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公开(公告)号:US20250166035A1
公开(公告)日:2025-05-22
申请号:US18745497
申请日:2024-06-17
Applicant: Digimarc Corporation
Inventor: Bruce L. Davis , Tony F. Rodriguez
IPC: G06Q30/0601 , G06N7/01 , G06T11/00 , G06T11/60 , G06V10/764 , G06V20/10 , G06V20/20 , G06V20/52 , G11B20/00 , H04W4/029
Abstract: Deterministic identifiers fuel reliable efficient capture of product discovery, purchase and consumption events, which in turn enable more reliable product recommendation, more accurate shopping list generation and in-store navigation. A mobile device, equipped with image and audio detectors, extracts product identifiers from objects, display screens and ambient audio. In conjunction with a cloud-based service, a mobile device application obtains product information and logs product events for extracted identifiers. The cloud service generates recommendations, and mapping for in-store navigation. The detectors also provide reliable and efficient product identification for purchase events, and post shopping product consumption events.
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公开(公告)号:US12014408B2
公开(公告)日:2024-06-18
申请号:US17140841
申请日:2021-01-04
Applicant: Digimarc Corporation
Inventor: Bruce L. Davis , Tony F. Rodriguez
IPC: H04L29/06 , G06N7/01 , G06Q30/0601 , G06V10/764 , G06V20/10 , G06V20/20 , G06V20/52 , G11B20/00 , H04W4/029 , G06T11/00 , G06T11/60
CPC classification number: G06Q30/0623 , G06N7/01 , G06Q30/0631 , G06V10/764 , G06V20/10 , G06V20/20 , G06V20/52 , G11B20/00289 , G11B20/00891 , H04W4/029 , G06T11/001 , G06T11/60 , G06V2201/10
Abstract: Deterministic identifiers fuel reliable efficient capture of product discovery, purchase and consumption events, which in turn enable more reliable product recommendation, more accurate shopping list generation and in-store navigation. A mobile device, equipped with image and audio detectors, extracts product identifiers from objects, display screens and ambient audio. In conjunction with a cloud-based service, a mobile device application obtains product information and logs product events for extracted identifiers. The cloud service generates recommendations, and mapping for in-store navigation. The detectors also provide reliable and efficient product identification for purchase events, and post shopping product consumption events.
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公开(公告)号:US20230005052A1
公开(公告)日:2023-01-05
申请号:US17866391
申请日:2022-07-15
Applicant: Digimarc Corporation
Inventor: Bruce L. Davis , Geoffrey B. Rhoads , Tony F. Rodriguez , Edward B. Knudson , William Y. Conwell
Abstract: A decade from now, a visit to the supermarket will be a very different experience than the familiar experiences of decades past. Product packaging will come alive with interactivity—each object a portal into a rich tapestry of experiences, with contributions authored by the product brand, by the store selling the product, and by other shoppers. The present technology concerns arrangements for authoring and delivering such experiences. A great variety of other features and technologies are also detailed.
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公开(公告)号:US11288472B2
公开(公告)日:2022-03-29
申请号:US17142928
申请日:2021-01-06
Applicant: Digimarc Corporation
Inventor: Tony F. Rodriguez , Bruce L. Davis , Geoffrey B. Rhoads , Alastair M. Reed , Eric D. Evans , Rebecca L. Gerlach , John F. Stach , Marc G. Footen
IPC: G06K9/00 , G06K7/10 , G06K7/14 , G06K9/18 , G06K9/20 , G06K9/78 , G06Q10/08 , G06Q20/20 , G06Q30/00 , G07G1/00 , G06F3/147 , G06K9/46 , G06Q30/06
Abstract: In one aspect, a retail store has multiple sensors, including item sensors in a shopping cart for gathering data from a shopper-selected first item. At least certain of the sensor data is provided to a classifier, which was previously-trained (using data including optical data from known items) to identify possible item matches corresponding to data sensed from the first item. An item identification hypothesis that the shopper-selected first item has a particular identity is evaluated based on (a) information from the classifier, and (b) store layout data indicating items associated with a store location visited by the cart or shopper. The item identification hypothesis has a confidence score. If the score meets a criterion, an item of the hypothesized identity is added to a shopping tally. A great number of other features and arrangements are also detailed.
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公开(公告)号:US20210112154A1
公开(公告)日:2021-04-15
申请号:US17009430
申请日:2020-09-01
Applicant: Digimarc Corporation
Inventor: Tony F. Rodriguez , Geoffrey B. Rhoads , Bruce L. Davis , Gilbert B. Shaw
IPC: H04M1/72448 , G10L15/26 , G10L17/00 , H04M1/72469 , G06F9/50 , G06K9/00 , G10L15/22 , H04W72/02 , G06F3/0484 , G06F3/0488 , G06K9/62
Abstract: 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. The image processing tasks applied to the scene can be selected from among various alternatives by reference to resource costs, resource constraints, other stimulus information (e.g., audio), task substitutability, etc. The phone can apply more or less resources to an image processing task depending on how successfully the task is proceeding, or based on the user's apparent interest in the task. In some arrangements, data may be referred to the cloud for analysis, or for gleaning. Cognition, and identification of appropriate device response(s), can be aided by collateral information, such as context. A great number of other features and arrangements are also detailed.
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公开(公告)号:US20190237108A1
公开(公告)日:2019-08-01
申请号:US16247305
申请日:2019-01-14
Applicant: Digimarc Corporation
Inventor: Bruce L. Davis , Tony F. Rodriguez , Geoffrey B. Rhoads , William Y. Conwell , Jerrine K. Owen , Adnan M. Alattar , Eliot Rogers , Brett A. Bradley , Alastair M. Reed , Robert Craig Brandis
IPC: G11B27/34 , H04W4/50 , G06T1/00 , H04N5/235 , H04N5/77 , H04N5/232 , G06K7/14 , G06F3/0485 , G06F3/0482 , G06Q30/02 , H05B37/02 , H04M1/02 , G06K9/62 , H04W8/22
CPC classification number: G11B27/34 , G06F3/0482 , G06F3/0485 , G06K7/1443 , G06K9/6217 , G06Q30/0269 , G06T1/0021 , G06T1/0064 , G06T2201/0052 , H04M1/0264 , H04N5/23293 , H04N5/235 , H04N5/77 , H04W4/18 , H04W4/50 , H04W4/80 , H04W8/22 , H05B37/0218 , H05B37/0236
Abstract: Arrangements involving portable devices (e.g., smartphones and tablet computers) are disclosed. One arrangement enables a content creator to select software with which that creator's content should be rendered—assuring continuity between artistic intention and delivery. Another utilizes a device camera to identify nearby subjects, and take actions based thereon. Others rely on near field chip (RFID) identification of objects, or on identification of audio streams (e.g., music, voice). Some technologies concern improvements to the user interfaces associated with such devices. Others involve use of these devices in connection with shopping, text entry, sign language interpretation, and vision-based discovery. Still other improvements are architectural in nature, e.g., relating to evidence-based state machines, and blackboard systems. Yet other technologies concern use of linked data in portable devices—some of which exploit GPU capabilities. Still other technologies concern computational photography. A great variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed.
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公开(公告)号:US20190188435A1
公开(公告)日:2019-06-20
申请号:US16277652
申请日:2019-02-15
Applicant: Digimarc Corporation
Inventor: Bruce L. Davis , Tony F. Rodriguez , Geoffrey B. Rhoads , John D. Lord , Alastair M. Reed , Eric D. Evans , Rebecca L. Gerlach , Yang Bai , John F. Stach , Tomas Filler , Marc G. Footen , Sean Calhoon
IPC: G06K7/10 , G06Q10/08 , G06K7/14 , G06K9/18 , G06K9/20 , G06K9/78 , G06Q30/00 , G07G1/00 , G06Q20/20 , G06K9/00
CPC classification number: G06K7/10861 , G06F3/147 , G06K7/1456 , G06K9/00671 , G06K9/18 , G06K9/209 , G06K9/46 , G06K9/78 , G06Q10/08 , G06Q10/087 , G06Q20/201 , G06Q20/208 , G06Q30/00 , G06Q30/0601 , G06T2201/0065 , G07G1/0045
Abstract: A variety of technologies having practical application in retail stores are detailed. One is an improved method of identifying items selected by customers. This method includes receiving sensor data from plural sensors, including (a) ceiling-mounted cameras that monitor tracks of customers through aisles of the store, and (b) inventory sensors that are positioned to monitor removal of stock from store shelves. This received sensor data is employed in evaluating plural alternate item identification hypotheses. These hypotheses include a first hypothesis that a customer selected an item having a first identity, and a second hypothesis that the customer selected an item having a second identity. A confidence score is associated with each of the first and second item selection hypotheses. These confidence scores are refined as sensor data is received, e.g., increasing a confidence score of one hypothesis, and reducing a confidence score of another. Such refining continues until one of the hypotheses becomes a winner, due to an associated confidence score fulfilling a predetermined criterion (e.g., reaching a threshold value), at which time the item can be added to a tally for that individual. The winning item identification hypothesis may identify a barcoded item, without that item's barcode ever having been read by a barcode reader. A great number of other features and arrangements are also detailed.
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公开(公告)号:US10262356B2
公开(公告)日:2019-04-16
申请号:US15427632
申请日:2017-02-08
Applicant: Digimarc Corporation
Inventor: Bruce L. Davis , Geoffrey B. Rhoads , Eoin C. Sinclair , Brian T. MacIntosh
Abstract: An illustrative implementation of the technology includes three primary components: a desktop application, a mobile phone application, and connections to retailer inventory and pricing APIs (e.g., for Walmart and/or Best Buy). The experience begins with the consumer going to an online retailer's website (e.g., Amazon) to search for a product. The desktop application automatically searches for the same product using the APIs of Walmart and/or Best Buy. If matches and near-matches of the product are found, the product name, model, price, and local availability at affiliate locations is shown. With a mobile phone camera-scan of the product page, relevant information is transferred to the consumer's phone. From there, the consumer can interact with the options on the mobile phone to be directed to the nearby brick and mortar store of choice carrying that product at the price they want. Along the way, the retailer can present offers and additional product information directly to the consumer. A great variety of other technologies and arrangements are also detailed.
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公开(公告)号:US20170236006A1
公开(公告)日:2017-08-17
申请号:US15338045
申请日:2016-10-28
Applicant: Digimarc Corporation
Inventor: Bruce L. Davis , Edward B. Knudson , Geoffrey B. Rhoads , Tony F. Rodriguez , Colin P. Cornaby , Eoin C. Sinclair , Eliot Rogers
IPC: G06K9/00 , H04M1/725 , G06F3/0481 , G10L25/48 , G06F3/0484
CPC classification number: G10L25/48 , G06F3/0481 , G06F3/04842 , G06K9/00671 , G06Q30/0269 , G06T1/0064 , G06T2201/0052 , H04M1/7253 , H04M1/72583 , H04N5/235 , H04W4/18 , H04W4/50 , H04W4/80
Abstract: Arrangements involving portable devices (e.g., smartphones and tablet computers) are disclosed. One arrangement enables a content creator to select software with which that creator's content should be rendered—assuring continuity between artistic intention and delivery. Another utilizes a device camera to identify nearby subjects, and take actions based thereon. Others rely on near field chip (RFID) identification of objects, or on identification of audio streams (e.g., music, voice). Some technologies concern improvements to the user interfaces associated with such devices. For example, some arrangements enable discovery of both audio and visual content, without any user requirement to switch modes. Other technologies involve use of these devices in connection with shopping, text entry, and vision-based discovery. Still other improvements are architectural in nature, e.g., relating to evidence-based state machines, and blackboard systems. Yet other technologies concern computational photography. A great variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed.
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公开(公告)号:US20170131384A1
公开(公告)日:2017-05-11
申请号:US15231502
申请日:2016-08-08
Applicant: Digimarc Corporation
Inventor: Bruce L. Davis , Tony F. Rodriguez , Shankar Thagadur Shivappa
IPC: G01S5/22 , H04R29/00 , H04W4/02 , G10L19/018
CPC classification number: G01S5/22 , G08B25/10 , G10L19/018 , H04R29/007 , H04W4/021 , H04W4/023 , H04W4/043 , H04W4/33
Abstract: An audio playback system receives digitally watermarked audio programming and distributes it to audio speakers in a venue, enabling a variety of location and product dependent services to be delivered to mobile devices in the venue. Mobile devices sense audio from speakers and decode digital identifying information, including characteristics to distinguish audio sources. The mobile device communicates with a networked computer to provide the identifying information, which in turn, triggers an alert for output on the mobile device.
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