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US 6,636,617 B1Granted
Method and apparatus for inserting and extracting watermark into and from contents information
AssigneeVictor Company of Japan, Ltd.
InventorsTakayuki Sugahara, Joji Naito
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Abstract
In a method of inserting watermark information into digital data, a specified data value is determined in response to the watermark information. A data-value occurrence-frequency distribution of a predetermined number of samples of the digital data is changed into a modified occurrence-frequency distribution in which the specified data value occurs at a frequency extremely different from frequencies of occurrence of data values other than the specified data value.
Claims14
A method of inserting watermark information into digital data, comprising the steps of:
- determining a specified data value in response to the watermark information;
- and
- changing a data-value occurrence-frequency distribution of a predetermined number of samples of the digital data into a modified occurrence-frequency distribution in which the specified data value occurs at a frequency extremely different from frequencies of occurrence of data values other than the specified data value.
A method of inserting watermark information into digital data, comprising the steps of:
- calculating differences between samples of the digital data to generate difference data representing the calculated differences;
- determining a specified difference data value in response to the watermark information;
- and
- changing a data-value occurrence-frequency distribution of a predetermined number of samples of the difference data into a modified occurrence-frequency distribution in which the specified difference data value occurs at a frequency extremely different from frequencies of occurrence of difference data values other than the specified difference data value.
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A method of inserting watermark information into digital data, comprising the steps of:
- calculating differences between samples of the digital data to generate difference data representing the calculated differences;
- determining a specified difference data value in response to the watermark information;
- and
- changing a normalized data-value occurrence-frequency Laplace distribution of a predetermined number of samples of the difference data into a modified occurrence-frequency distribution in which the specified difference data value occurs at a frequency extremely different from frequencies of occurrence of difference data values other than the specified difference data value.
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A method of extracting watermark information from digital data, comprising the steps of:
- detecting an occurrence-frequency distribution of data values in a predetermined number of samples of the digital data;
- detecting, from the detected occurrence-frequency distribution, a data value which occurs at a frequency extremely different from frequencies of occurrence of other data values;
- and
- reproducing the watermark information on the basis of the detected data value.
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A method of extracting watermark information from digital data, comprising the steps of:
- calculating differences between samples of the digital data to generate difference data representing the calculated differences;
- detecting an occurrence-frequency distribution of difference data values in a predetermined number of samples of the difference data;
- detecting, from the detected occurrence-frequency distribution, a difference data value which occurs at a frequency extremely different from frequencies of occurrence of other difference data values;
- and
- reproducing the watermark information on the basis of the detected difference data value.
2 more elements
A method of extracting watermark information from digital data, comprising the steps of:
- calculating differences between samples of the digital data to generate difference data representing the calculated differences;
- detecting a normalized occurrence-frequency Laplace distribution of difference data values in a predetermined number of samples of the difference data;
- detecting, from the detected normalized occurrence-frequency Laplace distribution, a difference data value which occurs at a frequency extremely different from frequencies of occurrence of other difference data values;
- and
- reproducing the watermark information on the basis of the detected difference data value.
2 more elements
An apparatus for inserting watermark information into digital data, comprising:
- means for determining a specified data value in response to the watermark information;
- and
- means for changing a data-value occurrence-frequency distribution of a predetermined number of samples of the digital data into a modified occurrence-frequency distribution in which the specified data value occurs at a frequency extremely different from frequencies of occurrence of data values other than the specified data value.
An apparatus for inserting watermark information into digital data, comprising:
- means for calculating differences between samples of the digital data to generate difference data representing the calculated differences;
- means for determining a specified difference data value in response to the watermark information;
- and
- means for changing a data-value occurrence-frequency distribution of a predetermined number of samples of the difference data into a modified occurrence-frequency distribution in which the specified difference data value occurs at a frequency extremely different from frequencies of occurrence of difference data values other than the specified difference data value.
1 more element
An apparatus for inserting watermark information into digital data, comprising:
- means for calculating differences between samples of the digital data to generate difference data representing the calculated differences;
- means for determining a specified difference data value in response to the watermark information;
- and
- means for changing a normalized data-value occurrence-frequency Laplace distribution of a predetermined number of samples of the difference data into a modified occurrence-frequency distribution in which the specified difference data value occurs at a frequency extremely different from frequencies of occurrence of difference data values other than the specified difference data value.
1 more element
An apparatus for extracting watermark information from digital data, comprising:
- means for detecting an occurrence-frequency distribution of data values in a predetermined number of samples of the digital data;
- means for detecting, from the detected occurrence-frequency distribution, a data value which occurs at a frequency extremely different from frequencies of occurrence of other data values;
- and
- means for reproducing the watermark information on the basis of the detected data value.
1 more element
An apparatus for extracting watermark information from digital data, comprising:
- means for calculating differences between samples of the digital data to generate difference data representing the calculated differences;
- means for detecting an occurrence-frequency distribution of difference data values in a predetermined number of samples of the difference data;
- means for detecting, from the detected occurrence-frequency distribution, a difference data value which occurs at a frequency extremely different from frequencies of occurrence of other difference data values;
- and
- means for reproducing the watermark information on the basis of the detected difference data value.
2 more elements
An apparatus for extracting watermark information from digital data, comprising:
- means for calculating differences between samples of the digital data to generate difference data representing the calculated differences;
- means for detecting a normalized occurrence-frequency Laplace distribution of difference data values in a predetermined number of samples of the difference data;
- means for detecting, from the detected normalized occurrence-frequency Laplace distribution, a difference data value which occurs at a frequency extremely different from frequencies of occurrence of other difference data values;
- and
- means for reproducing the watermark information on the basis of the detected difference data value.
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An apparatus for inserting watermark information into digital data, comprising:
- means for deriving differences between samples of the digital data;
- means for selecting at least one from among values, which differences between samples of the digital data can take, as a forbidden value in response to the watermark information;
- means for deciding whether or not the derived differences are equal to the forbidden value;
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- means for changing logic states of samples of the digital data which relate to the derived differences decided to be equal to the forbidden value to convert the digital data into conversion-resultant data to inhibit differences between samples of the conversion-resultant data from taking the forbidden value.
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An apparatus for extracting watermark information from digital data, comprising:
- means for deriving differences between samples of the digital data;
- means for detecting an occurrence-frequency distribution of values of the derived differences;
- means for comparing the detected occurrence-frequency distribution with a predetermined reference occurrence-frequency distribution to find a difference value whose detected occurrence frequency is smaller than its reference occurrence frequency by more than a given percentage;
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- means for reproducing the watermark information on the basis of the found difference value.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.