PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15865100
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["382", "100000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates generally to data hiding for retail product packaging and other printed objects such as substrates. One embodiment embeds an information signal in a spot color for printing on various substrates. The spot color is screened, and overprinted with process color tint. The tint is modulated prior to overprinting with optimized signal tweaks. The optimization can include consideration of a detector spectral dependency (e.g., red and/or green illumination). Many other embodiments and combinations are described in the subject patent document.

Claim (Index 13):
An image processing method comprising:\n obtaining color data representing a spot color ink; obtaining data representing a process color ink tint, the process color ink tint including at least a Cyan (C) component, a Magenta (M) component and a Yellow component (Y); determining an overprinting of the process ink tint with the color data; decomposing the process ink tint into a maximum signal tweak and a minimum signal tweak, each of the maximum signal tweak and the minimum signal tweak having a Cyan (C) component, a Magenta (M) component and a Yellow component (Y); minimizing a color error metric of the overprinting relative to the data representing the spot color ink; optimizing the maximum signal tweak and the minimum signal tweak according to at least a spectral dependency, in which said optimizing comprises determining color weights and a global signal strength; transforming the process color ink tint with the maximum signal tweak and the minimum signal tweak to represent an information signal, the color weights for application to the process color tint, and the global signal strength for application to the maximum signal tweak and the minimum signal tweak, said transforming yielding a transformed process color ink tint; determining a robustness associated with the transformed process color ink tint; outputting the transformed process color ink tint for overprinting with the color data.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.34783
- Patent Class: 382.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15194324', '14616686', '14932645', '15605878', '15597086']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4379475537776685
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6334520057569659
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4574979989755983
- Mean Citation Score: 510.52972
- Max Citation Score: 644.6133
- Similarity Product: 553.9731612035752

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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