Managing Rights Management

Truepic and Harmonic Digital Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Truepic, the first patent addresses techniques for authenticating photographic image data. Assigned to Harmonic, the second patent addresses techniques for using watermarks in distributed construction of video on demand (VOD) files.

Two Nielson Watermarking Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking and both are assigned to The Nielson Company. The first application discloses techniques for measuring exposure to streaming media. The second application discloses techniques to perform audio watermarking and watermark detection and extraction.

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.

Virginia Venture Industries and The Sixth Flag Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. This week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Virginia Venture Industries, the first patent addresses techniques for embedding and decoding three-dimensional watermarks into stereoscopic images. Assigned to The Sixth Flag, the second patent addresses techniques for secure content and document watermarking.

MorphoTrust and Unisys Digital Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USTPO on Tuesdays. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to MorphoTrust, the first patent addresses techniques for digitally watermarking digital facial portraits. Assigned to Unisys, the second patent addresses techniques for protecting data using steganography ("hidden writing").

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.

Digimarc and FUOC Digital Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking.  Assigned to Digimarc, the first patent addresses techniques for watermarking and signal recognition for managing and sharing captured content, metadata discovery and related arrangements. Assigned to Fundacio per a la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (ES), the second patent addresses techniques for audio watermarking in which watermark data is codified in a plurality of Fourier transform coefficients of the audio signal.

Two Digimarc Digital Watermarking Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPO on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking and both are assigned to Digimarc. The first application discloses techniques for signal encoding to reduce perceptibility of changes over time. The second application discloses techniques for advanced signal processing including signal embedding, digital watermarking and steganography.

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.

Two Intertrust Technologies DRM Patents

Both of this week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management and both are assigned to Intertrust Technologies. The first patent addresses software self-checking mechanisms for improving software tamper resistance and/or reliability. The second patent addresses techniques for managing and protecting electronic content and applications.

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.

Two Watermarking Patents From Thomson

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking and both are assigned to Thomson (FR). The first of today's patents addresses techniques for watermarking a three-dimensional object. Today's second patent addresses techniques for increasing the strength of phase-based watermarking of an audio signal.

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.

Digimarc and Wistaria Trading Digital Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Digimarc, the first patent addresses assembly of multi-part food packaging is checked by reference to payloads of steganographically-encoded digital watermarks printed across plural components of the packaging. Assigned to Wistaria Trading  (HI SCOTT), the second patent addresses techniques for utilizing data reduction in steganographic and cryptographic systems.

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.

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.

Qumu and Dell Digital Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. This week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Qumo, the first patent addresses techniques for decoding a watermarked video includes receiving a video including a watermark and three or more pilot signals. Assigned to Dell, second of this week's patents addresses techniques for digital watermarking for securing remote display protocol output.

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.

Snowflake Solutions and Digimarc Digital Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Snowflake Solutions, the first patent addresses techniques for unique watermarking for digital media. Assigned to Digimarc, the second patent addresses techniques for digital watermarking and data hiding with narrow-band absorption materials

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.

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.

KAIST and Digimarc Watermarking Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to KAIST (KR), the first application discloses techniques for three-dimensional mesh model watermarking method using segmentation. Assigned to Digimarc, the second application discloses techniques for rendering image content that include a digital watermark pattern at an essentially fixed scale, regardless of the size of screen on which the content is displayed.

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.

Xerox and Nielsen Digital Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of this week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Xerox, the first patent addresses techniques for 3D printer steganography. Assigned to Nielsen, the second patent addresses techniques for down-mixing compensation for audio watermarking.

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.

Two Le Shi Watermaking Patent Applications

The USPTO publishes new pending patent applications on Thursdays. Both of this week's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of watermarking and both are assigned to Le Shi Internet Information & Technology Corp (CN) and Le Holdings (CN). The first application discloses techniques for displaying a watermark applied to a player terminal. The second application discloses techniques for controlling video playing.

LG and Disney Digital Watermarking Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays. Both of this week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to LG Electronics (KR), the first application discloses techniques for providing a mobile broadcast service in a TV receiver. Assigned to Disney, the second application discloses technique for creating a temporal-based dynamic watermark.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Nagravision and Verance Watermarking Patents

New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital watermarking.  Assigned to Nagravision, the first patent addresses techniques for embedding watermarks in uncompressed video data.  Assigned to Verance, the second patent addresses techniques that facilitate accessing metadata associated with a primary audio visual content.

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.

Nielsen and Digimarc Watermarking Patent Applications

New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays by the USPTO. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Nielsen, the first application discloses techniques for performing audio watermarking and watermark detection and extraction. Assigned to Digimarc, the second application discloses techniques for closed form non-iterative watermark embedding.

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.

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,

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.