The present invention relates to toys and game applications that are enhanced with digital
watermarks. In one embodi ment, a character card includes a unique identifier in the form of …

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6,292,092 B1 9, 2001 Chow et al. 4,697,209 A 9, 1987 Kiewit et al. 6,304,523 B1 10/2001 …

Methods, devices, and computer program products facilitate the application of a content use
policy based on watermarks that are embedded in a content. Watermark extraction and …

In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method first By receives a vector X of N data
samples, where X= x (0) X (1)... X (N-1) and represents multimedia. Next, the method …

Human visual perception is able to recognize a wide range of targets but has limited
throughput. Machine vision can pro cess images at a high speed but suffers from inadequate …

(57) ABSTRACT A watermark System includes an embedder, detector, and reader. The
watermark embedder encodes a watermark Sig nal in a host signal to create a combined …

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Methods, systems, devices and computer program products are provided to facilitate
enhanced use and interaction With multimedia content that is based on a time-varying …

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Methods, devices, systems and computer program products facilitate embedding and
extraction of transactional water marks into and from a video content. One method for select …