EP1125243A4 - Verfahren zur erweiterung der funktionalität eines medien-aufzeichnungs- und wiedergabegerätes oder eines anwendungsprogrammes - Google Patents

Verfahren zur erweiterung der funktionalität eines medien-aufzeichnungs- und wiedergabegerätes oder eines anwendungsprogrammes

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EP1125243A4
EP1125243A4 EP99948059A EP99948059A EP1125243A4 EP 1125243 A4 EP1125243 A4 EP 1125243A4 EP 99948059 A EP99948059 A EP 99948059A EP 99948059 A EP99948059 A EP 99948059A EP 1125243 A4 EP1125243 A4 EP 1125243A4
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signal
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player
data
functionality
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English (en)
French (fr)
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EP1125243A1 (de
Inventor
Ingemar J Cox
Matthew L Miller
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NEC Corp
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NEC Corp
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Priority claimed from US09/310,409 external-priority patent/US6510234B1/en
Priority claimed from US09/339,541 external-priority patent/US6456725B1/en
Application filed by NEC Corp filed Critical NEC Corp
Publication of EP1125243A1 publication Critical patent/EP1125243A1/de
Publication of EP1125243A4 publication Critical patent/EP1125243A4/de
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/45—Management operations performed by the client for facilitating the reception of or the interaction with the content or administrating data related to the end-user or to the client device itself, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies, resolving scheduling conflicts
    • H04N21/462—Content or additional data management, e.g. creating a master electronic program guide from data received from the Internet and a Head-end, controlling the complexity of a video stream by scaling the resolution or bit-rate based on the client capabilities
    • H04N21/4627—Rights management associated to the content
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F21/00—Security arrangements for protecting computers, components thereof, programs or data against unauthorised activity
    • G06F21/10—Protecting distributed programs or content, e.g. vending or licensing of copyrighted material ; Digital rights management [DRM]
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F21/00—Security arrangements for protecting computers, components thereof, programs or data against unauthorised activity
    • G06F21/10—Protecting distributed programs or content, e.g. vending or licensing of copyrighted material ; Digital rights management [DRM]
    • G06F21/16—Program or content traceability, e.g. by watermarking
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06T—IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL
    • G06T1/00—General purpose image data processing
    • G06T1/0021—Image watermarking
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/45—Management operations performed by the client for facilitating the reception of or the interaction with the content or administrating data related to the end-user or to the client device itself, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies, resolving scheduling conflicts
    • H04N21/4508—Management of client data or end-user data
    • H04N21/4516—Management of client data or end-user data involving client characteristics, e.g. Set-Top-Box type, software version or amount of memory available
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/45—Management operations performed by the client for facilitating the reception of or the interaction with the content or administrating data related to the end-user or to the client device itself, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies, resolving scheduling conflicts
    • H04N21/454—Content or additional data filtering, e.g. blocking advertisements
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/80—Generation or processing of content or additional data by content creator independently of the distribution process; Content per se
    • H04N21/83—Generation or processing of protective or descriptive data associated with content; Content structuring
    • H04N21/835—Generation of protective data, e.g. certificates
    • H04N21/8355—Generation of protective data, e.g. certificates involving usage data, e.g. number of copies or viewings allowed
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N5/00—Details of television systems
    • H04N5/76—Television signal recording
    • H04N5/91—Television signal processing therefor
    • H04N5/913—Television signal processing therefor for scrambling ; for copy protection
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G11—INFORMATION STORAGE
    • G11B—INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORD CARRIER AND TRANSDUCER
    • G11B20/00—Signal processing not specific to the method of recording or reproducing; Circuits therefor
    • G11B20/00086—Circuits for prevention of unauthorised reproduction or copying, e.g. piracy
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G11—INFORMATION STORAGE
    • G11B—INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORD CARRIER AND TRANSDUCER
    • G11B20/00—Signal processing not specific to the method of recording or reproducing; Circuits therefor
    • G11B20/00086—Circuits for prevention of unauthorised reproduction or copying, e.g. piracy
    • G11B20/00884—Circuits for prevention of unauthorised reproduction or copying, e.g. piracy involving a watermark, i.e. a barely perceptible transformation of the original data which can nevertheless be recognised by an algorithm
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N5/00—Details of television systems
    • H04N5/76—Television signal recording
    • H04N5/91—Television signal processing therefor
    • H04N5/913—Television signal processing therefor for scrambling ; for copy protection
    • H04N2005/91307—Television signal processing therefor for scrambling ; for copy protection by adding a copy protection signal to the video signal
    • H04N2005/91335—Television signal processing therefor for scrambling ; for copy protection by adding a copy protection signal to the video signal the copy protection signal being a watermark

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Multimedia (AREA)
  • Theoretical Computer Science (AREA)
  • Software Systems (AREA)
  • Signal Processing (AREA)
  • Computer Security & Cryptography (AREA)
  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • General Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Databases & Information Systems (AREA)
  • Technology Law (AREA)
  • Computer Hardware Design (AREA)
  • General Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Signal Processing For Digital Recording And Reproducing (AREA)
  • Television Signal Processing For Recording (AREA)
  • Television Systems (AREA)
  • Editing Of Facsimile Originals (AREA)
  • Image Processing (AREA)
EP99948059A 1999-05-12 1999-08-26 Verfahren zur erweiterung der funktionalität eines medien-aufzeichnungs- und wiedergabegerätes oder eines anwendungsprogrammes Withdrawn EP1125243A4 (de)

Applications Claiming Priority (5)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
US310409 1989-02-13
US339541 1989-04-17
US09/310,409 US6510234B1 (en) 1999-05-12 1999-05-12 Method for increasing the functionality of a media player/recorder device
US09/339,541 US6456725B1 (en) 1999-06-24 1999-06-24 Method for increasing the functionality of a media player/recorder device or an application program
PCT/US1999/019486 WO2000070539A1 (en) 1999-05-12 1999-08-26 A method for increasing the functionality of a media player/recorder device or an application program

Publications (2)

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EP1125243A1 EP1125243A1 (de) 2001-08-22
EP1125243A4 true EP1125243A4 (de) 2005-08-17

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EP (1) EP1125243A4 (de)
JP (1) JP4373018B2 (de)
CA (1) CA2337005A1 (de)
WO (1) WO2000070539A1 (de)

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US5629980A (en) * 1994-11-23 1997-05-13 Xerox Corporation System for controlling the distribution and use of digital works
WO1997013248A1 (en) * 1995-10-04 1997-04-10 Philips Electronics N.V. Marking a digitally encoded video and/or audio signal
EP0778513A2 (de) * 1995-12-06 1997-06-11 Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Informationsdienstprozessor

Non-Patent Citations (2)

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Title
HARTUNG AND GIROD: "DIGITAL WATERMARKING OF RAW AND COMPRESSED VIDEO", PROCEEDINGS OF THE SPIE, SPIE, BELLINGHAM, VA, US, vol. 2952, 7 October 1996 (1996-10-07), pages 205 - 213, XP002085796, ISSN: 0277-786X *
ZHAO J ET AL: "EMBEDDING ROBUST LABELS INTO IMAGES FOR COPYRIGHT PROTECTION", PROCEEDINGS OF THE KNOWRIGHT. CONFERENCE. PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS FOR SPECIALIZED INFORMATION, KNOWLEDGE AND NEW TECHNOLOGY, 1995, pages 242 - 251, XP000571967 *

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WO2000070539A1 (en) 2000-11-23
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JP2002544743A (ja) 2002-12-24
JP4373018B2 (ja) 2009-11-25

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