RECEIVING APPARATUS, TRANSMITTING APPARATUS , AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WHICH UTILIZE A WATERMARK INSERTION TECHNIQUE

• US 20020164045A1
• Filed: 04/27/1999
• Published: 11/07/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 04/27/1998
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Personal Computers, Ltd. (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: FUJIHARA, SHIRO
• Granted Patent: US 6,785,399 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/100
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 1/0021 Image watermarking
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32101 Display, printing, storage or transmission of additional information, e.g. ID code, date and time or title
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23892 involving embedding information at multiplex stream level, e.g. embedding a watermark at packet level

Abstract

In a communication system, a transmitting device transmits an image datum to which a specified datum is inserted as a watermark by a digital watermark insertion technique. The image datum represents an image. The specified datum represents a specified process for a receiving apparatus for receiving the image datum. In the receiving apparatus, a processing arrangement is responsive to the image datum and processes the specified datum to execute the specified process. A producing arrangement is responsive to the image data and produce the image.

Claims

1. A receiving apparatus for use in reception of an image datum to which a specified datum is inserted as a watermark by a watermark insertion technique, said image datum representing an image, said specified datum representing a specified process for said receiving apparatus, said receiving apparatus comprising:

receiving means for receiving said image datum;

producing means connected to said receiving means and responsive to said image data for producing said image; and

processing means connected to said receiving means and responsive to said image datum for processing said specified datum to execute said specified process.

2. A receiving apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said processing means comprises:

a detection circuit connected to said receiving means and responsive to said image datum for detecting said specified datum; and

executing means connected to said detection circuit for executing said specified process by the use of said specified datum.

3. A receiving apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein said executing means comprises:

a data storage table for storing a predetermined datum;

a comparator circuit connected to said detection circuit and said data storage table for comparing said specified datum with said predetermined datum to produce a coincidence signal when said specified datum is coincident with said predetermined datum; and

an output circuit connected to said comparator circuit and responsive to said coincidence signal for executing said specified process in accordance with said specified datum.

4. A receiving apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said image datum is transmitted as a modulated radio signal, said receiving means comprising:

a receiving antenna; and

a demodulation circuit connected to said receiving antenna, said producing means, and said processing means and received with said modulated radio signal through said receiving antenna for demodulating said modulated radio signal into said image datum to supply said image datum to said producing means and said processing means.

5. A communication system comprising:

the receiving apparatus according to claim 1; and

a transmitting apparatus for transmitting an image datum to which a specified datum is inserted as a watermark by a watermark insertion technique, said image datum representing an image, said specified datum representing a specified process for said receiving apparatus.

6. A communication system as claimed in claim 5, wherein said transmitted datum is transmitted by way of a radio broadcasting wave, said communication system further comprising, as anther receiving apparatus, the receiving apparatus according to claim 1.

7. A transmitting apparatus for use in transmission of an image datum towards a receiving apparatus, said image datum representing an image, said transmitting apparatus comprising:

an insertion circuit for inserting a specified datum as a watermark into said image datum by a digital watermark insertion technique, said specified datum representing a specified process for said receiving apparatus; and

transmission executing means connected to said insertion circuit for executing transmission of said image datum.

8. A transmitting apparatus as claimed in claim 7, wherein said transmission executing means comprises:

a transmitting antenna; and

a modulation circuit connected to said insertion circuit and said transmitting antenna for modulating said image datum into a modulated radio signal to transmit said modulated radio signal through said transmitting antenna.