System, method, and product for information embedding using an ensemble of non-intersecting embedding generators
US6314192A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 21, 1998 |
| Grant date | Nov 6, 2001 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 21, 2018 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06T2201/0202
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A system, method, and product are provided to (1) embed a watermark signal into a host signal, thereby generating a composite signal, (2) optionally enable the composite signal to be transmitted over a communication channel, and (3) optionally extract the watermark signal from the transmitted composite signal. In one embodiment, the invention is a method for watermarking a host signal with a watermark signal. The watermark signal is made up of watermark-signal components, each having one of two or more watermark-signal values. The host signal is made up of host-signal components, each having one of two or more host-signal values. The method includes: (1) generating two or more embedding generators, each corresponding to a single watermark-signal value of a co-processed group of one or more watermark-signal components; (2) having each embedding generator generate two or more embedding values, the total of which is referred to as an original embedding-value set such that at least one embedding value generated by one embedding generator is different than any embedding value generated by another embedding generator; and (3) setting a host-signal value of one or more selected host-signa…
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