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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2019

Filed:

Jul. 20, 2016
Applicant:

Verance Corporation, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventor:

Joseph M. Winograd, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

Verance Corporation, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/8358 (2011.01); H04N 21/218 (2011.01); H04N 21/2365 (2011.01); H04N 21/2389 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04N 21/8541 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/8358 (2013.01); H04N 21/21805 (2013.01); H04N 21/2365 (2013.01); H04N 21/23892 (2013.01); H04N 21/8106 (2013.01); H04N 21/8541 (2013.01);
Abstract

The disclosed embodiments relate to methods, devices and computer program products that enable watermark-based metadata recovery for content with multiple alternative components. The content can, for example, be included in broadcast television services which include multiple alternative audio and video components, only a subset of which may be presented by a given receiver at a given time. The disclosed techniques, among other features, enable broadcasters to deliver different services to different customers by using different watermarks into the feeds they provide to multichannel video program distributors (MVPDs). For instance, coincident audio and video components are embedded with different watermark payloads.


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