Patent ID: 7587604

Claim:
A watermark signal generating method for generating watermark signals to be embedded as a digital watermark in real-time contents of a plurality of video frames, comprising the steps of: inputting the real-time contents; storing the real-time contents; generating, from the real-time contents, watermark signals to be outputted corresponding to predicted intensities of the real-time contents; and storing the generated watermark signals to be outputted, wherein the generation step includes the steps of: dividing each of the video frames into tiles including pixels with respective associated luminances; analyzing luminance distribution in a selected tile by calculating an average of luminances from the pixels within the selected tile; generating an average luminance for each tile in the video frame; predicting intensities of the watermark signals from a weight assigned to the average luminance of each tile of each video frame of the real-time contents after a predetermined lapse of time; generating a value to be embedded for the purpose of controlling a value of the watermark signal to be outputted by use of a message to be embedded as a digital watermark in the real-time contents; and controlling the watermark signals to be outputted according to the value to be embedded, and generating the watermark signals to be outputted by use of the intensity prediction of the watermark signals if the value to be embedded is positive, and not generating the watermark signals to be outputted if the value to be embedded is negative.