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7617398 Derivation and quantization of robust non-local characteristics for blind watermarking  
An implementation of a technology is described herein for deriving robust non-local characteristics and quantizing such characteristics for blind watermarking of a digital good.
7616764 Online data encryption and decryption  
Systems and methods for providing encryption and decryption of data transmitted on a computer implemented network, preferably user authentication identifier data, such as a password, at the point...
7615735 Random number generation using a scattering waveguide  
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for random number generation using a scattering waveguide. The apparatus includes a light source for providing coherent light and a scattering...
7606388 Contents border detection apparatus, monitoring method, and contents location detection method and program and storage medium therefor  
A contents border detection apparatus and monitoring method. The apparatus comprises a digital watermark detector for detecting a digital watermark embedded in contents for which a time element is...
7590239 Object identifying medium using multi-layer thin-film  
A discrimination medium for objects by which counterfeiting can be prevented, authenticity of the article can be easily and reliably determined, and the production cost can be reduced is provided....
7561716 Watermarking method and apparatus  
The invention provides a method and apparatus for watermarking a document, the method comprising: associating the document with an identification number; generating ( 70 ) a first set of numbers...
7555650 Techniques for reducing the computational cost of embedding information in digital representations  
The computational cost of embedding information in a digital representation is reduced by making a set of at least two copies of the digital representation and altering subdivisions of the copies...
7555647 Encoding device, decoding device, encoding method, decoding method, and program therefor  
An encoding device to encode an object image to be encoded includes a reference information generating unit that generates reference information with respect to a key image different from the...
7555129 Content playback apparatus, content playback method, and program  
A content playback apparatus prevents related content recorded on separate media that make up a virtual package from being played separately, thereby restricting playback of the content to only...
7549052 Generating and matching hashes of multimedia content  
Hashes are short summaries or signatures of data files which can be used to identify the file. Hashing multimedia content (audio, video, images) is difficult because the hash of original content...
7545541 Systems and methods for embedding metadata in a color measurement target  
Systems and methods for utilizing metadata embedded in a color measurement target to uniquely identify the target through color measurement. A color measurement target is used for color...
7543154 Method and device for determining an access code  
A method for determining an access code comprising a predetermined number of input symbols. The access code is determined from input symbols and the position thereof when inputted. The number of...
7542584 Image processing method, image processing apparatus, program and recording medium that can reduce image quality degradation  
An image processing method includes the steps of: dividing digital content into run-lengths each including one or more consecutive pixels having an identical color; and embedding digital watermark...
7532740 Method and apparatus for embedding auxiliary information within original data  
This patent application is generally related to watermarking and steganography. In one implementation, a method of embedding auxiliary information within original data is provided. The original...
7512237 Encryption for optical communications using dynamic subcarrier multiplexing  
A multiplexing technique for optical communications used to create a pseudo-random communications signal in the optical domain such that only the sender and/or receiver can decode the signal. The...
7508939 Image processing system and method for processing image data using the system  
In an image processing system according to the present invention, a first device encrypts image data generated by reading an image in a document, stores a decryption key for decrypting the image...
7496209 Techniques and systems for embedding and detecting watermarks in digital data  
A method for embedding and detecting watermarks in digital data. Data is analysed by an independent component analysis to derive a transform matrix W encoding properties of the data. The data is...
7489798 Method and apparatus for detecting a watermark in a signal  
The invention relates to a system for detecting a watermark using informed detection. A first signal potentially having a watermark embedded is received ( 601 ) as is a second signal corresponding...
7489797 Method and apparatus for fragile watermarking  
A method of fragile watermarking is characterized by the step of generating at least a first ill-conditioned operator, said ill-conditioned operator being related to values extracted from an image...
7487355 Data processing apparatus and method  
A watermarking system comprises an encoding data processor operable to generate at least one marked version of an original item of material by introducing one of a predetermined set of code words...
7471806 Method, apparatus and computer program for inserting a watermarking program into an image processing program  
At every reproduction of a moving image, a tamper resistant module (TRM) randomly selects any one of plural electronic watermark inserting modules, and incorporates the module selected into an area...
7461255 Digital watermark processing apparatus, and digital contents distribution system using the apparatus  
This invention has as its object to provide a digital watermark processing apparatus, which can embed a digital watermark while minimizing quality deterioration of objective contents. The image...
7447312 Method and apparatus for secure ultrafast communication  
The present invention describes an ultrafast secure data communication system that can link remote users to an encrypted database with holographic-stored data and a high security and ultrafast...
7440584 System and method for marking data and document distribution  
Systems and methods are provided through which marks are generated for combination with a host image, in which source or user information is encoded into the mark either as a visually perceptibly...
7411702 Method, apparatus, and computer program product for embedding digital watermark, and method, apparatus, and computer program product for extracting digital watermark  
A method for embedding a digital watermark includes a step of inputting digital watermark information; a step of inputting an image; a step of dividing the image into a plurality of areas; a step...
7397928 Insertion and extraction of a message in an image  
The invention concerns a method of inserting a message in an image, the message comprising binary symbols which are each referenced by an index, characterized in that it comprises, for a...
7391529 Apparatus and method for managing and using reusable document components during the process of dynamic document construction  
An apparatus ( 10 ) for processing documents each represented by a document description ( 12 ) encoded in a page description language supportive of reusable data includes a page description...
7389421 Countermeasure against estimation-based attacks of spread-spectrum watermarks  
Described herein is a technology for facilitating watermark detection. Spread-spectrum watermarking is a commonly employed technique for hiding data in digital goods (e.g., multimedia signals)....
7386149 Method and apparatus for embedding digital-watermark using robustness parameter  
An apparatus receives a document image and digital-watermark information and determines an embedding capacity based on a number of the letters in the document image. The apparatus determines...
7372965 Electric circuit management method and device  
The invention proposes a method of managing an electronic circuit of the type comprising a memory (EEPROM) for the storage of confidential information, the method comprising masking variations of...
7369659 Item handling system  
An item handling system, comprising: at least one item preparation station for printing machine-readable symbols on items; and at least one item handling station for receiving items from the at...
7366301 Optical watermark  
A multiple-layered watermark is generated to be placed on document, to protect against counterfeiting and forgery. Hidden information embedded into each of the watermark's layers is only detectable...
7362860 Image data encryption method, image data transform method, apparatus for the methods, computer program, and computer-readable storage medium  
This invention allows the encryption side to set whether an image playback apparatus should play back image data in a scrambled state or a non-scrambled state. When a code-block of input image data...
7343024 Embedding data in material  
The present invention relates to embedding data in material. Material means one or more of video material, audio material and data material. Video material in this context may be still images or...
7333628 Data embedding with multi-level screening  
Digital data is rapidly embedded in color/grayscale digital data by switching between a set of multi-level screens or quantizers. Each screen can be tuned to maximize the quality of the digital...
7330974 Method and system for delivery of a secure document  
A method and system for issuing secure documentation, such as tickets or coupons. The method includes producing a secure document having printed information and coded data thereon, the coded data...
7315621 Digital watermark-embedding apparatus, digital watermark-embedding method, and recording medium  
A characteristic amount is retained and calculated from an entered video signal. Embedment intensity is retained and calculated from the retained characteristic amount. Embedment information is...
7305089 Picture taking apparatus and method of controlling same  
The camera includes a sensor for sensing the photographer's iris image and registering the image in advance. The iris image is recorded in the image of a subject by a digital MCU at a timing...
7302162 Modulation of a video signal with an impairment signal to increase the video signal masked threshold  
An impairment signal is introduced into an original visual signal, either electronically or optically, that is not noticeable in a display of the original visual signal but is noticeable in a copy...
7302078 Apparatus and method for preventing illegal distribution of digital contents by using a fingerprinting technique  
An apparatus and method for preventing illegitimate distribution of digital contents on Internet obtains a first wavelet image having a user information-embedding region by performing a wavelet...
7295678 Method for inserting binary messages in a digital image  
A method and a system for inserting at least one binary code in a digital image, including converting the code into a modification of contours of objects in the image.
7286684 Secure document design carrying auxiliary machine readable information  
A two dimensional pattern design for secure documents serves as both a machine readable code and an aesthetic part of the documents' design. A method for generating the design generates a variable...
7277557 Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium of image processing program  
A pattern generating section forms two patterns based on a pattern size, an embedding strength, and a pattern attenuation ratio. When corresponding pixels in two patterns are added to each other,...
7231067 Method for printing and verifying authentication documents  
A system and method for printing images for use in an authentication document from a plurality of different printers and/or capture devices. Each of the plurality of different printers and/or...
7231049 Electronic mailing system  
An electronic mail system and method in which a message receiver creates an envelope containing envelope media data that is hidden with an embedding-and-extracting key. The message sender acquires...
7227972 Progressive watermark decoding on a distributed computing platform  
The disclosure describes a method of progressively decoding a digital watermark on a distributed computing platform. A client device equipped with a digital camera, such as a PDA or cell phone,...
7222235 Image processing system utilizing digital watermarks in predetermined regions  
An image processing system comprises an image providing apparatus which provides an image file, from which a digital watermark information can be extracted by using a watermark key that includes an...
7221760 Information security using digital holography  
A method and system for encrypting multi-dimensional information utilizing digital holography is presented. A phase-shifting interferometer records the phase and amplitude information generated by...
7221759 Projector with enhanced security camcorder defeat  
A projector ( 10 ) with enhanced security camcorder defeat including a copy protection illumination system ( 1 ) for illuminating a spatial light modulator ( 30 ) comprises: a polychromatic light...
7209572 Digital watermark embedding apparatus, digital watermark extraction apparatus, and methods thereof  
A document image undergoes document analysis to obtain circumscribing rectangles of characters (S 601 ), and two distances between non-neighboring circumscribing rectangles from the head of the...
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