Sony patents video watermarks that survive screen recordings
Sony describes a method for hiding a digital watermark inside a video that remains visible even if someone records the screen to make a copy. This watermark contains links to the original video and data about the person who created the re-recording.
In the filing’s own words
A watermark representing a link to an original video and/or metadata such as haptic metadata associated with the original video is embedded in the original video in such a way that a re-recording to the original video can still preserve the watermark. The watermark can be used to link to the original video or to the metadata related thereto.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method comprising: rendering, by a set of processors, a re-recorded video of an original video; identifying, by the set of processors, a watermark in at least one frame of the original video; and based at least in part on the watermark, embedding, by the set of processors, in video data of the re-recorded video, the watermark comprising: a first link to the original video; a second link to a version of the video from which the re-recorded video was rendered; and metadata identifying an influencer associated with the re-recording.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.)
- Official title
- Metadata watermarking for ‘nested spectating’
- Patent number
- US12743738B2
- Application number
- 18349142
- Filed
- Jul 8, 2023
- Granted
- Sep 22, 2026
- Inventors
- 1
- Claims
- 16
Classified under
G06T 1/0085 Physics & computingG06T 1/0028 Physics & computingH04N 19/467 Electricity & electronicsMore from Sony in AI & software
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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