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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2006
Filed:
May. 31, 2002
Mark Nelson Robins, Greeley, CO (US);
Heather Noel Bean, Ft. Collins, CO (US);
Mark Nelson Robins, Greeley, CO (US);
Heather Noel Bean, Ft. Collins, CO (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A system and method for protecting the integrity of a group of images is provided. One embodiment for protecting the integrity of a group of images comprises watermarking each one of a plurality of images in an image group with a unique watermark having at least an image digest, the image digest comprising information that identifies the watermarked image as an original image, and the plurality of images having a predefined order in the image group; and including in selected ones of the unique watermarks a unique decryption key, each one of the unique decryption keys configured for decrypting the unique watermark of a next image in the image group.