Issued Patents

The following is a chronological list of issued U.S. patents associated with B. S. Manjunath and collaborators. The patents span work in image processing, multimedia retrieval, computer vision, digital media forensics, and malware analysis.

  1. US-6332030
    Method for embedding and extracting digital data in images and video
    Inventors: B. S. Manjunath, Jong Jin Chae, Debargha Mukherjee, and Sanjit K. Mitra
    Issue Date: December 18, 2001
  2. US-6389417
    Method and apparatus for searching a digital image
    Inventors: Hyun-doo Shin, Yang-lim Choi, and B. S. Manjunath
    Issue Date: May 14, 2002
  3. US-6408028
    Diffusion based peer group processing method for image enhancement and segmentation
    Inventors: B. S. Manjunath and Charles Kenney
    Issue Date: June 18, 2002
  4. US-6553069
    Digital image segmenting method and device
    Inventors: Hyun-doo Shin, Yang-lim Choi, and B. S. Manjunath
    Issue Date: April 22, 2003
  5. US-6624821
    Image texture retrieving method and apparatus thereof
    Inventors: Hyun-doo Shin, Yang-lim Choi, Peng Wu, and B. S. Manjunath
    Issue Date: September 23, 2003
  6. US-6745205
    Method of indexing and searching feature vector space
    Inventors: Yang-lim Choi, Youngsik Huh, and B. S. Manjunath
    Issue Date: June 1, 2004
  7. US-6778697
    Color image processing method and apparatus thereof
    Inventors: Hyun-doo Shin, Yang-lim Choi, Yining Deng, and B. S. Manjunath
    Issue Date: August 17, 2004
  8. US-6850644
    Method for analyzing texture of digital image
    Inventors: Hyun-doo Shin, Yang-lim Choi, and B. S. Manjunath
    Issue Date: February 1, 2005
  9. US-6853746
    Color image processing method and apparatus thereof
    Inventors: Hyun-doo Shin, Yang-lim Choi, Yining Deng, and B. S. Manjunath
    Issue Date: February 8, 2005
  10. US-6870965
    Texture description method and texture-based image retrieval method using Gabor filter in frequency domain
    Inventors: Mun-churl Kim, Jin-woong Kim, B. S. Manjunath, Yong-Man Ro, Hyun-doo Shin, and Yang-lim Choi
    Issue Date: March 22, 2005
  11. US-6910030
    Adaptive search method in feature vector space
    Inventors: Yang-lim Choi, Youngsik Huh, B. S. Manjunath, and Peng Wu
    Issue Date: June 21, 2005
  12. US-6917927
    Method for indexing feature vector data space
    Inventors: Yang-lim Choi, B. S. Manjunath, and Peng Wu
    Issue Date: July 12, 2005
  13. US-6970268
    Color image processing method and apparatus thereof
    Inventors: Hyun-doo Shin, Yang-lim Choi, Yining Deng, and B. S. Manjunath
    Issue Date: November 29, 2005
  14. US-6978042
    Color image segmentation method
    Inventors: Hyun-doo Shin, Yang-lim Choi, B. S. Manjunath, and Yining Deng
    Issue Date: December 20, 2005
  15. US-7003038
    Activity descriptor for video sequences
    Inventors: Ajay Divakaran, Huifang Sun, Hae-Kwang Kim, Chul-Soo Park, Xinding Sun, B. S. Manjunath, Vinod V. Vasudevan, Manoranjan D. Jesudoss, and Ganesh Rattinassababady
    Issue Date: February 21, 2006
  16. US-7006569
    Digital video processing method and apparatus thereof
    Inventors: Hyun-doo Shin, Yang-lim Choi, B. S. Manjunath, and Xinding Sun
    Issue Date: February 28, 2006
  17. US-7027065
    Method for image texture describing
    Inventors: Hyun-doo Shin, Yang-lim Choi, Peng Wu, and B. S. Manjunath
    Issue Date: April 11, 2006
  18. US-7199803
    Method and apparatus for image texture describing
    Inventors: Hyun-doo Shin, Yang-lim Choi, Peng Wu, and B. S. Manjunath
    Issue Date: April 3, 2007
  19. US-7212667
    Color image processing method for indexing an image using a lattice structure
    Inventors: Hyun-doo Shin, Yang-lim Choi, Yining Deng, and B. S. Manjunath
    Issue Date: May 1, 2007
  20. US-7245762
    Color image processing method
    Inventors: Hyun-doo Shin, Yang-lim Choi, Yining Deng, and B. S. Manjunath
    Issue Date: July 17, 2007
  21. US-7308030
    Object activity modeling method
    Inventors: Yang-lim Choi, Yun-ju Yu, B. S. Manjunath, Xinding Sun, and Ching-wei Chen
    Issue Date: December 11, 2007
  22. US-7308140
    Method and device for measuring similarity between images
    Inventors: Hyun-doo Shin, Yang-lim Choi, B. S. Manjunath, and Peng Wu
    Issue Date: December 11, 2007
  23. US-7362806
    Object activity modeling method
    Inventors: Yang-lim Choi, Yun-ju Yu, B. S. Manjunath, Xinding Sun, and Ching-wei Chen
    Issue Date: April 22, 2008
  24. US-7656951
    Digital video processing method and apparatus thereof
    Inventors: Hyun-doo Shin, Yang-lim Choi, B. S. Manjunath, and Xinding Sun
    Issue Date: February 2, 2010
  25. US-11244050-B2
    Malware classification and detection using audio descriptors
    Inventors: Lakshmanan Nataraj, B. S. Manjunath, and Shivkumar Chandrasekaran
    Issue Date: February 8, 2022
  26. US-11429812-B2
    Detecting digital image manipulations
    Inventors: Lakshmanan Nataraj, Tajuddin Manhar Mohammed, Tejaswi Nanjundaswamy, Michael Gene Goebel, B. S. Manjunath, and Shivkumar Chandrasekaran
    Issue Date: August 30, 2022
  27. US-11836634-B2
    Detecting digital image manipulations
    Inventors: Lakshmanan Nataraj, Tajuddin Manhar Mohammed, Tejaswi Nanjundaswamy, Michael Gene Goebel, B. S. Manjunath, and Shivkumar Chandrasekaran
    Issue Date: December 5, 2023
  28. US-11842471-B2
    Rational polynomial coefficient based metadata verification
    Inventors: Chandrakanth Gudavalli, Michael Gene Goebel, Tejaswi Nanjundaswamy, Lakshmanan Nataraj, Shivkumar Chandrasekaran, and B. S. Manjunath
    Issue Date: December 12, 2023
  29. US-11854113-B2
    Deep learning methods for event verification and image re-purposing detection
    Inventors: Lakshmanan Nataraj, Michael Gene Goebel, B. S. Manjunath, and Shivkumar Chandrasekaran
    Issue Date: December 26, 2023
  30. US-12229686-B2
    Detecting digital human face image manipulations
    Inventors: Lakshmanan Nataraj, Tajuddin Manhar Mohammed, Tejaswi Nanjundaswamy, Michael Gene Goebel, B. S. Manjunath, and Shivkumar Chandrasekaran
    Issue Date: February 18, 2025
  31. US-12273374-B2
    Malware detection using frequency domain-based image visualization and deep learning
    Inventors: Tajuddin Manhar Mohammed, Lakshmanan Nataraj, B. S. Manjunath, and Shivkumar Chandrasekaran
    Issue Date: April 8, 2025
  32. US-12361129-B2
    Malware classification and detection using audio and image descriptors
    Inventors: Lakshmanan Nataraj, B. S. Manjunath, and Shivkumar Chandrasekaran
    Issue Date: July 15, 2025
  33. US-12541968-B2
    Controlled image manipulations using semantic labels
    Inventors: Chandrakanth Gudavalli, Erik Rosten, Lakshmanan Nataraj, Shivkumar Chandrasekaran, and B. S. Manjunath
    Issue Date: February 3, 2026