Patents by Inventor Stephen P. Roney

Stephen P. Roney 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).

  • Digital watermarking system and method
    Patent number: 8385592
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a digital watermarking system and method for producing watermarked images from a sequence of original images. The system includes a storage unit and a processor to encode watermark data, create a watermark bitmap template of the encoded watermark data, load and scale the original images, composite the watermark bitmap template and the scaled original images to produce the watermarked images, and store the watermarked images. The system can also produce a single watermarked image from a single original image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Quicksilver Software, Inc.
    Inventors: William C. Fisher, Stephen P. Roney
  • Digital Watermarking System and Method
    Publication number: 20100195866
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a digital watermarking system and method for producing watermarked images from a sequence of original images. The system includes a storage unit and a processor to encode watermark data, create a watermark bitmap template of the encoded watermark data, load and scale the original images, composite the watermark bitmap template and the scaled original images to produce the watermarked images, and store the watermarked images. The system can also produce a single watermarked image from a single original image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2010
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Inventors: William C. Fisher, Stephen P. Roney