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Smart images and image bookmarking for an internet browser
Assignee: Digimarc Corp
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Filing: 1998-10-01
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Granted: 2002-07-16
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Expires: 2018-10-01
Abstract
Abstract Web pages which contain images are displayed by a browser. A special visual indicia is placed on any the images which contain a digital watermark so that a user can know that the image contains hidden watermark data. By clicking on the indicia which is placed on the image, the user will be linked to the web page identified by the watermark data hidden in the image. Such a link will be established without the web page designer having to include a tag in the web pages design which displayed the original image. The present invention also opens a separate window which contains a thumbnail of each image in a web page. If a user right clicks on one of the thumbnails in this window the image will be added to a list of images in a special image bookmark file. When a user opens the bookmark web page, thumbnails of all the stored images in the bookmark file are displayed. A user can recall the web page which originally contained the image by clicking on the thumbnail.
Inventors
- 👤 Daniel O. Ramos
- 👤 Brian T. MacIntosh
- 👤 Geoffrey B. Rhoads
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CPC Classifications
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Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 8
Claim 1
Independent Claim
52 words
A system including a browser for displaying a web page which contains multiple images, some of which contain digital watermarks, and a browser helper program for detecting which of said images on said web page contain digital watermarks and for adding indicia to each of said images which contains a digital watermark.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
52 words
A system including a browser for displaying a web page which contains multiple images, some of which contain digital watermarks, and a browser helper program for detecting which of said images on said web page contain digital watermarks and for adding indicia to each of said images which contains a digital watermark.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
28 words
The system recited in claim 1 including means for opening a separate window and displaying in said window a thumbnail of each image displayed on a web page.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
32 words
The system recited in claim 1 including means for generating a list of image bookmarks of said images and for allowing a user to add images to said list of image bookmarks.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
30 words
The system recited in claim 3 including means for directing a browser to the source of an image selected from the list of images in said list of image bookmarks.
Claim 6
Independent Claim
90 words
A system including a browser program which can display on a screen a web page which includes multiple images, a browser helper program which opens a separate window on said screen and which displays a thumbnail of each image on the page being displayed by said browser, and a watermark detection program wherein said browser helper passes each image on a web page being displayed through said watermark detection program, and wherein said watermark helper program adds an indicia to each images on said web page which contains a watermark.
Claim 7
Independent Claim
90 words
A system including a browser program which can display on a screen a web page which includes multiple images, a browser helper program which opens a separate window on said screen and which displays a thumbnail of each image on the page being displayed by said browser, and a watermark detection program wherein said browser helper passes each image on a web page being displayed through said watermark detection program, and wherein said watermark helper program adds an indicia to each images on said web page which contains a watermark.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
29 words
The system recited in claim 5 which includes a program which can store a list of image bookmarks and which can display said bookmarks upon demand by a user.
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