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Wireless methods and devices employing steganography
Assignee: Digimarc Corp
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Filing: 2000-01-06
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Granted: 2009-04-21
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Expires: 2020-01-06
Abstract
Abstract A wireless device includes a data capture system, a radiant-energy data transmission system, and a steganographic encoder that hides a plural-bit auxiliary code within data captured by the data capture system prior to its transmission by the data transmission system. An illustrative system, operable with audio input data, is a cell phone that steganographically encodes a user's voice.
Inventors
- 👤 Geoffrey B. Rhoads
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-09 17:10
CPC Classifications
G; G06; G06T; G06T1/00; G06T1/0021; G06T1/005; G06T1/0064; G06F; G06F21/00; G06F21/10; G06F21/16; G06F21/30; G06F21/44; G06F21/445; G06K; G06K19/00; G06K19/06; G06K19/06009; G06K19/06037; G06K19/06046; G06K19/08; G06K19/10; G06K19/14; G06K7/00; G06K7/10; G06K7/14; G06K7/1404; G06K7/1408; G06K7/1417; G06K7/1439; G06K7/1447; G06Q; G06Q20/00; G06Q20/30; G06Q20/306; G06Q20/34; G06Q20/341; G06Q20/38; G06Q20/40; G06Q20/401; G06Q20/4014; G06Q20/40145; G07; G07D; G07D7/00; G07D7/003; G07D7/0034; G07D7/004; G07F; G07F17/00; G07F17/16; G07F7/00; G07F7/08; G07F7/086; G07F7/10; G07F7/1008; G10; G10L; G10L19/00; G10L19/018; H; H04; H04L; H04L63/00; H04L63/04; H04L63/0428; H04L9/00; H04L9/06; H04L9/065; H04L9/0656; H04L9/0662; H04M; H04M1/00; H04M1/66; H04N; H04N1/00; H04N1/00002; H04N1/00005; H04N1/00026; H04N1/00037; H04N1/00071; H04N1/00074; H04N1/00079; H04N1/00838; H04N1/0084; H04N1/00843; H04N1/00846; H04N1/00856; H04N1/00875; H04N1/32; H04N1/32101; H04N1/32144; H04N1/32149; H04N1/32154; H04N1/3216; H04N1/32203; H04N1/32208; H04N1/32251; H04N1/32288; H04N1/32352; H04W; H04W12/00; H04W12/06; H04W12/12; H04W12/126; G06F2221/00; G06F2221/21; G06F2221/2129; G06K2019/06215; G06K2019/06253; G06T2201/00; G06T2201/005; G06T2201/0081; G11; G11B; G11B20/00; G11B20/00086; G11B20/00884; G11B20/00891; H04M3/00; H04M3/38; H04N2201/00; H04N2201/0077; H04N2201/0091; H04N2201/32; H04N2201/3201; H04N2201/3204; H04N2201/3205; H04N2201/3225; H04N2201/3233; H04N2201/3269; H04N2201/327; H04N2201/3274; H04W84/00; H04W84/02; H04W84/04; H04W84/042; H04W88/00; H04W88/02; Y; Y10; Y10T; Y10T428/00; Y10T428/24; Y10T428/24802; Y10T428/24851; Y10T428/24868; Y10T428/24876
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 11
Claim 1
Independent Claim
174 words
A method of operating a cell phone, comprising: receiving auxiliary data wirelessly sent to the cell phone from a remote transmitter; thereafter, receiving input information and expressing the input information in digital form; steganographically encoding the input information to hide a plural-bit auxiliary code therein, the encoding depending, at least in part, on the received auxiliary data sent to the cell phone from the remote transmitter; and transmitting the steganographically-encoded information from the cell phone by wireless in a digital format; wherein: the input information is digitally marked with the plural-bit auxiliary code prior to being transmitted, but such code is hidden due to its steganographic nature; the plural-bit auxiliary code is retrievable only by entities that (1) receive the information sent by the cell phone; (2) know that a code is present despite being hidden, and (3) have information about its manner of encoding; and the method thereby provides a hidden channel through which a code dependent on auxiliary data earlier sent to a cell phone can be transmitted from the cell phone.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
174 words
A method of operating a cell phone, comprising: receiving auxiliary data wirelessly sent to the cell phone from a remote transmitter; thereafter, receiving input information and expressing the input information in digital form; steganographically encoding the input information to hide a plural-bit auxiliary code therein, the encoding depending, at least in part, on the received auxiliary data sent to the cell phone from the remote transmitter; and transmitting the steganographically-encoded information from the cell phone by wireless in a digital format; wherein: the input information is digitally marked with the plural-bit auxiliary code prior to being transmitted, but such code is hidden due to its steganographic nature; the plural-bit auxiliary code is retrievable only by entities that (1) receive the information sent by the cell phone; (2) know that a code is present despite being hidden, and (3) have information about its manner of encoding; and the method thereby provides a hidden channel through which a code dependent on auxiliary data earlier sent to a cell phone can be transmitted from the cell phone.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
13 words
The method of claim 1 in which the input information is audio information.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
41 words
The method of claim 1 wherein the steganographic encoding includes additively combining samples of a digital overlay signal with corresponding samples of the input information, the overlay signal being dependent both on the plural-bit auxiliary code and on the input information.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
47 words
The method of claim 1 that further includes wirelessly communicating an identifier from the cell phone, wherein said plural-bit auxiliary code is at least partially redundant with said identifier, so that at least part of said identifier is sent from the cell phone in two different manners.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
30 words
The method of claim 1 wherein said plural-bit auxiliary code comprises an identifier uniquely identifying the cell phone, rather than identifying the input information or a user of cell phone.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
120 words
A cell phone including a data capture system and a radiant-energy transmission system, characterized in that the cell phone further includes a steganographic encoder that modifies data captured by the data capture system in accordance with an encoding signal, to hide a plural-bit auxiliary code within the data prior to transmission by the data transmission system, the steganographic encoder being adapted to generate an encoding signal that depends—in part—on dynamics of the data, wherein data captured by the data capture system is digitally marked with the encoding signal prior to being transmitted by the transmission system, and the steganographic encoder is adapted to generate an encoding signal that is responsive to a first-, second- or higher-order derivative of the data.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
120 words
A cell phone including a data capture system and a radiant-energy transmission system, characterized in that the cell phone further includes a steganographic encoder that modifies data captured by the data capture system in accordance with an encoding signal, to hide a plural-bit auxiliary code within the data prior to transmission by the data transmission system, the steganographic encoder being adapted to generate an encoding signal that depends—in part—on dynamics of the data, wherein data captured by the data capture system is digitally marked with the encoding signal prior to being transmitted by the transmission system, and the steganographic encoder is adapted to generate an encoding signal that is responsive to a first-, second- or higher-order derivative of the data.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
30 words
The cell phone of claim 6 in which the steganographic encoder is adapted to control an amplitude of the encoding signal, in part, in accordance with dynamics of the data.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
38 words
The cell phone of claim 6 further comprising wireless receiver circuitry that provides information to a memory, wherein the steganographic encoder is adapted to generate an encoding signal that depends, in part, on the information in the memory.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
34 words
The cell phone of claim 6 in which the data comprises a series of samples, and the steganographic encoder is adapted to generate an encoding signal that depends on the dynamics of several samples.
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