color information values;

determining a second ambient color saturation of the second image, the second ambient color saturation being represented by a color information value; and

translating the data representing the second image to data representing a second translated image by translating the color information values of the pixels, the pixels being translated based on whether the pixel color information color information values exceed the color information value of the first ambient color saturation; and

in response to determining that the customer approves of the visible information, storing, in the customer authentication database, the data representing the first translated image.