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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185967 | Method and apparatus for content management The present application relates generally to content management (e.g., managing audio and video items in portable devices). One claim recites a method comprising: utilizing electronic memory housed in a portable device, maintaining a listing of up to N identifiers a... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184851 | Inserting watermarks into portions of digital signals The present invention relates generally to watermarking. In one implementation a method of pre-analyzing a digital signal for encoding digital watermarks using a digital filter comprising determining what changes in the digital signal will be affected by the digital... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184849 | Error processing of steganographic message signals A form of error processing is used to decode steganographic messages embedded in image and audio signals in the presence of distortion, which tends to introduce errors in steganographic data communication. Content signals with auxiliary embedded data are analyzed to... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181884 | Machine-readable features for objects The present invention provides machine-readable features for objects, both physical and electronic. One claim recites an object including a substrate and a machine-readable code provided on the substrate, the object further includes a material deposited on or incorp... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180844 | System for linking from objects to remote resources A machine readable code (e.g., digital watermark or bar code) conveyed with objects is used in establishing links to associated electronic resources, such as web pages. The object can be physical (e.g., a magazine page) or electronic (e.g., music data). The associat... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175617 | Sensor-based mobile search, related methods and systems A smart phone senses audio, imagery, and/or other stimulus from a user's environment, and acts autonomously to fulfill inferred or anticipated user desires. In one aspect, the detailed technology concerns phone-based cognition of a scene viewed by the phone's camera... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175329 | Authentication of physical and electronic media objects using digital watermarks Digital watermark methods for encoding auxiliary data into a host signal are used to authenticate physical and electronic objects. One such method computes a content specific message dependent on the host signal, encodes the content specific message into a watermark... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170273 | Encoding and decoding auxiliary signals This disclosure describes apparatus and systems for encoding and decoding signals from a host signal such as audio, video or imagery. One claim recites an apparatus comprising: electronic memory for storing a media signal representing audio or video; and an electron... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165342 | Color image or video processing The present invention relates generally to color image processing. One claim recites a method of color masking an image or video including: reading color values of an image sample of the image or video and a corresponding change of an attribute of the image sample; ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165341 | Methods and apparatus to process imagery or audio content The presently claimed invention relates generally to digital watermarking, and processing imagery (e.g., including video) or audio content. One claim recites a method including: obtaining first media comprising imagery or audio; obtaining second media comprising ima... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160968 | Digital media methods Many digital media methods are detailed. In one, consumers are provided incentives for viewing commercials. In another, charges for entertainment content are assessed based on the percentage actually rendered to a consumer. Signature data can be derived from the adv... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160304 | Interactive systems and methods employing wireless mobile devices A user gestures with a wireless mobile phone device to control some aspect of its operation, or the operation of a remote system with which the device communicates. (The gestures may be sensed by tracking movement of a feature across a field of view of a mobile phon... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155582 | Methods and systems employing digital content The presently claimed invention relates to methods and system employing digital content. One claim recites a method including: receiving indentifying data from a remotely located handheld device, the remotely located handheld device utilizing a multi-purpose electro... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155378 | Color image or video processing The present invention relates generally to color image processing. One claim recites a method comprising: determining a plurality of color attributes associated with video or imagery; determining which samples representing the video or imagery should receive digital... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8151113 | Methods and devices responsive to ambient audio A portable device uses a microphone to listen to ambient audio, derives data from captured audio signals, and uses the derived data to request delivery of the audio or related information to the user's home or other location. The device is desirably pocket-sized, or... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150096 | Video fingerprinting to identify video content A method of video fingerprinting computes statistics for video frames and forms a fingerprint used to identify the video as a change in the statistics over the video frames. Another method of video fingerprinting computes values representing motion between different... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150032 | Methods for controlling rendering of images and video The present disclosure includes disclosure generally related to digital watermarking and steganographic encoding. One claim recites an apparatus including: electronic memory for buffering data representing video or imagery; and an electronic processor. The electroni... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149458 | Methods and apparatuses for printer calibration A test pattern printed by a printer is assessed—without colorimetric equipment—to provide data used in recalibrating the printer. The assessment may be made by an unskilled operator, and can include discerning whether a particular pattern is visible in the print... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144924 | Content objects with computer instructions steganographically encoded therein, and associated methods Various improvements to digital watermarking are disclosed. For example, a digitally watermarked object can steganographically convey a payload that includes computer instructions (e.g., JAVA, ActiveX, or HTML) that—when decoded—control some manner of operation ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140848 | Digital watermark key generation The present invention relates to message encoding. In a first implementation, a message is provided. The message is transformed by a secret key. The secret key is generated by providing a plural-bit seed. The seed is randomized and then error correction encoded. We ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135166 | Embedding geo-location information in media The present disclosure relates generally to digital watermarking and steganography. One claim recites a method including: receiving digital data representing media including at least video and audio; digital watermarking at least some portions of the digital data, t... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131760 | Using object identifiers with content distribution Object identifiers are used in a variety of content distribution arrangements, including—but not limited to—peer to peer networks. The object identifiers may be of different forms, including digital watermarks, fingerprint identifiers, etc. Through use of such i... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130811 | Assessing quality of service using digital watermark information The disclosure details methods of measuring the quality of service of received media signals by analyzing digital watermarks embedded in such signals. The quality of a received video or audio signal can thereby be assessed without having the original version of the ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8127139 | Handheld devices and methods for extracting data The present invention relates generally to handheld devices and using such to extract identifying data. One claim recites a handheld wireless device including: an input for receiving a subset of database information; electronic memory for storing the retrieved subse... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8127137 | Watermark payload encryption for media including multiple watermarks The present invention provides encryption techniques useful with digital watermarking payloads. One claim recites: a method to secure a first digital watermark payload and a second digital watermark payload through encryption of only one of the first digital waterma... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126272 | Methods combining multiple frames of image data In one embodiment a document authentication station, for use with passports or the like, includes a 2D image sensor (e.g., CCD- or CMOS-based video camera), and a computer device. The image sensor produces produce image data corresponding to a presented document. Fr... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126203 | Object processing employing movement Directional albedo of a particular article, such as an identity card, is measured and stored. When the article is later presented, it can be confirmed to be the same particular article by re-measuring the albedo function, and checking for correspondence against the ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126201 | Watermark decoding from streaming media This patent document details, e.g., claims and systems for watermark decoding from streaming media signals. One claim recites an apparatus comprising: electronic memory for buffering a streaming media signal; one or more electronic processors programmed for: ranking... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126200 | Methods and systems employing digital content A portable device for use with audio or visual content (e.g., an MP3 player-like device, or a camera-enabled device) is equipped with one or more features/capabilities, including: a user interface through which a consumer can instruct that content be delivered to a ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126020 | Wireless methods using signature codes Data representing media content, such as audio data, is processed to produce a signature code therefrom. This code can be used by wireless and other devices for a variety of purposes. Some relate to cryptographic operations. Others relate to determining whether oper... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8123134 | Apparatus to analyze security features on objects The present disclosure provides apparatus for analyzing emerging security or authentication feature for physical objects (e.g., identification documents, product packaging, banknotes, etc.). One claim recites an apparatus comprising: a light source for illuminating ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8122465 | Watermarking to set video usage permissions A digital watermark in video includes a plural-bit payload that sets different permissions governing usage of the video. One bit, for example, may flag whether fast-forwarding of the video is permitted. Another may flag whether storage in non-encrypted form is permi... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8122257 | Audio-based, location-related methods The presently claimed technology relates generally to audio-based, location-related methods. One claim recites a method in which a microphone in a user's portable device captures ambient sound, and corresponding data is then processed to determine location informati... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121843 | Fingerprint methods and systems for media signals The present invention relates generally to fingerprinting, e.g., a reduced-bit representation or other identifier of a media signal (e.g., audio, video or still images). One method recites: receiving a partial fingerprint of a media signal, wherein the partial finge... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121618 | Intuitive computing methods and systems A smart phone senses audio, imagery, and/or other stimulus from a user's environment, and acts autonomously to fulfill inferred or anticipated user desires. In one aspect, the detailed technology concerns phone-based cognition of a scene viewed by the phone's camera... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121342 | Associating metadata with media signals, and searching for media signals using metadata A method of associating metadata with a media signal receives an identifier for the media signal, uses the identifier to look up metadata in a metadata database, validates the metadata by checking attributes of the media signal relative to at least a portion of the ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116516 | Controlling use of audio or image content The present invention relates generally to controlling use of audio (e.g., ambient or digital audio) or image content (e.g., the image content may comprise video). One claim recites a method comprising: receiving data representing audio elements or image picture ele... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8108484 | Fingerprints and machine-readable codes combined with user characteristics to obtain content or information The present invention relates generally to processing audio and video data. One claim recites a method of accessing content stored in a remote database. The method includes: receiving video or audio data; decoding an auxiliary machine-readable code from the video or... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107674 | Synchronizing rendering of multimedia content Auxiliary data encoded in multimedia content signals synchronizes rendering of different media content types in multimedia content. This auxiliary data includes one or more digital watermarks that are used to synchronize playback of the different media content signa... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103879 | Processing audio or video content with multiple watermark layers The present invention relates generally to audio and video processing, e.g., with digital watermarking. One claim recites an apparatus including: electronic memory for buffering data representing audio or video, and an electronic processor. The electronic processor ... | 01/24/2012 |
