Production of modified image inventories

• US 10,256,829 B1
• Filed: 07/03/2018
• Issued: 04/09/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/03/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Eight Plus Ventures, LLC
• Original Assignee: Eight Plus Ventures, LLC
• Inventors: Bertsch, Christoph, Lake, Rodney, Sturgeon, Douglas, Sziklai, Anthony
• Primary Examiner(s): Mistry, Oneal R
• Application Number:
  US16/027,068
• Time in Patent Office: 280 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/48 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/10 Human or animal bodies, e.g. vehicle occupants or pedestrians; Body parts, e.g. hands
• CPC Class Codes: H03M 1/001 Analogue/digital/analogue conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/608 Watermarking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/3226 using a predetermined code, e.g. password, passphrase or PIN network architectures or network communication protocols for supporting authentication of entities using passwords in a packet data network H04L63/083
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/3239 involving non-keyed hash functions, e.g. modification detection codes [MDCs], MD5, SHA or RIPEMD
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/3297 involving time stamps, e.g. generation of time stamps
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/50 using hash chains, e.g. blockchains or hash trees
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/465 Conversion of monochrome to colour
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23418 involving operations for analysing video streams, e.g. detecting features or characteristics television picture signal circuitry for scene change detection H04N5/147; filtering for image enhancement G06T5/00; methods or arrangements for recognising scenes G06V20/00; arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of video in broadcast systems H04H60/59
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2541 Rights Management protecting software against unauthorised usage in a vending or licensing environment G06F21/10; security in data switching network management H04L41/28; security management or policies for network security H04L63/20; access security in wireless networks H04W12/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/26603 for automatically generating descriptors from content, e.g. when it is not made available by its provider, using content analysis techniques
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8358 involving watermark protecting executable software by watermarking G06F21/16; image watermarking in general G06T1/0021; watermarks inserted in still images for transmission purposes H04N1/32144; inserting watermarks during video coding H04N19/467
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73

Abstract

There are disclosed methods and apparatus for enhancing the image exposure of image inventories. A frame conversion and packaging machine assigns metadata to each frame of a digital video work. It takes objects that have been detected, recognized and assigned metadata to the objects by the frame slicing and packaging machine and enhances the image exposure and assigns new items of metadata to the enhanced-exposure modified images. The frame conversion and packaging machine then generates a cryptographic hash of the enhanced-exposure modified image'"'"'s digital file. The frame conversion and packaging machine writes the hash to a node of a transaction processing network. Further, there are disclosed methods and apparatus for conversion of monochromatic image inventories to colored image inventories. A frame color-conversion and packaging machine assigns metadata to each frame of a digital video work. It takes objects that have been detected, recognized and assigned metadata to the objects by the frame slicing and packaging machine and converts the original monochromatic images to fully colorized images and assigns new items of metadata to the color-converted images. The frame color-conversion and packaging machine then generates a cryptographic hash of the color-converted modified image'"'"'s digital file. The frame color-conversion and packaging machine writes the hash to a node of a transaction processing network.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising a non-volatile machine-readable medium storing a program having instructions which when executed by a processor will cause the processor to produce an inventory of optimized-exposure modified image products from frames of a digital video work, each frame comprising a still image in sequence in the work, the instructions of the program for:

assigning metadata to each optimized-exposure modified image of the digital video work, the image metadata including an identification of the work, provenance of the work, an identification of the optimized image exposure values present in the work, and an identification of any monochromatic color effects applied to the images present in the work;

detecting objects in each frame'"'"'s image;

recognizing the objects;

assigning metadata to the recognized objects, including recognition of the object;

for each frame, generating a cryptographic hash of, altogether, the frame'"'"'s image, the frame metadata, and the object metadata;

adding a watermark to the cryptographic hash; and

writing the watermarked cryptographic hash to a node of a transaction processing network.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising extracting from a physical medium a sequence of analog form images and converting them to digital form.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the digital video work is a whole movie.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the digital video work is a portion of a movie.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein at least one recognized object is at least one of a person, an animal and a good.

6. The apparatus of claim 5 wherein metadata of a person comprises an actor'"'"'s name.

7. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the frame metadata includes color compositions within the frame.

8. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the frame metadata includes tags describing the frame'"'"'s image, a geographic location where the frame'"'"'s image was filmed, a geographic location of where the frame'"'"'s image is represented to be in the work.

9. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the frame includes audio, and the instructions are further for detecting objects in the frame'"'"'s audio.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the metadata for audio objects includes spoken lines and sounds.

11. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the transaction processing network is a blockchain ledger.

12. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the watermarked cryptographic hash is an individual file, such that there is one file produced from each frame of the digital video work.

13. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the image number metadata is used to create a video by arranging the image products into a derivative video product.

14. An apparatus comprising a non-volatile machine-readable medium storing a program having instructions which when executed by a processor will cause the processor to produce an inventory of color-converted image products from frames of a digital video work, each frame comprising a still image in sequence in the work, the instructions of the program for:

assigning metadata to each color-converted image of the digital video work, the image metadata including an identification of the work, provenance of the work, an identification of the color-conversion process performed in production of the work;

detecting objects in each frame'"'"'s image;

recognizing the objects;

coloring the objects;

assigning metadata to the objects, including color applied to the object and recognition of the object;

for each frame, generating a cryptographic hash, altogether, of the frame'"'"'s image, the frame metadata, and the object metadata;

adding a watermark to the cryptographic hash; and

writing the watermarked cryptographic hash to a node of a transaction processing network.

15. The apparatus of claim 14 further comprising extracting from a physical medium a sequence of analog form images and converting them to digital form.

16. The apparatus of claim 14 wherein the digital video work is a whole movie.

17. The apparatus of claim 14 wherein the digital video work is a portion of a movie.

18. The apparatus of claim 14 wherein at least one recognized object is at least one of a person, an animal and a good.

19. The apparatus of claim 18 wherein metadata of a person comprises an actor'"'"'s name.

20. The apparatus of claim 14 wherein the frame metadata includes color compositions within the frame.

21. The apparatus of claim 14 wherein the frame metadata includes tags describing the frame'"'"'s image, a geographic location where the frame'"'"'s image was filmed, a geographic location of where the frame'"'"'s image is represented to be in the work.

22. The apparatus of claim 14 wherein the frame includes audio, and the instructions are further for detecting objects in the frame'"'"'s audio.

23. The apparatus of claim 22, wherein the metadata for audio objects includes spoken lines and sounds.

24. The apparatus of claim 14 wherein the transaction processing network is a blockchain ledger.

25. The apparatus of claim 14 wherein the watermarked cryptographic hash is an individual file, such that there is one file produced from each frame of the digital video work.

26. The apparatus of claim 14 wherein the image number metadata is used to create a video by arranging the image products into a derivative video product.