Detection of a watermark in a compressed video signal
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
InventorsAntonius A. C. M. Kalker, Jaap A. Haitsma
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Abstract
A method and arrangement for detecting a watermark embedded in an MPEG compressed signal includes a conventional MPEG decoder stripped to such an extent that a modified baseband video signal suitable for watermark detection is obtained. A plurality of pictures with the embedded watermark is accumulated (2,3,4) in the transform domain, and the inverse DCT (5) is applied to the accumulated result. Conventional watermark detection (6) is then applied to the accumulated plurality of pictures in the spatial domain.
Claims6
A method of detecting a watermark in a compressed video signal comprising spectral coefficients obtained by transforming at least one picture of said video signal, the method comprising:
- accumulating, in a transform domain, spatially corresponding coefficients of a plurality of pictures of one frame of the video signal, wherein a picture is an array of pixels having the same size as the watermark;
- inverse transforming said accumulated coefficients into an accumulated plurality of pictures in the spatial domain;
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- detecting the watermark in said accumulated plurality of pictures.
An arrangement for detecting a watermark in a compressed video signal comprising spectral coefficients obtained by transforming at least one picture of said video signal, the arrangement comprising:
- means for accumulating, in a transform domain, spatially corresponding coefficients of a plurality of pictures of one frame of the video signal, wherein a picture is an array of pixels having the same size as the watermark;
- means for inverse transforming said accumulated coefficients into an accumulated plurality of pictures in the spatial domain;
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- means for detecting the watermark in said accumulated plurality of pictures.
A device for recording and/or playing back a compressed video signal, said device comprising means for disabling recording and/or playback of the video signal in dependence upon the presence of a watermark in said video signal, characterized in that the device comprises an arrangement for detecting said watermark in the video signal, said arrangement comprising:
- means for accumulating, in a transform domain, spatially corresponding coefficients of a plurality of pictures of one frame of the video signal, wherein a picture is an array of pixels having the sane size as the watermark;
- means for inverse transforming said accumulated coefficients into an accumulated plurality of pictures in the spatial domain;
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- means for detecting the watermark in said accumulated plurality of pictures.
A method of detecting a watermark in a compressed video signal comprising spectral coefficients obtained by transforming at least one picture of said video signal, the method comprising:
- accumulating, in a transform domain, spatially corresponding coefficients of at least one picture, wherein the accumulated coefficients comprise less data than one frame of the video signal;
- inverse transforming said accumulated coefficients into an accumulated plurality of pictures in the spatial domain;
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- detecting the watermark in said accumulated plurality of pictures.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.