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Shashank Merchant — 186 Patents

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186 Patents All Time

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Showing 26–50 of 186 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
11736746 Use of steganographically-encoded time information as basis to establish a time offset, to facilitate taking content-related action Benjamin J. Ropke, John Stavropoulos 2023-08-22
11729458 Media content identification on mobile devices Mihailo M. Stojancic, Sunil Suresh Kulkarni, Jose Pio Pereira, Oleksiy Bolgarov 2023-08-15
11722721 Media channel identification and action, with disambiguation through client-side fingerprint matching of channel-specific icon Andreas Schmidt, Markus K. Cremer 2023-08-08
11706481 Media content identification on mobile devices Mihailo M. Stojancic, Daniel H. Eakins, Prashant Ramanathan, Jose Pio Pereira 2023-07-18
11695972 Use of in-band data to correct schedule drift Alejandro Gutierrez, John Sormark, Brian Jentz, John L. Haynes, III 2023-07-04
11689753 Use of steganographically-encoded data as basis to disambiguate fingerprint-based channel-multi-match Andrew Laurence Ashbacher 2023-06-27
11665378 Establishment and use of time mapping based on interpolation using low-rate fingerprinting, to help facilitate frame-accurate content revision Peter Dunker, Markus K. Cremer, Kurt R. Thielen 2023-05-30
11653044 Dynamic watermarking of media based on transport-stream metadata, to facilitate action by downstream entity Benjamin J. Ropke, John Stavropoulos 2023-05-16
11641495 Use of video frame format as basis for differential handling of automatic content recognition and associated action Chung Won Seo, Yong-joo Hong, Yoan Magniez 2023-05-02
11638058 Media channel identification and action, with disambiguation through client-side fingerprint matching of channel-specific icon Andreas Schmidt, Markus K. Cremer 2023-04-25
11630858 Media fingerprinting and identification system Mihailo M. Stojancic, Prashant Ramanathan, Peter Wendt, Jose Pio Pereira 2023-04-18
11631404 Robust audio identification with interference cancellation Jose Pio Pereira, Sunil Suresh Kulkarni, Mihailo M. Stojancic, Peter Wendt 2023-04-18
11617001 Content-modification system with overlay handling feature Andrew Laurence Ashbacher, Steven Michael Cormie, Markus K. Cremer, Andreas Schmidt 2023-03-28
11589109 Use of steganographically-encoded time information as basis to control implementation of dynamic content modification Benjamin J. Ropke, John Stavropoulos 2023-02-21
11564001 Media content identification on mobile devices Mihailo M. Stojancic, Sunil Suresh Kulkarni, Jose Pio Pereira, Oleksiy Bolgarov 2023-01-24
11556304 Detection of volume adjustments during media replacement events using loudness level profiles Markus K. Cremer, Robert Coover, Todd J. Hodges, Joshua Ernest Morris 2023-01-17
11543729 Systems and methods to transform events and/or mood associated with playing media into lighting effects Markus K. Cremer, Aneesh Vartakavi 2023-01-03
11539987 Content-modification system with jitter effect mitigation feature Bruce W. Randall, Brian Johnson, Chungwon Seo, Seunghyeong Lee, Paul Holmquist 2022-12-27
11528514 Content-modification system with jitter effect mitigation feature Bruce W. Randall, Brian Johnson, Chungwon Seo, Seunghyeong Lee, Paul Holmquist 2022-12-13
11523149 Content-modification system with jitter effect mitigation feature Bruce W. Randall, Brian Johnson, Chungwon Seo, Seunghyeong Lee, Paul Holmquist 2022-12-06
11503362 Dynamic control of fingerprinting rate to facilitate time-accurate revision of media content Kurt R. Thielen, Peter Dunker, Markus K. Cremer, Steven D. Scherf 2022-11-15
11496781 Advanced preparation for content revision based on expected latency in obtaining new content Peter Dunker, Markus K. Cremer, Kurt R. Thielen 2022-11-08
11490154 Content-modification system with jitter effect mitigation feature Bruce W. Randall, Brian Johnson, Chungwon Seo, Seunghyeong Lee, Paul Holmquist 2022-11-01
11470364 Use of steganographically-encoded time information as basis to establish a time offset, to facilitate taking content-related action Benjamin J. Ropke, John Stavropoulos 2022-10-11
11463751 Dynamic watermarking of media based on transport-stream metadata, to facilitate action by downstream entity Benjamin J. Ropke, John Stavropoulos 2022-10-04