Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090079809 | System and Method for Film Watermarking - A system and method for watermarking a film includes a light source array including one or more light sources having light directed toward a film to be watermarked. A control mechanism is configured to synchronize a position of the film with the light sources such that the light sources are activated to record a watermark on the film to identify an aspect of the film, wherein the watermark includes a plurality of spots aligned transversely to a direction of film motion during printing of the film. | 03-26-2009 |
20090123022 | Digital cinema projector watermarking system and method - A system and method for watermarking a projected image from a digital cinema projector includes a projector having a plurality of watermark image files associated therewith. A scripting mechanism is configured to determine when and where the watermark image files are displayed during the presentation. The watermark image files include a combination of null and non-null watermark images unique to a given projector and rendered in accordance with the scripting mechanism during a rendering of a digital presentation such that the watermark images and their temporal placement identifies the projector rendering the presentation. | 05-14-2009 |
20090202104 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING AND MARKING FILM - A system and method for analyzing and marking a film image for providing a marked film with robust marks which have a high survival rate during, e.g., unauthorized duplication. The present invention provides the ability to facilitate the choosing of ideal locations of marks for marking a film image by recommending potential marking locations based on the survivability of the mark against different background colors. The system and method provides for selecting at least two potential marking areas in at least one frame of the film, saturating the at least two potential marking areas in a predetermined color of a mark, calculating a root mean square error (RMSE) of each of the at least two potential marking areas and an area surrounding each potential marking area, and determining which of the at least two potential marking areas has the lowest RMSE, i.e., the recommend marking location. | 08-13-2009 |
20090288170 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OBJECT ORIENTED FINGERPRINTING OF DIGITAL VIDEOS - A system and method for object oriented fingerprinting of digital videos and motion pictures are provided. The system and method enables a user to embed various ‘natural objects’ as watermarks that match well with a particular scene in a movie or to modify existing objects in the scene during a digital editing stage. The system and method provides for determining a number of unique copies of the motion picture needed, determining a number of watermarks and variations of the watermarks based on the number of unique copies, selecting at least one object occurring in at least one scene of the motion picture equal to the determined number of watermarks, creating the determined number of variations for the object, and creating a unique combination of the created variations of the object for each copy. Each unique combination is encoded into a value for identifying each of the plurality of copies. | 11-19-2009 |
20090322745 | Method and System for Three-Dimensional Model Acquisition - A system and method for acquiring geometic information from images includes a modulated light source configured to provide light energy at a rate unperceivable by the human eye. A camera is configured to acquire images at a rate at which a differential pair of images is obtained such that one of the pair of images includes light from the light source and the other image of the pair does not include light from the light source. A comparison module is configured to compare the differential pair of images to create a depth map for three-dimension model creation. | 12-31-2009 |
20100177291 | FILM PRINTING SYSTEM AND METHOD UTILIZING A DIGITAL LIGHT PROCESSING IMAGER OR ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODE - A motion picture printing system having a digital micromirror device for manipulating light used to expose a film negative is disclosed. A motion picture printing system having an organic light emitting diode for emitting light to expose a film negative is disclosed. | 07-15-2010 |
20100278450 | Method, Apparatus And System For Alternate Image/Video Insertion - The present invention provides a method, apparatus and system of content creation, content post processing, new image capture and image composition whereby alternate images or video content may be selectively integrated into an original video in real time. In the present invention, sufficient metadata is created at the time of the creation of the original video content to both describe objects/areas in the original video that are available for integration of alternate images/video and to provide a means of controlling the alternate video capture and processing to fit the alternate image/video into the areas in the original video defined as available for integration of alternate image/video. The result is a mechanism whereby personal/alternate video/images may be integrated with existing video content, such as in one embodiment, music videos (e.g., video Karaoke), games, broadcast video, DVD videos, and the like, in real time. | 11-04-2010 |
20100296795 | Method and system for analyzing and marking a film - A method and system for analyzing and marking a film include determining color conditions which define colors compatible with a proposed mark, retrieving a number of consecutive frames to be marked, and determining potential marking areas within an image of each frame of the film. The color components associated with each potential marking area are analyzed to generate color values, and the color values of each of the potential marking areas are compared with the respective color conditions for determining ideal marking areas. Actual marking locations in the film are determined from the determined ideal marking areas. | 11-25-2010 |
20140310738 | CUSTOMER ASSOCIATED PROFILE FOR ACCESSING AUDIO AND VIDEO MEDIA OBJECTS - A method is disclosed for transferring a received media object to remote devices in accordance to attributes in a user profile. The profile information additionally determinates the versions of the media object that are available to such remote devices and whether the media object may be stored in such remote devices. | 10-16-2014 |