摘要:
The disclosure describes an authentication system and related methods for authenticating printed objects. The system uses an information-based metric along with one or more print quality metrics to provide accurate detection or classification of a counterfeit printed object. The print quality metric evaluates attributes of a subject image associated with the original printer, ink or paper to detect degradation of those operations due to copying operations like an image scanning and halftone printing subsequent to the original printing of the object. The information-based metric measures message symbol errors in an optically readable code, such as a digital watermark.
摘要:
The disclosure describes an authentication system and related methods for authenticating printed objects. The system uses an information-based metric along with one or more print quality metrics to provide accurate detection or classification of a counterfeit printed object. The print quality metric evaluates attributes of a subject image associated with the original printer, ink or paper to detect degradation of those operations due to copying operations like an image scanning and halftone printing subsequent to the original printing of the object. The information-based metric measures message symbol errors in an optically readable code, such as a digital watermark.
摘要:
A watermarked media signal (20) is transmarked to adapt the watermark to the robustness and perceptibility constraints of the new environment (34). A first watermark is detected (22) in the media signal and the message information from the first watermark is embedded into a second watermark (44), before the media signal undergoes a transformation process. The second watermark (44) is adapted to survive the transformation process. In addition, a watermark embedding command is included in a set of rendering commands used during the process of creating a media object to specify how the media object is to be rendered. The watermark embedding command includes an identifier used to link to customer or related content information, the customer's web site, the intensity at which to embed the watermark, areas not to embed, batch processing options, printing preferences for images, watermark embedding methods to use on different media types, formats or different parts of the media object, and desired rendering quality.