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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 12, 2010
Hoyet Harrison Andrews, Iii, San Antonio, TX (US);
Stuart Filip Rosove, Lake Oswego, OR (US);
Tony F. Rodriguez, Portland, OR (US);
Hoyet Harrison Andrews, III, San Antonio, TX (US);
Stuart Filip Rosove, Lake Oswego, OR (US);
Tony F. Rodriguez, Portland, OR (US);
Digimarc Corporation, Beaverton, OR (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates generally to signal processing and cell phones. One claim recites a method comprising: receiving a signal from a cell phone; determining, based at least in part on the signal, whether the cell phone is physically located in a predetermined home area; and if not in the predetermined home area, communicating a machine-readable code detector to the cell phone for use as its primary machine-readable code detector to detect machine-readable code while outside of its predetermined home area. Of course, other claims are provided too.