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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2005
Filed:
Apr. 08, 2002
Phillip Andrew Seder, Portland, OR (US);
J. Scott Carr, Tualatin, OR (US);
Burt W. Perry, Lake Oswego, OR (US);
Geoffrey B. Rhoads, West Linn, OR (US);
Phillip Andrew Seder, Portland, OR (US);
J. Scott Carr, Tualatin, OR (US);
Burt W. Perry, Lake Oswego, OR (US);
Geoffrey B. Rhoads, West Linn, OR (US);
Digimarc Corporation, Beaverton, OR (US);
Abstract
By printing documents and other objects with machine readable indicia, such as steganographic digital watermarks or barcodes, a great variety of document management functions can be enabled. The indicia can be added as part of the printing process (after document data has been output by an originating application program), such as by printer driver software, by a Postscript engine in a printer, etc. The indicia can encode data about the document, or can encode an identifier that references a database record containing such data. By showing the printed document to a computer device with a suitable optical input device (e.g., a webcam), an electronic version of the document can be recalled for editing, or other responsive action can be taken.