SYSTEM AND METHOD TO AUTOMATICALLY ESTABLISH PREFERRED AREA FOR IMAGE-WISE WATERMARK

Patent №

US 8,090,141

Granted

2012-01-03

Filed 2006

Owner

XEROX CORPORATION

Lab

AI components

1

vision

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11343668

A system and method are disclosed for determining preferred image locations for placing watermark information (both hidden and obvious). The disclosure includes at least three criteria (image similarity, contrast, and image value range) that may be used alone or in combination to determine a preferred area of the target image for placing the watermark depending upon the user's intent for the mark (hiding or showing watermark).

VisionH04N 1/32331G06T 1/0028G06T 7/73H04N 1/32187H04N 1/32325G06T 2201/0051G06T 2201/0061

AI classification

Vision1.00
AI hardware0.50
Knowledge representation0.06
Evolutionary computation0.02
Machine learning0.01
Planning0.00
Speech0.00
Natural language0.00

Ownership

XEROX CORPORATION

assignment · 175310386

Assignors

ESCHBACH, REINER, WANG, SHEN-GE, FAN, ZHIGANG

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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