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Optical disk having electronic watermark, reproducing apparatus thereof and copy protecting method using the same

US6490683B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateSep 8, 1998
Grant dateDec 3, 2002
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Expiry dateSep 8, 2018

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11B20/1833
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A copy protecting method for an optical medium includes a writing step of writing watermark data as ECC data in a data storage area of a disk having a certain data stored therein.

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