Google Inc.

George Jacob Levitte

James R Giles

Haskell Aaron Garon

Vishal Viresh Kumar

Stephen Rhys Norum

Christopher Dawson

Matthew Young-Lai

Ryan Matthew Haggarty

Dany Kuminov

Bhavin Vyas

Igor Foox-Rapoport

Jean Semere

Wan Wang

Abdullah Hassan Gharaibeh

Michal Dabrowski

Duncan Geoffrey Hector Wood

A watermark image may be generated that includes a first set of encoded pixels each of which is assigned a first transparency value and a second set of encoded pixels each of which is assigned a second transparency value, the second transparency level being different from the first transparency level. The encoded pixels may be distributed among a set of blank pixels such that each encoded pixel neighbors one or more blank pixels in the watermark image, and in particular at least two blank pixels in the watermark image. Herein, each blank pixel may be assigned the second transparency value. The watermark image may be overlaid and blended over a background source image to create an encoded source image. A decoder system may recover encoded information from the encoded source image.

Semi-transparent embedded watermarks

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for processing requests for digital components. A method includes receiving a request from a client device for a digital component generated by a first SDK installed at a client device, examining data fields of the request by servers, generating real-time requests by the servers, and transmitting each real-time request to a third-party digital component provider by the servers. The method further includes receiving responses to the real-time requests from the third party digital component provider by the servers, selecting a particular response to transmit to the client device responsive to the request for the digital component by the servers, and transmitting the particular response to the first SDK with instructions specifying which SDK installed at the client device is required to render a digital component included in the particular response by the servers.

Custom digital components

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New York, NY, United States of America

George Jacob Levitte