Content Creation, Fingerprints, and Watermarks

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2017053104-A1
Application number	US-201514827670-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Aug 17, 2015
Priority date	Aug 17, 2015
Publication date	Feb 23, 2017
Grant date	—

Abstract

Content creation and licensing control techniques are described. In a first example, a content creation service is configured to support content creation using an image along with functionality to locate the image or a similar image that is available for licensing. In another example, previews of images are used to generate different versions of content along with an option to license images previewed in an approved version of the content. In a further example, fingerprints are used to locate images used as part of content creation by a content creation service without leaving a context of the service. In yet another example, location of licensable versions of images is based at least in part on identification of a watermark included as part of an image. In an additional example, an image itself is used as a basis to locate other images available for licensing by a content sharing service.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . In a digital medium environment for control of content creation by one or more computing devices of a content creation service, a system comprising:
a content creation module implemented at least partially in hardware and configured to expose functionality via a user interface to create content; a fingerprint generation module implemented at least partially in hardware and configured to generate a fingerprint of an image received by the content creation module as part of creating the content; and a licensing module implemented at least partially in hardware that is configured to use the fingerprint to determine whether the image is available for licensing via a content sharing service and output a result of this determination for display by the content creation module in the user interface along with the exposed functionality to create the content and without leaving a display of the exposed functionality in the user interface.

2 . A system as described in claim 1 , wherein the licensing module is configured to output an option by the one or more computing devices of the content creation service indicating availability of another image for licensing that is similar to the received image responsive to a determination that the received image is not available via the content sharing service.

3 . A system as described in claim 2 , wherein the licensing module is configured to output an option to license the image from the content sharing service responsive to a determination that the image is available for licensing from the content sharing service.

4 . A system as described in claim 3 , wherein the image available for licensing from the content sharing service has a higher resolution than the received image.

5 . A system as described in claim 3 , wherein the received image includes a watermark and the image available for licensing from the content sharing service does not include a watermark.

6 . A system as described in claim 5 , wherein the fingerprint generation module is configured to generate the fingerprint responsive to identification of the watermark.

7 . A system as described in claim 5 , wherein the licensing module is configured to identify the content sharing service from a plurality of said content sharing services based on the watermark.

8 . A system as described in claim 7 , wherein the content creation module is configured to display the received image in a user interface having functionality to edit graphics of the content and wherein the result of the determination is displayed in the user interface without navigating away from the user interface.

9 . In a digital medium environment for control of content creation by one or more computing devices of a content creation service, a system comprising:
a content creation module implemented at least partially in hardware and configured to expose functionality via a user interface to create content; a watermark identification module implemented at least partially in hardware and configured to detect a watermark included in an image received by the content creation module as part of creating the content and identify a content sharing service that corresponds to the detected watermark; and a licensing module implemented at least partially in hardware that is configured to provide an option to license the image from the identified content sharing service.

10 . A system as described in claim 9 , wherein the watermark identification module is configured to identify the content sharing service from a plurality of said content sharing services.

11 . A system as described in claim 9 , wherein the option to license the image from the content sharing service is provided through display of a user interface generated by the content sharing service having functionality to license the image.

12 . A system as described in claim 11 , wherein the user interface generated by the content sharing service having functionality to license the image is displayed within and without navigating away from the user interface used to create the content by the content creation module.

13 . A system as described in claim 9 , further comprising responsive to a determination that a user that guides creation of the content has an account with the identified content sharing service, configured the option to license the image using the account automatically and without user intervention.

14 . A system as described in claim 9 , wherein the content creation module is configured to display the image in the user interface along with functionality to edit graphics of the content.

15 . In a digital medium environment for sharing content by one or more computing devices of a content sharing service, a method comprising
receiving an image by the one or more computing devices of the content sharing service; locating one or more other images by the one or more computing devices of the content sharing service that are available for licensing based on similarity of the received images to the located one or more other images; and outputting the located one or more images by the one or more computing devices of the content sharing service for display in a user interface concurrently with one or more options available to license the located one or more images from the content sharing service.

16 . A method as described in claim 15 , wherein the locating that is based on image similarity includes forming a fingerprint from the received image and comparing the fingerprint to fingerprints of the other said images that are available for licensing.

17 . A method as described in claim 15 , wherein the locating based on image similarity is based at least in part on metadata associated with respective said images.

18 . A method as described in claim 15 , wherein the image is received via a communication from a content creation service that is configured to create content that includes the image.

19 . A method as described in claim 15 , wherein the received image is not available for licensing, itself, from the content sharing service.

20 . A method as described in claim 15 , wherein the received image is available for licensing from the content sharing service and the locating includes the image.

Assignees

• Adobe Systems Inc

Inventors

• Koch Zeke
• Faieta Baldo
• Chien Jen-Chan
• Randall Mark M
• Sirven Olivier
• Koch Philipp
• Nicholson Dennis G

Classifications

• G06F21/10 Primary

  Protecting distributed programs or content, e.g. vending or licensing of copyrighted material (protection in video systems or pay television H04N7/16) {; Digital rights management [DRM]} · CPC title

• G06F21/16 Primary

  Program or content traceability, e.g. by watermarking · CPC title

• G06F3/048

  Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI] · CPC title

• G06F2221/0737

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F21/6209

  to a single file or object, e.g. in a secure envelope, encrypted and accessed using a key, or with access control rules appended to the object itself · CPC title