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Audio or video steganography    
United States Patent6266430   
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Inventor(s)Rhoads; Geoffrey B. (West Linn, OR)
AbstractAn input content signal--representing audio or video--is encoded to hide plural-bit auxiliary data therein. The process generates an intermediate signal that is a function of (a) the plural-bit auxiliary data, and (b) data related to human perception attributes of the content signal. This intermediate signal is then summed with the content signal to effect encoding. The plural-bit auxiliary data can include copy control data, i.e., data that can be sensed by a consumer electronic device and used to disable a copying operation. The intermediate signal may include a pseudorandom key signal so as to obscure the encoding and require knowledge of a corresponding key at the decoder to extract the auxiliary data from the encoded content. In some embodiments, calibration data is encoded in the content signal with the auxiliary data. This calibration data desirably has known properties (e.g., spectral attributes, data content, etc.) facilitating its identification in the encoded content signal. The encoding is desirably robust against various forms of content degradation, e.g., lossy compression/decompression, scaling, resampling, conversion from digital to analog and back again, etc., so that the auxiliary data can be detected from the content notwithstanding such corruption.
   














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Audio or video steganography
Inventor     Rhoads; Geoffrey B. (West Linn, OR)
Owner/Assignee     Digimarc Corporation (Tualatin, OR)
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Publication Date     July 24, 2001
Application Number     09/520,406
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Filing Date     March 8, 2000
US Classification     382/100
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Examiner     Johns; Andrew W.
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Attorney/Law Firm     Meyer; Joel R.
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Parent Case     RELATED APPLICATION DATA This application is a division of application Ser. No. 09/338,995, filed Jun. 24, 1999, which is a divisional application of Ser. No. 08/951,858, filed Oct. 16, 1997 (U.S. Pat. No. 6,026,193), which is a continuation of application Ser. No. 08/436,134, filed May 8, 1995 (U.S. Pat. No. 5,748,763), which is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 08/327,426, filed Oct. 21, 1994 (U.S. Pat. No. 5,768,426), which is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 08/215,289, filed Mar. 17, 1994, now abandoned, which is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 08/154,866, filed Nov. 18, 1993, now abandoned. The disclosures of these prior applications are incorporated herein by reference.
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USPTO Field of Search     382/100 382/232 380/210 380/287 380/54 380/31 380/42 380/252 704/200.1 704/270 704/273 381/73.1 370/527 370/528 370/529
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