Marc Evan Miller

6735324, May 11, 2004

Jul 31, 2000

09/630243

Tyler J. McKinley - Lake Oswego OR
Marc D. Miller - Fairfax CA
J. Scott Carr - Beaverton OR
William Y. Conwell - Portland OR

Digimarc Corporation - Tualatin OR

H04K 100

382100, 273292, 463 43

Digital watermarks can be employed in conjunction with trading cards (e. g. , baseball cards, fantasy game cards, etc. ) to serve a variety of purposes. Among these are facilitating on-line collecting and game-play. Digital watermarks may also be used in distinguishing genuine cards from counterfeits.

6763122, Jul 13, 2004

Oct 23, 2000

09/694465

Tony Rodriguez - Portland OR, 97212
Ammon Gustafson - Beaverton OR, 97008
Marc Miller - Corte Madera CA, 94976
Alastair M. Reed - Lake Oswego OR, 97034
Geoffrey B. Rhoads - West Linn OR, 97068

G06K 900

382100, 382162, 382163, 382166, 715517, 358 328

Colored images are divided into color planes and watermarks are inserted into the individual color planes. One or more watermarks can be inserted into one or more of the color planes. In order to print a color image the image is divided into color planes corresponding to the colors of ink used for printing. A separate plate is used to print each color. The different plates must be precisely aligned. Any misalignment will cause blurring in the image and may make it difficult or impossible to read a watermark in the image. Misalignment of the plates can cause the watermark data in one color plane to, in effect, cancel out the watermark data in a different color plane. With the present invention a watermark is inserted into a selected color plane only, thus there is no cancellation due to misalignment of color plates. The watermark detection and reading can be done after the image is divided into color planes.

7003731, Feb 21, 2006

Oct 17, 2000

09/690773

Geoffrey B. Rhoads - West Linn OR, US
Tony F. Rodriguez - Portland OR, US
Tyler J. McKinley - West Linn OR, US
Marc D. Miller - Corte Madera CA, US
Kirstin Hierholzer - Portland OR, US

Digimare Corporation - Beaverton OR

G09G 5/00

715768, 380202, 380255, 705 50

Methods and systems for associating watermark enabled objects with machine behaviors. Machine behaviors refer to actions by devices or systems in response to a triggering event. Examples of these behaviors include fetching a web page, opening an email client to send an email to a specific person, initiating a phone or video conference call, etc. A registration system enables users to associate machine behaviors with objects through a watermark embedded in the objects. The decoding of the watermark initiates a process for triggering the machine behaviors associated with the watermarked object. While the disclosure describes an implementation for stickers as a class of watermark enabled objects, the system and related methods apply to other forms of watermark enabled objects, including both electronic and physical objects.

7051086, May 23, 2006

Mar 9, 2001

09/803369

Geoffrey B. Rhoads - West Linn OR, US
Phillip Andrew Seder - Portland OR, US
Marc D. Miller - Fairfax CA, US
Brian T. MacIntosh - Lake Oswego OR, US
Brett T. Hannigan - Portland OR, US

Digimarc Corporation - Beaverton OR

G06F 13/00

709219, 709225, 719329

The present invention relates to linking on-line data to printed documents, such as business cards, envelopes, stickers, stationary, letterhead, résumés, etc. In one embodiment, a card-user registers with an on-line database and receives a gallery item including a steganographically-embedded unique identifier. The gallery item, such as a graphical background, text, shading, graphic, etc. , is integrated and then printed with a document. The printed document can then be presented an optical-scanner, which outputs data. The output data is decoded to identify the unique identifier. The unique identifier is then used to index into the on-line database to retrieve information related to the proprietor of the document. In one embodiment, the on-line database includes features such as providing an immediate contact number, translation and/or pronunciation ability, and storage of audio/video files.

7502937, Mar 10, 2009

Mar 4, 2003

10/382359

Tyler J. McKinley - West Linn OR, US
Matthew M. Weaver - Wilsonville OR, US
Tony F. Rodriguez - Portland OR, US
Ravi K. Sharma - Portland OR, US
Marc D. Miller - Corte Madera CA, US

Digimarc Corporation - Beaverton OR

H04L 9/00

713186, 713176, 713150

A variety of systems responsive to watermarked documents are detailed. In one, watermarking is employed to facilitate system access. In another, security is provided through analyzing digitally watermarked documents. In yet another, a digital watermark-based combination lock is adapted to analyze a sequence (and perhaps an orientation) of presented digitally watermarked cards.

7697716, Apr 13, 2010

Dec 5, 2005

11/295345

Marc D. Miller - Portland OR, US
Donald Haaga - Portland OR, US
Tony F. Rodriguez - Portland OR, US

Digimarc Corporation - Beaverton OR

G06K 9/00
B42D 15/00
H04L 9/32
H04N 1/40

382100, 283113, 713176, 358 328

An image is processed to encode a digital watermark, with different regions thereof processed using different levels of watermark intensity. In an image comprised of elements of differing sizes (e. g. , halftone shapes of different sizes, or lines of different width), the different regions can be defined by reference to the sizes of elements contained therein. Regions characterized by relatively small elements can be watermarked at a relatively low intensity. Regions characterized by relatively large elements can be watermarked at a relatively high intensity. A variety of other features are also discussed.

8230337, Jul 24, 2012

Oct 17, 2007

11/874054

Geoffrey B. Rhoads - West Linn OR, US
Tony F. Rodriguez - Portland OR, US
Tyler J. McKinley - Lake Oswego OR, US
Marc D. Miller - Corte Madera CA, US
Kirstin Hierholzer - Portland OR, US

Digimarc Corporation - Beaverton OR

G06F 3/00
H04N 1/40

715704, 715716, 358 328

Methods and systems for associating objects with corresponding machine behaviors. Machine behaviors refer to responsive actions that are triggered when an object (which may be physical or electronic) is encountered. Examples of these behaviors include fetching a web page, executing software instructions, etc. A registration system enables machine behaviors to be associated with objects through use of object identifiers. For an electronic object such as an audio or video signal, the identifier can comprise a steganographic in-band watermark, a numeric ID or song/artist name field in a in a file header; a 128-bit hash value obtained by applying a hashing algorithm to the content data, the file header data, a portion thereof, etc. The disclosure particularly focuses on an embodiment utilizing stickers as objects, and watermarks as identifiers, but the technology can be implemented in many other, different, forms.

8543823, Sep 24, 2013

Oct 14, 2003

10/686547

J. Scott Carr - Tualatin OR, US
Mahmood Sher-Jan - Lake Oswego OR, US
Kenneth L. Levy - Stevenson WA, US
Marc D. Miller - Corte Madera CA, US
Tyler J. McKinley - West Linn OR, US

Digimarc Corporation - Beaverton OR

H04L 9/32

713176

A watermark-based age verification system is provided in one implementation. The verification system may also verify a biometric template against a biometric sample. Shelf-life identification documents are provided in another implementation. Another aspect of the present invention analyzes image data to identify a face region or silhouette associated with a human subject depicted in the image data. The image data is adjusted, e. g. , to center or align a face region within an image frame. A digital watermark is embedded after realignment. Another aspect authenticates or handles digital images that are captured at a first location and transferred to a second location via watermarking. In another implementation, first machine-readable code on an identification document layer is cross-correlated with second machine-readable code on the identification document. The first and second machine-readable codes are preferably sensed though different means, but can be cross-correlated to determine authenticity of an identification document.