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Hybrid digital watermarking for video authentication

US7409556B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateNov 19, 2003
Grant dateAug 5, 2008
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Expiry dateApr 25, 2026

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N2005/91335
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A hybrid digital watermarking system for video authentication includes an authenticated acquisition subsystem for digitally watermarking video data and a video management subsystem in signal communication with the authenticated acquisition subsystem for verifying the digitally watermarked video data, where the authenticated acquisition subsystem may include a watermarking device for applying each of an identity signature and a control signature to the video data within a hybrid digital watermark, and the hybrid digital watermark may achieve progressively varying robustness by means of error-correcting signature coding and/or rate-distortion guided bit embedding.

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