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公开(公告)号:US20190188819A1
公开(公告)日:2019-06-20
申请号:US16207509
申请日:2018-12-03
Applicant: Digimarc Corporation
Inventor: Jacob L. Boles , Ravi K. Sharma , John D. Lord
IPC: G06T1/00 , H04N19/42 , H04N19/467
CPC classification number: G06T1/005 , G06T1/0064 , G06T2200/08 , G06T2200/28 , G06T2201/0065 , H04N19/42 , H04N19/467
Abstract: There are many advantages to implementing a watermark-based system using dedicated hardware, rather than using software executing on a general purpose processor. These include higher speed and lower power consumption. However, hardware implementations incur substantial design and development costs. Moreover, because each watermarking application has its own design constraints and parameters, it has not been cost-effective to develop a hardware chip design for each, since such chips would typically not be manufactured in volumes sufficient to bring per-unit costs down to an acceptable level. The present technology provides various techniques for making watermarking hardware adaptable, so that a single chip can serve multiple diverse watermark applications. By so-doing, the advantages of hardware implementation are made available where it was formerly cost-prohibitive, thereby enhancing operation of a great variety of watermark-based systems.
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公开(公告)号:US10254383B2
公开(公告)日:2019-04-09
申请号:US14562584
申请日:2014-12-05
Applicant: Digimarc Corporation
Inventor: Brett A. Bradley , Ravi K. Sharma , Shankar Thagadur Shivappa , John D. Lord
Abstract: Mobile device positioning employs various forms of audio signal structures and detection methodologies. In one method, detection of an audio signal from a first source enables construction of a signal to facilitate detection of an audio signal from another source. Signals detected from these sources enable positioning of the mobile device receiving those signals. Another method forms audio signals transmitted from audio sources so that they have parts that add constructively and parts that differentiate the sources to enable positioning. Another audio signal based positioning method adaptively switches among positioning methods so that positioning remains operative as a mobile device moves toward and away from the sources. Another method tracks positioning history, evaluates it for errors and performs error mitigation to improve accuracy. Various other positioning technologies are detailed as well.
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公开(公告)号:US10192087B2
公开(公告)日:2019-01-29
申请号:US15175997
申请日:2016-06-07
Applicant: Digimarc Corporation
Inventor: Bruce L. Davis , Tony F. Rodriguez , Geoffrey B. Rhoads , John D. Lord , Eric D. Evans , Rebecca L. Gerlach , Yang Bai , John Stach
IPC: G06K7/10 , G06K9/78 , G06Q30/00 , G06K7/14 , G06Q20/20 , G07G1/00 , G06K17/00 , G06F3/147 , G06Q10/08 , G06Q30/06
Abstract: In some arrangements, product packaging is digitally watermarked over most of its extent to facilitate high-throughput item identification at retail checkouts. Imagery captured by conventional or plenoptic cameras can be processed (e.g., by GPUs) to derive several different perspective-transformed views—further minimizing the need to manually reposition items for identification. Crinkles and other deformations in product packaging can be optically sensed, allowing such surfaces to be virtually flattened to aid identification. Piles of items can be 3D-modelled and virtually segmented into geometric primitives to aid identification, and to discover locations of obscured items. Other data (e.g., including data from sensors in aisles, shelves and carts, and gaze tracking for clues about visual saliency) can be used in assessing identification hypotheses about an item. A great variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed.
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公开(公告)号:US20180373959A1
公开(公告)日:2018-12-27
申请号:US15996078
申请日:2018-06-01
Applicant: Digimarc Corporation
Inventor: Geoffrey B. Rhoads , Yang Bai , Tony F. Rodriguez , Eliot Rogers , Ravi K. Sharma , John D. Lord , Scott Long , Brian T. MacIntosh , Kurt M. Eaton
Abstract: Methods and arrangements involving portable user devices such smartphones and wearable electronic devices are disclosed, as well as other devices and sensors distributed within an ambient environment. Some arrangements enable a user to perform an object recognition process in a computationally- and time-efficient manner. Other arrangements enable users and other entities to, either individually or cooperatively, register or enroll physical objects into one or more object registries on which an object recognition process can be performed. Still other arrangements enable users and other entities to, either individually or cooperatively, associate registered or enrolled objects with one or more items of metadata. A great variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed.
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公开(公告)号:US10147156B2
公开(公告)日:2018-12-04
申请号:US15810676
申请日:2017-11-13
Applicant: Digimarc Corporation
Inventor: Jacob L. Boles , Ravi K. Sharma , John D. Lord
Abstract: There are many advantages to implementing a watermark-based system using dedicated hardware, rather than using software executing on a general purpose processor. These include higher speed and lower power consumption. However, hardware implementations incur substantial design and development costs. Moreover, because each watermarking application has its own design constraints and parameters, it has not been cost-effective to develop a hardware chip design for each, since such chips would typically not be manufactured in volumes sufficient to bring per-unit costs down to an acceptable level. The present technology provides various techniques for making watermarking hardware adaptable, so that a single chip can serve multiple diverse watermark applications. By so-doing, the advantages of hardware implementation are made available where it was formerly cost-prohibitive, thereby enhancing operation of a great variety of watermark-based systems.
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公开(公告)号:US20180343224A1
公开(公告)日:2018-11-29
申请号:US15985421
申请日:2018-05-21
Applicant: Digimarc Corporation
Inventor: John D. Lord
IPC: H04L12/58 , H04N21/462
CPC classification number: H04L51/32 , G06T1/0021 , G06T2201/005 , G10L19/018 , H04L51/10 , H04N21/21805 , H04N21/2187 , H04N21/233 , H04N21/23418 , H04N21/2665 , H04N21/2668 , H04N21/2743 , H04N21/42203 , H04N21/4223 , H04N21/4622 , H04N21/4788 , H04N21/6581 , H04N21/8358
Abstract: Content is identified using watermarking and/or other content recognition combined with contextual metadata, which facilitates identification and correlation with other content and metadata when it is posted to a network.
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公开(公告)号:US09979691B2
公开(公告)日:2018-05-22
申请号:US15276505
申请日:2016-09-26
Applicant: Digimarc Corporation
Inventor: John D. Lord
IPC: G06K9/00 , H04L12/58 , H04N21/8358 , G06T1/00 , H04N21/422 , H04N21/462 , H04N21/658 , H04N21/218 , H04N21/2187 , H04N21/233 , H04N21/234 , H04N21/2665 , H04N21/2668 , H04N21/2743 , H04N21/4223 , G10L19/018 , H04N21/4788
CPC classification number: H04L51/32 , G06T1/0021 , G06T2201/005 , G10L19/018 , H04L51/10 , H04N21/21805 , H04N21/2187 , H04N21/233 , H04N21/23418 , H04N21/2665 , H04N21/2668 , H04N21/2743 , H04N21/42203 , H04N21/4223 , H04N21/4622 , H04N21/4788 , H04N21/6581 , H04N21/8358
Abstract: Content is identified using watermarking and/or other content recognition combined with contextual metadata, which facilitates identification and correlation with other content and metadata when it is posted to a network.
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公开(公告)号:US09959587B2
公开(公告)日:2018-05-01
申请号:US15211944
申请日:2016-07-15
Applicant: Digimarc Corporation
Inventor: Ravi K. Sharma , John D. Lord , Robert G. Lyons , Osama M. Alattar , Jacob L. Boles
CPC classification number: G06T1/0064 , G06K9/6206 , G06T3/0006 , G06T3/0056 , G06T2201/0052 , G06T2201/0065 , G06T2201/0081
Abstract: Signal processing devices and methods estimate a geometric transform of an image signal. From a seed set of transform candidates, a method applies a seed transform candidate to a reference signal. For each candidate, update coordinates of reference signal features are identified in the image signal and provided as input to a least squares method to compute an update to the transform candidate. At the end of the process, the method identifies a geometric transform or set of top transforms based on a further analysis of correlation, as well as other results. Phase characteristics are exploited in the process of updating coordinates. The geometric transform is used to facilitate extracting embedded digital messages from the image.
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公开(公告)号:US20170345126A1
公开(公告)日:2017-11-30
申请号:US15595662
申请日:2017-05-15
Applicant: Digimarc Corporation
Inventor: Ravi K. Sharma , John D. Lord
CPC classification number: G06T3/0056 , G06K9/522 , G06K9/6206 , G06T1/0021 , G06T1/0064 , G06T2201/0065
Abstract: A phase deviation method determines an offset between a reference and suspect signal by analyzing a phase deviation surface created by computing a deviation metric for phase shift and then analyzing a surface formed from the deviation metrics for an array of offsets. The phase deviation method analyzes the deviation surface to determine an offset that minimizes phase deviation. This method is applied at increasing levels of detail to refine the determination of the offset.
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公开(公告)号:US09819950B2
公开(公告)日:2017-11-14
申请号:US14842575
申请日:2015-09-01
Applicant: Digimarc Corporation
Inventor: Jacob L. Boles , Ravi K. Sharma , John D. Lord
CPC classification number: H04N19/42 , G06T1/0064 , G06T2200/28 , G06T2201/0065
Abstract: There are many advantages to implementing a watermark-based system using dedicated hardware, rather than using software executing on a general purpose processor. These include higher speed and lower power consumption. However, hardware implementations incur substantial design and development costs. Moreover, because each watermarking application has its own design constraints and parameters, it has not been cost-effective to develop a hardware chip design for each, since such chips would typically not be manufactured in volumes sufficient to bring per-unit costs down to an acceptable level. The present technology provides various techniques for making watermarking hardware adaptable, so that a single chip can serve multiple diverse watermark applications. By so-doing, the advantages of hardware implementation are made available where it was formerly cost-prohibitive, thereby enhancing operation of a great variety of watermark-based systems.
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