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Data hiding and extraction methods

US6005643A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 2, 1997
Grant dateDec 21, 1999
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Expiry dateSep 2, 2017

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N21/8358
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method for embedding additional information into a video movie without substantially having an influence on the compression efficiency of the video movie and also without substantially causing degradation of the picture quality. Particularly, the method of the present invention involves specifying at least one embedding region in the frame of the video movie for embedding information, and determining a type of interframe prediction of the embedding region in correspondence with information to be embedded by referring to an embedding rule where a content of data to be embedded is caused to correspond to the type of interframe prediction of the embedding region. It is desirable that the frame in which the embedding region exists is a bidirectionally predictive-coded frame.

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