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7555649 Method for generating digital watermarks for electronic documents  
Verification of true authorship on the basis of digital watermarks is described. The digital watermark can be provided with the proof of identity id and/or with the hash value h(m) of the document...
7555138 Method and apparatus for digital watermarking for the electronic literary macramé  
An embodiment of digital watermarks which contains literary information of interest to a reader of an electronic literary macramé (ELM) or a knowledge transfer tool (KTT). The nature of the...
7552336 Watermarking with covert channel and permutations  
Described herein is a watermarking technology for protecting digital signals, such as a music clip. In another described implementation, a watermarking system employs a permutation technique to...
7551751 Watermarking images with wavepackets encoded by intensity and/or phase variations  
A phase space encoded watermark is applied to an image to guard against counterfeiting and/or unauthorized copying. The watermark is formed of wavepackets. An authentication message is encoded in...
7551750 Holographic digital watermark  
A digital watermark which is incorporated, perceptibly or imperceptibly, into a diffractive device such as a hologram. When applied to protect and/or authenticate a document of value or a product,...
7551752 Systems and methods for authenticating objects using multiple-level image encoding and decoding  
A method of producing a digital multiple-level encoded image is presented. The method comprises obtaining a digital authentication image, obtaining a first encoding parameter set comprising one or...
7551753 Image processing apparatus and method therefor  
When a document image printed by freely editing and processing image data is to be copied, the user may want to copy the edited/processed image or copy an original image before editing and...
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...
7548633 Data processing apparatus and method, data processing program, and storage medium  
The present invention has an object to provide a data processing apparatus which can perform digital watermark embedding/extraction in accordance with manipulation, editing, and compression. To...
7546466 Decoding of watermarked information signals  
Method and apparatus are described for compensating for time offset in a received signal, so as to correctly align the frame sequence of a received signal to a sequence of transmitted symbols. Each...
7545950 Image processing apparatus and method  
The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus and device intended to temporally modulate a sequence of source images with a modulation image comprising at least one anti-copy...
7545951 Data transmission by watermark or derived identifier proxy  
The present invention relates generally to methods usable with handheld devices (e.g., music players or cell phones) and cell phones. One claim recites a cell phone including: an input or interface...
7545949 Method for setting parameters of a vision detector using production line information  
Disclosed are systems and methods for setting various operating parameters of a vision detector from production line information that can be supplied by a manufacturing technician who is not...
7545952 Image or video display devices  
The present invention relates generally to image or video display devices. For example, there are many devices (e.g., cell phones, video games, calculators, positioning systems and personal...
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...
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...
7542586 Touchless identification system for monitoring hand washing or application of a disinfectant  
A system and method for monitoring hand washing or application of a disinfectant wherein a pattern recognition algorithm executed in a computer compares one or more digitized images of a user going...
7542585 Fire detection and smoke detection method and system based on image processing  
Fire detection and smoke detection use an image capturing device to obtain images from a predetermined area and adopts an RGB (red, green, blue) color model based chromatic and disorder measurement...
7542587 Content processing methods using reversible watermarking  
The ability to remove a watermark from an encoded image opens the possibility of various novel applications. Several such applications are detailed. One employs a reversible watermark in...
7539325 Documents and methods involving multiple watermarks  
Two or more digital watermarks are embedded in a document. In one implementation the digital watermarks include characteristics that are chosen so that the watermarks will be affected in different...
7536053 Method and apparatus for the correction of nonlinear field of view distortion of a digital imaging system  
Nonlinear distortions of imaging optics within a computer vision system are quantified as corrective values within a viewing window defined by a pixel array. A test artifact is displaced within an...
7536026 Image processing apparatus and method  
It is required to protect the copyrights and the like of partial images which form respective parts of an image obtained by reading an image, exchanged using a print as a medium, by an image...
7536025 Process, system, or method for the determination of the percentage of area of a parcel of land available for development or preservation and the production of a report and map therefor on a fixed tangible medium  
A system for the determination of the percentage of area of a parcel of land available for development or preservation which comprises at least one privately gathered data base having at least one...
7536027 Digital content reproduction, data acquisition, metadata management, and digital watermark embedding  
The present invention provides methods, apparatus and systems to embed pointer information for metadata in content using a method that will not delete the information, so that metadata correlated...
7532741 Data hiding in media  
The present invention provides steganographic embedding and detecting techniques, along with related apparatus. One claim recites a signal detector including: an input and an analyzer. The input...
7532739 Image processing apparatus, control method for the image processing apparatus, and storage medium storing computer program for executing the control method of the image processing apparatus  
An image processing apparatus includes a production unit that can produce data by putting original image data into a first region and copy-forgery-inhibited-pattern image data into a second region,...
7532768 Method of estimating an affine relation between images  
A method ( 400 ) is disclosed for estimating an affine relation between a first image and a second image. The first and second images each have at least 4 non-parallel lines therein. The method (...
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...
7532738 Print medium quality adjustment system, inspection watermark medium output device for outputting watermark medium to undergo inspection, watermark quality inspection device, adjusted watermark medium output device, print medium quality adjustment method and inspection watermark medium to undergo inspection  
A print medium quality adjustment system includes an inspection watermark medium output device 11 having an inspection watermark signal generation unit 101 that generates at least one...
7529392 Image processing system and medical examination apparatus for correlating features in medical images  
An image processing system, for correlating shapes in multi-dimensional images including image data processor for estimating a similarity measure including estimating two image signals representing...
7529647 Computing distortion of media signals using embedded data with repetitive structure and log-polar mapping  
A digital watermark detection method uses a matched filtering technique on a log polar re-mapping of a watermarked signal to detect peaks associated with a repetitive structure of a watermark.
7529385 Marking articles using a covert digitally watermarked image  
A marking system that includes forming at least one marking in or on an article, wherein the image formed is not visible to the unaided human observer, and further contains at least one digital...
7529383 Image input apparatus  
An image input apparatus which reconfigures a single reconfigured image from a plurality of low-resolution, object reduced images formed in a specified region on the light detecting element by the...
7529384 Robust hidden data extraction method for scaling attacks  
A product and process for extracting hidden data from a stego-image that has been subjected to scaling attacks are disclosed. The hidden data extraction method of the present invention retains the...
7529941 System and method of retrieving a watermark within a signal  
A system and method of retrieving a watermark in a watermarked signal are disclosed. The watermarked signal comprises odd and even overlapped blocks where the watermark is contained in the even...
7526099 Motion picture data processing device, method, and program  
To provide lossless embedding of a visible watermark in compressed motion picture data. The present invention includes a quantization/dequantization operation part 10 for dequantizing motion...
7525034 Method and apparatus for image interpretation into sound  
A method for interpreting an image into sound is provided and includes scanning an image to provide a plurality of scanned elements which are assigned a value and an associated sound element. The...
7522744 System and method for adaptive bolus chasing computed tomography (CT) angiography  
A method of utilizing bolus propagation and control for contrast enhancement comprises measuring with an imaging device a position of a bolus moving along a path in a biological structure. The...
7522770 Methods and apparatus for automated image correction for digital image acquisition  
Methods and apparatus are provided for automatically correcting colors of a digital image. The methods and apparatus create a first digital image of a target test sheet under a predetermined...
7523018 Hair coloring system  
A system for determining hair color treatment, including a processor. The processor is configured for: receiving as input an initial spectrum of a sample of hair, the initial spectrum having a...
7522765 System and method for localizing imaging devices  
A system and method for localizing imaging devices in a network using images taken by the imaging devices. The relative position and orientation of a network of camera-equipped communications...
7519819 Layered security in digital watermarking  
A media object authentication system uses layers of security features based on digital watermarks embedded in media objects. The system generates a first digital watermark with a message payload...
7515711 Methods and apparatuses for encrypting video and for decrypting video  
An encryption technique and a decryption technique that are applied to video data that is encrypted on a predetermined domain of compressed video data are disclosed. For example, JPEG2000...
7515730 Progressive image quality control using watermarking  
The ability to remove a watermark from an encoded image by reversible watermarking opens the possibility of various novel applications. Several such applications are detailed. One permits different...
7515733 Methods and arrangements employing digital content items  
Methods and arrangements for identifying content, and employing such identification, are detailed. One method embeds a plural-bit digital watermark into content, but first checks to see if the...
7515731 Digital watermark embedding apparatus and digital watermark detecting apparatus  
A digital watermark embedding apparatus includes a detector detecting a signal characteristic of at least one of an input image signal and the output image signal, and a controller controlling an...
7515732 Method of embedding color information in printed documents using watermarking  
A method for enhancing color fidelity in multi-reproduction, includes scanning an image to be reproduced, wherein the image contains an invisible digital watermark including color information;...
7515734 Device, system and method for determining compliance with a positioning instruction by a figure in an image  
A device, system and method for calculating location coordinates for a figure in an image that is illuminated by visible light, comparing such location coordinates to location coordinates of a...
7512248 Method of incorporating a secondary image into a primary image  
A method of incorporating a second image into a primary image. A vectorial grid is created that is adapted for mapping on to the primary image. A deformation is applied to the grid using data from...
7508995 Method and apparatus for monitoring electronic transmission of an image  
In a monitoring method and image processing apparatus for monitoring electronic transmission of an image, an image detector supplies an input image to a processing circuit that caches it in an...