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Digital watermarking method and apparatus for audio data

US6839673B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateMar 29, 2000
Grant dateJan 4, 2005
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Expiry dateMar 29, 2020

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG10L25/27
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Digital watermarking of digital audio is performed by Fourier transforming digital audio data, wavelet transforming the magnitude components of the Fourier transform coefficients of the digital audio data, discrete cosine transforming a watermark signal, multiplying the sign of the wavelet transform coefficients of the magnitude components to the coefficients of the discrete cosine transformed watermark signal, adding the coefficients of the Fourier transformed digital audio data and the adjusted discrete cosine transformed watermark signal, and inverse wavelet transforming the audio signal's coefficients before inverse Fourier transformation to finally generate watermark-embedded audio signal data.

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