Method for inserting watermark assistance data in a bitstream and bitstream comprising the watermark assistance data

• US 8,462,982 B2
• Filed: 05/20/2010
• Issued: 06/11/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/29/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ContentArmor
• Original Assignee: Thomson Licensing (Vantiva SA)
• Inventors: Colaitis, Marie-Jean, Marie, Pascal
• Primary Examiner(s): Chen, Wenpeng
• Assistant Examiner(s): Niu, Feng
• Application Number:
  US12/783,960
• Publication Number:
  US 20110129114A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,118 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 382/100
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 1/0021 Image watermarking
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/46 Embedding additional information in the video signal during the compression process H04N19/517, H04N19/68, H04N19/70 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/467 characterised by the embedded information being invisible, e.g. watermarking
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/48 using compressed domain processing techniques other than decoding, e.g. modification of transform coefficients, variable length coding [VLC] data or run-length data motion estimation in a transform domain H04N19/547; processing of decoded motion vectors H04N19/513
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/70 characterised by syntax aspects related to video coding, e.g. related to compression standards

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for inserting watermark assistance data in a bitstream of coded data comprising the step of inserting, in the bitstream, identification data identifying coded data to be substituted and, for each coded data to be substituted, at least one substitution data. The method further comprises a step of inserting in the bitstream a format data defining a manner of substituting the coded data to be substituted by the substitution data.

Claims

1. A method for inserting watermark assistance data in a bitstream of coded data representing a digital content comprising inserting in said bitstream of coded data a supplemental enhancement information message, wherein said supplemental enhancement information comprises

at least one of identification data identifying coded data to be substituted,

a format data defining

a number of substitution data,

a method of substituting the coded data to be substituted by the substitution data, said method being one selected from a plurality of different available methods of substituting the coded data for the substitution data, and

if substitution of said coded data is made subject to error check;

at least one substitution data depending on the format data for each coded data to be substituted and

if said format data defines that substitution is made subject to error check, at least one check data to check if the coded data to be substituted undergone some modification during transmission, said checking being processed by comparing the transmitted coded data to be substituted with said check data, substitution being made only if the transmitted coded data match said check data.

2. The method of insertion according to claim 1, wherein said check data is a cyclic redundancy check computed from the coded data to be substituted.

3. The method of insertion according to claim 1, wherein said check data is the coded data to be substituted.

4. The method of insertion according to claim 1, wherein said supplemental enhancement information message comprises a first identification data comprising an absolute address identifying the beginning of the coded data to be substituted and a second identification data comprising a length of said substitution data.

5. The method of insertion according to claim 1, wherein said bitstream of coded data being encapsulated in transport packets, said supplemental enhancement information message comprises a first identification data comprising a data identifying the transport packet comprising the coded data to be substituted, a second identification data comprising an offset value relative to the beginning of said transport packet identifying the beginning of the coded data to be substituted and a third identification data comprising a length of said substitution data.

6. A device comprising:

an input for receiving a bitstream of coded data representative of a digital content;

a watermarking module for watermarking said bitstream of coded data on the basis of an identifier associated to said device into a watermarked bitstream;

a first output for transmitting said watermarked bitstream; and

wherein the watermarking module comprises;

a unit for inserting in said bitstream of coded data, a supplemental enhancement information message comprising at least one identification data identifying coded data to be substituted,

a format data defining

a number of substitution data,

a method of substituting the coded data to be substituted by the substitution data, said method being one selected from a plurality of different available methods for substituting the coded data with the substitution data, and

if substitution of said coded data is made subject to error check and,

at least one substitution data depending on the format data for each coded data to be substituted, and,

if said format data defines that substitution is made subject to error check, at least one check data to check if the coded data to be substituted undergone some modification during transmission, said checking being processed by comparing the transmitted coded data to be substituted with said check data, substitution being made only if the transmitted coded data matches said check data;

a unit for identifying with said identification data coded data to be substituted; and

a watermarking unit for watermarking said bitstream of coded data by substituting the coded data to be substituted by said at least one substitution data when the check data match the coded data to be substituted.

7. The device according to claim 6 further comprising:

a decoding module for reconstructing a watermarked digital content from said watermarked bitstream; and

a second output for transmitting said watermarked digital content.