公开(公告)号：US20130301873A1

公开(公告)日：2013-11-14

申请号：US13470091

申请日：2012-05-11

申请人： James Hoover ,  Justin Bales ,  Steven Bennett ,  Eric Coomer ,  Sean Dean ,  Geneice Mathews ,  Benjamin Rice

发明人： James Hoover ,  Justin Bales ,  Steven Bennett ,  Eric Coomer ,  Sean Dean ,  Geneice Mathews ,  Benjamin Rice

IPC分类号： G06K9/62

CPC分类号： G06K9/00442 ,  G06T11/60 ,  G06T2207/10004 ,  G07C13/00

摘要： Methods, systems, and devices are described for adjudicating votes made on voter-marked paper ballots. Voter-marked paper ballots may be scanned to obtain optical image data of the voter-marked paper ballots. The optical image may be analyzed to determine the votes contained in the ballot for tabulation purposes. One or more votes on the ballot may be identified as requiring adjudication by an election official. Adjudication information, according to various embodiments, is appended to the optical images of the voter-marked paper ballots such that the image of the ballot and the image of the adjudication information may be viewed in an optical image. The optical image may be stored in a file format that allows the ballot image and the appended adjudication information to be viewed using readily available image viewers.

公开(公告)号：US08913787B2

公开(公告)日：2014-12-16

申请号：US13470091

申请日：2012-05-11

申请人： James Hoover ,  Justin Bales ,  Steven Bennett ,  Eric Coomer ,  Sean Dean ,  Geneice Mathews ,  Benjamin Rice

发明人： James Hoover ,  Justin Bales ,  Steven Bennett ,  Eric Coomer ,  Sean Dean ,  Geneice Mathews ,  Benjamin Rice

IPC分类号： G06K9/00

CPC分类号： G06K9/00442 ,  G06T11/60 ,  G06T2207/10004 ,  G07C13/00

摘要： Methods, systems, and devices are described for adjudicating votes made on voter-marked paper ballots. Voter-marked paper ballots may be scanned to obtain optical image data of the voter-marked paper ballots. The optical image may be analyzed to determine the votes contained in the ballot for tabulation purposes. One or more votes on the ballot may be identified as requiring adjudication by an election official. Adjudication information, according to various embodiments, is appended to the optical images of the voter-marked paper ballots such that the image of the ballot and the image of the adjudication information may be viewed in an optical image. The optical image may be stored in a file format that allows the ballot image and the appended adjudication information to be viewed using readily available image viewers.

摘要翻译： 描述了用于裁决在选民标记的纸张选票上进行的投票的方法，系统和装置。 可以扫描选票标记的纸张选票，以获得选民标记的纸张选票的光学图像数据。 可以分析光学图像以确定用于列表目的的投票中所包含的投票。 投票中的一票或多票可能被确定为要求由选举官员进行裁决。 根据各种实施例的裁决信息被附加到选民标记纸投票的光学图像，使得投票的图像和裁决信息的图像可以在光学图像中观看。 光学图像可以以允许使用容易获得的图像观看者来查看投票图像和附加的裁决信息的文件格式来存储。