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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2023
Digimarc Corporation, Beaverton, OR (US);
Geoffrey B. Rhoads, West Linn, OR (US);
Tony F. Rodriguez, Portland, OR (US);
David A. Cushman, McMinnville, OR (US);
William Y. Conwell, Portland, OR (US);
Digimarc Corporation, Beaverton, OR (US);
Abstract
Items are identified in a waste stream for purposes of recycling, using deterministic and/or probabilistic techniques. Imagery of the waste stream from multiple viewpoints permit creation of a 3D depth draped image representation, from which one or more 2D planes can be synthesized. Phase-coherent patches of recoverable encoded data can be identified from among soiled and crumpled object surfaces, and used in combination to recover object identification information. Recognition of certain items can trigger further image processing that is specific to such items. (Detection of a catsup bottle, for example, can trigger image analysis to discern the presence of catsup residue.) Information about recognized objects can be provided to external data customers, e.g., to track grey market diversion of particular products into unlicensed territories. These and other features and advantages, which can be used alone or in combination, are detailed herein.