New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays by the USPTO. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Saturn, the first of today's applications discloses techniques for reliably generating and transmitting viewing information with respect to contents received via a communication route other than terrestrial broadcasting waves. Assigned to Saturn Licensing, the second application discloses techniques for obtaining image data of an identification (ID) document and identifying a pattern of the ID document based on analysis of the image data against a predefined patterns for a particular type of document.
20200382847, "Receiving apparatus, transmitting apparatus, and data processing method," assigned to Saturn Licensing LLC
Abstract
There is provided an arrangement which is capable of reliably generating and transmitting viewing information with respect to contents received via a communication route other than terrestrial broadcasting waves. Contents in which a contents ID applicable to the generation of viewing information and viewing information-compatible data such as viewing information destination information or the like are recorded in an electronic watermark (WaterMark) or a sound data file are sent from a transmitting apparatus to a receiving apparatus. The receiving apparatus acquires the contents ID and the viewing information destination information, etc. from the electronic watermark (WM) or the sound data file, generates viewing information using the acquired data, and sends the generated viewing information to a designated address.
20200387700, "Digital identifier for a document," assigned to Idemia Identity & Security USA LLC
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for obtaining image data of an identification (ID) document and identifying a pattern of the ID document based on analysis of the image data against a predefined patterns for a particular type of document. An identifier engine of the system computes a frequency metric that defines how often the pattern reoccurs at the ID document and generates a unique identifier for the ID document based on the computed frequency metric. The unique identifier is stored at a digital fingerprint database of the system as a digital fingerprint for the ID document.
