PORTABLE APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING MEASUREMENT DATA AND METHOD THEREOF

• US 20110267459A1
• Filed: 12/15/2010
• Published: 11/03/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/03/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: CHOI, Young Sang
• Application Number:
  US12/968,755
• Publication Number:
  US 20110267459A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/135
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 2201/02 Recognising information on displays, dials, clocks
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/142 using hand-held instruments; Constructional details of the instruments

Abstract

A portable apparatus for processing measurement data and a method thereof are provided. The portable apparatus may extract measurement data from a captured image representing a measurement device, and may store and manage the extracted measurement data together with a type of the measurement data.

Claims

1. A portable apparatus, comprising:

an image capturing unit configured to acquire a captured image by capturing a measurement device on which measurement data is displayed;

a controller configured to extract the measurement data from the acquired captured image; and

a storage unit configured to store at least one of;

the extracted measurement data and the acquired captured image.

2. The portable apparatus of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to:

extract the measurement data from the acquired captured image; and

control the storage unit to store the extracted measurement data, in response to an image corresponding to the measurement device existing among a plurality of images that represent a plurality of measurement devices and that are stored in advance.

3. The portable apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a User Interface (UI) unit configured to receive a type of the measurement data, the type being input by a user.

4. The portable apparatus of claim 3, wherein the controller is further configured to control the storage unit to store the measurement data and the type of the measurement data received by the UI unit, in response to an image corresponding to the measurement device not existing among a plurality of images that represent a plurality of measurement devices and that are stored in advance.

5. The portable apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a communication unit configured to transmit the extracted measurement data to a management server.

6. The portable apparatus of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to control the storage unit to further store at least one of:

a type of the measurement data, a time at which the measurement data is measured, a location where the measurement data is measured, and information regarding a user corresponding to the measurement data.

7. The portable apparatus of claim 6, wherein the type of the measurement data is determined based on an image corresponding to the measurement device among a plurality of images that represent a plurality of measurement devices and that are stored in advance.

8. The portable apparatus of claim 6, wherein, in response to the acquired captured image comprising a unit symbol for the measurement data, the controller is further configured to:

extract the unit symbol along with the measurement data; and

control the storage unit to store the extracted unit symbol and the extracted measurement data.

9. A method of processing measurement data in a portable apparatus, the method comprising:

acquiring a captured image by capturing a measurement device on which measurement data is displayed;

extracting the measurement data from the acquired captured image; and

storing at least one of the extracted measurement data and the acquired captured image.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the extracting comprises extracting the measurement data from the acquired captured image, in response to an image corresponding to the measurement device existing among a plurality of images that represent a plurality of measurement devices and that are stored in advance.

11. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

receiving a type of the measurement data, in response to an image corresponding to the measurement device not existing among a plurality of images that represent a plurality of measurement devices and that are stored in advance, the type being input by a user; and

storing the received type of the measurement data.

12. The method of claim 9, further comprising transmitting the extracted measurement data to a management server.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein the storing comprises further storing at least one of:

a type of the measurement data, a time at which the measurement data is measured, a location where the measurement data is measured, and information regarding a user corresponding to the measurement data.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the type of the measurement data is determined based on an image corresponding to the measurement device among a plurality of images that represent a plurality of measurement devices and are stored in advance.

15. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing a program to cause a computer to implement the method of claim 9.

16. A portable apparatus, comprising:

an image capturing unit configured to acquire a captured image by capturing a measurement device on which measurement data is displayed;

a controller configured to extract the measurement data from the acquired captured image; and

a communication unit configured to transmit, to a management server, at least one of;

the extracted measurement data and the acquired captured image.

17. The portable apparatus of claim 16, wherein the controller is further configured to:

extract the measurement data from the acquired captured image; and

control the storage unit to store the extracted measurement data, in response to an image corresponding to the measurement device existing among a plurality of images that represent a plurality of measurement devices and that are stored in advance.

18. The portable apparatus of claim 16, further comprising a User Interface (UI) unit configured to receive a type of the measurement data, the type being input by a user.

19. The portable apparatus of claim 18, wherein the controller is further configured to control the storage unit to store the measurement data and the type of the measurement data received by the UI unit, in response to an image corresponding to the measurement device not existing among a plurality of images that represent a plurality of measurement devices and that are stored in advance.

20. The portable apparatus of claim 16, wherein the controller is further configured to control the storage unit to further store at least one of:

a type of the measurement data, a time at which the measurement data is measured, a location where the measurement data is measured, and information regarding a user corresponding to the measurement data.