DR. ERIC DAVID EVANS, D.P.M
Medical Practice at Barnes Rd, Portland, OR

2013022, Aug 29, 2013

Jan 25, 2013

13/750752

Tony F. Rodriguez - Portland OR, US
Geoffrey B. Rhoads - West Linn OR, US
John D. Lord - West Linn OR, US
Alastair M. Reed - Lake Oswego OR, US
Eric D. Evans - Portland OR, US
Rebecca L. Gerlach - Beaverton OR, US
Yang Bai - Beaverton OR, US
John Stach - Portland OR, US
Tomas Filler - Tigard OR, US
Marc G. Footen - Portland OR, US
Sean Calhoon - Lake Oswego OR, US

DIGIMARC CORPORATION - Beaverton OR

G06K 9/78, G06K 7/14, G06Q 30/00

382100, 235375, 23546208

In some arrangements, product packaging is digitally watermarked over most of its extent to facilitate high-throughput item identification at retail checkouts. Imagery captured by conventional or plenoptic cameras can be processed (e.g., by GPUs) to derive several different perspective-transformed views—further minimizing the need to manually reposition items for identification. Crinkles and other deformations in product packaging can be optically sensed, allowing such surfaces to be virtually flattened to aid identification. Piles of items can be 3D-modelled and virtually segmented into geometric primitives to aid identification, and to discover locations of obscured items. Other data (e.g., including data from sensors in aisles, shelves and carts, and gaze tracking for clues about visual saliency) can be used in assessing identification hypotheses about an item. A great variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed.

2013031, Nov 21, 2013

Apr 11, 2013

13/860834

Eric D. Evans - Portland OR, US
Ashleigh A. Newell - Hillsboro OR, US
Tony F. Rodriguez - Portland OR, US
Carrie M. Sutton - Beaverton OR, US
Matthew M. Weaver - Portland OR, US
William Y. Conwell - Portland OR, US
Donald Haaga - Portland OR, US

Digimarc Corporation - Beaverton OR

G06Q 50/00, G06Q 30/06

705 269

In one aspect, a user captures an image of a physical object (e.g., of a grocery item, using a smartphone). The depicted object is identified, such as by extracting fingerprint or watermark data from the imagery. Other imagery depicting that object—or depicting related objects—is identified on the web, and is displayed to the user on the smartphone screen. The user may select one or more of these images and direct that they be posted to a social network account (e.g., Pinterest) associated with the user. In another aspect, the user's location is sensed (e.g., an aisle of a department store), and a collection of images depicting nearby products is presented to the user for selection and posting to a social networking service. A great variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed.