PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem, wherein it is impossible for an electronic content information provider to provide commercially secure and effective method, for a configurable general-purpose electronic commercial transaction/distribution control system. SOLUTION: In this system, having at least one protected processing environment for safely controlling at least one portion of decoding of digital information, a secure content distribution method comprises a process for encapsulating digital information in one or more digital containers; a process for encrypting at least a portion of digital information; a process for associating at least partially secure control information for managing interactions with encrypted digital information and/or digital container; a process for delivering one or more digital containers to a digital information user; and a process for using a protected processing environment, for safely controlling at least a portion of the decoding of the digital information. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

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Systems and Methods for Secure Transaction Management and Electronic Rights Protection

An intelligent electronic appliance preferably includes a user interface, data input and/or output port, and an intelligent processor. A preferred embodiment comprises a set top box for interacting with broadband media streams, with an adaptive user interface, content-based media processing and/or media metadata processing, and telecommunications integration. An adaptive user interface models the user, by observation, feedback, and/or explicit input, and presents a user interface and/or executes functions based on the user model. A content-based media processing system analyzes media content, for example audio and video, to understand the content, for example to generate content-descriptive metadata. A media metadata processing system operates on locally or remotely generated metadata to process the media in accordance with the metadata, which may be, for example, an electronic program guide, MPEG 7 data, and/or automatically generated format. A set top box preferably includes digital trick play effects, and incorporated digital rights management features.

Intelligent electronic appliance system and method

An adaptive interface for a programmable system, for predicting a desired user function, based on user history, as well as machine internal status and context. The apparatus receives an input from the user and other data. A predicted input is presented for confirmation by the user, and the predictive mechanism is updated based on this feedback. Also provided is a pattern recognition system for a multimedia device, wherein a user input is matched to a video stream on a conceptual basis, allowing inexact programming of a multimedia device. The system analyzes a data stream for correspondence with a data pattern for processing and storage. The data stream is subjected to adaptive pattern recognition to extract features of interest to provide a highly compressed representation which may be efficiently processed to determine correspondence. Applications of the interface and system include a VCR, medical device, vehicle control system, audio device, environmental control system, securities trading terminal, and smart house. The system optionally includes an actuator for effecting the environment of operation, allowing closed-loop feedback operation and automated learning.

Ergonomic man-machine interface incorporating adaptive pattern recognition based control system

A method of maintaining digital medical records, comprising a step of receiving a medical transaction record (102), encrypted with a key in accordance with a patient-file association. Also comprising a step of accessing the encrypted medical transaction record according to a patient association with the record (111). And further comprising a step of re-encryption of the encrypted accessed medical transaction record with a key associated with an intended recipient of the medical record. The system and method according to the present invention presents a new business model for creation, maintenance, transmission, and use of medical records. The invention also allows financial burdens to be reallocated optimally and equitably, resulting in decreased overall societal cost and providing a successful business model for a database proprietor. Secure entrusted medical records are held in trust by an independent third party on behalf of the patient (113), and serve the medical community at large. Separately encrypted record elements may be aggregated as an information polymer.

Information record infrastructure, system and method

A system for controlling use and distribution of digital works, in which the owner
of a digital work (101) attaches usage rights (102) to that work. Usage rights are granted by the
"owner" of a digital work to "buyers" of the digital work. The usage rights define how a
digital work may be used and further distributed by the buyer. Each right has associated with it
certain optional specifications which outline the conditions and fees upon which the right may
be exercised. Digital works are stored in a repository. A repository will process each request
(103,104) to access a digital work by examining the corresponding usage rights (105). Digital
work playback devices, coupled to the repository containing the work, are used to play, display
or print the work. Access to digital works for the purposes of transporting between
repositories (e.g. copying, borrowing or transfer) is carried out using a digital work transport
protocol. Access to digital works for the purposes of replay by a digital work playback
device(e.g. printing, displaying or executing) is carried out using a digital work playback
protocol. Access is denied (106) or granted (107) depending whether the requesting repository
has the required usage rights.

System for controlling the distribution and use of digital works

Encoded data embedded in an iconic, or reduced size, version of an original text image is decoded and used in a variety of document image management applications to provide input to, or to control the functionality of, an application. The iconic image may be printed in a suitable place (e.g., the margin or other background region) in the original text image so that a text image so annotated will then always carry the embedded data in subsequent copies made from the annotated original. The iconic image may also be used as part of a graphical user interface as a surrogate for the original text image. An encoding operation encodes the data unobtrusively in the form of rectangular blocks that have a foreground color and size dimensions proportional to the iconic image so that when placed in the iconic image in horizontal lines, the blocks appear to a viewer to be representative of the text portion of the original image that they replace. Several embodiments are illustrated, including using the iconic image as a document surrogate for the original text image for data base retrieval operations. The iconic image may also be used in conjunction with the original text image for purposes of authenticating the original document using a digital signature encoded in the iconic image, or for purposes of controlling the authorized distribution of the document. The iconic image may also carry data about the original image that may be used to enhance the performance and accuracy of a subsequent character recognition operation.

Performing document image management tasks using an iconic image having embedded encoded information

An encoding operation encodes binary data that is then embedded in an iconic, or size-reduced, version of an original text image, in a position in the iconic image that replaces a text portion in the original text image. The encoding operation produces rectangular blocks that have a foreground color and size dimensions proportional to the iconic image so that when placed in the iconic image in horizontal lines, the blocks appear to a viewer to be representative of the text portion of the original image that they replace. Exemplary encoding operations are described, including operations based on run-length limited encoding. A second message may be encoded in the background color regions that separate the blocks. The message carried by the binary data may be any information suitable for a particular application, and need not be restricted to information about or related to the original image. The encoding operation is designed to be robust for decoding purposes regardless of the resolution at which a copy of the iconic image is subsequently rendered. The iconic image may be printed in a suitable place (e.g., the margin or other background region) in the original text image so that a text image so annotated will then always carry the embedded data in subsequent copies made from the annotated original. The iconic image alone may also be used in printed form or as part of a graphical user interface as a surrogate for the original text image in a variety of applications.

Embedding encoded information in an iconic version of a text image

Machine readable electronic domain definitions of part or all of the electronic domain descriptions of hardcopy documents and/or of part or all of the transforms that are performed to produce and reproduce such hardcopies documents are encoded in codes that are printed on such documents, thereby permitting the electronic domain descriptions of such documents and/or such transforms to be recovered more robustly and reliably when the information carried by such documents is transformed from the hardcopy domain to the electronic domain.

Hardcopy lossless data storage and communications for electronic document processing systems

Weighted and unweighted convolution filtering processes are provided for decoding bitmap image space representations of self-clocking glyph shape codes and for tracking the number and locations of the ambiquities or "errors" that are encountered during the decoding. This error detection may be linked to or compared against the error statistics from an alternative decoding process, such as the binary image processing techniques that are described herein to increase the reliability of the decoding that is obtained.

Adaptive scaling for decoding spatially periodic self-clocking glyph shape codes

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Performing document image management tasks using an iconic image having embedded encoded information

Embedding encoded information in an iconic version of a text image

Hardcopy lossless data storage and communications for electronic document processing systems

Adaptive scaling for decoding spatially periodic self-clocking glyph shape codes

Mathematical morphology and its applications to image and signal processing