Watermark

(redirected from watermarks)
Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Legal, Encyclopedia.

Watermark

An image in a piece of paper that may be seen more clearly when it is held up to light. This is used in printing some money and passports to prevent counterfeiting. For example, if one holds a $20 American bill up to light, one would see a watermark of Andrew Jackson's face.
Mentioned in ?
References in periodicals archive ?
The procedure of detecting watermarks is the reverse procedure of generating watermarks.
Robust zero-watermarking algorithm for CAD models
So far uMark had been available only for the Windows platform, now with the launch of uMark for Mac, even Mac users would be able to use it to watermark and protect their photographs.
New Photo Watermark Software for Mac Released
Measurements of the watermark intensity and sharpness relative to a reference correlated well with the results of visual testing.
Development of watermark quality measurement by image analysis
Digital watermarks are in extensive use around the world, with billions of digitally watermarked objects in use for broadcast monitoring and copy protection.
INTENT MediaWorks Leads Multi-Industry P2P Watermarking Initiative
The watermark is usually a random number sequence, copyright messages, ownership identifier, or control signal identifying the ownership information (Cox et al.
SVD-based image water marking
After these attacks on the watermarked image, the extracted watermarks are compared with the original one.
Dual watermarking scheme for copyright protection and authentication
Distributed systems for registering watermarked content and responding to requests triggered by watermark detection; U.
Digimarc Patent Proposes Solution for Identifying Copyrighted Content in Social Networks and Peer-to-Peer Environments
Fully blind recovery supports extraction of the watermark from a pirated copy without reference to the original source.
Cinea Launches First Forensic Watermarking Application for Use With Broad Range of Consumer Video Devices; Patented Running Marks Allows Tracking of Pirated Content to Devices Ranging From Set-Tops to Portable Video Devices to Mobile Phones
Digimarc Corporation (NASDAQ: DMRC) today announced the Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) is leading the fight against fake IDs and related safety issues by equipping DMV offices around the State with the ability to inspect and authenticate driver licenses secured with Digimarc(R) IDMarc(TM) digital watermarks.
Nebraska Expands Digital Watermarking Deployment in the Fight Against Fake IDs; Nebraska DMV Deploys Digimarc Document Inspector System to Authenticate Driver Licenses
As digital watermarks do not disrupt the images to which they are applied, this offers unlimited application and marketing possibilities, particularly with those companies that are sensitive to maintaining their brand images.
Digimarc and AquaMobile to Bring Spanish and Portuguese Camera Phone Users Simplified Internet Access with Digital Watermarking
Widevine Mensor watermarks and fingerprints content at each stage of a multi-node content delivery network.
Widevine(R) Unveils Digital Forensics for Consumer Devices; Widevine Mensor(TM) Watermarks Content Delivered to PCs and Set Top Boxes From Amino Communications, Motorola and Scientific-Atlanta
and international patents and 29 patent applications for embedding and detecting digital watermarks in audio, image and video files.
Drakes Bay Adds Dirty Paper Coding US Patent and Application to Digital Watermarking Intellectual Property Licensing; Expands on Fundamental Ingemar J. Cox Patents in Perceptual Watermarking Techniques

Financial browser ?
Full browser ?