Managing Rights Management

Dolby and Philips Digital Watermarking Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Dolby Labs, the first application discloses techniques for replacement based watermarking. Assigned to Philips, the second application discloses techniques for watermark embedding using lookup tables. 20090136087, "Replacement Based Watermarking,"... Read more →

Microsoft and Purdue Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Microsoft, the first patent addresses techniques for media watermarking by biasing randomized statistics. Assigned to the Purdue Research Foundation, the second patent addresses techniques for rights assessment over digital data through... Read more →

Avid and Vital Source DRM Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of DRM. Assigned to Avid, the first application discloses a media editing system using digital rights management metadata to limit import, editing and export operations performed on temporal media. Assigned to Vital Source Technologies,... Read more →

Canon and Digimarc Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern various aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Digimarc, the first patent addresses techniques for audio watermarking and decoding. Assigned to Canon (JP), the second patent addresses techniques for image processing. 7,536,555, "Methods for audio watermarking and decoding,"... Read more →

Two Watermarking Patent Applications From Thomson

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of Digital watermarking and both are assigned to Thomson (FR). The first application discloses techniques for digital cinema projector watermarking. The second application discloses techniques for reading digital tatooing. 20090123022, "Digital cinema projector watermarking... Read more →

Civolution and Digimarc Watermarking Patents

On Tuedays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern the use of digital watermarking. Assigned to Civolution (NL), the first patent relates to techniques for watermark-based access control. Assigned to Digimarc, the second patent relates to techniques for embedding auxiliary information within original data. 7,533,266, "Watermark-based... Read more →

Macrovision (MSVN) Earnings Call, Blu-ray, and BD+ Adoption

Macrovision (MSVM) recently conducted its quarterly earnings call. The complete transcript is at SeekingAlpha.com here. Here are selected excerpts that deal with Blu-ray and BD+: In our other category, we continue to expect fairly linear growth, with the fourth quarter likely the strongest, assuming we continue to successfully broaden our... Read more →

Fingerprinting and Watermarking Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Today's Spotlight Applications concern various aspects of digital fingerprinting and watermarking. Assigned to Barracuda, the first application discloses techniques for Peer-to-Peer traffic control using fingerprinting. Assigned to the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, the second application discloses techniques for... Read more →

Digimarc and AT&T Watermarking Issued Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern various aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Digimarc, the first patent addresses techniques for computing distortion of media signals using embedded data with repetitive structure and log-polar mapping. Assigned to AT&T, the second patent addresses techniques for... Read more →