Image analysis – Image compression or coding – Transform coding
Patent
1998-07-17
2000-11-28
Tadayon, Bijan
Image analysis
Image compression or coding
Transform coding
382232, 382100, G06K 900
Patent
active
061545716
ABSTRACT:
A watermarking procedure that is applicable to images, audio, video and multimedia data to be watermarked divides the data to be watermarked into a set of n.times.n blocks, such as the 8.times.8 blocks of MPEG. The same watermark signal can be distributed throughout the set of blocks in a large variety of ways. This allows the insertion algorithm to be changed without affecting the decoders. The decoding procedure first sums together the DCT coefficients of N sets of 8.times.8 blocks to form a set of N summed 8.times.8 blocks and then extracts the watermark from the summed block. Since the sum of the DCT blocks is equal to the DCT of the sum of the intensity blocks, efficient decoding can occur in both the spatial and frequency domains. The symmetric nature of the decoding process allows geometric distortions to be handled in the spatial domain and other signal distortions to be handled in the frequency domain. Moreover, insertion of a watermark signal into image data and the subsequent extraction of the watermark from watermarked image data which has been subject to distortion between the times of insertion and extraction involves the insertion of multiple watermarks designed to survive predefined distortions of the image data, such as panscan or letterbox mode transformations. Alternatively, a registration pattern in the image data, after the image data containing the registration pattern is subject to an unknown distortion, is used to compensate for distortion of the watermarked image data.
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Cox Ingemar J.
Miller Matthew L.
Oami Ryoma
Feig Philip J.
Nakhjavan Shervin
NEC Corporation
NEC Research Institute Inc.
Tadayon Bijan
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