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US 12,548,091 B2Granted
Method and system for optical encoding metering
AssigneeEran Altmann
InventorEran Altmann
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Abstract
Systems and methods for metering consumption of a resource include: a sensor comprising a display and configured to: sense a consumption of the resource; display said consumption on the display; and convert said consumption into digital sensor data; an imaging device configured to capture images of the display of the sensor; and a communications interface configured to transmit the digital sensor data and data describing one or more of the images of the display to a remote server.
Claims11
A system for metering consumption of a resource, said system comprising:
- a sensor comprising a display and configured to:
- continuously sense a consumption of the resource;
- continuously display said consumption on the display;
- and
- continuously convert said consumption into digital sensor data;
- an imaging device configured to capture images of the display of the sensor;
- and
- a communications interface configured to transmit the digital sensor data and data describing one or more of the images of the display to a remote server,
- wherein the sensor is configured to continuously detect a consumption of the resource,
- wherein the continuous converting of said consumption into digital sensor data by the sensor can be paused for a predetermined interval,
- wherein the imaging device is configured to image the display at an end of the predetermined interval, and
- wherein the remote server is configured to calculate a consumption of the resource during the predetermined interval based on the digital sensor data received before the predetermined interval and an image of the display at the end of the predetermined interval.
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A method for resource consumption metering, the method comprising:
- continuously detecting a consumption of a resource;
- continuously displaying said consumption on a display;
- continuously converting said consumption into digital sensor data;
- continuously imaging the display;
- and
- transmitting the digital sensor data and data describing one or more of the images of the display to a remote server,
- wherein the continuously converting said consumption into digital sensor data can be paused for a predetermined interval,
- wherein the imaging of the display is carried out at an end of the predetermined interval, and
- wherein the remote server is configured to calculate a consumption of the resource during the predetermined interval based on the digital sensor data received before the predetermined interval and an image of the display at the end of the predetermined interval.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.