Electronic watermarking system capable of providing image data with high secrecy

Claim 2

An electronic watermarking device which is for use in inserting an electronic watermark into an original image consisting of a plurality of primary blocks, comprising: first discrete cosine transform means for carrying out first discrete cosine transform of at least one of said a plurality of primary blocks; inserting means for inserting electronic watermarking data into an output of said first discrete cosine transform means; inverse discrete cosine transform means for carrying out inverse discrete cosine transform of an output of said inserting means; and first coordinate converting means which have first coordinate conversion data and which carry out first coordinate conversion of an output of said inverse discrete cosine transform means by said electronic watermarking data and said coordinate conversion data.

Claim 3

An electronic image reproducing device which is for use in reproducing an original image from an electronic watermarked image consisting of a plurality of secondary blocks, comprising: second discrete cosine transform means for carrying out second discrete cosine transform of at least one of said a plurality of secondary blocks; extracting means for extracting electronic watermarking data from an output of said second discrete cosine transform means; extracted data containing means for containing an output of said extracting means; correspondence detecting means which compare an output of said extracted data containing means with an original electronic watermarking data to detect whether or not the output of said extracted data containing means is corresponding with the original electronic watermarking data; output image switching means which output said electronic watermarked image when said output of said extracted data containing means is detected to be not corresponding with said original electronic watermarking data by said correspondence detecting means; and first inverse coordinate converting means which have first inverse coordinate conversion data and which carry out first inverse coordinate conversion of said output of said extracted data containing means with reference to said original electronic watermarking data and said first inverse coordinate conversion data when said output of said extracted data containing means is detected to be corresponding with said original electronic watermarking data by said correspondence detecting means.

Claim 4

An electronic image reproducing device which is for use in reproducing an original image from an electronic watermarked image consisting of a plurality of secondary blocks, comprising: second discrete cosine transform means for carrying out second discrete cosine transform of at least one of said a plurality of secondary blocks; extracting means for extracting electronic watermarking data from an output of said second discrete cosine transform means; extracted data containing means for containing an output of said extracting means; correspondence detecting means which compare an output of said extracted data containing means with an original electronic watermarking data to detect whether or not the output of said extracted data containing means is corresponding with the original electronic watermarking data; output image switching means which output said electronic watermarked image when said output of said extracted data containing means is detected to be not corresponding with said original electronic watermarking data by said correspondence detecting means; and first inverse coordinate converting means which have first inverse coordinate conversion data and which carry out first inverse coordinate conversion of said output of said extracted data containing means with reference to said original electronic watermarking data and said first inverse coordinate conversion data when said output of said extracted data containing means is detected to be corresponding with said original electronic watermarking data by said correspondence detecting means.

Claim 5

An electronic watermarking system which is for use in inserting an electronic watermark into an original image consisting of a plurality of primary blocks, comprising: inserting means for inserting electronic watermarking data into at least one of said a plurality of primary blocks; second coordinate converting means which have second coordinate conversion data and which carry out second coordinate conversion of an output of said inserting means by said electronic watermarking data and said second coordinate conversion data; extracting means for extracting electronic watermarking data from a part of the coordinate-converted electronic watermarked image; and second inverse coordinate converting means which have second inverse coordinate conversion data and which carry out second inverse coordinate conversion of said output of said extracting means with reference to said original electronic watermarking data and said second inverse coordinate conversion data when said output of said extracting means is corresponding with said original electronic watermarking data.

Claim 6

An electronic watermarking system which is for use in inserting an electronic watermark into an original image consisting of a plurality of primary blocks, comprising: inserting means for inserting electronic watermarking data into at least one of said a plurality of primary blocks; second coordinate converting means which have second coordinate conversion data and which carry out second coordinate conversion of an output of said inserting means by said electronic watermarking data and said second coordinate conversion data; extracting means for extracting electronic watermarking data from a part of the coordinate-converted electronic watermarked image; and second inverse coordinate converting means which have second inverse coordinate conversion data and which carry out second inverse coordinate conversion of said output of said extracting means with reference to said original electronic watermarking data and said second inverse coordinate conversion data when said output of said extracting means is corresponding with said original electronic watermarking data.

Claim 7

An electronic watermarking system as claimed in claim 3 , wherein said electronic watermarking data is identical with said original electronic watermarking data, said second coordinate conversion data being identical with said second inverse coordinate conversion data.

Claim 8

An electronic watermarking system as claimed in claim 3 , wherein said second coordinate converting means calculate a coordinate of one of said primary blocks outputted from said inserting means by said electronic watermarking data and said second coordinate conversion data, said coordinate being occupied within a region where an image having the inserted electronic watermarking data is contained.

Claim 9

An electronic watermarking system as claimed in claim 3 , wherein said one primary block consists of 8×8 elements, said second coordinate conversion being carried out by converting one block coordinate into another block coordinate in a frame.