A cell phone is disclosed for acquiring information to be transmitted to a receiving facility and for transmitting such thereto. A capture device captures information from an external source. A processor is provided for associating with the captured information a representation of the date and time of the capture of the information, such that the representation of the date and time information in association with the captured information forms augmented captured information. The processor also places the augmented captured information in association with subscriber information in a transmission of the augmented captured information to a receiving facility requiring such subscriber information. A transmitter transmits the transmission including the augmented captured information and the subscriber information to the receiving facility. An encryptor encrypts the augmented captured information with a symmetrical encryption algorithm to provide encrypted augmented captured information in the transmission with the subscriber information.

An image coding device adapted to code time-continuous pictures is provided. An embedding position information conversion unit acquires embedding position information indicating a position in a picture, by using a one-way function based on time-continuous information. An image coding unit selects a coding block in the picture based on the embedding position information, embeds electronic watermark information in a coding parameter used to code the coding block, and codes the coding block by using the coding parameter in which the electronic watermark information is embedded.

Examples relating to watermarking digital content are described herein. According to one example, a digital quality of digital content received for watermarking is determined. From a library of watermark tints comprising a plurality of preformed watermark tints of predefined sizes, a watermark tint set for watermarking the digital content is retrieved, the watermark tint set comprising a plurality of watermark tints having a first size. The first size of the plurality of watermark tints is determined based on the digital quality of the digital content. The plurality of watermark tints having the first size are overlaid over the digital content to watermark the digital content.

Methods, non-transitory machine readable media, and computing devices that provide improved dictionary-based compression are disclosed. With this technology, a first portion of an input data stream is compressed using a first dictionary. A second dictionary is trained when the first dictionary is determined to be stale. The dictionary can be determined to be stale based on a size of the input data stream compressed using the first dictionary or a compression ratio decreasing by a threshold, for example. The first dictionary can be stored with metadata associated with the compressed first portion of the input data stream. Accordingly, this technology improves compression ratios, eliminates the need for reference counting, and facilitates improved reclamation of orphan dictionaries, among other advantages.

Methods, non-transitory machine readable media, and computing devices that provide improved dictionary-based compression are disclosed. With this technology, a first portion of an input data stream is compressed using a first dictionary. A second dictionary is trained when the first dictionary is determined to be stale. The dictionary can be determined to be stale based on a size of the input data stream compressed using the first dictionary or a compression ratio decreasing by a threshold, for example. The first dictionary can be stored with metadata associated with the compressed first portion of the input data stream. Accordingly, this technology improves compression ratios, eliminates the need for reference counting, and facilitates improved reclamation of orphan dictionaries, among other advantages.

Examples relating to watermarking digital content are described herein. According to one example, a digital quality of digital content received for watermarking is determined. From a library of watermark tints comprising a plurality of preformed watermark tints of predefined sizes, a watermark tint set for watermarking the digital content is retrieved, the watermark tint set comprising a plurality of watermark tints having a first size. The first size of the plurality of watermark tints is determined based on the digital quality of the digital content. The plurality of watermark tints having the first size are overlaid over the digital content to watermark the digital content.

A cell phone is disclosed for acquiring information to be transmitted to a receiving facility and for transmitting such thereto. A capture device captures information from an external source. A processor is provided for associating with the captured information a representation of the date and time of the capture of the information, such that the representation of the date and time information in association with the captured information forms augmented captured information. The processor also places the augmented captured information in association with subscriber information in a transmission of the augmented captured information to a receiving facility requiring such subscriber information. A transmitter transmits the transmission including the augmented captured information and the subscriber information to the receiving facility. An encryptor encrypts the augmented captured information with a symmetrical encryption algorithm to provide encrypted augmented captured information in the transmission with the subscriber information.

A scanner redirection method includes the steps of: receiving from an application running on a host server, a request for scanner properties; acquiring properties of the physical scanner; converting the properties of the physical scanner that are described according to a first scanning protocol to properties of the physical scanner that are described according to a second scanning protocol; transmitting the properties of the physical scanner that are described according to the second scanning protocol to the application; in response to detecting a user selection made on an image of a user interface, transmitting the user selection to the application; and in response to the user selection, receiving from the application, a request for a scanned image, and transmitting a request to an image capture core to acquire the scanned image from the physical scanner.

A scanner redirection method for a remote desktop system that includes a client computing device that has running therein a scanner redirection module, and a host server, the scanner redirection module including a data source manager for communicating with a data source that is configured to communicate with a physical scanner, includes the steps of: receiving from an application running on the host server, a request for a scanned image; in response to the request for the scanned image, transmitting to the data source a request to acquire the scanned image from the physical scanner; and upon receiving the scanned image from the data source, transmitting the scanned image to the application.

A device includes a processor and associated memory; and a compressor for compressing data representing an electronic document, the electronic document comprising a number of objects. The compressor is to determine for each object of the document whether data of that object is to be compressed with lossy or lossless compression and to compress the data accordingly to generate a compressed electronic document.