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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...
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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...
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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...
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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;...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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7508954 |
System and method of generic symbol recognition and user authentication using a communication device with imaging capabilities
A system and method for recognizing symbols and identifying users or services, including the displaying of an image or video clip on a display device in which identification information is embedded...
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7508944 |
Using classification techniques in digital watermarking
A classification scheme assigns samples of the watermarked media to classes based on a classification criteria indicating a likely presence of a watermarked signal. Once classified, the scheme...
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7508955 |
Authentication of objects using steganography
Steganographic methods for encoding auxiliary data into a host signal are used to authenticate physical and electronic objects. One claim recites an object comprising: a first graphic provided on...
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7505604 |
Method for detection and recognition of fog presence within an aircraft compartment using video images
Detecting video phenomena, such as fire in an aircraft cargo bay, includes receiving a plurality of video images from a plurality of sources, compensating the images to provide enhanced images,...
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7505616 |
System and method for reconstructing a diagnostic trajectory
A system and method for reconstructing a diagnostic trajectory.
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7505179 |
Print controlling apparatus, method, and storage medium for generating print image data of a particular color space representing a print object document in the form of a plurality of color components
A print control apparatus which performs printing process with a printer using coloring agents of the plurality of color components includes: an identification image controller that controls to add...
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7505606 |
Detecting doctored images using camera response normality and consistency
Embodiments of the invention determine whether an image has been altered. Sets of patches are selected in the image, and corresponding inverse response functions are provided to a support vector...
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7505605 |
Portable devices and methods employing digital watermarking
Media objects are transformed into active, connected objects via identifiers embedded into them or their containers. In the context of a user's playback experience, a decoding process extracts the...
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7502488 |
Image processing apparatus, program, and storage medium that can selectively vary embedding specification of digital watermark data
An image processing apparatus includes a wavelet transform unit that performs compression encoding in a hierarchical manner by performing discrete wavelet transform on pixel values for each of one...
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7502489 |
Geographically watermarked imagery and methods
An image is digitally watermarked to convey position data about the subject of the image, such as latitude, longitude and elevation of a point depicted therein. Additional information, e.g., about...
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7499565 |
Method of watermarking for binary images
A technology of digital watermarking for binary images (including documents) is provided, which is capable of adjusting the amount of information to be embedded while avoiding the deterioration of...
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7499567 |
Electronic device and information processing apparatus and control method thereof, and computer program and computer-readable storage medium
Parameters to be set in an electronic device are generated with a simple operation, and further, safely in terms of security. For this purpose, upon generation of setting parameters for an...
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7499566 |
Methods for steganographic encoding media
The present invention relates to digital watermarking and steganographic embedding. In one implementation a method is provided to help associate usage rights with media. The usage rights are used...
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7499568 |
Method, apparatus, and program for image processing capable of preventing, detecting and correcting image alteration, and a medium storing the program
A method, apparatus, and program for image processing are provided to perform operations for generating an encoded image, detecting image alteration on the encoded image, and regenerating an...
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7499564 |
Methods for decoding watermark data from audio, and controlling audio devices in accordance therewith
Methods for decoding auxiliary control information from audio, and using same to control an audio appliance. Various arrangements are disclosed. One method correlates a filtered version of the...
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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...
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7496210 |
System and method for steganalysis
Briefly, embodiments of a method and system for steganalysis are disclosed.
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7496226 |
Multi-camera inspection of underwater structures
A method, system and apparatus for viewing and imaging an underwater structure from a submersible platform, navigating along the structure and constructing a map of the structure in the forms of a...
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7492920 |
Method for robust asymmetric modulation spatial marking with spatial sub-sampling
Example embodiments relate to a method for applying a special mark, that is invisible to the naked eye, on a medium. That is, the example embodiments provide a method for generating and applying on...
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7493489 |
System and method for authentication of JPEG image data
A system and method for authentication of JPEG image data enables the recipient to ascertain whether the received image file originated from a known identified source or whether the contents of the...
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7492921 |
System and method for detecting and ranking images in order of usefulness based on vignette score
A system and method for detecting useful images and for ranking images in order of usefulness based on a vignette score describing how closely each one resembles a “vignette,” or a central...
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7492923 |
Method and device for detecting the occupancy state of a seat
A method and a device for detecting the occupancy state of a seat, e.g., in a vehicle, and for use in activating a restraint mechanism allocated to the seat, as a function of the occupancy state,...
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7492934 |
Methods and apparatus for model-based detection of structure in view data
In one aspect, a method and apparatus for determining a value for at least one parameter of a configuration of a model associated with structure of which view data has been obtained including...
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7492922 |
Automated verification of copyrighted digital images
A computer-assisted method for detecting copyright protection in digital images receives a digital image, searches for capture device information associated with the digital image, calculates one...
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7490779 |
Reading apparatus, information processing system and antiforgery method
A reading apparatus includes an exposure system, a light receiving system, a decoding section and a determination section. The exposure system applies light to a code image printed on a medium. The...
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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...
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7489800 |
Image processing method
Sub-information is embedded in main image information having undergone thinning-out processing and rotation processing. The resultant composite image information in which the sub-information is...
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7489796 |
Electronic watermark embedding device, electronic watermark detection device, method thereof, and program
A digital watermark embedding apparatus for embedding digital watermark information by superimposing macroblock patterns on an image is disclosed. The digital watermark embedding apparatus: spreads...
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7489801 |
Encoding and decoding signals for digital watermarking
This disclosure describes methods and systems for encoding a digital watermark into and/or detecting a digital watermark from a host (or media) signal such as audio, video or imagery. One...
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7489799 |
Method and apparatus for image reconstruction using data decomposition for all or portions of the processing flow
A method and apparatus for processing raw image data to create processed images. Raw image data is acquired. The raw image data is decomposed by a data decomposer into N subsets of raw image data....
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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...
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7486827 |
Efficient and robust algorithm for video sequence matching
A two-step matching technique is embodied in a video-copy-detection algorithm that detects copies of video sequences. The two-step matching technique uses ordinal signatures of frame partitions and...
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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...
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7487356 |
Digital watermarking system using scrambling method
An encoding apparatus that embeds a watermark in host data is provided. A multiplexer generates a plurality of bit sequences by adding initial data to the head of the watermark. A scrambler...
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7487524 |
Method and apparatus for presenting content of images
The present invention is a method for presenting the content of images, in which, out of images that include at least moving images and can be segmented into a plurality of scenes, groups of two or...
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7486799 |
Methods for monitoring audio and images on the internet
An Internet monitoring method identifies content on the Internet through embedded data and pattern matching, determines the owners of the content and notifies the owners of this use of their audio...
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7483546 |
Device and method for handling installation and testing instructions
The invention relates to a device and method for creating, providing and documenting assembly and test instructions comprising the following components;
an acquisition device ( 1 ), an...
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7483559 |
Method and apparatus for deblurring mask images
The invention comprises processes for determining and applying a deblurring filter that reduces inspection system distortion, of mask inspection images, by compensating for the non-uniform...
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7483547 |
Perceptual modeling of media signals for data hiding
The present invention relates generally to steganography and data hiding. In one embodiment a method is provided including obtaining a media signal; determining characteristics of the media signal;...
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7480393 |
Optimized digital watermarking functions for streaming data
In one aspect of the invention, a digital watermark detector comprises a memory buffer for managing an incoming stream of data. The detector includes logic for transferring overlapping data blocks...
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7477758 |
System and method for detecting objects in vehicular compartments
System and method for detecting the presence of contents of a vehicular compartment in which a detector system generates an output signal indicative of the absence of an object in the compartment...
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7478240 |
Method and system for capture of location specific media related information and delivery through communications network
An improved method and system for two way communications between multimedia providers and subscribers utilizes encryption technology for embedding a watermark containing specific data, or a pointer...
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7478242 |
Increasing integrity of watermarks using robust features
This invention relates to a method of embedding a watermark pattern with a payload in a time dependent information signal, comprising the steps of determining a number of robust signatures in the...
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