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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.

Sorenson Media Fingerprinting and VMware Watermarking Patent Applications

New patent applications are published on Thursdays by the USPTO. This week's Spotlight Applications address aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Sorenson Media, the first application discloses techniques for detecting channel change in automatic content recognition fingerprint matching. Assigned to VMware, the second application discloses watermarking and scalability techniques for a virtual desktop planning tool.

Google Fingerprinting and Xerox 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 Google, the first patent addresses techniques for identifying captured videos. Assigned to Xerox, the second patent addresses techniques for checking the security compliance of documents.

Verimatrix Watermarking and Google 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 Verimatrix, the first patent of the new year addresses techniques for securing content delivered using a playlist. Assigned to Google, the second patent addresses techniques for detecting inactive broadcasts during live stream ingestion.

Enswers Fingerprinting and Thomson Watermarking Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications address aspects of digital fingerprinting and digital watermarking. Assigned to Enswers (KR), the first of today's applications discloses techniques for advertisement detection based on fingerprints. Assigned to Thomson, the second application discloses techniques for increasing the strength of phase-based watermarking of an audio signal,

iSpot.TV and Sorenson Media Digital Fingerprinting Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published in Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital fingerprinting.  Assigned to iSpot.TV, the first application discloses techniques for modifying advertisements. Assigned to Sorenson Media, the second application discloses techniques for detecting channel change in automatic content recognition fingerprint matching.

Digimarc Watermarking and TiVo 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 Digimarc, the first patent addresses techniques for feature-based watermark localization in digital capture systems. Assigned to TiVo, the second patent addresses techniques for annotating media content and for presenting additional content associated with media content identified based on a fingerprint.

Dell and TiVo Digital Fingerprint Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Dell, the first application discloses techniques for using content-based encryption keys. Assigned to TiVo, the second application discloses techniques for deriving fingerprints for media content that is being watched by a user.

Facebook and Google 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 Facebook, the first of today's patents addresses techniques for commercial detection based on audio fingerprinting. Assigned to Google, the second patent addresses techniques for facilitating flip-resistant media fingerprinting.

Shazam and Yandex 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 Shazam, the first application discloses techniques for recognizing sound and music signals in high noise and distortion. Assigned to Yandex Europe, the second application discloses techniques for indexing audio tracks using chromaprints.

Google and Dell Fingerprinting Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital fingerprinting. Assigned to Google, the first patent addresses techniques for broadcast audience interaction and participation. Assigned to Dell Software, the second patent addresses techniques for image based spam blocking.

Facebook and Gracenote 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 Facebook, the first patent addresses techniques for generating a reference audio fingerprint for an audio signal associated with an event. Assigned to Gracenote, the second patent addresses techniques for identifying video content via color-based fingerprint matching

Dolby Watermarking and Terbium Labs Fingerprinting Patent Applications

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 Dolby, the first application discloses techniques for increasing the sensitivity of a watermark detector. Assigned to Terbium Labs, the second application discloses techniques for detecting copied computer code using fingerprints.

Sony Watermarking and Microsoft 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 Sony (JP), the first application discloses techniques for distributing metadata embedded in video. Assigned to Microsoft, the second application discloses techniques for communicating metadata that identifies a current speaker.

Authentect Fingerprinting and BJUT 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 Authentect, the first patent address techniques for authentication of an object, verification of its provenance, and certification of the object as compliant with manufacturing standards. assigned to the Beijing University of Technology (BJUT) (CN), the second patent addresses techniques for embedding and extracting multi-scale space based watermarks.

Google and Enswers 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 Google, the first application discloses techniques for broadcast audience interaction and participation. Assigned to Enswers (KR), the second application discloses techniques for providing image-based video service.

BofA and Microsoft 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 Bank of America, the first patent addresses techniques for secure data containers. Assigned to Microsoft, the second patents addresses techniques for automated multimedia content recognition.

Vobile and Thomson 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 Vobile, the first application discloses techniques for fingerprinting and identifying realtime broadcasting signals. Assigned to Thomson (FR), the second application discloses techniques for generating a fingerprint of an audio signal.

Gracenote and Viasat Digital Fingerprinting Patents

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

Google Fingerprinting and Digimarc 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 Google, the first of today's patents concerns techniques for the detection of potentially copyrighted content in user-initiated live streams. Assigned to Digimarc, the second patent concerns techniques for watermarking different areas of digital images with different intensities.

Google Watermarking and Facebook 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 Google, the first patent addresses techniques for marking audio/video (A/V) signals for use in tracing content to a source. Assigned to Facebook, the second patent addresses techniques for detecting distorted audio signals based on audio fingerprinting.

General Electric 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 GE, the first application discloses techniques to characterize noises sensed by a knock sensor. Assigned to Verance, the second application discloses techniques for service signaling recovery for multimedia content using embedded watermarks.

NBC Universal Media and Snapchat 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 NBC Universal Media, the first application discloses techniques for generating a fingerprint and identifying a three-dimensional model. Assigned to Snapchat, the second application discloses techniques for setting a gallery of videos to an audio time line.

Samsung and TiVo 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 Samsung, the first patent addresses techniques for music retrieval using modulation spectrum. Assigned to TiVo, the second patent addresses additional content associated with media content identified based on a fingerprint.