Digital watermarking
CA 2219205 C · Owner: Miller, Matthew L. · Inventors: Wakasu, Yutaka; Cox, Ingemar J.; Miller, Matthew L.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
Digital watermarking of data, including image video and audio data, is performed by repeatedly inserting the watermark into subregions or subimages of the data. Similarly the watermark is repeatedly extracted from the subregions of the data.
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed October 23, 1997 and granted July 3, 2001. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 23, 2017.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by October 23, 2019.
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Sources & verification
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