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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
7505616 System and method for reconstructing a diagnostic trajectory  
A system and method for reconstructing a diagnostic trajectory.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
7496210 System and method for steganalysis  
Briefly, embodiments of a method and system for steganalysis are disclosed.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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;...
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...
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...
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...
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...