WHAT?! Amazon patents taking photos on white Backgrounds?

[pit5000]

http://gizmodo.com/amazons-revolutionary-new-patent-taking-photos-on-a-wh-1573645285?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

 

i'm quite speechless on this one.

 

It's not a patent on a physical thing...

 

It's a patent on the end product of doing something lots of people are already doing... with a technique that lots of people use for their work...

 

 

Patent Wars just got even more stupid.

[Guest Kloaked]

Really Amazon.

 

REALLY.

[Ethanololol]

lolwut

 

Amazon you've had a pretty good run so far. Please don't fuck up now.

 

Edit: Title is a bit sensationalist. I encourage people to read the article. It seems Amazon is patenting their particular method of product photography.

[Unhelpful]

uw0tm8?

[Evostatic343]

[Maslofski]

well, so will they fight jpeg? ive i have a png and just make it jpeg then it gets it automaticaly

[wjdobie]

**Waits for apple lawsuit**

This is ridiculous.

[WinNut]

So am I going to be sued for having cruise photos of me on a white background?

 

 

Really Amazon? You were amazing and NOW you fuck up.

[AlexGoesHigh]

[Tygron]

*Starts getting crazy patent ideas to see if he can't implement*

[martinrox1568]

how does this effect anyone??? Its so specific that no one will do it for any other reason than piss off amazon and even then, how can they prove the did it?

[TopWargamer]

Oh Amazon, you were such an awesome company until this move...

[Oshino Shinobu]

My new patent: Taking photos with a black background. 

 

Why? Because:

[Izaya Orihara]

Mother of patent bullshit. Did apple buy amazon? Have I missed that? 

[solosdk]

Apple-esque.

[Imaginaerum]

The picture shows a table, couldn't you get a big rectangular rock and call it different?

[monopolyman]

Not to seem like a arse, but does no one read the article? The title is misleading and is a bit editorialized.

From the article:

 

And while all that might seem ridiculous, there is a loose method to Amazon's madness. It tries to set itself apart by explaining that previous art would often useimage retouching and green screens. Tech Dirt explains:

Amazon's technique is apparently the purest of the pure, being only the photographer, the photographed object/person, the white background, a number of front lights/back lights and some sort of object separating the subject from the ground below it.

But while Amazon almost undoubtedly did not pioneer this technique as they claim, the fact remains that there is still pretty much no way to enforce the patent. The extensive and specific conditions listed mean that there is pretty much no way to either A) violate it or B) know if the patent has even been violated in the first place.

So it's not like this prevents taking photos on white backgrounds, and is hardly going to be enforced.

[IPCharger]

This GIF on the comments section of the article pretty much sums it up

[Scheer]

Maybe they were just preemptive and trying to protect themselves from a patent troll.

 

I highly doubt you are going to see Amazon start suing every major retailer.

[Socky]

no please

[grave corp]

is this an april fools deal

[BoredErica]

Thread topic title is misleading and should be changed or the thread deleted. Have you guys read the article before posting?

[NInety]

*takes picture with 'dull white' background

[Netto]

[willpc14]

The USPTO literally went against their own requirments for a patent, " Invention must also be: 1. Novel."  It is rediculous that Amazon got the patent.