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7251343 |
Image protection
A method ( 100 ) of marking an image comprising image data and associated metadata, for modification detection, is disclosed. The method ( 100 ) encodes the image data to produce encoded image data...
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7251344 |
Image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus having an operation improved in view of use of normal healthy persons and handicapped persons. The image forming apparatus comprising an operation panel having a display...
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7248717 |
Securing media content with steganographic encoding
Methods and apparatus to provide security for audio or image content are provided. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving audio or image content and steganographically encoding auxiliary...
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7248715 |
Digitally watermarking physical media
A digital watermark is embedded through varying pit locations on a data side of a CD, SACD or DVD. In one embodiment, a pattern of pits or data indentations forms a visual design on the data side....
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7248716 |
Imaging system, methodology, and applications employing reciprocal space optical design
An imaging system, methodology, and various applications are provided to facilitate optical imaging performance. The system includes a sensor having one or more receptors and an image transfer...
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7245740 |
Electronic watermark embedding device, electronic watermark detection device, electronic watermark embedding method, and electronic watermark detection method
To provide an electronic watermark embedding device for improving accuracy when classified information is being detected. The watermark image forming section 1006 creates a watermark image based...
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7242790 |
Video steganography
The present invention relates generally to hiding a signal in video. One form of hiding is steganographic encoding. In one implementation a method is provided including: receiving content data...
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7242789 |
Moving-body detecting image sensor
Two photodetectors output electric signals based on the detection of light at light receiving sections mutually spaced apart. The output signal of one of the photodetectors is delayed and a first...
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7239717 |
Lossless embedding of data in digital objects
Current methods of embedding hidden data in an image inevitably distort the original image by noise. This distortion cannot generally be removed completely because of quantization, bit-replacement,...
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7240210 |
Hash value computer of content of digital signals
Described herein is a technology for facilitating the recognition of the content of digital signals. This abstract itself is not intended to limit the scope of this patent. The scope of the present...
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7239716 |
Data insertion device and method of inserting data
An data insertion device inserts pattern data including information related to digital watermarking into digital image data such as MPEG2 data. First, the MPEG2 data are read picture by picture,...
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7236610 |
Authenticating executable code and executions thereof
The techniques for authenticating executable code employs keys ( 609 ) to modify the code ( 611 ). In static watermarking, the code is watermarked by using the key to determine positions in the...
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7231524 |
Method for watermarking computer programs
A method for encoding watermark information into a computer application in which occurrences of at least two non-interfering computer-executable code instructions contained in a block of code of a...
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7231061 |
Adaptive prediction filtering for digital watermarking
The disclosure describes methods for adaptive prediction filtering for digital watermarking applications. The predictive filter is designed to predict the digital watermark signal. In one...
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7231060 |
Systems and methods of generating control signals
Separating a source in a stereo signal having a left channel and a right channel includes transforming the signal into a short-time transform domain; computing a short-time similarity measure...
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7231062 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing system, electronic information apparatus, image processing method, control program, and computer-readable recording medium
The watermark insertion section divides the quantized DCT coefficients into at least two data streams, and modifies values of AC components of the data streams, so as to embed the watermark...
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7231059 |
Image processing apparatus, method and storage medium therefor
When image information for the purpose of being printed out has been entered, whether or not the image information contains a mark image such as a watermark is determined to such an extent that...
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7231070 |
Fingerprint recognition system
A method and apparatus for fingerprint recognition is provided. A fingerprint is detected on a sensor. The fingerprint is digitized. A digitized background is subtracted from the fingerprint,...
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7230621 |
Three-dimensional imaging system and methods
The present invention relates to a system and methods for rendering simulated three-dimensional images on a display device. More particularly, the present invention involves systems and methods for...
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7227661 |
Image generating method, device and program, and illicit copying prevention system
An added information encoding part repeatedly arranges two kinds of copy inhibition code arrays of the unit two-dimensional arrays to which copy inhibition codes are assigned, and condition code...
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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,...
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7228428 |
Method and apparatus for embedding encrypted images of signatures and other data on checks
Apparatus, methods, and articles of manufacture consistent with the present invention provide a check validation scheme wherein a payor's signature is digitized, encrypted and embedded on the front...
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7224819 |
Integrating digital watermarks in multimedia content
A method for tracking media signals in multimedia content is provided by uniquely identifying the multimedia content with a digital watermark identifier. A video channel is preferably embedded with...
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7224995 |
Data entry method and system
According to one aspect of the present invention, a wireless telephony device is equipped with an optical image sensor, and a lens for imaging an object onto the sensor. The optical sensor permits...
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7224820 |
Electronic document, genuineness management method for print medium thereof, genuineness management system, program, and program recording medium
A method for managing genuine characteristics of both an electronic document and a print medium comprising: a step for recognizing image data contained in the electronic document; a step for...
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7224851 |
Method and apparatus for registering modification pattern of transmission image and method and apparatus for reproducing the same
The registering method and apparatus read out contents associated with a modification pattern modifying a transmission image to be displayed on a second image display unit of a second communication...
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7221775 |
Method and apparatus for computerized image background analysis
A computerized method of video analysis including receiving image data for a plurality of video frames depicting a scene that includes at least one of a plurality of background features. Each video...
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7221774 |
Local phase filter to assist correlation
A local phase filter ( 315 ) for pre-processing data ( 310 ) including a watermark ( 320 ) is disclosed. The data ( 310 ) is pre-processed before detecting the watermark by correlation of the data...
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7218753 |
Template for watermark decoder synchronization
Systems and methods are provided through which a template in the spatial domain is generated and combined with an image. Later, the combined image can be decoded to determine the extent of scaling...
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7219062 |
Speech activity detection using acoustic and facial characteristics in an automatic speech recognition system
An automatic speech recognizer only responsive to acoustic speech utterances is activated only in response to acoustic energy having a spectrum associated with the speech utterances and at least...
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7218751 |
Generating super resolution digital images
Slight camera movement between capture of successive images is advantageously utilized to minimize or eliminate the need to interpolate in order to fill in the “holes” in a Bayer pattern. The...
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7218750 |
Image processing device and image input device equipped with a data synthesizing unit
The object of this invention is to provide an image processing device and image input device which creates strong features, or enhanced pattern which could be recognized when the image was read and...
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7218752 |
Feature based data structure for computer manikin
This invention proposes a feature based data structure for computer manikin that is constructed from the scanned data of common 3D body scanners. The scanned data is first segmented into six parts...
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7218754 |
Visual copyright protection
A visual copyright protection system is disclosed, including input content, a disruption processor, and output content. The disruption processor inserts disruptive content to the input content...
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7215793 |
Electronic image-capturing apparatus having function for verifying user
An electronic image-capturing apparatus includes: an image-capturing element that captures an image of a subject and generates electronic image information; a recording device that records the...
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7215792 |
Systems for spectral multiplexing of source images to provide a composite image with gray component replacement, for rendering the composite image, and for spectral demultiplexing of the composite image
Methods and apparatus for spectrally-encoding plural source images and for providing the spectrally-encoded plural source images in a composite image, for rendering the composite image in a...
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7215803 |
Method and apparatus for interactive remote viewing and collaboration of dental images
A method of dental restoration treatment utilizing the electronic delivery of an electronic model image of the dental restoration treatment. The method includes generating an electronic model image...
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7212649 |
Encoder and encoding method for electronic watermark, decoder and decoding method for electronic watermark, encoding and decoding program for electronic watermark, and recording medium for recording such program
Disclosed is an encoder for forming electronic watermark information which allows detecting tampering of a digital content based on an electronic watermark embedded in the digital content, and...
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7209578 |
Image based medical report system on a network
A system to create and review reports enables interactive manipulation of the displaying of two-dimensional and three-dimensional images associated with image diagnosis reports, at user terminals...
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7209573 |
Substituting images in copies based on digital watermarks
Digital watermarking is provided in a printed photograph. The digital watermarking includes an identifier. The printed photograph is scanned and the digital watermark is decoded to obtain the...
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7209571 |
Authenticating metadata and embedding metadata in watermarks of media signals
A steganographic embedder associates data with a media signal by encoding the data, a link to the data, or a combination of both into the media signal. The embedder may be located in an media...
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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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7206430 |
Data processing apparatus and method of processing data
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...
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7206804 |
Methods and systems for transmitting digital images
Embodiments of the present invention comprise methods and systems for communicating a recipient-selected customization of a digital image using an index file. The index file associates a...
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7206432 |
Extracting embedded information from digital image data
The invention extracts third information, which includes first and second information, from image data. The first information (e.g., copyright information) is embedded in the image data using a...
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7203336 |
Embedding data in material
A method of embedding data in material comprises the steps of:
embedding data in original material to produce data embedded material; removing the watermark from the data embedded material...
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7203335 |
System and method for extracting a watermark signal in a digital image sequence
A method for extracting a watermark signal contained in a watermarked digital image sequence having two or more frames, including the steps of estimating correspondences between one or more pairs...
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7200266 |
Method and apparatus for automated video activity analysis
The invention is a new method and apparatus that can be used to detect, recognize, and analyze people or other objects in security checkpoints, public-places, parking lots, or in similar...
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7200243 |
Spectral mixture process conditioned by spatially-smooth partitioning
A method that facilitates identification of features in a scene enables enhanced detail to be displayed. One embodiment incorporates a multi-grid Gibbs-based algorithm to partition sets of...
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7200245 |
Image processing apparatus and method
Although a copying machine which has finally output a forged print can be specified by the forgery tracking function, a copying machine which has output an original used for copying or a scanner...
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