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公开(公告)号：US20210004550A9
公开(公告)日：2021-01-07
申请号：US15462597
申请日：2017-03-17
Applicant: Digimarc Corporation
Inventor： Brian T. MacIntosh , Tony F. Rodriguez , Bruce L. Davis , 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 , William Y. Conwell
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. Logos may be identified and used—or ignored—in product identification. A great variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed.
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公开(公告)号：US20190320056A1
公开(公告)日：2019-10-17
申请号：US16390798
申请日：2019-04-22
Applicant: Digimarc Corporation
Inventor： Geoffrey B. Rhoads , Tony F. Rodriguez , Gilbert B. Shaw , Bruce L. Davis , William Y. Conwell
IPC: H04M1/725 , H04N5/225 , G01C21/36 , G06F3/01 , G06Q10/10 , G01C21/20 , G09G5/00 , G06F3/00 , G01C21/00 , G06K9/46 , H04W4/02 , G06K9/62 , H04N5/232 , G06T19/00 , G06F3/0488 , G06F3/0484 , G06F3/0481 , G06F3/023
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：US20180240212A1
公开(公告)日：2018-08-23
申请号：US15894549
申请日：2018-02-12
Applicant: Digimarc Corporation
Inventor： Sean Calhoon , Tony F. Rodriguez , William Y. Conwell
CPC classification number: G06T1/0092 , G06Q20/208 , G06T1/0028 , G06T1/005 , G06T2201/005
Abstract: In one aspect, assembly of multi-part food packaging is checked by reference to payloads of steganographically-encoded digital watermarks printed across the packaging components. Marking all surfaces of the packaging components allows arbitrary orientation of feed stock in assembly equipment, and wide latitude in placement of inspection cameras along the packaging line. In another aspect, a scanner at a retail checkout station is alert to any gap detected in steganographic encoding on retail product packaging and, if found, alerts an operator to possible presence of an adhesive label with a misleading barcode. A great variety of others features and arrangements are also detailed.
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公开(公告)号：US20180158133A1
公开(公告)日：2018-06-07
申请号：US15808588
申请日：2017-11-09
Applicant: Digimarc Corporation
Inventor： Bruce L. Davis , Geoffrey B. Rhoads , Tony F. Rodriguez , Edward B. Knudson , William Y. Conwell
CPC classification number: G06Q30/0643 , G06F16/00 , G06T19/006
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：US09818150B2
公开(公告)日：2017-11-14
申请号：US14152925
申请日：2014-01-10
Applicant: Digimarc Corporation
Inventor： Geoffrey B. Rhoads , William Y. Conwell
CPC classification number: G06Q30/0643 , G06F17/30 , G06T19/006
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：US09785841B2
公开(公告)日：2017-10-10
申请号：US14930298
申请日：2015-11-02
Applicant: Digimarc Corporation
Inventor： Bruce L. Davis , William Y. Conwell
IPC: G06F21/00 , G06K9/00 , G06Q10/06 , G06Q30/06 , H04N21/8352 , H04N21/8355 , H04N21/8358 , H04N21/8405 , H04L29/06 , H04N21/235 , H04N21/266
CPC classification number: G06K9/00744 , G06Q10/06 , G06Q30/06 , H04L63/10 , H04N21/2353 , H04N21/26606 , H04N21/8352 , H04N21/8355 , H04N21/8358 , H04N21/8405
Abstract: Both fingerprinting and watermark decoding processes are applied to received items of audio-visual content. Further processing is applied as well. This further processing depends on output data from the watermark decoding process, and can cause two items of seemingly-identical audio-visual content to be further-processed in different ways.
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公开(公告)号：US20170257474A1
公开(公告)日：2017-09-07
申请号：US15467819
申请日：2017-03-23
Applicant: Digimarc Corporation
Inventor： Geoffrey B. Rhoads , Tony F. Rodriguez , Gilbert B. Shaw , Bruce L. Davis , William Y. Conwell
CPC classification number: H04M1/72519 , G01C21/00 , G01C21/20 , G01C21/36 , G06F3/005 , G06F3/011 , G06F3/017 , G06F3/023 , G06F3/04817 , G06F3/0482 , G06F3/04842 , G06F3/04847 , G06F3/04886 , G06K9/00671 , G06K9/4671 , G06K9/62 , G06K9/6267 , G06Q10/10 , G06T19/006 , G06T2200/24 , G09G5/00 , H04M1/72522 , H04N5/225 , H04N5/23229 , H04N5/23245 , H04W4/02 , H04W4/027
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：US09594983B2
公开(公告)日：2017-03-14
申请号：US14449821
申请日：2014-08-01
Applicant: Digimarc Corporation
Inventor： Osama M. Alattar , William Y. Conwell
CPC classification number: G06T1/0021 , G06F21/16 , G06K9/00671 , G06K9/3216 , G06K9/6256 , G06K9/6259 , G06K9/627
Abstract: A sequence of images depicting an object is captured, e.g., by a camera at a point-of-sale terminal in a retail store. The object is identified, such as by a barcode or watermark that is detected from one or more of the images. Once the object's identity is known, such information is used in training a classifier (e.g., a machine learning system) to recognize the object from others of the captured images, including images that may be degraded by blur, inferior lighting, etc. In another arrangement, such degraded images are processed to identify feature points useful in fingerprint-based identification of the object. Feature points extracted from such degraded imagery aid in fingerprint-based recognition of objects under real life circumstances, as contrasted with feature points extracted from pristine imagery (e.g., digital files containing label artwork for such objects). A great variety of other features and arrangements—some involving designing classifiers so as to combat classifier copying—are also detailed.
Abstract translation: 描绘对象的图像序列例如通过零售商店中的销售点终端处的相机被捕获。 识别对象，例如通过从一个或多个图像检测到的条形码或水印。 一旦对象的身份被知道，这样的信息被用于训练分类器（例如，机器学习系统）以从其他捕获的图像识别对象，包括可能由于模糊，劣质照明等而降级的图像。在另一个 处理这种退化的图像以识别在对象的基于指纹的识别中有用的特征点。 从这种退化的图像提取的特征点有助于在现实生活环境下的对象的基于指纹的识别，与从原始图像提取的特征点（例如，包含用于这些对象的标签图案的数字文件）相反。 其他各种功能和布置也有所不同，其中一些涉及设计分类器，以防止分类器复制。
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公开(公告)号：US20150080060A1
公开(公告)日：2015-03-19
申请号：US14452128
申请日：2014-08-05
Applicant: Digimarc Corporation
Inventor： Tony F. Rodriguez , William Y. Conwell
CPC classification number: G08B6/00 , G06F3/016 , G06F3/0488 , H04M1/725 , H04M3/02 , H04N21/44008 , H04N21/4788 , H04N21/6582 , H04N21/812 , H04N21/8352 , H04N21/8358 , H04N21/84
Abstract: A variety of haptic improvements useful in mobile devices are detailed. In one, a smartphone captures image data from a physical object, and discerns an object identifier from the imagery (e.g., using watermark, barcode, or fingerprint techniques). This identifier is sent to a remote data structure, which returns data defining a distinct haptic signature associated with that object. This smartphone then renders this haptic signal to the user. (Related embodiments identify the object using other means, such as location, or NFC chip.) In another arrangement, haptic feedback signals social network information about a product or place (e.g., the user's social network friends “Like” a particular brand of beverage). In yet another arrangement, the experience of watching a movie on a television screen is augmented by tactile effects issued by a tablet computer on the viewer's lap. In still another arrangement, commercial vendors bid for rights to employ different ones of a library of haptic signals on one or more users' smartphones, e.g., to alert such user(s) to their products/services. A great variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed.
Abstract translation: 详细描述了在移动设备中有用的各种触觉改进。 一方面，智能手机从物理对象中捕获图像数据，并从图像中识别对象标识符（例如，使用水印，条形码或指纹技术）。 该标识符被发送到远程数据结构，其返回定义与该对象相关联的不同触觉签名的数据。 然后，该智能手机将该触觉信号呈现给用户。 （相关实施例使用诸如位置或NFC芯片的其他手段识别对象。）在另一种布置中，触觉反馈信号关于产品或场所的社交网络信息（例如，用户的社交网络朋友“喜欢”特定品牌的饮料 ）。 在另一种安排中，通过平板电脑在观众膝盖上发出的触觉效果来增强在电视屏幕上观看电影的体验。 在另一种安排中，商业供应商竞标在一个或多个用户的智能电话上使用不同的触觉信号库的权利，例如将这些用户警告到他们的产品/服务。 还详细介绍了各种各样的其他功能和安排。
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公开(公告)号：US20150006186A1
公开(公告)日：2015-01-01
申请号：US14289364
申请日：2014-05-28
Applicant: Digimarc Corporation
Inventor： Bruce L. Davis , Tony F. Rodriguez , Alastair M. Reed , John Stach , Geoffrey B. Rhoads , William Y. Conwell , Shankar Thagadur Shivappa , Ravi K. Sharma , Richard F. Gibson
IPC: G10L19/018 , G06F17/30
CPC classification number: A61B5/441 , A61B5/0075 , A61B5/0077 , A61B5/1032 , A61B5/1034 , A61B5/444 , A61B5/445 , A61B5/4806 , A61B5/6898 , A61B5/7246 , A61B5/7278 , A61B5/7282 , A61B5/7425 , A61B5/743 , A61B5/7485 , A61B2576/02 , G06F17/30424 , G06F17/30554 , G06F19/00 , G06F19/3418 , G06T5/40 , G06T7/0012 , G06T2207/30088 , G10L19/018 , G16H50/20 , G16H50/70 , Y02A90/26
Abstract: Audio sounds are captured from a subject's body, e.g., using a smartphone or a worn array of microphones. Plural features are derived from the captured audio, and serve as fingerprint information. One such feature may be a time interval over which a threshold part of spectral energy in the audio is expressed. Another may be a frequency bandwidth within which a second threshold part of the spectral energy is expressed. Such fingerprint information is provided to a knowledge base that contains reference fingerprint data and associated metadata. The knowledge base matches the fingerprint with reference fingerprint data, and provides associated metadata in return—which can comprise diagnostic information related to the captured sounds. In some arrangements, an audio signal or pressure waveform stimulates the body at one location, and is sensed at another, to discern information about the intervening transmission medium. A great variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed.
Abstract translation: 音频声音从被摄体的身体捕获，例如使用智能电话或佩带的麦克风阵列。 多个特征源自捕获的音频，并用作指纹信息。 一个这样的特征可以是音频中的频谱能量的阈值部分被表达的时间间隔。 另一个可以是其中表示频谱能量的第二阈值部分的频率带宽。 这样的指纹信息被提供给包含参考指纹数据和相关元数据的知识库。 知识库将指纹与参考指纹数据相匹配，并提供返回的相关元数据，其可以包括与捕获的声音相关的诊断信息。 在一些布置中，音频信号或压力波形在一个位置刺激身体，并在另一个位置被感测，以辨别关于中间传输介质的信息。 还详细介绍了各种各样的其他功能和安排。
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