Manufacture of printed image inventories

• US 10,325,156 B1
• Filed: 06/25/2018
• Issued: 06/18/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/25/2018
• 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): Chowdhury, Nigar
• Application Number:
  US16/017,876
• Time in Patent Office: 358 Days
• Field of Search: 386248, 386260
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/16 Program or content traceability, e.g. by watermarking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/64 Protecting data integrity, e.g. using checksums, certificates or signatures
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 1/0021 Image watermarking
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/46 Extracting features or characteristics from the video content, e.g. video fingerprints, representative shots or key frames
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/10 Human or animal bodies, e.g. vehicle occupants or pedestrians; Body parts, e.g. hands
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/172 Classification, e.g. identification
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/179 metadata assisted face recognition
• CPC Class Codes: H03M 1/001 Analogue/digital/analogue conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00 Scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission; Details thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/00 Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD] real-time bi-directional transmission of motion video data H04N7/14 ; broadcast or conference over packet switching networks H04L12/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4117 for generating hard copies of the content, e.g. printer, electronic paper interfaces to printers G06F3/12; printing data G06K15/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus

Abstract

There are disclosed methods and apparatus for manufacture of prints produced and packaged from image inventories. A physical print production and packaging machine assigns metadata to each physical print of a 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 detects, recognizes and assigns new items of metadata to objects that are unique to the physical print. The print production and packaging machine then generates a cryptographic hash of the physical print'"'"'s digital file. Lastly, the print production 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 manufacture an inventory of print 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 frame metadata to each print of the digital video work, the frame metadata including an identification of the work, provenance of the work, and an identification of the frame within the work;

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

wherein the object metadata comprises metadata for objects recognized in the frame, wherein the recognized objects include at least one of a person, and animal or a good,

wherein the frame metadata includes tags describing a minimum of one of 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,

wherein the hash uniquely identifies the printed image;

adding a watermark to the hash;

creating proof of authenticity by writing the hash with the watermark 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 metadata of a person comprises an actor'"'"'s name.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the print metadata includes color compositions within the print.

7. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the metadata for audio objects includes spoken lines and sounds.

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

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

10. A process for manufacturing an inventory of print products from frames of a digital video work, each frame comprising a still image in sequence in the work, the process comprising:

assigning frame metadata to each frame of the digital video work, the frame metadata including an identification of the work, provenance of the work, an identification of the processor, and an identification of the frame within the work;

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

wherein the object metadata comprises metadata for objects recognized in the frame, wherein the recognized objects include at least one of a person, and animal or a good,

wherein the frame metadata includes tags describing a minimum of one of 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,

wherein the hash uniquely identifies the printed image;

adding a watermark to the hash;

creating proof of authenticity by writing the hash to a node of a transaction processing network.

11. The process of claim 10 further comprising extracting from a physical medium a sequence of analog form images and converting them to digital form.

12. The process of claim 10 wherein the digital video work is a whole movie.

13. The process of claim 10 wherein the digital video work is a portion of a movie.

14. The process of claim 13 wherein metadata of a person comprises an actor'"'"'s name.

15. The process of claim 10 wherein the frame metadata includes color compositions within the frame.

16. The process of claim 10 wherein the transaction processing network is a blockchain ledger.

17. The process of claim 10 wherein the hash is an individual file, such that there is one file produced from each print of a frame of the digital video work.