Smart Engines: Visual energy-saving AI

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2025: Obtaining a U.S. Patent

Smart Engines received patent USA visual technology AI capable of autonomously determining the optimal moment of completion of processing. data The company announced this on December 4, 2025. not AI just evaluating incoming personnel, but predicting the need for further analysis in terms of improving the outcome. This approach applies to a large class of tasks - computer vision from recognitions document verification to the development of unmanned systems. This is the sixteenth US patent for the company's scientific developments.

The invention is based on a self-regulating algorithm that interrupts analysis when obtaining the required amount of data. Earlier, Smart Engines specialists implemented a similar principle in the field of computed tomography. The researchers proposed and patented in the United States a method that stops human radiation after achieving the quality of tomographic reconstruction necessary for diagnosis, and were able to make the CT procedure significantly safer for patients.

In this work, Smart Engines scientists applied this principle to solve the problem of recognizing documents in a video stream. Modern document recognition systems use not only images, but also video sequences. As a rule, such solutions either process a fixed number of personnel, or rely on complex mathematical estimates. Smart Engines researchers have proposed a fundamentally different, more adaptive and intelligent mechanism: AI analyzes the dynamics of text field recognition results from frame to frame and automatically stops processing if there is no noticeable increase in quality.

Energy efficiency of AI systems is one of the key issues of the industry. Our approach allows us to reduce not only the recognition time, but also the computing resources of both mobile and built-in devices, reducing the load on the processor, RAM and power consumption in general. This is especially important in scenarios with a video stream, where each additional frame is an increase in costs, "said Vladimir Arlazarov, CEO of Smart Engines, Doctor of Technical Sciences.

The patented method has already been implemented in Smart Engines software solutions for recognizing passports, ID cards and other identity cards around the world.

Smart Engines actively patents technologies around the world, which emphasizes the innovation of its developments in the field of computer vision and document recognition. In 2025, the company's specialists received 10 patents in the Russian Federation and 4 in the United States. As of December 2025, the company's intellectual property portfolio has 16 American patents for developments in the field of artificial intelligence.