US 12,321,950 B2
Product authentication systems, methods, and devices
Larry Elan Dyne, Calabasas, CA (US); and Daniel Tek-Jong Ryu, Yorba Linda, CA (US)
Assigned to Stegvision Corp., Woodland Hills, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/601,072
Filed by Stegvision Corp., Woodland Hills, CA (US)
PCT Filed Mar. 16, 2020, PCT No. PCT/IB2020/052384
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 3, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/212771, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 22, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/834,875, filed on Apr. 16, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0164806 A1, May 26, 2022
Int. Cl. G06Q 30/018 (2023.01); G06T 1/00 (2006.01); G06V 20/00 (2022.01)
CPC G06Q 30/018 (2013.01) [G06Q 30/0185 (2013.01); G06T 1/0021 (2013.01); G06V 20/00 (2022.01); G06V 20/95 (2022.01); G06T 2201/0051 (2013.01); G06V 2201/09 (2022.01); G06V 2201/10 (2022.01)] 28 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented product authentication method comprising:
obtaining, with an image capture device associated with a mobile computing device, an image of a tag associated with a particular product, wherein said tag includes encoded information in at least one encodable area thereon, said encoded information including a unique serial number associated with the particular product, wherein at least some of said encoded information is encoded using steganography;
the mobile computing device sending, via one or more electronic networks, the image to an authentication service;
receiving, at the mobile computing device, and from the authentication service, via said one or more electronic networks, one or more requests for additional information, wherein the authentication service decoded the image to obtain a serial number; and,
in response to said one or more requests from said authentication service, providing, via said one or more electronic networks, additional information to said authentication service, wherein the additional information comprises one or more of
(a) at least one other image of said tag; and/or
(b) at least one image of the particular product or of one or more portions of the particular product; and/or
(c) a description of the particular product or of one or more portions of the particular product;
and obtaining, via said one or more electronic networks, from said authentication service an indication of authenticity of said particular product, wherein said indication of authenticity was determined by said authentication service based on:
(i) whether the tag is an authentic tag and the serial number encoded in said image is associated with a unique serial number for said particular product in a database maintained by said authentication service, the database comprising a plurality of distinct identifiers, each of said plurality of distinct identifiers being associated, in said database, with a corresponding plurality of products, and
(ii) at least some of said additional information,
wherein an authentic tag was produced by:
(x) analyzing at least a part of the image to determine one or more encodable areas;
(y) training a classifier to recognize the image; and
(z) producing the authentic tag comprising the encoded information, including the unique serial number encoded in the one or more encodable areas.