Royalty Report: Security, Consumer Electronics, Software – Collection: 7363

License Grant

Licensor hereby grant to Licensee a perpetual sub-licensable, exclusive, worldwide license to make, have made, use, sell, offer for sale and import products and to practice any method under the Intellectual Property (as defined below) in the Markets (as defined below), including but not limited to the use of the Technology for the manufacture and distribution of products, and a non-exclusive license to the same in all other markets outside the Markets.

License Property

Licensor have developed expertise in the area of three-dimensional imaging (the “Field”) and have certain intellectual property, equipment and software in the Field (collectively, referred to as the “Technology”), that 3D-ID is interested in further developing.

The Licensor has developed innovative technologies and products for all aspects of imaging, including capture, processing, display, and enhancement. The Licensor's products range from 3D cameras to surveillance algorithms to integrated facial recognition systems.

Product Description

Shuttle X 3.01 GHZ mini Computer with an EuraCard frame grabber

3D FaceCam, model FACE CAM500-34

3D FaceCam (FC800-688-22651-38105-1279b)

Manfrotto Tripod

Belkin Power strip

WellCam system with monitor and power supply

WellCam camera

WellCam system in Pelican 1490 case

Pelican 1400 case

IMPERX IPX-4M15-L camera

CameraLink power supply

AXIS EVI-D30 12 variable zoom camera

Swann Security c500 CCD color camera

Color TFT LCD monitor

Micro compact KPC CCD camera lenses

Micro compact KPC CCD camera

Power supply adaptors

Network server case

More Power supply adaptors

Three level camera ring with 19 KPC-EX20H cameras

One level camera ring with 5 or 6 KPC-EX20H cameras

SOS-4 Vision system

SOS vision system (model IS 1)

Small Pelican case

AirPlus Xtreme G wireless router

Netgear Prosafe 8 port Gigabit switch (GS108)

More power supply adaptors

Battery Lithium MnO2 BA 5390/u

More power supply adaptors

Utilitech motion sensor control #182164

Sets of SOS cables

SOS power supply
DPTex Passive Infrared Detector CX-702

DS ATO Gateway

SH-5316-BZ Motion Sensor

Marshall Electronics V-LCD4-Pro-l High resolution 4” LCD monitor

Camera Ring mechanical structure for 8 sensors

S.BATT12.6 battery

Small Electronic chips

Archer Filed personal computer

STUDS SOS Vision Systems

Pelican 1150 cases

Genex camera system with two big grey cameras

Camera vision system with 3 KPC-EX20H cameras

AXIS 2120 Network Camera

IQeye3 Camera system from IQinVision

Software and Trademarks
WellCam
STUDS
SOS
Cerberus
FaceCam
3D SketchArtist
3D FaceMap
3D FaceMatch
3D Enroll

Patent Title
Serial/Patent/

Registration Number

Method and Apparatus for High
6,064,423

Resolution Three Dimensional Display

Omni-Directional Cameras
D436,612

High Speed Three Dimensional
6,028,672

Imaging Method

Method and System for Three-Dimensional
6,700,669

Imaging Using Light Pattern Having

Multiple Sub-Patterns

Method And Apparatus for Omnidirectional
6,744,569

Three Dimensional Imaging

Face Recognition System and Method
7,221,809

A System and a Method for Three-Dimensional Imaging Systems
7,349,104

Method and Apparatus for an Interactive
7,098,872

Volumetric Three Dimensional Display

Face Recognition System and Method
7,876,931

Method and Apparatus for Omni-Directional
7,940,299

Video Surveillance System

A System and a Method for a
7,358,498

Smart Surveillance System

A High Speed Three Dimensional
6,147,760

Imaging Method

Method And Apparatus for Modeling Via a
6,819,318

Three-Dimensional Image Mosaic System

Method and System for a Three
7,804,997

Dimensional Facial Recognition System

Method and Apparatus for Omnidirectional
6,304,285

Three-Dimensional Imaging

Method and Apparatus for Generating Structural Pattern Illumination
6,937,348

Field of Use

The Licensee is a technology company that is focused on products, solutions, and services that have a need for biometric secure access control. The Licensee has three distinct lines of business that we believe will form our company law enforcement; m-commerce; and biometric access control applications.

License Grant

The Licensor granted a limited, personal, non-exclusive license under the Licensor Patent to make, have made, use, import, sell, and offer for sale in the United States all products made by or for, used, imported, sold, or offered for sale by Licensee that would infringe the Licensor Patent but for the License Agreement and certain components of the Licensed Products for the period beginning on  through the expiration of the Licensor Patent.

License Property

The Licensor is the owner of all rights, title and interest in U.S. Patent No. 4,974,088 entitled 'Remote Control Apparatus for a Rotating Television Camera Base' which involves a programmable camera base remote control technology that is extensively used in surveillance, video-conferencing and pan/tilt/zoom camera control systems.

Field of Use

Licensed Products means all products made by or for, used, imported, sold or offered for sale by Ultrak that would infringe the '088 Patent but for the License, including but not limited to Dome Products. Dome Products means the pan and tilt camera domes, which incorporate a memory.

License Grant

Licensor hereby grants to the Company a worldwide, exclusive License for the use of Proprietary Data and Intellectual Property to make, have made, use, Sell, and have sold, as well as the maintenance and repair of, the License Products for the Licensed Field. The Company shall not have the right to subLicense or otherwise transfer any of the rights granted pursuant to this Agreement without the prior written consent of Licensor.

License Property

Licensor has developed, at its own expense, Intellectual Property (as hereinafter defined) that is used to design and produce Infrared imaging systems applicable to many applications such as transportation (ground, sea, and air), medical, quality control, safety, security, and others.

Proprietary Property, Infrared Security System – All information contained, but not limited to Patent application 60/597,048, filed 11/07/2005.  Confirmation No. 5011;  All processes, formulae, writings, presentations, and other proprietary data of Licensor relating to Infrared Security System subject to Patent application 60/597,048 including future claims and amendments.

Intellectual Property – Licensor is involved in the conceptual design of Infrared Technology in many applications in commercial and non-commercial fields.  The work product of these efforts takes the form of ideals, disclosures, designs, mathematical descriptions, and other forms of creation that illustrate and embody the unique and proprietary information.

All of these constitute the body of Intellectual Property, regardless of the application or field of use.  This body of works includes any materials identified as Proprietary that do not apply to Infrared Security System, directly or indirectly.

Licensed Products shall mean any product or portion thereof which embodies any Licensor Proprietary Data and/or Intellectual Property.

The infrared security system (ISS) product is based upon a unique concept that we believe is proprietary. The ISS utilizes two or more infrared cameras directed at a common surveillance area. The locations of the cameras and their optical fields of view are pre-established and stored in a central computer database. Computer programs harmonize the information into a three dimensional grid, and camera processors perform image processing on the surveillance area to detect moving objects. Information is transmitted to the central computer, and compared to information in the database for pre-defined threats. Alarm criteria can be based on object size, location, and movement over time. We believe this system has a powerful threat detection capability that inherently rejects false alarms and which will separate our ISS from those of our competitors.

60/597,048 An infrared (IR) security system and method is disclosed comprising two or more IR cameras directed upon a common surveillance area. Locations of the cameras and their optical fields of view are pre-established and stored in a central computer database. Computer programs harmonize the information into a 3D grid. The camera processors perform image processing on the surveillance area to detect moving objects. Object angular position, size, aspect ratio, and radiometric intensity are simultaneously transmitted to the central computer. The grid position, physical size, and inherent electro-magnetic contrast of the objects are computed. These IR signatures are then compared to the target definitions in the database of IR signatures on pre-defined threats. Alarm criteria can be based on object size, location, and movement over time. When a threat is determined, the user is notified by text message, image or video.

Field of Use

Licensed Field shall mean the commercial sale to any customer for use in Security Applications.

License Grant

COMPANY hereby grants to LICENSEE, and LICENSEE hereby accepts from COMPANY a a. Assignable, as provided for herein, b. Perpetual, as defined herein, c. Worldwide, where such rights can be granted by COMPANY.

License Property

The COMPANY, as licensor, a. is the owner of intellectual property rights associated with certain patented technologies dealing, in general, with the construction, modification, transmission and display of digital 3D computer graphic models.

Wireframe Express, Version 4.0
A COMPANY software product for constructing 3D models using photogrammetric means and containing the following software executable files
a. WFE40AB.EXE (the main executable program);
b. Wmerge.dll (a dynamic link library that merges wireframe components);
c. WVRX.dll (a dynamic link library that creates VRX user-interactive files); d. WL.dll and WF30QL.dll (dynamic link libraries that creates 'QuickLook' photorendered images);
e. and various support libraries including Ddeml.dll, Cmdialog.vbx, gauge.vbx, ikcoll6.dll, ikdsp16.vbx, ikeng16.dll, Lead51n.dll, Muscle.vbx, Spin.vbx, Spread20.vbx, Vbrun300.dll and Ver.dll.

VRX04.EXE — A real-time, user-interactive rendering viewer that is based on the Argonaut Brender game engine. This viewer can display wireframe models, surface models and phototextured models in standard 3D perspective views as well as stereoscopic 3D that convey depth perception when viewed through red-blue glasses.

Assign3.dll — A software module that has yet to be incorporated in commercial products, but has the following operating characteristics a utility for assigning a 'generic wireframe model' to a photograph by means of assigning three known 3-dimensional locations on the generic model to three 2-dimensional perspective projection image points of that same object.

Assign4.dll — A software module that has yet to be incorporated in commercial products, but has the following operating characteristics a utility for fitting (by assignment and scaling) a 'generic wireframe model' to a photograph by means of assigning four known 3-dimensional locations on the generic model to four 2-dimensional perspective projection image points of a similar object, thus creating a patient-specific wireframe model.

US Patent#, Title/Description
6,037,971 — Methods and apparatus for the creation and transmission of 3-dimensional images 2 claims. Three-dimensional color images are produced by combining the red image plane from a left color camera and the blue and green image planes from a right color camera. Techniques for compensating for over or underexposure in a particular image plane are deployed as well as techniques for minimizing subjective disturbance when viewing relatively pure color regions of a 3-dimensional image and for transmission of 3-dimensional color television images to users. Filed February 19, 1998. Issued March 14, 2000.

5,969,722 — Methods and apparatus for creation of three-dimensional wire frames and for three-dimensional stereo morphing 4 Claims. A 3-dimensional wire frame representation is derived from a real 3-dimensional objects, where the surface of the object is generally featureless, by projecting a non-uniform pattern of randomly colored spots onto the 3-dimensional object and capturing images of the object by two cameras located at different positions. A wire frame representation of the object is then reconstructed from corresponding colored spots on the images captured by the two cameras. Wire frame representations are rapidly created using generic wire frames which are prototypical of a class of objects and which are modifiable to correspond to a specific instance of the class. A set of generic wire frames are bundled as a tool kit with software for editing wire frames. A method of morphing from a source 3-dimensional stereo rendered wire frame to a target rendered wire frame is also disclosed and the apparent camera viewpoint can change during morphing. Filed October 6, 1997. Issued October 19, 1999.

5,793,372 — Methods and apparatus for rapidly rendering photo-realistic surfaces on 3-dimensional wire frames automatically using user defined points 10 Claims. Automatic photographic color rendering of the surfaces of wire frame representation of 3-dimensional objects is described. Bit mapped information of surface areas is captured as part of image processing in the creation of wire frames into the computer. When a wire frame is transformed to a different orientation, the rendering surfaces are automatically transformed and the wire frame can be rendered in the new orientation with photographic quality. Filed October 21, 1994. Issued August 11, 1998. 5,742,330 — Methods and apparatus for the creation and transmission of 3-dimensional images 2 Claims. Three-dimensional color images are produced by combining the red image plane from a left color camera and the blue and green image planes from a right color camera. Techniques for compensating for over or underexposure in a particular image plane are deployed as well as techniques for minimizing subjective disturbance when viewing relatively pure color regions of a 3-dimensional image and for transmission of 3-dimensional color television images to users. Filed October 04, 1996. Issued April 21, 1998.

5,742,291 — Method and apparatus for creation of three-dimensional wire frames 8 Claims. Methods and apparatus are disclosed for the rapid creation of wire frame representations of 3-dimensional objects using generic wire frames which are prototypical of a class of objects and which are modifiable to correspond to a specific instance of the class. A set of generic wire frames are bundled as a tool kit with software for editing wire frames. A method of morphing from a source 3-dimensional stereo rendered wire frame to a target rendered wire frame is also disclosed and the apparent camera viewpoint can change during morphing. Filed May 09, 1995. Issued April 21, 1998.

5,699,444 — Methods and apparatus for using image data to determine camera location and orientation 19 Claims. Methods and apparatus for accurately surveying and determining the physical location of objects in a scene are disclosed which use image data captured by one or more cameras and three points from the scene which may either be measured after the images are captured or may be included in the calibrated target placed in the scene at the time of image capture. Objects are located with respect to a three dimensional coordinate system defined with reference to the three points. The methods and apparatus permit rapid set up and capture of precise location data using simple apparatus and simple image processing. The precise location and orientation of the camera utilized to capture each scene is determined from image data, from the three point locations and from optical parameters of the camera. Filed March 31, 1995. Issued December 16, 1997.

5,661,518 — Methods and apparatus for the creation and transmission of 3-dimensional images 1 Claim. Three-dimensional color images are produced by combining the red image plane from a left color camera and the blue and green image planes from a right color camera. Techniques for compensating for over or underexposure in a particular image plane are deployed as well as techniques for minimizing subjective disturbance when viewing relatively pure color regions of a 3-dimensional image and for transmission of 3-dimensional color television images to users. TDM and MPEG 2 transmission techniques for stereo image transmission are disclosed. Left and right images are caused to be epipolar to reduce adverse user reaction to extended viewing of stereo images. A three dimensional perspective view may be connected to a stereo view in accordance with the invention. Filed June 07, 1995. Issued April 26, 1997.

Field of Use

The joint venture was formed to combine the proprietary technologies of the parties involved to develop and offer software products to the medical and dental professions.

'Field of Use' means any and all of the Medical, Medical Forensic and Veterinary Medical markets.

'Medical' is a field-of-use specification that defines certain aspects of the LICENSEE's Market under this agreement. Specifically, 'medical' means all things directly associated with human health care, related diagnostics, treatment plans and remedies to heal and otherwise treat the human body.

'Medical Forensics' is a field-of-use specification that defines certain aspects of the LICENSEE's Market under this agreement. Specifically, 'medical forensics' means all things directly associated with the application of scientific knowledge of human anatomy or Medical (as defined herein) elements of a legal nature for purposes that are suitable to courts of judicature or legal debate in public forums.

'Veterinary Medical' is a field-of-use specification that defines certain aspects of the LICENSEE's Market under this agreement. Specifically, ' veterinary medical' means all things directly associated with animal health care, related diagnostics, treatment plans and remedies to heal and otherwise treat animals, especially domestic animals, that would normally receive treatment from practicing Veterinarians.

'Veterinary Medical Forensics' is a field-of-use specification that defines certain aspects of the LICENSEE's Market under this agreement. Specifically, 'veterinary medical forensics' means all things directly associated with the application of scientific knowledge of animal anatomy or Veterinary Medical (as defined herein) elements of a legal nature for purposes that are suitable to courts of judicature or legal debate in public forums.

LICENSEE e. desires to obtain a license to use certain COMPANY intellectual properties, related to a. 'phototexturing via photogrammetric techniques' and b. 'morphing of generic surface structures to match photogrammetrically derived data sets', on an exclusive basis, to develop and market new LICENSEE-developed products and services, specifically for i. Medical and ii. Medical Forensics iii. Veterinary Medical, and iv. Veterinary Medical Forensics markets.

LICENSEE-developed products and services, specifically for i. Medical and ii. Medical Forensics iii. Veterinary Medical, and iv. Veterinary Medical Forensics markets

License Grant

The Licensee has entered into a License Agreement with our Chief Technology Officer and member of our Board of Directors, under which we have acquired exclusive rights to proprietary high technology intellectual properties invented and/or developed by the Licensor, that we will further develop and offer to our customers.

License Property

1 – Perimeter intrusion detection radars
Description
We will develop two radar systems for intrusion detection the first, called more properly GUIDAR is based on ranging leaky coaxial cable sensors and creates a volumetric protection zone; the second is a high performances free-space RADAR and creates a virtual barrier. Both systems are designed to detect moving targets.
The GUIDAR exploits the features of Ultra Wide Band (UWB) radar signal transmitted along a leaky coaxial cable and whose reflections, given by targets approaching the cable, are received by another leaky coaxial cable and then processed, detected, and classified by means of a complete and innovative Digital Signal Processing (DSP) system.
The leaky coaxial double cable can be installed, buried or not, along a generic path and protect a cylindrical volume around the double cable with a diameter of about 2 m along its entire length. Each digital processing system, able to detect the position and size of any target, can manage up to hundreds of meters of cable. More digital processing systems can be networked using standard Ethernet and then connected to a central managing system. This technology is generally classified as active, volumetric, terrain following, all-weather, and immune to vegetation and blowing debris.
We also developed a mono-static UWB electronic scanning radar (ESR) using a new antenna design and an advanced DSP system realizing a protection barrier. The processing unit is developed implementing a signal processing scheme able to precisely recognize the intruder radar cross section and position up to hundreds of meters distance from the antenna. More processing units can be networked using standard Ethernet and then connected to a central managing system. This technology is classified as active, volumetric, all-weather, ideal for low profile targets, and immune to vegetation and blowing debris.
Advantages
We will develop innovative cable geometry and innovative antennas that dramatically improve the performances of our systems in terms of ranging with respect to the existing products. Moreover we will adopt innovative UWB radar analysis software based on DSP architecture that permits us to reach very high detection capabilities and performances and to be highly resilient to the environment changes (nuisance).
Applications
These systems are ideal to protect military and operation plants, airports, borders, oil pipes, etc.

2 – EMSEC (protection and eavesdropping)
Description
Electronic equipment can emit unintentional signals from which eavesdroppers may reconstruct processed data at some distance.
We will develop a single pc/laptop active protection system based on the emission of correlated signals (innovative concept) that is intrinsically totally secure. Emitting a composite correlated protection signal the received spectrum is a non discernible mix of the signal to be protected and the protecting signal. This apparatus is low power, narrow band, impossible to violate and easy to be installed.
We will develop a high performances (large distance and through the wall) eavesdropping system on video display unit based on state-of-the-art digital signal processing. The system is an all-digital system implementing a fast AD conversion and digital front-end. Channel equalization, automatic choice of spectral harmonic, automatic extraction of vertical and horizontal synchronizations, and digital image enhancement permit to reach unprecedented performances in terms of readability.
Advantages
A completely and totally new concept is applied to the protection system and a totally digital system will be developed for eavesdropping permitting to reach unprecedented performances.
Application
The protection system can be applied in military installations, in governmental buildings, during tactical operations, etc.

3 – Real time positioning system
Description
Organizations need a system able to locate objects or people. A real time positioning system consists of a fixed infrastructure of base stations and associated hardware and software to enable accurate real-time tracking of small battery powered (active) tags, which can be attached to people or objects, within the area covered by the base stations infrastructure. Compared to Global Positioning Systems (GPS), this system provides greater accuracy (typically to a resolution of a few centimetres) and the ability to work in situations where GPS does not (such as inside buildings) and with very small devices (active tags) with very small batteries.
The sensors in each base station are very sensitive detectors for the low power pulses emitted by the tags and can distinguish between reflections and directly received signals. Each sensor independently determines the azimuth and elevation directions of arrival of the incoming signals using special antenna array and signal analysis. Sensors do not need to have optical line of sight contact with the tags since the signals go through walls and other objects. An infrastructure of base stations can be installed and networked using standard Ethernet and then connected to a central management system.
Advantages
New sensor antennas will be developed with improved performances. Innovative signal processing techniques will improve range and precision. The main advantages of such technologies are high precision, very good performance even in presence of obstacles or limited visibility, capability to work both outdoor and indoor, capability to work also with important metal obstacles using a suitable topology for the base stations, very high noise immunity, etc.
Applications
The system can be applied wherever is necessary to track in real time the position of people or objects, i.e. to associate the data from a bar code scanner with its position in a warehouse, to provide the position of a pallet of goods placed in a warehouse or a container in a storage area or airport, to automatically detect the proximity between objects, to determine if during an emergency procedure employees have all reached designated areas, etc.

4 – Image processing codecs
Description
This system is constituted of an off-the-shelf electronic board based on digital signal processors running state-of-the-art image processing software algorithms (embedded system). It gets an input from any video camera (or radar, or eavesdropping system) and gives alarm and other outputs. It will perform the following content video analyses motion detection, abandoned/removed object/vehicle detection, perimeter crossing detection, panic situation detection, people/vehicle counting and speed evaluation, PTZ camera tracking, plate recognition, behaviour analysis, face recognition.
Advantages
We are confident to reach incredible performances in terms of image resolution (> 1 mega-pixel) and video rate (> 25 frames per second).
Applications
The system is ideal to protect military and operation plants, airports, borders, vip houses, highways, cities, etc.

Field of Use

Licensee has the right to file patents on these technologies in the field of intrusion detection systems, radar systems for border and pipeline surveillance, and technologies for monitoring and surveillance systems, through our License Agreement with the Licensor.

License Grant

The Company entered into a sale and licensing of intellectual property rights related to the Electronic Film System (EFS).

License Property

EFS is designed to enable 35mm camera owners to shoot digital or traditional photography with equipment they currently own.  EFS is a proprietary digital photography system which includes a self-contained, compact, battery-powered cartridge that fits into the film cavity of a standard 35mm camera thus offering the flexibility to switch between conventional film and digital photography.

Field of Use

Licensee is developer in a variety of fields, including wireless infrared transmission, miniaturized sensors, image processing, digital photography and internet data transmission and switching.