Philippine Banknote

Recognition
CE 150 Interfacing

Angelo Carlo E. Arceta

Barbra Francine V. Te
Michelle Christine L. Yap
V BS Ch-ACS
Introduction
around 4.62% of Filipinos are
visually impaired in one or both
eyes. This figure she said was
based on the third Philippine
National Survey of Blindness
conducted in 2005.
Specific Objectives
Implement the code for illumination or
brightness adjustment
Implement the code for Similarity
Measure namely Sum of Square
Differences (SSD) and Normalized
Cross Correlation
Code and implement a GUI for the
desired application
Interface the program with a mobile
phone, Bluetooth adapter, modem
driver, and a com port
Limitations
Sample images that are smaller
than the sizes of the database
images will not be processed
Sample images are not sent from
a mobile phone. They were
obtained from a scanner and
were resized manually to meet
the standard size.
SMS of the result is still manual.
SPAWN ( ) function is not
Gantt Chart
Final Output with the GUI
The user should first open a
sample image of a peso bill.
The sample image is illuminated
accordingly with respect to the
templates
 The user should select the
‘Identify Bank Note’ key to find a
match in the database.
 After a match is found, a
message box will display “You
Final Output with the GUI
 A ‘quantitative similarity’ of the
images, based on the selected
similarity measure is also
displayed

Theresult will be sent to a

mobile phone via the Microsoft
SMS Sender
Matching Methodology
Interfacing Details
Mobile phone
◦ Installed as a modem over
the chosen interface
Bluetooth device
◦ Opens a connection to
the serial port
Phone modem driver
Serial Com Ports
◦ Have the appropriate modem driver
installed for the mobile phone
General Interfacing Block
Diagram

The mobile phone’s modem driver

is installed in one of the serial
com ports. Physically, the GSM
modem is outside the PC. With
the bluetooth interface, the PC is
able to access the GSM modem
Interfacing Reminders
SMS : computer to mobile device
◦ Vice-versa, not possible
Standard SMS
◦ MMS and Flash SMS are not
supported
End-to-end transmission and Cost
◦ Service Provider
Install
the modem driver before
proceeding with SMS
Modem Configuration Flow
Chart
Configure Modem Options
Installing a New Modem
Specify the Modem Driver
Select the Appropriate COM
port
Interfacing Detailed Flow
Chart
No connection at the
serial port
Establish connection with a
COM port
Check the Bluetooth
Connection
SMS Sender