Wireless Methods And Devices Employing Steganography
First Claim
1. A method of operating a wireless telephone device, characterized by decoding plural-bit data steganographically encoded in digital information processed by said wireless telephone device, and controlling an aspect of the device'"'"'s operation based on said decoded data.
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Abstract
Wireless devices and methods employ steganography for a variety of purposes. An exemplary application is a battery-powered cell phone, having, e.g., a microphone, a speaker, a modulator, an antenna, and an RF amplifier. In such application, steganographic techniques can be employed to encode, or decode, signals processed by the phone. Some embodiments use an image sensor to capture watermarked image data. The phone can respond to detection of such marked imagery by overlaying distinctive graphics on a cell phone display screen. Such graphics may be positioned within the display, and affine-warped, in registered relationship with the position of the watermarked object, and its affine distortion, as depicted in the image data.
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- 1. A method of operating a wireless telephone device, characterized by decoding plural-bit data steganographically encoded in digital information processed by said wireless telephone device, and controlling an aspect of the device'"'"'s operation based on said decoded data.
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11. A method for checking whether data transmitted in a telephone call has been altered, comprising:
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receiving a telephone call;
extracting audio data from the telephone call; and
checking whether the telephone call has been altered by extracting auxiliary data embedded in the audio data and checking whether the extracted auxiliary data satisfies a predetermined relationship with data associated with the telephone call.
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12. A method comprising:
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receiving a 911 emergency call; and
recording the call;
wherein prior to said recording, the audio of said call is steganographically encoded with plural-bit hidden data so as to facilitate later authentication.
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- 21. A wireless telephone device characterized by a steganographic decoder operative to recover steganographically encoded data from digital information processed by said device, and further including a processor operative to control an aspect of the wireless telephone device'"'"'s operation based on the recovered data.
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