Patent ID: 8085976
Filing Date: 2011-12-27
Classification: G01C,G06F,G06T,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of controlling an airborne platform, comprising: controlling capture of video depicting at least a portion of the earth's surface, wherein the video is captured by a camera on the airborne platform; obtaining geographical metadata associated with at least captured video; controlling encoding of first digital watermarking in the video through alterations to data representing the captured video, wherein the first digital watermarking is generally imperceptible to a human observer of the captured video when rendered to the human observer, and wherein the first digital watermarking comprises or links to the geographical metadata; controlling encoding of second digital watermarking in the video, wherein the second digital watermarking comprises a plural-bit payload that includes data representing a refinement to the geographical metadata; and controlling transmission of the second digital watermarked video to a remotely located receiver on or in the earth's surface.