US Patent Issued to INSCAPE DATA on Jan. 28 for "Systems and methods for the application of adaptive video watermarks" (California, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,115, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to INSCAPE DATA INC. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for the application of adaptive video watermarks" was invented by Brian Reed (Darien, Conn.) and W. Leo Hoarty (Morgan Hill, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for decoding watermarks in video frames. A media device may receive a video frame that includes a first predetermined region comprising a watermark and a second predetermined region having pixel values selected to reduce the perceptibility of the first predetermined region. The media device may detect the watermark in the first predetermined regi...