Detecting and Thwarting Content Signals Originating from Theatrical Performances
AssigneeAuctnyc 19 LLC
InventorsElliott D. Light, Jon L. Roberts
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Abstract
A system and method of detecting and thwarting the use of unauthorized imaging systems at theatrical performances. A method includes determining, using a computing device and stored emission signatures of a plurality of different imaging devices, whether an emission is indicative of a presence of an imaging device that has transmitted a content signal and in response to determining that the emission is indicative of the presence of the imaging device that has transmitted the content signal, and initiating, using the computing device, transmission of a thwarting signal from a signal generator to thwart the imaging device.
Claims21
A method comprising:
- determining, using a computing device and stored emission signatures of a plurality of different imaging devices, whether an emission is indicative of a presence of an imaging device that has transmitted a content signal;
- and
- in response to determining that the emission is indicative of the presence of the imaging device that has transmitted the content signal, initiating, using the computing device, transmission of a thwarting signal from a signal generator to thwart the imaging device.
An article of manufacture including a computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon, execution of which by a computing device causes the computing device to perform operations comprising:
- determining, using the computing device and stored emission signatures of a plurality of different imaging devices, whether RF noise emissions are indicative of a presence of an imaging device that has transmitted a content signal;
- and
- in response to determining that the RF noise emissions are indicative of the presence of the imaging device that has transmitted the content signal, initiating, using the computing device, transmission of a thwarting signal from a signal generator to thwart the imaging device.
A system comprising:
- means for determining, using stored emission signatures of a plurality of different imaging devices, whether RF noise emissions are indicative of a presence of an imaging device that has transmitted a content signal;
- and
- means for initiating transmission of a thwarting signal from a signal generator to thwart the imaging device in response to determining that the RF noise emissions are indicative of the presence of the imaging device that has transmitted the content signal.
A system comprising:
- a sensor configured to detect RF noise emissions;
- and
- a memory storing instructions, execution of which by a computing device causes the computing device to perform operations comprising:
- determining, using stored emission signatures of a plurality of different imaging devices, whether the RF noise emissions are indicative of a presence of an imaging device that has transmitted a content signal, and
- in response to determining that the RF noise emissions are indicative of the presence of the imaging device that has transmitted the content signal, initiating transmission of a thwarting signal from a signal generator to thwart the imaging device.
A method comprising:
- matching, using a processing device, a detected infrared emission with a stored emission signature of an imaging device;
- and
- in response to matching the detected infrared emission, generating a thwarting signal corresponding to the imaging device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.