G06T 1/0021
Image watermarking
Official title: {Image watermarking}
G06T1/0021 (Image watermarking) appears on 3,668 US grants and 3,715 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06T- Granted patents
- 3,668
- Published applications
- 3,715
- Assignees
- 877
- Inventors
- 4,209
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2002 | 86 | 252 |
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| 2004 | 170 | 194 |
| 2005 | 116 | 232 |
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| 2012 | 209 | 116 |
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| 2023 | 92 | 77 |
| 2024 | 93 | 93 |
| 2025 | 94 | 79 |
| 2026 | 53 | 65 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Neural network digital signature encoding method, device and corresponding computer program6 Oct 2026US 12,754,991 B2Thales
- Training generative models on feature-level relationships22 Sep 2026US 12,743,736 B1The Huntington National Bank
- Digital (on screen) monochromatic watermark22 Sep 2026US 12,743,737 B2Xerox Corporation
- Metadata watermarking for ‘nested spectating’22 Sep 2026US 12,743,738 B2Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
- Use of steganographically-encoded time information as basis to control implementation of dynamic content modification22 Sep 2026US 12,744,963 B2The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
- Parallel watermarking of video content1 Oct 2026US 2026/0301105 A1Starz Entertainment, LLC
- System and method with machine learning framework for system forensics1 Oct 2026US 2026/0301444 A1
- Use of Steganographically-Encoded Time Information as Basis to Control Implementation of Dynamic Content Modification1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303902 A1The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
- Training generative models on feature-level relationships24 Sep 2026US 2026/0289716 A1The Huntington National Bank
- Determining detectability measures for images with encoded signals24 Sep 2026US 2026/0289717 A1Digimarc Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Systems and methods for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection1,270US 5,982,891 AIntertrust Technologies Corporation · 1999
- Systems and methods for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection1,156US 5,910,987 AIntertrust Technologies Corporation · 1999
- Methods for surveying dissemination of proprietary empirical data1,132US 5,862,260 ADigimarc Corporation · 1999
- Computer system linked by using information in data objects1,131US 6,122,403 ADigimarc Corporation · 2000
- Trusted and secure techniques, systems and methods for item delivery and execution944US 6,185,683 B2Intertrust Technologies Corporation · 2001