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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 13, 1999
Ioana Donescu, Rennes, FR;
Eric Majani, Rennes, FR;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The invention concerns a method of inserting an additional information item in a set of digital data representing physical quantities, the data having been processed by transformation, quantization and entropic coding in order to be compressed, characterized in that it comprises the steps of extracting a subset of low-frequency coefficients, from the set of data, entropic decoding of the coefficients of the subset, modulation of the decoded coefficients by a signal representing the additional information item, so as to form quantized watermarked coefficients, entropic coding of the watermarked coefficients, and insertion of the watermarked encoded coefficients in place of the coefficients of the subset, in the set of data.