Patent ID: 7043019

Claim:
A copy-deterrent display apparatus for displaying a sequential plurality of image frames of a digital motion picture, each of said image frames comprising an array of pixels, each said pixel assigned to be displayed at a predetermined intensity within each frame, said apparatus comprising: (a) a pattern generator/modulator assembly capable of providing control signals specifying a pattern of pixels within each said frame, said control signals specifying temporal modulation of said pattern of pixels at predetermined frequency or frequencies within a frame period so that each of certain pixels are multiply pulsed during a frame period, wherein said temporal modulation is chosen to be at a frequency imperceptible to a human observer observing the digital motion picture displayed on said display apparatus while simultaneously producing objectionable artifacts selected from the group consisting of an obscuring pattern, an obscuring message and a watermark due to image aliasing when said displayed frames are captured by a sampling video capturing device wherein said image aliasing results from the presence of relatively strong temporal frequency components that are within the visible frequency range when captured by the video capturing device; and (b) an image forming assembly capable of accepting said control signals from said pattern generator/modulator assembly and of modifying the displayed pixel intensities within each said frame in response to said control signals.