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US 2003/0072037 A1Published application
System and method for imprinting a digital image with an identifier using black metamers
OwnerJon W. Hamiltoninventor
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A system and method for imprinting a digital image with an identifier using black metamers. Black metamers provide an addition to the radiometric signature of the original digital image that is imperceptible to human vision. The identifier may include, but is not limited to, watermarks, fingerprints, textual additions, steganography and identification tags. The digital image is processed and imprinted frame by frame by adding black metamers to the fundamental metamer of selected pixels in a frame. The black metamers imprint the identifier into the digital image without changing the way in which the image is perceived visually. To verify that a copy of a digital image imprinted with an identifier has been made, the suspected copy of the digital image is stripped of all fundamental metamers to reveal only its black metamers. The presence of an identifier within the black metamers is evidence that the suspected copy is in fact a copy of a digital image.
A method of imprinting a digital image with an identifier using black metamers, wherein the digital image comprises pixels and wherein each pixel has associated therewith a fundamental metamer, the method comprising:
A method of acquiring an identifier from a digital image to which the identifier has been imprinted by the addition of a black metamer to the fundamental metamers of selected pixels of the digital image, the method comprising:obtaining the metamers of the selected pixels of the digital image:
A device for imprinting a digital image with an identifier, the device comprising a processor and a memory system, the memory system bearing software instructions adapted to enable the processor to implement the steps of:
A device for determining the presence of an identifer in digital image, the device comprising a processor and a memory system, the memory system bearing software instructions adapted to enable the processor to implement the steps of:
A device for imprinting a digital image with an identifier, the device comprising
A method of sending a steganographic message using a digital image and black metamers, wherein the digital image comprises pixels having associated therewith a fundamental metamer, the method comprising:
A method of receiving a steganographic message using a digital image and black metamers, wherein the digital image comprises selected pixels having associated therewith metamers to which a black metamer has been added so as to imprint the digital image with the steganogrphic message, the method comprising;
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