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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2000
Yamaha Corporation, Hamamatsu, JP;
Abstract
A vector quantizer and a vector quantization method are provided, which do not allow the embedding position of the watermark information to be identified easily, and thus enable unfair use of the vector quantized information to be accurately found out. Waveform extraction is performed on input signal data to output extracted waveform data. Index data are generated based on the output extracted waveform data. As index data to be generated based on predetermined extracted waveform data in which no watermark information is to be embedded, out of the output extracted waveform data, index data is randomly selected, which corresponds to the predetermined extracted waveform data from a plurality of index data which, when decoded, have amounts of errors falling within a predetermined range with respect to the predetermined extracted waveform data before decoding.