Data processing apparatus, data processing method, and program
US7062068B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 7, 2002 |
| Grant date | Jun 13, 2006 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 7, 2023 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04N2005/91364
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A copy control technique using digital watermark information, which makes it possible to prevent a content from being erroneously subjected to a copy control process according to wrong copy control information at a content-to-content transition. Copy control information in the form of digital watermark information (WM) is embedded in a content to control copying of the content in accordance with the embedded copy control information. A content-to-content transition is detected by detecting a change in a content state, such as a change in image luminance, or a change in copy control information associated with a content, or is detected on the basis of a flag, a descriptor, or channel switching. In response to detection of a content-to-content transition, a reset signal is output to a WM analyzer to reset current copy control information into a “undefined” state, so that copy control is performed in a mode such as a copy-free mode assigned to the “undefined” state.
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