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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:
Jun. 05, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2016
Digimarc Corporation, Beaverton, OR (US);
Geoffrey B. Rhoads, West Linn, OR (US);
Yang Bai, Beaverton, OR (US);
Tony F. Rodriguez, Portland, OR (US);
Eliot Rogers, Beaverton, OR (US);
Ravi K. Sharma, Portland, OR (US);
John D. Lord, West Linn, OR (US);
Scott Long, Portland, OR (US);
Brian T. MacIntosh, Lake Oswego, OR (US);
Kurt M. Eaton, West Linn, OR (US);
Digimarc Corporation, Beaverton, OR (US);
Abstract
Methods and arrangements involving portable user devices such smartphones and wearable electronic devices are disclosed, as well as other devices and sensors distributed within an ambient environment. Some arrangements enable a user to perform an object recognition process in a computationally- and time-efficient manner. Other arrangements enable users and other entities to, either individually or cooperatively, register or enroll physical objects into one or more object registries on which an object recognition process can be performed. Still other arrangements enable users and other entities to, either individually or cooperatively, associate registered or enrolled objects with one or more items of metadata. A great variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed.