Patents by Inventor Jonathan Scott Carr

Jonathan Scott Carr has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20110002503
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to identification documents. One claim recites an apparatus to authentic an identification document. The identification document comprising first machine-readable information including a first plural-bit message, and semantic information carried on or in the identification document. The apparatus includes: a first reader to read the first machine-readable information to obtain the first plural-bit message; a second reader to obtain information from the semantic information carried on or in the identification document; an electronic processor programmed as a decryption unit to decrypt the first plural-bit message or the information obtained from the semantic information; and an electronic processor programmed as a decision unit to determine whether the identification document is authentic based at least in part on the first plural-bit message and the semantic information. Other claims and combinations are provided as well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2009
    Publication date: January 6, 2011
    Inventors: Jonathan Scott Carr, Burt W. Perry, Geoffrey B. Rhoads
  • Patent number: 6970573
    Abstract: A passport or other document is steganographically encoded with two steganographic digital watermarks. Data conveyed by these watermarks can be cross-checked for expected correspondence to help authenticate the document. The document may also include other machine-readable features, such as a bar code, a magnetic stripe, or OCR-B text. These other machine-readable features can likewise convey data that can be cross-checked for expected correspondence with watermark-conveyed data. In one arrangement, four machine-readable features are provided (two watermarks and two others), three of which convey data relating to a passport identifier, and a different three of which convey data relating to a document batch number. Such logical linking between several machine-readable features allows tampering with any feature to be readily detected. A variety of related methods and apparatuses, some involving a third watermark and biometric data, are also detailed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2005
    Assignee: Digimarc Corporation
    Inventors: Jonathan Scott Carr, Burt W. Perry, Geoffrey B. Rhoads
  • Patent number: 6681028
    Abstract: Digital data is steganographically encoded in printed materials, and—when sensed by an appropriately-equipped webcam or other imaging device—can be used to link to associated electronic resources. Data hidden in a business card, for example, may enable linking to a person's electronic calendar—showing the person's schedule availability. Likewise, data hidden in a corporate ID badge may serve to unlock doors at a corporate office, or to enable access to corporate computers. Many other such applications are detailed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2004
    Assignee: Digimarc Corporation
    Inventors: Tony F. Rodriguez, Jonathan Scott Carr, Geoffrey B. Rhoads
  • Publication number: 20030050961
    Abstract: Physical or electronic objects are encoded with identifiers, which serve to trigger object appropriate responses from computer systems that encounter such objects. The encoding may be steganographic (e.g., by digital watermarks), so the presence of such identifiers is not evident to persons encountering the objects. An exemplary application is a computer system that looks at a printed magazine advertisement (20) and initiates a link to a corresponding internet page. In one such implementation, the computer system senses an identifer encoded in the advertisement, forwards the identifier to remote database, receives from the database (17) a corresponding internet address (18a, 18b, 18c), and directs a browser to that address (18a, 18b, 18c). The same arrangement can be used for on-line ordering from printed merchandise catalogs. Another application is a computer system that looks at a printed spreadsheet (20), and retrieves from disk storage an electronic version of the same document for editing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 1999
    Publication date: March 13, 2003
    Inventors: TONY F. RODRIGUEZ, JONATHAN SCOTT CARR, GEOFFREY B. RHOADS
  • Publication number: 20020061120
    Abstract: Security documents which has multiple fields or areas each of which contains information that is perceptible in more than one way: One field can contain a visually perceptible image and a digital watermark that can be detected when the image is scanned and processed, and another field can contain watermark data which can be correlated to the output of a fingerprint reader or of apparatus which scans a user's iris. The watermarks in the different graphic elements of the document are correlated to each other and correlated to the visual material on the document. Thus, the document can not be forged by replacing one element (such as a picture) with a similar element from another document. An automatic validation system of the present invention reads multiple fields on the document, and it also automatically detects information about the user. The various information is correlated to validate the document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2001
    Publication date: May 23, 2002
    Inventors: Jonathan Scott Carr, Burt W. Perry, Geoffrey B. Rhoads
  • Patent number: 6389151
    Abstract: Security documents which has multiple fields or areas each of which contains information that is perceptible in more than one way: One field can contain a visually perceptible image and a digital watermark that can be detected when the image is scanned and processed, another field can contain machine readable OCR text that can be read by both a human and by a programmed computer, and still another field can contain watermark data which can be correlated to the output of a fingerprint reader or apparatus which scans a user's iris. Documents are produced by begining with a template which defines the placements of elements on the document and the interrelationships between hidden and visual information on the document. The template specifies the placement of elements such as images, photographs, and text and it also specifies the interrelationship between information that is visually perceptible to a user of the document and information that is hidden by means of digital watermarks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2002
    Assignee: Digimarc Corporation
    Inventors: Jonathan Scott Carr, Burt W. Perry, Geoffrey B. Rhoads