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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2014

Filed:

Jan. 06, 2009
Applicants:

Peter Georg Baum, Hannover, DE;

Walter Voessing, Hannover, DE;

Ulrich Gries, Hannover, DE;

Inventors:

Peter Georg Baum, Hannover, DE;

Walter Voessing, Hannover, DE;

Ulrich Gries, Hannover, DE;

Assignee:

Thomson Licensing, Issy-les-Moulineaux, FR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01); H04N 7/167 (2011.01); H03M 1/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/32 (2013.01); H04L 9/3247 (2013.01); H04N 7/167 (2013.01); H03M 1/0617 (2013.01);
Abstract

In watermarked signal decoding, the embedded message is decoded by correlating the reference patterns with the watermarked signal. The watermark detector decides, depending on the size of the correlation result values, whether or not a given reference pattern was embedded. However, decoding watermarked audio or video signals is difficult if the link between the watermark encoder and the watermark decoder is not a digital one, for example an acoustic path. A re-sampler control unit controls the sampling frequency of a re-sampler, in connection with a watermark decoder that outputs, in addition to the watermark information bits, a corresponding confidence value that is derived from the correlation result and that is used for synchronizing the re-sampler sampling frequency with the original sampling frequency of the watermarked signal. The synchronization processing includes a search mode and a synchronized mode.


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