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Two Google Digital Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. This week's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and both are assigned to Google. The first application discloses techniques for detecting and suppressing voice queries. The second application discloses techniques for transforming fingerprints to detect unauthorized media content items.

Silveredge Technologies and Sorenson Media Digital Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of this week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Silveredge Technologies (IN), the first patent addresses techniques for hardware agnostic detection of television advertisements. Assigned to Sorenson Media, the second patent addresses techniques for fingerprinting media content using hashing.

Gracenote and Cohesity Digital Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays by the USPTO. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Gracenote, the first application discloses techniques for presenting additional content at a media system. Assigned to Cohesity, the second application discloses techniques for deduplicating chunks of data across multiple clusters.

Gracenote and Enswers Digital Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Gracenote, the first patent addresses techniques for media channel identification and action with multi-match detection based on reference stream comparison. Assigned to Enswers (KR), the second patent addresses techniques for an advertisement detection system and method based on fingerprints.

Facebook and BARCO Audio Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of audio fingerprinting. Assigned to Facebook, the first patent addresses techniques for broadcast content view analysis based on ambient audio recording. Assigned to BARCO N.V. (BE), the second patent addresses techniques for ad hoc one-time pairing of remote devices using online audio fingerprinting.

iHeartMedia and Boeing Digital Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to iHeartMedia, the first application discloses techniques for identifying a broadcast source associated with an unknown fingerprint.  Assigned to Boeing, the second application discloses techniques for generating a fingerprint for verification of a reference object.

Intel Watermarking and Gracenote Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Intel, the first patent addresses techniques for video watermarking. Assigned to Gracenote, the second patent addresses techniques for media channel identification with multi-match detection and disambiguation based on location.

NBCUniversal and KPN Digital Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to NBCUniversal Media, the first patent addresses techniques  for fingerprint-defined segment-based content delivery. Assigned to KPN (NL), the second patent addresses techniques for fingerprint-based inter-destination media synchronization.

NBCUniversal and Cooler Technologies Digital Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patents applications are published by the USTPO on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to NBCUniversal, the first application discloses techniques for mapping affiliated graphs using video fingerprints. Assigned to Cooler Technologies, the second application discloses techniques for instant clip creation based on media content recognition.

Gracenote Fingerprinting and Nagravision Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking.  Assigned to Gracenote, the first patent addresses techniques for selection of content from a stream of data. Assigned to Nagravision (CH), the second patent addresses techniques for embedding a watermark in uncompressed video data.

Qatar Foundation Fingerprinting and Ningbo University Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned the Qatar Foundation (QA), the first patent addresses techniques to store video fingerprints on distributed nodes in cloud systems. Assigned to Ningbo University (CN), the second patent addresses techniques for zero-watermarking registration and detection method for HEVC video streaming against requantization transcoding.

Verance Watermarking and Siemans Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Verance, the first patent addresses techniques for watermark detection and metadata delivery associated with a primary content. Assigned to Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, the second patent addresses using a certificate for a target device that includes encrypted system attributes that are then verified against attributes of the target device prior to software usage.

Facebook Fingerprinting and MyTeamCalls Watermarking Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. This week's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Facebook, the first application discloses techniques for evaluating content synchronization. Assigned to MyTeamCalls, the second application discloses techniques for replacing a portion of a broadcast content with a customized, live-streaming alternate media stream.

Sony Watermarking and WhatsApp Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Sony (JP), the first patent addresses techniques for distributing metadata embedded in video. Assigned to WhatsApp, the second patent addresses techniques for detecting echoes using audio fingerprinting.

Disney and Snell Advanced Media Digital Finterprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Disney, the first application discloses techniques for a program verification and decision system. Assigned to Snell Advanced Media (GB), the second application discloses techniques for comparing video sequences using fingerprints.

Facebook Fingerprinting and Nagravision Watermarking Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. This week's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Facebook, the first of this weeks Spotlight Applications discloses techniques for indexing based on time-variant transforms of an audio signal's spectrogram. Assigned to Nagravision, the second application discloses techniques for embedding watermark in uncompressed video data for use in a conditional access system.

GoPro Watermarking and Sorenson Media Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. This week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to GoPro, the first patent addresses techniques for an inter frame watermark in a digital video. Assigned to Sorenson Media, the second patent addresses techniques for detecting channel change in automatic content recognition fingerprint matching.

Facebook and Avast Software Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays by the USPTO. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Facebook, the first application discloses techniques for identifying matching content. Assigned to Avast Software (CZ), the second application discloses techniques for using prefix fingerprints for a first file or a first data object.

Excalibur IP Fingerprintiing and Fortinet Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. This week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Excalibur IP, the first patent addresses techniques for providing contextually relevant information for multimedia content streaming through a rendering device. Assigned to Fortinet, the second patent addresses techniques for data leak protection.

Nagravision Watermarking and Gracenote Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USTPO on Tuesdays. This week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Nagravision (CH), the first patent addresses techniques for embedding a watermark in uncompressed video data. Assigned to Gracenote, the second patent addresses techniques for inserting advertisements and/or other supplemental or replacement content into a stream of video content.

Source Digital Fingerprinting and Nanjing Watermarking Patent Applications

New patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Source Digital, the first application discloses techniques for audio fingerprinting based on audio energy characteristics. Assigned to Nanjing Watermarking Technology (CN), the second application discloses techniques utilizing image code for processing information and device and method for generating and parsing same.

TiVo and Robert Bosch Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Robert Bosch (DE), the first of today's patents addresses techniques for device pairing with audio fingerprint encodings.

Philips Lighting Watermarking and Sorenson Media Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Philips Lighting, the first application discloses techniques related to an image handling module for protecting an image of a scene captured by a camera. Assigned to Sorenson Media, the second application discloses techniques using fingerprint layouts for content fingerprinting.

Gracenote Fingerprinting and Verance Watermarking Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Gracenote, the first application discloses techniques for media channel identification and action with multi-match detection and disambiguation based on matching with differential reference-fingerprint feature. Assigned to Verance, the second application discloses techniques for service signaling recovery for multimedia content using embedded watermarks.

Qualcomm Fingerprinting and Raytheon Watermarking Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays by the USPTO. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking.  Assigned to Qualcomm, the first application discloses techniques for semantically sensitive code region hash calculation for programming languages. Assigned to Raytheon, the second application discloses techniques for waveform watermarking.

TCL Research and MUTR Digital Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to TCL Research of America, the first patent addresses techniques for video retrieval based on optimized selected fingerprints. Assigned to MUTR, Llc, the second patent addresses techniques for monitoring a program signal for certain content, and performing a set of tasks when target content is recognized.

Facebook and Enswers Digital Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays by the USPTO. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Facebook, the first application addresses techniques for managing silence in audio signal identification. Assigned to Enswers (KR), the second application addresses techniques that at least in part use digital fingerprinting for surveying broadcasting ratings.

Google Fingerprinting and Nielsen Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of  digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Google,the first patent addresses techniques involving fingerprinting for early detection of policy violating media.  Assigned to The Nielsen Company, the second patent addresses techniques for encoding a compressed media stream.

Adobe and Gracenote Digital Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Adobe, the first patent addresses techniques for content creation and licensing control. Assigned to Gracenote, the second patent addresses techniques for generating and detecting a fingerprint functioning as a trigger marker in a multimedia signal.

Globalive XMG Watermarking and Disney Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New patent applications are published on Thursdays. This week's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Globalive XMG (CA), the first application disclose techniques for using watermarking in a broadcast AR [augmented reality] layer.  Assigned to Disney, the second application discloses techniques for the automated application of business rules using temporal metadata and content fingerprinting.

Gracenote and Dolby Digital Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays by the USPTO. Both of this week's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Gracenote, the first application discloses a computing system with content-characteristic-based trigger feature. Assigned to Dolby, the second application discloses techniques for acquisition, recovery, and matching of unique information from file-based media for automated file detection.

Websense Fingerprinting and Digimarc Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. This week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Websense, the first patent addresses techniques for efficient detection of fingerprinted data and information. Assigned to Digimarc, the second patents addresses techniques for detecting conflicts between multiple different encoded signals within imagery.

Facebook and Google Digital Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued on Tuesdays by the USPTO. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Facebook, the first patent addresses techniques for managing silence in audio signal identification. Assigned to Google, the second patent addresses techniques for adding pitch shift resistance to an audio fingerprint.

Irdeto Watermarking and Enswers Fingerprinting Patents

The USPTO issues new patents on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Irdeto (NL), the first patent addresses techniques for providing watermarked content to multiple end user devices. Assigned to Enswers (KR), the second patent addresses techniques for surveying broadcasting ratings.

Boeing and Amazon Digital Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are published by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Boeing, the first patent addresses techniques for generating a fingerprint for verification of a reference object and is one of the few applications of digital fingerprinting I've seen in manufacturing. Assigned to Amazon, the second patent addresses techniques for identifying protected media files.

Gracenote Fingerprinting and Tautachrome Watermarking Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Gracenote, the first of today's applications addresses techniques for media source identification. Assigned to Tautachrome, the second application addresses techniques for authentication and validation of smartphone imagery.

Wallrust and Amazon Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Wallrust, the first patent concerns techniques for identifying peers by their interpersonal relationships. Assigned to Amazon, the second patent concerns techniques for analyzing the security of applications.

NCR Watermarking and Dell Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. This week's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to NCR, the first application discloses techniques for document geometric deformation watermarking and tracking. Assigned to Dell, the second application discloses techniques for image based spam blocking.

Amazon Fingerprinting and TLS Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the PTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Amazon, the first patent addresses techniques for checking the integrity of a document by comparing a prior fingerprint of a document with a result of a fingerprint function applied to content of the document. Assigned to TLS, the second patent addresses techniques for inserting watermarks into audio signals that have speech-like properties.

AppNexus Watermarking and IPextreme Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays. This weeks Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to AppNexus, the first application discloses techniques for pixel-based watermarking. Assigned to IPextreme, the second application discloses techniques for IP fingerprinting and IP DNA analysis.

KPN and Sorenson Media Digital Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to KPN(NL), the first application discloses techniques for fingerprint-based inter-destination media synchronization. Assigned to Sorenson Media, the second application discloses techniques for frequency capping for media content.

Fuji Xerox Watermarking and Abecassis Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Fuji Xerox (JP), the first patent addresses techniques for deforming image elements of a watermark from intermediate print data. Assigned to Abecassis et al., the second patent addresses techniques for implementing a second screen trivia function.

EMC and Rovi Digital Fingerprinting Patent Applications

 New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays. This week's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to EMC, the first application discloses techniques for fingerprint based status detection in a distributed processing system. Assigned to Rovi, the second application discloses techniques for identifying a source of media content based on a log of fingerprints.

ESL Laboratory and Viaccess Digital Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to ESL Laboratory, the first application discloses techniques for protecting sensitive documents. Assigned to Viaccess (FR), the second application discloses techniques for identifying a content being displayed on a screen.

Sharp Watermarking and Facebook Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Sharp (JP), the first application discloses techniques for decoding a content bitstream including receiving a respective watermark associated with different portions of said content bitstream. Assigned to Facebook, the second application discloses techniques for detecting commercials based on audio fingerprinting.

Alarm.com Fingerprinting and MorphoTrust Watermarking Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Alarm.com, the first application discloses techniques for tracking intruders of a monitored property by the unique identifying characteristics or "digital fingerprints" of electronic devices carried by the intruders. Assigned to MorphoTrust, the second application discloses techniques for a computer-implemented method for validating a digital document.

Abecassis and SparkCognition Digital Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Abecassis, et al., the first patent addresses techniques for displaying video information comprising: a second screen device obtaining current play position data of a video being played on a primary screen device . Assigned to SparkCognition, the second patent addresses techniques for creating a core cognitive fingerprint that can be used to capture the evolution of a system state and potentially respond with a predetermined action if the fingerprint falls within a threshold.

Boeing and Dropbox Digital Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications address aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Boeing, the first application discloses techniques for generating a fingerprint for verification of a reference object. Assigned to Dropbox, the second application discloses techniques for duplicate/near duplicate detection and image registration.

Thomson Watermarking and AmpMe Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Thomson (FR), the first application discloses techniques for determining in a 2nd screen whether or not watermarked audio content received from a 1st screen has been stopped, a watermark symbol detection in the received audio content and a related detection strength value determination is carried out. Assigned to AmpMe (CA), the second application discloses techniques for synchronized playback of streamed audio content by multiple Internet-capable portable devices.

iHeartMedia Fingerprinting and Nielsen Watermarking Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays by the USPTO. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to iHeartMedia, the first application discloses techniques for identifying changed broadcast media items. The second application discloses techniques for down-mixing compensation for audio watermarking.