Glyph-Embedded Media Authentication via Server Verification

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Solution Overview

Problem

Consumers of digital media content face challenges in verifying the authenticity of digital media assets and associated metadata, as existing technologies lack reliable methods for independent verification and authentication, leading to potential misinterpretation of falsified or edited content.

Innovation Solution

A system and method that utilize a digital media capture device to integrate metadata, generate a digital signature, and embed a glyph on the media asset, allowing for authentication and verification through a cloud-based server, enabling users to confirm the authenticity of the media content using a requesting device.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If traditional digital media content is shared without verification mechanisms, then ease of sharing is improved, but reliability of content authenticity deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveease of sharingVSAvoidcontent authenticity

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system embeds a glyph containing authentication data into the digital media asset at the time of capture or upload, before the content is shared. This preliminary embedding of verification information allows consumers to authenticate content later without adding complexity to the sharing process itself.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces a server as an intermediary that stores and verifies authentication data associated with digital media assets. When a consumer scans a glyph, the server mediates the verification process by comparing the scanned data with stored authentication information, enabling reliable verification without requiring direct trust between parties.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If verification mechanisms are implemented in traditional digital media, then reliability of authentication is improved, but device complexity worsens

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveauthentication verificationVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The digital media asset itself carries its own authentication information through the embedded glyph. When scanned, the glyph provides self-contained verification data that can be validated against server-stored information, allowing the content to verify its own authenticity without requiring complex external verification systems.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces complex manual verification processes with automated optical scanning and digital comparison. Instead of requiring consumers to manually verify metadata or trust source information, a simple glyph scan automatically triggers verification through the server, substituting mechanical complexity with streamlined digital processes.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Loss of information

If metadata and additional information are associated with digital media, then information completeness is improved, but difficulty of verifying authenticity worsens

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinformation completenessVSAvoidverification difficulty

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts authentication verification from the complex metadata and separates it into a distinct, visually identifiable glyph element. This extracted glyph contains specific authentication data that can be independently scanned and verified, separating the verification function from the broader metadata set and making it easier to detect and measure authenticity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentUS11375294B2Interactive broadcast media content provider with direct audience interaction

Publication Date: 2022.06.28 IMAGEKEEPER LLC

AI summary

A server system receives a digital media asset captured by a media capture device along with a dataset associated with the digital media asset. The server system generates a modified digital media asset by overlaying or embedding a glyph that encodes information pointing to the network location of the information page onto the digital media asset. A requesting device scans the glyph from the modified digital media asset and decodes from the glyph the information pointing to the network location. The information includes a certification that the digital media and the dataset associated with the digital media asset are unaltered. The requesting device may transmit communications to the server system to indicate approval or disapproval of the digital media asset, or to edit the digital media asset. The server system receives the communication and may modify the information to reflect comments, approvals, disapprovals, or edits.