Digitally watermarking holograms for identity documents
First Claim
1. A method of providing security for an identity document, wherein said identity document comprises electronic circuitry, said method comprising:
- providing a holographic structure to be applied to a surface of the identity document, wherein the holographic structure comprises a digital watermark embedded therein, the digital watermark comprising at least a spread spectrum modulated message;
providing first information so as to correspond with the message; and
storing the first information in the electronic circuitry of the identity document.
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Abstract
The present invention relates to digital watermarks integrated into holograms, watermarked hologram structures, and related applications as an authentication technique. One method creates a watermark image, and then embeds the watermark image into a holographic structure. The holographic structure is carried by a smart card. The smart card includes additional information. In one embodiment, the digital watermark includes information bits, and these information bits are used to authenticate the hologram, or the smart card. In another embodiment, the watermark'"'"'s information bits are compared with the additional information carried by the smart card. The result of the comparison is used to authenticate the smart card or the hologram.
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39 Claims
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1. A method of providing security for an identity document, wherein said identity document comprises electronic circuitry, said method comprising:
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providing a holographic structure to be applied to a surface of the identity document, wherein the holographic structure comprises a digital watermark embedded therein, the digital watermark comprising at least a spread spectrum modulated message;
providing first information so as to correspond with the message; and
storing the first information in the electronic circuitry of the identity document. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3)
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4. A method of providing security for an identity document, wherein said identity document comprises electronic circuitry, said method comprising:
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providing a digital watermark to be applied to surface of the identity document, wherein the digital watermark comprises at least a spread spectrum modulated message;
providing first information so as to correspond with the message; and
storing the first information in the electronic circuitry of the identity document.
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5. A method of providing security for an identity document, wherein said identity document comprises electronic circuitry, said method comprising:
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providing a holographic structure to be applied to a surface of the identity document, wherein the holographic structure comprises a digital watermark embedded therein, and wherein embedding of the digital watermark in the holographic structure makes use of at least some transform domain samples corresponding to the holographic structure, and wherein the digital watermark comprises a serial number;
providing first information so as to correspond with the serial number; and
storing the first information in the electronic circuitry of the identity document. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8)
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9. A method of providing security for a transaction involving an identity document, wherein said identity document comprises electronic circuitry, the identity document being presented to a point-of-sale location, wherein the electronic circuitry comprise first information stored therein, the first information comprising a trigger to indicate the presence of a digital watermark, said method comprising steps of:
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reading the electronic circuitry to obtain the trigger;
upon obtaining the trigger, analyzing optical scan data to detect the digital watermark, wherein the optical scam data corresponds to at least a portion of a surface of the identity document, wherein the portion of the surface comprises the digital watermark embedded therein, and wherein the digital watermark comprises information bits;
decoding the digital watermark to obtain the information bits; and
authenticating the identity document based at least in part on the information bits. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A method of providing security for an identity document, the identity document comprising a photographic representation of a bearer of the identity document, said method comprising:
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providing a holographic structure, wherein the holographic structure includes a digital watermark embedded therein, the digital watermark including a serial number, and wherein the holographic structure is to be provided on a surface of the identity document;
storing biometric information that is associated with the bearer of the identity document; and
associating the stored biometric information with at least one of the bearer and the identity document via the serial number. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. A method of handling documents including both legacy documents and non-legacy documents, information to be used to determine whether the respective document includes machine-readable steganographic indicia carried by the document, wherein the information is different than the machine-readable steganographic indicia, said method comprising:
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obtaining information from a document;
determining based on the information whether there is an expected presence of steganographic indicia carried by the document; and
analyzing data associated with at least a portion of the document to detect steganographic indicia when the information indicates an expected presence of the steganographic indicia carried by the document. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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33. A method of triggering detection of digital watermarking, wherein the digital watermarking is carried by a physical object, and wherein the physical object further includes information that is separate from the digital watermarking, said method comprising:
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obtaining information from a physical object;
determining based at least in part on the obtained information whether the physical object is expected to include digital watermarking; and
triggering detection of digital watermarking when the physical object is expected to include digital watermarking. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39)
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