Disclosed in this application are a method for embedding a watermark in video data and apparatus, a method for extracting a watermark in video data and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium. The method for embedding the watermark includes: acquiring a target image frame in video data; performing time-frequency transformation on the target image frame to obtain target frequency domain data, the target frequency domain data comprising a matrix formed by frequency domain coefficients; changing the frequency domain coefficients in the target frequency domain data according to watermark data to obtain watermarked frequency domain data; performing inverse time-frequency transformation on the watermarked frequency domain data to obtain a watermarked image frame; and synthesizing watermarked video data according to the watermarked image frame.

In one embodiment, a command is received from a video provider at a media rendering device, the command being a command to embed a subscriber ID in at least one video frame in a video stream. A random key, k is also received from the video provider at the media rendering device. An injective transformation is invoked for k and the subscriber ID, the injective transformation generating a sequence of pairs of: near-transparent patterns and corresponding time periods. Logical blocks of the at least one video frame in the video stream are overlaid with one of the near-transparent patterns for its one of the corresponding time periods. Related apparatus, systems, and methods are also described.

The disclosed technology relates to methods, devices, systems and computer program products that facilitate access to metadata associated with a content. In one example, a method is described that includes receiving a multimedia content at a receiver device, extracting a watermark message from a first segment of the multimedia content, using at least a portion of the first watermark message to obtain additional information regarding the first segment of the multimedia content that includes the first watermark message, and associating and storing one or more values of the first watermark message and the additional information. The method further includes repeating the above operations to extract additional watermark messages from additional segments of the content and to form a table or array of items that can be accessed by specifying the one or more values of the first watermark message or one or more values of the additional watermark messages.

A method and system for using steganographically-encoded time information as a basis to control when a client carries out a content-related action. The client processes for presentation one or more linear media streams, each defining a respective time sequence of frames of media content, and at least one of the streams being steganographically encoded with at least one watermark at a respective time-point within the linear media stream, the watermark encoding a timestamp of the respective time-point within the linear media stream according to a server clock. The client extracts the timestamp from the watermark and computes a time offset based on a difference between the extracted timestamp and a current time according to a client clock. And the client uses the computed time offset as a basis to determine when the client should carry out a content-related action in a given one of the one or more linear media streams.

In one example, a method for inserting a digital watermark in a signal includes obtaining the signal comprising a plurality of frames, inserting a first digital watermark in a first frame of the plurality of frames, inserting a second digital watermark in a second frame of the plurality of frames, wherein the second digital watermark differs from the first digital watermark in at least one way selected from a group of: a location within a respective frame, a number of bits, a pattern of bits, and a number of bits of a noise, and outputting a watermarked signal including the first digital watermark in the first frame and the second digital watermark in the second frame.

A video watermark processing method, an apparatus, an information transmitting method, an electronic device, and a storage medium are provided. The video data and the watermark data corresponding to the video data are separately acquired, so that a receiver of the video data may generate the target watermark according to the watermark data, and execute corresponding processing on the video data and the target watermark in response to the processing request for the video data.

Data are encoded into one or more optically encoded images. The optically encoded images are then inserted as image data into a video sequence—i.e., in video frames. Data are transmitted in-band within the video, via any conceivable video distribution channel or format. The video may be trans-coded as required—because the data are optically encoded, any video processing that even crudely preserves the frame images will preserve the optically encoded data. This scheme of in-band data transfer in video is very robust. A video receiving apparatus receives the video, inspects the image data from video frames in memory, detects optically encoded images in the image data, and decodes the optically encoded images to recover the data. The frames carrying optically encoded images are typically discarded and not rendered to a display. The data from a plurality of optically encoded images may be concatenated, and further processed.

The present invention generally relates to the field of automated and flexible information extraction and protection for graphical data. In particular, the invention provides a unique platform for analyzing, classifying, extracting, and processing information from images using deep learning image detection models. Embodiments of the inventions are configured to provide an end to end automated solution for intelligently hiding or obscuring private data from graphical displays via the use of embedded steganographic image data techniques.

An example symbol-based watermark detection method disclosed herein includes, in response to a comparison of a first count of occurrences of a first potential symbol value corresponding to a first symbol within a watermark and a second count of occurrences of a second potential symbol value corresponding to the first symbol, (i) determining a first accumulated signal to noise ratio value corresponding to the occurrences of the first potential symbol value, (ii) determining a second accumulated signal to noise ratio value corresponding to the occurrences of the second potential symbol value, and (iii) selecting one of the first or the second potential symbol value having a greatest accumulated signal to noise ratio value as a likely symbol value for the first symbol. The example method also includes concatenating the likely symbol value with other likely symbol values corresponding to other symbols of the watermark to detect the watermark.

A computer system for the creation of subliminal image or watermarks where the apparent video is an “obvious” image and a subliminal or “clandestine” image or watermark is hidden within the data structure. The concept is envisioned for the cloaking of images, sound, video or like digitized non-coded information. The cloaked files may be intended for storage, transmission, or clandestine placement in a public file system. The watermark may be used for the subliminal marking of a source of a file, its creation, or for tagging copyrighted information.