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PROCESSING CONTAINER IMAGES AND IDENTIFIERS USING OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION AND GEOLOCATION

  • US 20140009612A1
  • Filed: 09/03/2013
  • Published: 01/09/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An apparatus, comprising:

  • an imaging device configured to take a picture of an object, the picture containing an alphanumeric identifier of the object;

    a global positioning system (GPS) component associated with the imaging device and configured to tag the image of the object with GPS location information of the object to generate a tagged image;

    a communications interface configured to transmit the tagged image to a server computer remote from the imaging device over an Internet Protocol (IP) network; and

    a processor of the server configured to perform Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on the picture and to create an indicator code corresponding to the identifier of the object, wherein the processor is further configured to create a processed result containing the indicator code and the location to locate the object within a site.

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