摘要:
The invention relates to devices and methods for producing coded data, for reproducing coded data and for re-signing originally signed data based on the fact that the coded data in addition to the coded media information, comprises the necessary information for decoding the data in addition to a signature thereof which produces the coded data. The source of the coded data is thus traceable. Reproduction of coded data is allowed within defined limits by the producer of the coded data for friends or relatives for example, yet large-scale duplication of the coded data is seen as an act of piracy. The data pirate can be traced back by means of the signature, since the signature is optionally secured by means of an embedded water-mark signature. Since the issue at stake is a concept wherein only legal use should occur for coded data, unauthorised removal of the coding is a criminal act. The inventive concept enables the wrong doer to be determined and takes into account both the ownership status of the provider with regard to a defined reproduction of media information and also has the potentiality of being acceptable to the market.
摘要:
The invention relates to a method for embedding a watermark in an audio signal, according to which a spectral representation of the audio signal and a spectral representation of the watermark signal are first determined (14, 16). The spectral representation of the watermark signal is then processed, based on a psychoacoustic masking threshold (24) of the audio signal (22). The processed watermark signal is combined with the audio signal (18). The spectral representation of the watermark signal is processed iteratively in the following way: a predetermined watermark initial value (26) is first selected; the interference that has been introduced into the spectral representation by the predetermined watermark initial value after a quantization of the spectral representation of the audio signal, is determined (28). The watermark initial value is then modified until said interference introduced into the spectral representation of the audio signal by a modified watermark initial value after quantization, is less than or equal to the predetermined interference threshold (32).