Video Watermarking Patents (Class 386/260)
  • Patent number: 11254159
    Abstract: A method for checking an authenticity feature having an optical storage phosphor, to an apparatus for checking, an authenticity feature and to a value document having an authenticity feature. The authenticity feature has an optical storage phosphor. The optical storage phosphor may be subjected to at least one query sequence, respectively comprising at least a first readout process and a second readout process. Respectively at least a first and a second readout measurement value are captured, which respectively are based on the detection of an optical emission in response to the respectively first or the respectively second associated readout process. A readout measurement value time series is respectively associated with the at least one query sequence, and is respectively associated with the query sequence for determining a dynamic behaviour from the readout measurement value time series under the respectively associated query sequence is evaluated in a further step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: GIESECKE+DEVRIENT CURRENCY TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventor: Martin Stark
  • Patent number: 11140378
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a 360-degree video data processing method performed by a 360-degree video reception apparatus, the method comprising: receiving 360-degree video data, obtaining information on an encoded picture and metadata from the 360-degree video data, decoding at least a part of a picture based on the information on the encoded picture and rendering at least a part of the decoded picture based on the metadata, and the decoded picture is a composition picture and the metadata includes indication information related to whether the composition picture is identical to a projected picture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jangwon Lee, Sejin Oh
  • Patent number: 10917670
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a data processing device and a data processing method that can realize further flexible operation of digital television broadcasting. A data processing device placed in a facility related to broadcasting station and a data processing device placed in a transmitter station exchange data, as transmission data transmitted via a communication line, which is obtained by processing a stream including control information, a component, and variable-length information and adding variable-length information existence information indicating a presence or absence of variable-length information. The present technology can be applied as a transmission system between stations, for example, between a broadcasting station and a transmitter station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Takahashi, Yuichi Hirayama
  • Patent number: 10575056
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include a system, computer readable medium, and method for recording and distributing video content based on DRM parameters. For example, in one embodiment, a set-top box is disclosed that includes a processor for executing a set of instructions. The set-top box also includes memory in communication with the processor. The processor is configured to execute the set of instructions to receive user input to record a video content; determine DRM parameters associated with the video content, wherein the DRM parameters are established by at least of a content owner and a communications service provider, the DRM parameters indicating designated portions of the video content that is recordable; and record the video content based on the DRM parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventors: David E. Emerson, Gary W. LaFreniere, Kelsyn D. S. Rooks, Sr., Michael S. Goergen
  • Patent number: 9978112
    Abstract: Some implementations may provide a method that includes: receiving, at a mobile device, data encoding a first digital watermark present on the identification document; extracting a first portion of personally identifiable information encoded by a spatial luminance pattern associated with the first digital watermark; receiving, at a mobile device, data encoding a second digital watermark present on the identification document; extracting a second portion of personally identifiable information encoded by a spatial luminance pattern associated with the first digital watermark; and validating the identification document based on at least one of the first portion of personally identifiable information or the second portion of personally identifiable information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: MorphoTrust USA, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Poder, Robert Andrew Eckel
  • Patent number: 9113231
    Abstract: A method comprises accessing encoded video data; accessing a list of watermarks to the encoded video data; determining syntax elements for current blocks of video data and syntax elements of currents blocks with the watermarks; removing watermarks that cause visible artifacts based on differences in the syntax elements between the current blocks and current blocks with watermarks, thereby creating filtered list of acceptable watermarks. The method can further include determining coding variable ranges for the current block and current block with watermarks from the list; comparing the coding variable ranges for the current blocks and current blocks with watermarks from the list; and filtering out watermarks that yield coding variable ranges outside the coding variable ranges of the current blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Dekun Zou, Jeffrey Adam Bloom, Shan He
  • Patent number: 9014540
    Abstract: A local media player in network communication with a remote storage system stores a portion of content. It then compares the portion of content stored on the local media player with content stored on the remote storage system to determine if the portion of content is duplicated on the remote storage system. If so, the portion of content stored on the local media player is replaced with a pointer to a duplicate portion of content stored on the remote storage system. The portion of content is played back by the local media player at least in part by receiving the duplicate portion of content from the remote storage system if the portion of content has been replaced by a pointer, or by accessing the portion of content stored on the local media player if the portion of content has not been replaced by a pointer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Time Warner Cable Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: Chris Cholas, Eric D. Hybertson
  • Publication number: 20150043891
    Abstract: A second screen system comprises a first screen that renders a first content comprising watermarks of a first type and watermarks of a second type. The watermarks of the first type are captured by a second screen that reacts to these watermarks. The second screen displays information to a user and receives user input. The second screen also watermarks a second content with watermarks of the second type and renders the second content. A third device captures watermarks of the second type in both the first content and the second content. Since the watermarks embedded by the second screen can depend on the user's actions, the third device can indirectly react to the user's actions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventor: Eric DIEHL
  • Patent number: 8938157
    Abstract: A digital chip system, digital chip, methods for embedding data and methods for extracting data are provided. In some embodiments, a digital chip includes: a watermark encoder digital chip configured to receive one or more watermark bits and generate a stego-video; and a watermark decoder digital chip configured to receive the stego-video and extract the one or more watermark bits from the stego-video. In some embodiments, the digital chip also includes: a video decoder controller digital chip configured to receive raw video data, wherein the raw video data is received from a video decoder; a configuration controller digital chip configured to configure the video decoder; a memory management unit digital chip configured to store at least one of the raw video frame, the raw video data or the stego-video; and an Ethernet controller unit digital chip configured to store or access the raw video or stego-video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: City University of Hong Kong
    Inventor: Lee Ming Cheng
  • Patent number: 8881190
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus for attacking digital watermarks are provided. A system or apparatus may include at least one interface and at least one processing component. The at least one interface may be configured to receive digital content output by a service reception device. The service reception device may be configured to receive the digital content from a service provider prior to the receipt of the digital content by the at least one interface. The at least one processing component may be configured to attack a digital watermark incorporated into the digital content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Cox Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Keith Alan Rothschild, Julius Bert Bagley
  • Patent number: 8861931
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for reproducing a video using a watermark inserting function. The method of inserting a watermark into a video being reproduced, using an on-screen-display (OSD) data mixer included in a video reproduction apparatus, includes determining a watermark pattern indicating information on reproduction of the original video. The watermark pattern is converted into watermark data capable of being recognized by an OSD data mixer and synthesized with the video being reproduced, using the OSD data mixer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Choong-hoon Lee, Jin-mok Kim, Ji-young Kim
  • Patent number: 8838977
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and computer program products facilitate the application of a content use policy based on watermarks that are embedded in a content. Watermark extraction and content screening operations, which can include the application of content usage enforcement actions, may be organized such that some or all of the operations can be conducted at different times by different devices. The watermark extraction results can be stored in a secure location and accessed by other devices at different times. These operations can be conducted by one or more trusted devices that reside in a home network. The home network can also include a gateway device that can coordinate the operations of the various network devices and/or delegate the various watermark extraction and content screening operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Verance Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph M. Winograd, Rade Petrovic, Jian Zhao
  • Patent number: 8837909
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are described for modifying an analogue video signal to impair its conversion to a digital signal by an analogue to digital converter. The resulting modified signal may prevent the operation of the analogue to digital converter altogether, or even if a digital signal can be output and recorded, may result in a signal which is difficult to view due to a reduction in quality on playback. The modifications made to the signal include altering the amplitude of the horizontal synchronization pulses in the original signal, and/or modifying the level of the back porch, or the region of the signal adjacent the back porch. Additionally, methods are contemplated for the use of specific response models for target analogue to digital converters, and display devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: DCS Copy Protection Ltd.
    Inventors: Baolin Tan, Mazen Abdul-Hamed Abdin, Maotai Hu
  • Publication number: 20140248039
    Abstract: In general, embodiments of the invention include methods and apparatuses for securing otherwise unsecured computer audio and video subsystems. Embodiments of the invention perform watermarking of video and/or audio data streams output by a computer system. Additional security features that are included in embodiments of the invention include fingerprinting, snooping, capturing streams for local or remote analytics or archiving, and mixing of secure system content with local audio and video content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2013
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Inventors: Joshua PORTEN, Sofin RASKIN, Michael WANG, Shaoan CHIN, Alexander INDENBAUM
  • Patent number: 8824859
    Abstract: A method for data display includes storing an identification code and receiving encoded video content for playback. The encoded video content is decoded so as to output a series of video frames while modulating a background level of the video frames in the series according to the identification code. Related systems and methods are also included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Cisco Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Zeev Geyzel, Daniel Ratner
  • Patent number: 8812852
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a request to deliver a piece of digital content to a recipient is received. In response to the request, a datum is embedded in an equivalent piece of digital content that identifies the recipient. The equivalent piece of digital content is then delivered to the recipient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Donald Joseph Molaro
  • Patent number: 8799659
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and computing device for modifying a first channel portion of a digital media data file to include at least a first primary watermark. A second channel portion of the digital media data file is modified to include at least a first secondary watermark, wherein the first secondary watermark is the complement of the first primary watermark.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Venugopal Srinivasan, Atul Puri
  • Patent number: 8769293
    Abstract: A system and method for rights protection of a dataset that includes multiple trajectory objects includes determining an intensity power for embedding a watermarking key in a data trajectory. The data trajectory is modified to embed a watermarking key at the intensity power such that the intensity power guarantees an original pair-wise relationship between distance-based neighboring objects before and after embedding of the key such that a modified trajectory provides a watermarked version of the data trajectory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michail Vlachos, Philip Shi-Lung Yu
  • Publication number: 20140161420
    Abstract: A novel process and system for flexibly adding supplemental digital program content such as, for example, transactional advertising content, games, polls, contests, interactive music videos, and e-commerce content generally and the like, into pre-prepared digital media files, such as an MP3 audio file or the like, for playback by digital playback apparatus, wherein the pre-prepared media file is modified by embedding therein executable code representing such supplemental program content, and enabling the playback apparatus to decode and execute the presentation of the supplemental program material as an addition to the playback of the pre-prepared media file content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Inventors: Thomas W. Meyer, Josslyn M. Meyer
  • Patent number: 8745651
    Abstract: Auditing systems and methods detect access authorization of a media device for a service during an audit. An exemplary embodiment receives an audit trigger at a media device communicating the service to a media presentation device, determines whether the media device is authorized to communicate the service to the media presentation device, and communicates a security watermark from the media device to the media presentation device. The security watermark is displayed on a display of the media presentation device and indicates authorization to access the service to an auditor performing the audit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: EchoStar Technologies L.L.C.
    Inventor: Jason Anguiano
  • Publication number: 20140140682
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for identifying a video object using digital fingerprints. The digital fingerprints are generated from information extracted from the video object including encoded video. The digital fingerprints can be calculated in a manner that permits identification of both the video object and operational characteristics of the video object based on matching calculated digital fingerprints with known fingerprints of known video objects. Systems and methods are described that allow a DVD to be uniquely identified and identify whether the DVD is original, copied or pirated. Systems and methods are described for computing digital fingerprints from strings of bits in which certain additional data is optionally embedded. Systems and methods are described that permit media players to access known signatures of known video objects maintained on one or more databases and to identify video objects presented for playing on the media player.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: VOBILE, INC
    Inventors: Yangbin Wang, Lei Yu
  • Patent number: 8718446
    Abstract: A system comprising at least one processor, and computer executable instructions readable by the at least one processor and operative to include at least one digital watermark in at least one piece of video content, wherein said digital watermark is invisible to the naked eye in an original recording of the at least one piece of video content but is visible to the naked eye in a recorded copy of the at least one piece of video content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Inventor: Isaac S. Daniel
  • Patent number: 8712094
    Abstract: A digital watermark embedding apparatus includes an interface unit which acquires video data and digital watermark information, and a processing unit which embeds the digital watermark information into the video data. The processing unit is adapted to: determine the position of a watermark pattern so that the watermark pattern moves with time according to the value of a symbol contained in the digital watermark information within a first moving range that contains at least a portion of a reference region on each image, and so that the average pixel value of the reference region overlapped with the watermark pattern varies in a periodic fashion as the watermark pattern moves; and correct the value of each pixel contained in a region where the reference region and the watermark pattern overlap each other by using the value of a corresponding one of the pixels contained in the watermark pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Taizo Anan, Kensuke Kuraki, Shohei Nakagata, Jun Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20130343725
    Abstract: A correlation-based system for watermarking continuous digital media at the system application level. It is a post-compression process for watermarking where no a priori knowledge of the underlying compression algorithm is required. Per each compressed media frame, a current unique digital signature is generated based on the data from the current compressed frame plus the digital signature that has been previously generated. The signature thus generated is then used in conjunction with the next compressed frame to generate the next unique digital signature. All digital signatures are correlated according to the above process until a “reset” signal is issued. A new chain of correlated digital signatures is produced by the system with a pre-determined initial signature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2013
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Inventor: LAWRENCE N. GINSBERG
  • Patent number: 8611727
    Abstract: A process and facility supports recipient-specific customization of mass-duplicated tapes. Video from a master tape is passed through a VBI encoder whose output feeds two or more overlay units, each associated with a tape recorder. Recipient-specific watermarking instructions and address information for each tape are fed to the VBI encoder where they are encoded into the VBI of the video. Each overlay unit reads the VBI and decodes the address, and if relevant for that unit, applies the overlays to the video, which is recorded by its associated recording deck. Optionally, each tape and overlay unit includes a barcode that is scanned into a database where associations between tapes and the overlays are stored. Alternatively, high-density barcode labels that include the overlay instructions are printed and applied to tapes. The barcodes are scanned into the overlay units and applied following the receipt of a timecode or other trigger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Home Box Office, Inc.
    Inventor: Craig D. Cuttner
  • Patent number: 8559073
    Abstract: A document reading device (1) comprises a mounting surface (5) on which a page to be read (9) of a passport (7) is placed, a camera (13) for taking an image of the page to be read (9), an illumination light source (15) for radiating illumination light that will be reflected on the page to be read (9), and an ultraviolet light source (41) for radiating ultraviolet light to activate a fluorescent material on the page to be read (9). The illumination light source (15) is located at a position corresponding to a first edge (73) perpendicular to a binding edge (71) on the page to be read (9) and radiates illumination light in the direction intersecting with the first edge (73). The ultraviolet light source (41) is located at a position corresponding to a second edge (75) parallel to the binding edge (71) and arranged to radiate ultraviolet light in the direction intersecting with the second edge (75). The illumination light source (15) includes an infrared light source (21) and a white light source (31).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya Mukawa, Kazuki Saitou
  • Patent number: 8509600
    Abstract: A method for detecting whether query video data appears in a reference video, comprising determining a measure of depth from a portion of the query video data, comparing the measure against a measure of depth for the reference video to perform a depth match and, if a match is determined; comparing a visual signature derived from the query video data against a visual signature of the reference video to perform a visual match to determine a measure representing the likelihood that the query video data derives from the reference video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Qatar Foundation
    Inventors: Mohamed M. Hefeeda, Nagmeh F. Khodabakhshi
  • Patent number: 8503861
    Abstract: A personal media player (PMP) uses a digital media processing system—comprising a video rendering subsystem, a music rendering subsystem, and a picture rendering subsystem—to produce moving-video (video), audio (music), still-graphics (picture), and other output rendered from media files ported to the PMP from another source. The PMP further comprises a user interface system, a display unit system, a power source system, and a data port system utilizing Universal Plug and Play functionality, all of which are coupled directly or indirectly to the digital media processing system. The physical components constituting the aforementioned systems and subsystems are then encased in a portable housing unit suitable for hand-held use and ready portability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: John C. Calhoon, Scott J. Fierstein, Scott Manchester
  • Patent number: 8483548
    Abstract: The digital broadcast recording apparatus (100) includes a recording unit (160) for recording digital broadcast, a detection unit (170) for detecting a packet containing information regarding a portion permitted to be recorded from a stream of a program prohibited from being recorded in the digital broadcast, and a control unit (140) for controlling, when the recording unit (160) records the program prohibited from being recorded, the recording unit (160) to record the portion permitted to be recorded based on the information contained in the packet detected by the detection unit (170).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventor: Takeshi Yamane
  • Patent number: 8478108
    Abstract: An apparatus determines whether a combination of a certificate type of a content certificate recorded on a source recording medium and a medium type of the source recording medium is a proper combination. If the combination is a proper combination, the apparatus requests a license server, which is connected to the apparatus via a network, to give approval to record content on a target recording medium. If the apparatus is a legitimate DVD recorder, the license server sends to the content recording apparatus a content certificate including on the source recording medium as the certificate type. The apparatus records the content together with the received content certificate on the target recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hiroshi Isozaki, Atsushi Ishihara, Taku Kato, Toru Kambayashi, Shinichi Matsukawa
  • Publication number: 20130097625
    Abstract: System and method for identification of ownership to media objects through analysis of semantic information in the media objects are disclosed Semantic information is a term that can be used to describe aspects of the content of a media object that are apparent to a human viewing or listening to the content One embodiment of the invention includes extracting semantic information from a specified media object, matching said semantic information of the specified media object against known semantic information of known media objects, and taking action based on the result of the companson.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2008
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Inventors: Niels J. Thorwirth, Robert Kulakowski, Thomas Munro
  • Patent number: 8422731
    Abstract: Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, devices and systems associated with video fingerprinting are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Pawan Gupta, P. Mahaboob Khan, Smita Wadhwa
  • Patent number: 8391851
    Abstract: A user gestures with a wireless mobile phone device to control some aspect of its operation, or the operation of a remote system with which the device communicates. Application programs can solicit gestural information through a standardized set of interface protocols (e.g., API functions). One function, for example, solicits a running set of gesture data, and a complementary function discontinues the first function. Other functions solicit device movement data in particular directions. In some arrangements gesture data is sent by the wireless device to a remote system, which may issue a response that is dependent on the received gesture data. This response may also depend on other data obtained by the wireless device (e.g., obtained from an electronic or physical object, or sensed from the environment) and sent to the remote system. The wireless device may have different modes of interacting with users, to accommodate users with greater or lesser proficiency in gestural techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Digimarc Corporation
    Inventors: Geoffrey B. Rhoads, Tony F. Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 8374491
    Abstract: To prevent playback of pirated, non-encrypted video, a DVD-based system examines data read from a DVD disk for MPEG-like characteristics. If such attributes are detected, the data is examined for the presence of a video usage-control watermark. The presence of such watermark indicates that the video should be distributed only in encrypted form, so playback of video from the disk is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Digimarc Corporation
    Inventor: Geoffrey B. Rhoads
  • Patent number: 8369688
    Abstract: The present invention provides an information embedding apparatus that is capable of preventing playback stop of a content that has been shot without intention of misuse. The information embedding apparatus comprises: an acquisition unit operable to acquire the content that is played back along the playback time-line; a watermark generating unit operable to generate the watermarks such that values held by the watermarks vary according to a first rule, the first rule showing that the values should vary according to a sequential order on the playback time-line; and an embedding unit operable to embed two or more of the watermarks into the content while keeping the sequential order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihisa Nakano, Shunji Harada, Masaya Yamamoto, Kaoru Murase, Tomoki Ogawa, Ryoji Suzuki, Hideshi Ishihara
  • Patent number: 8355506
    Abstract: A method for producing scrambled content (FIG. 6A), the method including providing content (600) to be scrambled, identifying a first portion of the content (620), identifying a second portion of the content (630), computing a disguising function of at least part of the first portion (620) of the content and producing a result, and scrambling the second portion (630) of the content, the scrambling being based in part, on the result. Related apparatus and methods are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: NDS Limited
    Inventor: Perry Smith
  • Patent number: 8347099
    Abstract: In the Local Storage (18), a plurality of files, merge management information which specifies a file out of the plurality of files to be used in combination with what is recorded on a Read-Only recording medium, and signature information used for judging the authenticity of the merge management information. The Virtual File System unit (38) judges the authenticity of the merge management information based on the signature information. In the case where the merge management information is judged to be authentic, the Virtual File System unit (38) generates package information which indicates a new file structure obtained by adding the file specified by the merge management information to the file structure of the Read-Only recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Oashi, Keiichi Tanaka, Hidetaka Ohto, Germano Leichsenring
  • Patent number: 8270485
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of watermarking a binary stream resulting from the encoding of a set of coefficients comprising at least one coefficient encoded by predictive coding, called predictively coded coefficient. The method comprises the steps of: a) identifying, in the binary stream, a first binary word representing the predictively coded coefficient; b) computing a modified coefficient from the predictively coded coefficient on the basis of at least one watermarking bit; c) encoding the modified coefficient into a second binary word; and d) replacing in the binary stream the first binary word with the second binary word.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Séverine Baudry, Philippe Nguyen, Noémie Lechable
  • Patent number: 8228987
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of watermarking a binary stream resulting from the encoding of a set of coefficients comprising at least one coefficient encoded by predictive coding, called predictively coded coefficient. The method comprises the steps of: a) identifying, in the binary stream, a first binary word representing the predictively coded coefficient; b) computing a modified coefficient from the predictively coded coefficient on the basis of at least one watermarking bit; c) encoding the modified coefficient into a second binary word; and d) replacing in the binary stream the first binary word with the second binary word.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Séverine Baudry, Philippe Nguyen, Noémie Lechable
  • Publication number: 20120134650
    Abstract: A method for copy protection in which an audiovisual or audio data is divided into a plurality of portions. The plurality of portions is at least partly scrambled and prepared so as to be stored on a record carrier in the scrambled order. This is done so that a physical position on the record carrier, e.g., a sector of the record carrier, where a respective portions of the divided data is stored depends on the scrambled order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: SONY DADC Austria AG
    Inventors: Markus SPITZLINGER, Andreas WINTER, Walter HINTERHOELZL, Peter EISENMANN, Klaus HOLZAPFEL, Dominik ENGEL, Juergen GRUENBERGER
  • Patent number: 8165453
    Abstract: A data reproduction method and apparatus includes first circuitry to produce an information signal from a storage medium. The information signal includes copy control information. Detection circuitry is provided to detect the copy control information. Control circuitry is provided to operate the first circuitry to selectively output the information signal based on the detection result of the detection circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Fukushima, Hiroyuki Kimura, Hiroo Okamoto
  • Patent number: 8155376
    Abstract: The image processor includes: an acquisition unit acquiring a read-out image read out by an image reading apparatus; a detection unit detecting, from the read-out image, an embedded image including a first specified image having a first shape and a second specified image having a second shape; an adding unit adding attribute information to a specified region in the embedded image, in accordance with an appearance ratio of the first specified image in the specified region, and adding attribute information to other region surrounding the specified region, in accordance with an appearance ratio of the first specified image in the other region; and a determination unit determining whether or not the specified region is to be subjected to a predetermined processing using the first specified image based on whether or not the attribute information added to the specified region corresponds to the attribute information added to the other region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mitsugu Kamio
  • Patent number: 8090239
    Abstract: A management server has: an identification-information reproducing unit which reproduces identification information from an optical disk; an invalid-unit intrinsic-information registration section which registers the reproduced identification information; and a restriction-lifting decision section which decides, on the basis of the registered identification information and unit intrinsic information given intrinsically to every recording unit, whether the identification information can be recorded on a master optical disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masaru Yamaoka, Makoto Usui, Toshihisa Nakano
  • Patent number: 8059937
    Abstract: Generally the more effective is the copy protection provided on an optical disc, such as a DVD, the greater is the likelihood that the copy protection will adversely interfere with legitimate uses of the optical disc. It is therefore proposed to include at least one region of subversive data within the content in the data area of an optical disc, and then to prevent access to each such region of subversive data during normal playback of the disc. For a DVD, the subversive data may be incorporated within video objects and/or may be in gaps between files in the DVD_Video zone. It is arranged that there are no navigable paths to the regions of subversive data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Rovi Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Carmen Laura Basile, Jonny Boyd Reckless, Lee Avery, Glenn Allen Siebert, Kordian Jacek Kurowski
  • Patent number: 8032006
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are described for modifying an analogue video signal to impair its conversion to a digital signal by an analogue to digital converter. The resulting modified signal may prevent the operation of the analogue to digital converter altogether, or even if a digital signal can be output and recorded, may result in a signal which is difficult to view due to a reduction in quality on playback. The modifications made to the signal include altering the amplitude of the horizontal synchronization pulses in the original signal, and/or modifying the level of the back porch, or the region of the signal adjacent the back porch. Additionally, methods are contemplated for the use of specific response models for target analogue to digital converters, and display devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: DCS Copy Protection Limited
    Inventors: Baolin Tan, Mazen Abdul-Hamed Abdin, Maotai Hu
  • Publication number: 20110206350
    Abstract: A digital chip system, digital chip, methods for embedding data and methods for extracting data are provided. In some embodiments, a digital chip includes: a watermark encoder digital chip configured to receive one or more watermark bits and generate a stego-video; and a watermark decoder digital chip configured to receive the stego-video and extract the one or more watermark bits from the stego-video. In some embodiments, the digital chip also includes: a video decoder controller digital chip configured to receive raw video data, wherein the raw video data is received from a video decoder; a configuration controller digital chip configured to configure the video decoder; a memory management unit digital chip configured to store at least one of the raw video frame, the raw video data or the stego-video; and an Ethernet controller unit digital chip configured to store or access the raw video or stego-video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2010
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Applicant: CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG
    Inventor: Lee Ming Cheng
  • Patent number: 7996870
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus carries out a process using delivery information delivered through a network. Only divisional delivery information used in the process of an n-time speed and acquired through a network by dividing the delivery information when the process is carried out at the n-time speed (where n>1) is acquired. Confirmation information used in confirming whether or not the divisional delivery information thus acquired is normally acquired through the network then is acquired, and the confirmation process of whether or not the divisional delivery information is normally acquired is carried out using the confirmation information. A processor carries out the process of the n-time speed using the divisional delivery information when the divisional delivery information is determined to have been normally acquired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tomohiro Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20110142418
    Abstract: A device to measure pressure is disclosed. In one embodiment, the device comprises at least one element comprising two layers (24, 26) separated by a space, wherein a dimension of the space changes over a variable time period in response to a voltage applied across the two layers and a measuring module configured to measure the time period, wherein the time period is indicative of the ambient pressure about the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2009
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Inventors: Shan He, Jeffrey Adam Bloom, Dekun Zou
  • Publication number: 20110142419
    Abstract: A method comprises accessing encoded video data; accessing a list of watermarks to the encoded video data; determining syntax elements for current blocks of video data and syntax elements of currents blocks with the watermarks; removing watermarks that cause visible artifacts based on differences in the syntax elements between the current blocks and current blocks with watermarks, thereby creating filtered list of acceptable watermarks. The method can further include determining coding variable ranges for the current block and current block with watermarks from the list; comparing the coding variable ranges for the current blocks and current blocks with watermarks from the list; and filtering out watermarks that yield coding variable ranges outside the coding variable ranges of the current blocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2009
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Inventors: Dekun Zou, Jeffrey Adam Bloom, Shan He
  • Patent number: 7941487
    Abstract: An electronic mail processing apparatus includes a data receiving section (101) that receives mail data including video data or audio data, a cited data detecting section (103) that detects a cited part of the received video data or audio data as cited data from the mail data received by the data receiving section, and a reproduction control section (104) that controls a reproducing method of the received mail data. The reproduction control section (104) controls the reproduction method so that a reproduction method (for example, reproduction speed) for the cited data is deferent from a reproduction method for data other than the cited data in the received mail data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Tetsuyuki Nakayasu