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Digital watermark embedding apparatus, digital watermark extraction apparatus, and methods thereof

US7209572B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJun 9, 2003
Grant dateApr 24, 2007
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Expiry dateOct 12, 2025

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06T2201/0062
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A document image undergoes document analysis to obtain circumscribing rectangles of characters (S601), and two distances between non-neighboring circumscribing rectangles from the head of the document are respectively calculated as d1 and d2 (S603). If information to be embedded is 1, one or a combination of a process for changing a parameter associated with the size of a circumscribing rectangle and a process for changing a parameter associated with the position of a circumscribing rectangle is executed to satisfy d1>d2 (S605). If information to be embedded is 0, one or a combination of the above two parameter change processes is executed to satisfy d1<d2 (S606).

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