Cryptography – Video cryptography – Copy protection or prevention
Reexamination Certificate
2007-05-07
2009-11-17
Lanier, Benjamin E (Department: 2432)
Cryptography
Video cryptography
Copy protection or prevention
C380S221000, C380S224000, C380S226000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07620178
ABSTRACT:
Enhancements to a video anticopying process that causes an abnormally low amplitude video signal to be recorded on an illegal copy. In one version, positive going pulses are added to the video signal. The enhancements in one version introduce into the overscan portion of the television picture, just prior to the horizontal or vertical sync signals but in active video, a negative going waveform that appears to the television receiver or videotape recorder to be a sync signal, thereby causing an early horizontal or vertical retrace. One version provides (in the right overscan portion of the picture), a checker pattern of alternating gray and black areas which causes the TV set on which the illegal copy is played to horizontally retrace earlier than normal in selected lines with a consequential horizontal shift of the picture information on those lines. This substantially degrades picture viewability. In another version a gray pattern at the bottom overscan portion of the picture causes vertical picture instability. In another version selected horizontal sync signals are narrowed, causing irregular vertical retraces. Also provided is apparatus for removing or attenuating these enhancements from the video signal, to allow copying.
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Corcoran Jeremy J.
Knox Alistair J.
Quan Ronald
Ryan John O.
Wonfor Peter J.
Lanier Benjamin E
Macrovision Corporation
Morrison & Foerster / LLP
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