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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2014
Disney Enterprises, Inc., Burbank, CA (US);
Smadar Gefen, Burbank, CA (US);
Joseph DiGiovanni, Burbank, CA (US);
DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC., Burbank, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for synchronizing a broadcast video with contextual data are disclosed, wherein the broadcast video is enhanced by graphical overlays. Synchronization is achieved by means of digital watermarking of the broadcast video in conjunction with the graphical-overlays. Exemplary embodiments embed a watermark bitstream into the broadcast video based on an overlay-template, characteristic of a corresponding overlay-graphic. The watermarked video is then transmitted over a communication link to a receiving-end including a detector. According to some embodiment, the embedder inserts the watermark bitstream into the overlay-graphics' regions of the video and the detector extracts the watermark bitstream based on information in the overlay-template and based on a restored version of the original overlay-graphics.