System and method for digital watermarking

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11087426-B2
Application number	US-201815961115-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 24, 2018
Priority date	Aug 27, 2013
Publication date	Aug 10, 2021
Grant date	Aug 10, 2021

Abstract

Some implementations may provide a method that includes: receiving, at a mobile device, data encoding a first digital watermark present on the identification document; extracting a first portion of personally identifiable information encoded by a spatial luminance pattern associated with the first digital watermark; receiving, at a mobile device, data encoding a second digital watermark present on the identification document; extracting a second portion of personally identifiable information encoded by a spatial luminance pattern associated with the first digital watermark; and validating the identification document based on at least one of the first portion of personally identifiable information or the second portion of personally identifiable information.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method, the method comprising:
obtaining personally identifiable information;
encoding a first portion of the personally identifiable information into a spatial luminance pattern;
embedding the spatial luminance pattern that encodes the first portion of the personally identifiable information into a first digital watermark;
encoding a second portion of the personally identifiable information into a spatial chrominance distribution;
embedding the spatial chrominance distribution that encodes the second portion of the personally identifiable information into a second digital watermark; and
applying the first digital watermark to a first region of an identification document and the second digital watermark to a second region of the identification document, wherein the first region and the second region share a common overlap area while also occupying non-overlapping areas on the identification document.

2. The method of claim 1 , comprising:
determining the first portion of the personally identifiable information and the second portion of the personally identifiable information such that the first portion and the second portion are configured to validate the identification document.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the first portion and the second portion are configured to correlate to each other.

4. The method of claim 2 , wherein a subpart of the first portion is configured to be compared to an integrity check of the second portion.

5. The method of claim 2 , wherein a subpart of the second portion is configured to be compared to an integrity check of the first portion.

6. The method of claim 2 , comprising:
providing the identification document, with the first digital watermark to the first region of the identification document and the second digital watermark to the second region of the identification document, for display on a mobile device.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first digital watermark and the second digital watermark only partially overlap on the identification document.

8. A system comprising: one or more computers and one or more storage devices storing instructions that are operable, when executed by the one or more computers, to cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:
obtaining personally identifiable information;
encoding a first portion of the personally identifiable information into a spatial luminance pattern;
embedding the spatial luminance pattern that encodes the first portion of the personally identifiable information into a first digital watermark;
encoding a second portion of the personally identifiable information into a spatial chrominance distribution;
embedding the spatial chrominance distribution that encodes the second portion of the personally identifiable information into a second digital watermark; and
applying the first digital watermark to a first region of an identification document and the second digital watermark to a second region of the identification document, wherein the first region and the second region share a common overlap area while also occupying non-overlapping areas on the identification document.

9. The system of claim 8 , the operations comprising:
determining the first portion of the personally identifiable information and the second portion of the personally identifiable information such that the first portion and the second portion are configured to validate the identification document.

10. The system of claim 9 , wherein the first portion and the second portion are configured to correlate to each other.

11. The system of claim 9 , wherein a subpart of the first portion is configured to be compared to an integrity check of the second portion.

12. The system of claim 9 , wherein a subpart of the second portion is configured to be compared to an integrity check of the first portion.

13. The system of claim 9 , the operations comprising:
providing the identification document, with the first digital watermark to the first region of the identification document and the second digital watermark to the second region of the identification document, for display on a mobile device.

14. The system of claim 8 , wherein the first digital watermark and the second digital watermark only partially overlap on the identification document.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing software comprising instructions executable by one or more computers which, upon such execution, cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:
obtaining personally identifiable information;
encoding a first portion of the personally identifiable information into a spatial luminance pattern;
embedding the spatial luminance pattern that encodes the first portion of the personally identifiable information into a first digital watermark;
encoding a second portion of the personally identifiable information into a spatial chrominance distribution;
embedding the spatial chrominance distribution that encodes the second portion of the personally identifiable information into a second digital watermark; and
applying the first digital watermark to a first region of an identification document and the second digital watermark to a second region of the identification document, wherein the first region and the second region share a common overlap area while also occupying non-overlapping areas on the identification document.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15 , the operations comprising:
determining the first portion of the personally identifiable information and the second portion of the personally identifiable information such that the first portion and the second portion are configured to validate the identification document.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 16 , wherein the first portion and the second portion are configured to correlate to each other.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 16 , wherein a subpart of the first portion is configured to be compared to an integrity check of the second portion.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 16 , wherein a subpart of the second portion is configured to be compared to an integrity check of the first portion.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 16 , the operations comprising:
providing the identification document, with the first digital watermark to the first region of the identification document and the second digital watermark to the second region of the identification document, for display on a mobile device.

Assignees

• Morphotrust Usa Llc

Inventors

• Poder Daniel
• Eckel Robert Andrew

Classifications

• G06T1/0071 Primary

  using multiple or alternating watermarks · CPC title

• G06T2201/0052

  Embedding of the watermark in the frequency domain · CPC title

• G06F21/64

  Protecting data integrity, e.g. using checksums, certificates or signatures · CPC title

• G06F21/34

  involving the use of external additional devices, e.g. dongles or smart cards · CPC title

• G06T2201/0051

  Embedding of the watermark in the spatial domain · CPC title