G06T 1/0042
Fragile watermarking
Official title: {Fragile watermarking, e.g. so as to detect tampering}
G06T1/0042 (Fragile watermarking) appears on 114 US grants and 124 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06T- Granted patents
- 114
- Published applications
- 124
- Assignees
- 66
- Inventors
- 229
- Latest grant
- 16 Jun 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Method and apparatus for protecting digital photos from alteration16 Jun 2026US 12,657,644 B2Signs & Wonders Unlimited, LLC
- Method and device for securing an object and method for authenticating an object4 Nov 2025US 12,463,824 B2
- System and method for encoding and authenticating a digital image28 Jan 2025US 12,211,116 B2Signs & Wonders Unlimited, LLC
- Methods, systems, and devices for rendering a watermark with near perfect infrared colors26 Nov 2024US 12,154,186 B2Xerox Corporation
- Dual watermarking method for trajectory data based on robust watermarking and fragile watermarking29 Oct 2024US 12,131,401 B1Nanjing Normal University
- Method and apparatus for protecting digital photos from alteration27 Aug 2026US 2026/0253159 A1Signs & Wonders Unlimited, LLC
- Method of generating a secured colour image, and method of detecting tampering6 Aug 2026US 2026/0228850 A1Sicpa Holding SA
- System and method for digital signature of image-based check deposits and real-time review thereof3 Jul 2025US 2025/0217897 A1Digital First Holdings LLC
- Semi-fragile neural watermarks for media authentication and countering deepfakes3 Jul 2025US 2025/0217918 A1The Regents of the University of California
- Media provenance certification via fragile watermarking5 Dec 2024US 2024/0403992 A1Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Fragile watermarks for detecting tampering in images339US 6,064,764 ASeiko Epson Corporation · 2000
- Compressed image authentication and verification280US 6,275,599 B1International Business Machines Corporation · 2001
- Low visibility watermark using time decay fluorescence240US 6,718,046 B2Digimarc Corporation · 2004
- Watermarking scheme for image authentication229US 6,285,775 B1The Trustees of the University of Princeton · 2001
- Method and system for transferring content information and supplemental information relating thereto228US 6,209,092 B1U. S. Philips Corporation · 2001