Method and system for generating machine-readable biometric data
Methods, computer readable storage media, and systems are provided for generating machine-readable biometric data from a medical device, which may include: obtaining an image of the medical device including a display of the medical device; retrieving a reference image of a reference display corresponding to the medical device, the reference image defining a reference data field within the reference display; comparing the image to the reference image to identify a data field within the display corresponding to the reference data field within the reference display; identifying one or more alpha-numeric symbols within the data field; and converting the alpha-numeric symbols into the machine-readable biometric data. The machine-readable biometric data may be used to create a data record for a user of the medical device, and can be communicated to an Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF) database or server.
1. A method comprising:
generating machine-readable biometric data from a medical device, the step of generating machine-readable biometric data further comprising:
obtaining an image of the medical device, the image including a display of the medical device;
retrieving a reference image of a reference display corresponding to the medical device, the reference image defining a reference data field within the reference display, wherein the reference image defining a reference data field further defines a reference data type;
comparing the image to the reference image to identify a data field within the display corresponding to the reference data field within the reference display;
identifying, within the data field, one or more alpha-numeric symbols, wherein the one or more alpha-numeric symbols within the data field comprise at least one symbol corresponding to data; and
converting the one or more alpha-numeric symbols into the machine-readable biometric data, wherein the step of converting comprises converting the data into machine-readable data and combining the machine-readable data with the reference data type, the machine-readable data and the reference data type comprising the machine-readable biometric data.
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
identifying a user of the medical device;
obtaining machine-readable user data corresponding to the user of the medical device;
correlating the machine-readable biometric data to the machine-readable user data to create a data record for the user.
3. The method of claim 2 , wherein identifying the user of the medical device comprises the user providing user authentication data to a website.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more alpha-numeric symbols within the data field further comprise at least one other symbol corresponding to a data type associated with the data, wherein the identifying further comprises parsing the one or more alpha-numeric symbols into the data and the data type, and wherein the converting comprises converting the data type into a machine readable data type.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the data field is one data field of a plurality of data fields and the reference data field is one reference data field of a plurality of reference data fields, the plurality of data fields corresponding to the plurality of reference data fields, and wherein the identifying further comprises identifying one or more alpha-numeric symbols within at least one other data field of the plurality of data fields and the converting further comprises converting the one or more alpha-numeric symbols of the at least one other data field into additional machine-readable biometric data.
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises dividing the data field within the image into a plurality of regions, wherein the identifying comprises identifying one or more alpha-numeric symbols within each region of the plurality of regions, and the method further comprising assembling the identified one or more alpha-numeric symbols prior to converting the one or more alpha-numeric symbols into the machine-readable data.
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the display of the medical device comprises a digital display and wherein the one or more alpha-numeric symbols are one or more digitally formatted alpha-numeric symbols.
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein obtaining the image comprises optically capturing the image of the medical device, and retrieving the reference image comprises:
accessing a plurality of reference images;
measuring a correlation between the image and each of the plurality of reference images using a two-dimensional (2D) registration process;
quantifying a degree of correlation between the image and each of the plurality of reference images; and,
selecting and retrieving the reference image having the highest degree of correlation.
9. A non-volatile computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable code stored thereon, the computer-executable code comprising instructions for carrying out a method, the method comprising:
generating machine-readable biometric data from a medical device, the step of generating machine-readable biometric data further comprising:
obtaining an image of the medical device, the image including a display of the medical device;
retrieving a reference image of a reference display corresponding to the medical device, the reference image defining a reference data field within the reference display, wherein the reference image defining a reference data field further defines a reference data type;
comparing the image to the reference image to identify a data field within the display corresponding to the reference data field within the reference display;
identifying, within the data field, one or more alpha-numeric symbols, wherein the one or more alpha-numeric symbols within the data field comprise at least one symbol corresponding to data; and
converting the one or more alpha-numeric symbols into the machine-readable biometric data, wherein the step of converting comprises converting the data into machine-readable data and combining the machine-readable data with the reference data type, the machine-readable data and the reference data type comprising the machine-readable biometric data.
10. The non-volatile computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 , wherein the method further comprises:
identifying a user of the medical device;
obtaining machine-readable user data corresponding to the user of the medical device;
correlating the machine-readable biometric data to the machine-readable user data to create a data record for the user.
11. The non-volatile computer-readable storage medium of claim 10 , wherein identifying the user of the medical device comprises the user providing user authentication data to a website.
12. The non-volatile computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 , wherein the one or more alpha-numeric symbols within the data field further comprise at least one other symbol corresponding to a data type associated with the data, wherein the identifying comprises parsing the one or more alpha-numeric symbols into the data and the data type, and wherein the converting comprises converting the data type into a machine readable data type.
13. The non-volatile computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 , wherein the data field is one data field of a plurality of data fields and the reference data field is one reference data field of a plurality of reference data fields, the plurality of data fields corresponding to the plurality of reference data fields, and wherein the identifying further comprises identifying one or more alpha-numeric symbols within at least one other data field of the plurality of data fields and the converting further comprises converting the one or more alpha-numeric symbols of the at least one other data field into additional machine-readable biometric data.
14. The non-volatile computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 , wherein the method further comprises dividing the data field within the image into a plurality of regions, wherein the identifying comprises identifying one or more alpha-numeric symbols within each region of the plurality of regions, and the method further comprising assembling the identified one or more alpha-numeric symbols prior to converting the one or more alpha-numeric symbols into the machine-readable data.
15. The non-volatile computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 , wherein the display of the medical device comprises a digital display and wherein the one or more alpha-numeric symbols are one or more digitally formatted alpha-numeric symbols.
16. The non-volatile computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 , wherein obtaining the image comprises optically capturing the image of the medical device, and retrieving the reference image comprises:
accessing a plurality of reference images;
measuring a correlation between the image and each of the plurality of reference images using a two-dimensional (2D) registration process;
quantifying a degree of correlation between the image and each of the plurality of reference images; and,
selecting and retrieving the reference image having the highest degree of correlation.
17. A system comprising:
a medical device comprising a display, wherein the medical device is configured to obtain biometric data from a user of the medical device and show the biometric data on the display;
a device configured to create an image of the medical device, the image including the display of the medical device,
a database comprising a reference image of a reference display corresponding to the medical device, the reference image defining a reference data field within the reference display, wherein the database is a first database and the system further comprises a website and a second database, wherein the website is configured to identify the user of the medical device and obtain machine-readable user data corresponding to the user of the medical device;
a computer program product comprising a computer usable medium having computer-executable code store thereon, the computer-executable code comprising instructions for carrying out a method of generating machine-readable biometric data from a medical device, the step of generating machine-readable biometric data further comprising:
obtaining the image of the medical device;
retrieving the reference image;
comparing the image to the reference image to identify a data field within the display corresponding to the reference data field within the reference display;
identifying, within the data field, one or more alpha-numeric symbols;
converting the one or more alpha-numeric symbols into the machine-readable biometric data; and
correlating the machine-readable biometric data to the machine-readable user data to create a data record for the user within the second database.