US 6,580,819 B1Grant
Methods of producing security documents having digitally encoded data and documents employing same
Issue Date:2003-06-17
•39 Claims
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Abstract
Machine readable data is digitally watermarked into banknotes by slight alterations to ink color, density, distribution, etc., or by texturing the microtopology of the banknote surface. Such watermarking can be optically sensed and detected by scanners, photocopiers, or printers. In response, such devices can intervene to prevent banknote reproduction. This arrangement addresses various problems, e.g., the use of digital image editing tools to circumvent prior art banknote anti-copy systems. In some embodiments, visible structures characteristic of banknotes are also detected (e.g. by pattern recognition analysis of image data), and reproduction can be halted if either the visible structures or the digital watermark data are detected. In other embodiments, automatic teller machines that accept, as well as dispense, banknotes can check for the presence of digitally watermarked data to help confirm the authenticity of banknotes input to the machines. In other embodiments, scanners, printers and photocopiers can be provided with digital watermarking capabilities so that image data, or printed output, produced by such devices includes digital watermark data, permitting subsequent identification of the particular device used.
Metadata
Assignee
- Digimarc Corporation
Inventor
- Geoffrey B. Rhoads
Application Information
Application Number:US 09/287,940
Filing Date:1999-04-07
Priority Date:1993-11-18
Art Unit:7
Classifications
IPC:
G06K 900
Field of Search:
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Patent Drawings (3 sheets)
Description
Related Application Data
[0002] This application claims benefit of the Apr. 16, 1998, filing date of co-pending provisional application No. 60/082,228. This application is also a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 08/967,693, filed Nov. 12, 1997 (now Patent 6,122,392), which is a continuation of application Ser. No. 08/614,521, filed Mar. 15, 1996 (now U.S. Pat. 5,745,604), which is a continuation of application Ser. No. 08/215,289, filed Mar. 17, 1994, now abandoned, which is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 08/154,866, filed Nov. 18, 1993, now abandoned. This application is also a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 08/951,858, filed Oct. 16, 1997 (now Patnet 6,026,193), which is a continuation of application Ser. No. 08/436,134, filed May 8, 1995 (now U.S. Pat. No. 5,748,763), which is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 08/327,426, filed Oct. 21, 1994 (now U.S. Pat. No. 5,768,426), which is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 08/215,289, filed Mar. 17, 1994, referenced above.
Field of the Invention
[0003] The present application relates to the use of digital watermarking in connection with paper currency and other security documents.
Background and Summary of the Invention
[0004] The problem of casual counterfeiting of banknotes first arose two decades ago, with the introduction of color photocopiers. A number of techniques were proposed to address the problem.
[0005] U.S. Pat. No. 5,659,628 (assigned to Ricoh) is one of several patents noting that photocopiers can be equipped to recognize banknotes and prevent their photocopying. The Ricoh patent particularly proposed that the red seal printed on Japanese yen notes is a pattern well-suited for machine recognition. U.S. Pat. No. 5,845,008 (assigned to Omron), and U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,724,154 and 5,731,880 (both assigned to Canon) show other photocopiers that sense the presence of the seal emblem on banknotes, and disable a photocopier in response.
[0006] Other technologies proposed that counterfeiting might be deterred by uniquely marking the printed output from each color photocopier, so that copies could be traced back to the originating machine. U.S. Pat. No. 5,568,268, for example, discloses the addition of essentially-imperceptible patterns of yellow dots to printed output; the pattern is unique to the machine. U.S. Pat. No. 5,557,742 discloses a related arrangement in which the photocopier's serial number is printed on output documents, again in essentially-imperceptible form (small yellow lettering). U.S. Pat. No. 5,661,574 shows an arrangement in which bits comprising the photocopier's serial number are represented in the photocopier's printed output by incrementing, or decrementing, pixel values (e.g. yellow pixels) at known locations by fixed amounts (e.g. +/−30), depending on whether the corresponding serial number bit is a “1” or a “0.”
[0007] Recent advances in color printing technology have greatly increased the level of casual counterfeiting. High quality scanners are now readily available to many computer users, with 300 dpi scanners available for under $100, and 600 dpi scanners available for marginally more. Similarly, photographic quality color ink-jet printers are commonly available from Hewlett-Packard Co., Epson, etc. for under $300.
[0008] These tools pose new threats. For example, a banknote can be doctored (e.g. by white-out, scissors, or less crude techniques) to remove/obliterate the visible patterns on which prior art banknote detection techniques relied to prevent counterfeiting. Such a doctored document can then be freely scanned or copied, even on photocopiers designed to prevent processing of banknote images. The removed pattern(s) can then be added back in, e.g. by use of digital image editing tools, permitting free reproduction of the banknote.
[0009] In accordance with aspects of the present invention, these and other current threats are addressed by digitally watermarking banknotes, and equipping devices to sense such watermarks and respond accordingly.
[0010] (Watermarking is a quickly growing field of endeavor, with several different approaches. The present assignee's work is reflected in the earlier-cited related applications, as well as in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,841,978, 5,748,783, 5,710,834, 5,636,292, 5,721,788, and laid-open PCT application WO97/43736. Other work is illustrated by U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,734,752, 5,646,997, 5,659,726, 5,664,018, 5,671,277, 5,687,191, 5,687,236, 5,689,587, 5,568,570, 5,572,247, 5,574,962, 5,579,124, 5,581,500, 5,613,004, 5,629,770, 5,461,426, 5,743,631, 5,488,664, 5,530,759, 5,539,735, 4,943,973, 5,337,361, 5,404,160, 5,404,377, 5,315,098, 5,319,735, 5,337,362, 4,972,471, 5,161,210, 5,243,423, 5,091,966, 5,113,437, 4,939,515, 5,374,976, 4,855,827, 4,876,617, 4,939,515, 4,963,998, 4,969,041, and published foreign applications WO 98/02864, EP 822,550, WO 97/39410, WO 96/36163, GB 2,196,167, EP 777,197, EP 736,860, EP 705,025, EP 766,468, EP 782,322, WO 95/20291, WO 96/26494, WO 96/36935, WO 96/42151, WO 97/22206, WO 97/26733. Some of the foregoing patents relate to visible watermarking techniques. Other visible watermarking techniques (e.g. data glyphs) are described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,706,364, 5,689,620, 5,684,885, 5,680,223, 5,668,636, 5,640,647, 5,594,809.
[0011] Most of the work in watermarking, however, is not in the patent literature but rather in published research. In addition to the patentees of the foregoing patents, some of the other workers in this field (whose watermark-related writings can by found by an author search in the INSPEC database) include I. Pitas, Eckhard Koch, Jian Zhao, Norishige Morimoto, Laurence Boney, Kineo Matsui, A. Z. Tirkel, Fred Mintzer, B. Macq, Ahmed H. Tewfik, Frederic Jordan, Naohisa Komatsu, and Lawrence O'Gorman.
[0012] The artisan is assumed to be familiar with the foregoing prior art.
[0013] In the present disclosure it should be understood that references to watermarking encompass not only the assignee's watermarking technology, but can likewise be practiced with any other watermarking technology, such as those indicated above.
[0014] The physical manifestation of watermarked information most commonly takes the form of altered signal values, such as slightly changed pixel values, picture luminance, picture colors, DCT coefficients, instantaneous audio amplitudes, etc. However, a watermark can also be manifested in other ways, such as changes in the surface microtopology of a medium, localized chemical changes (e.g. in photographic emulsions), localized variations in optical density, localized changes in luminescence, etc. Watermarks can also be optically implemented in holograms and conventional paper watermarks.)
[0015] The foregoing and other features and advantages of the present invention will be more readily apparent from the following Detailed Description, which proceeds with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Brief Description of the Drawings
[0016] FIG. 1 shows part of an automatic teller machine employing principles of the present invention.
[0017] FIG. 2 shows part of a device (e.g. a photocopier, scanner, or printer) employing principles of the present invention.
[0018] FIG. 3 shows part of another device employing principles of the present invention.
Detailed Description
[0019] Watermarks in banknotes and other security documents (passports, stock certificates, checks, etc.—all collectively referred to as banknotes herein) offer great promise to reduce such counterfeiting, as discussed more fully below. Additionally, watermarks provide a high-confidence technique for banknote authentication.
[0020] By way of example, consider an automatic teller machine that uses watermark data to provide high confidence authentication of banknotes, permitting it to accept—as well as dispense—cash. Referring to FIG. 1, such a machine (11) is provided with a known optical scanner (13) to produce digital data (15) corresponding to the face(s) of the bill (16). This image set (14) is then analyzed (16) to extract embedded watermark data. In watermarking technologies that require knowledge of a code signal (20) for decoding (e.g. noise modulation signal, crypto key, spreading signal, etc.), a bill may be watermarked in accordance with several such codes. Some of these codes are public—permitting their reading by conventional machines. Others are private, and are reserved for use by government agencies and the like. (C.f. public and private codes in the present assignee's issued patents.)
[0021] As noted, banknotes presently include certain visible structures, or markings (e.g., the seal emblem noted in the earlier-cited patents), which can be used as aids to note authentication (either by visual inspection or by machine detection). Desirably, a note is examined by an integrated detection system (24), for both such visible structures (22), as well as the present watermark-embedded data, to determine authenticity.
[0022] The visible structures can be sensed using known pattern recognition techniques. Examples of such techniques are disclosed in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,321,773, 5,390,259, 5,533,144, 5,539,841, 5,583,614, 5,633,952, 4,723,149 and 5,424,807 and laid-open foreign application EP 766,449. The embedded watermark data can be recovered using the scanning/analysis techniques disclosed in the cited patents and publications.
[0023] To reduce counterfeiting, it is desirable that document-reproducing technologies recognize banknotes and refuse to reproduce same. Referring to FIG. 2, a photocopier (30), for example, can sense the presence of either a visible structure (32) or embedded banknote watermark data (34), and disable copying if either is present (36). Scanners and printers can be equipped with a similar capability—analyzing the data scanned or to be printed for either of these banknote hallmarks. If either is detected, the software (or hardware) disables further operation.
[0024] The watermark detection criteria provides an important advantage not otherwise available. As noted, an original bill can be doctored (e.g. by white-out, scissors, or less crude techniques) to remove/obliterate the visible structures. Such a document can then be freely copied on either a visible structure-sensing photocopier or scanner/printer installation. The removed visible structure can then be added in via a second printing/photocopying operation. If the printer is not equipped with banknote-disabling capabilities, image-editing tools can be used to insert visible structures back into image data sets scanned from such doctored bills, and the complete bill freely printed. By additionally including embedded watermark data in the banknote, and sensing same, such ruses will not succeed.
[0025] (A similar ruse is to scan a banknote image on a non-banknote-sensing scanner. The resulting image set can then be edited by conventional image editing tools to remove/obliterate the visible structures. Such a data set can then be printed—even on a printer/photocopier that examines such data for the presence of visible structures. Again, the missing visible structures can be inserted by a subsequent printing/photocopying operation.)
[0026] Desirably, the visible structure detector and the watermark detector are integrated together as a single hardware and/or software tool. This arrangement provides various economies, e.g., in interfacing with the scanner, manipulating pixel data sets for pattern recognition and watermark extraction, electronically re-registering the image to facilitate pattern recognition/watermark extraction, issuing control signals (e.g. disabling) signals to the photocopier/scanner, etc.
[0027] A related principle (FIG. 3) is to insert an imperceptible watermark having a universal ID (UID) into all documents printed with a printer, scanned with a scanner, or reproduced by a photocopier. The UID is associated with the particular printer/photocopier/scanner in a registry database maintained by the products' manufacturers. The manufacturer can also enter in this database the name of the distributor to whom the product was initially shipped. Still further, the owner's name and address can be added to the database when the machine is registered for warranty service. While not preventing use of such machines in counterfeiting, the embedded UID facilitates identifying the machine that generated a counterfeit banknote. (This is an application in which a private watermark might best be used.)
[0028] While the foregoing applications disabled potential counterfeiting operations upon the detection of either a visible structure or watermarked data, in other applications, both criteria must be met before a banknote is recognized as genuine. Such applications typically involve the receipt or acceptance of banknotes, e.g. by ATMs as discussed above and illustrated in FIG. 1.
[0029] The foregoing principles (employing just watermark data, or in conjunction with visible indicia) can likewise be used to prevent counterfeiting of tags and labels (e.g. the fake labels and tags commonly used in pirating Levis brand jeans, branded software, etc.)
[0030] The reader may first assume that banknote watermarking is effected by slight alterations to the ink color/density/distribution, etc. on the paper. This is one approach. Another is to watermark the underlying medium (whether paper, polymer, etc.) with a watermark. This can be done by changing the microtopology of the medium (a la mini-Braille) to manifest the watermark data. Another option is to employ a laminate on or within the banknote, where the laminate has the watermarking manifested thereon/therein. The laminate can be textured (as above), or its optical transmissivity can vary in accordance with a noise-like pattern that is the watermark, or a chemical property can similarly vary.
[0031] Another option is to print at least part of a watermark using photoluminescent ink. This allows, e.g., a merchant presented with a banknote, to quickly verify the presence of *some* watermark-like indicia in/on the bill even without resort to a scanner and computer analysis (e.g. by examining under a black light). Such photoluminescent ink can also print human-readable indicia on the bill, such as the denomination of a banknote. (Since ink-jet printers and other common mass-printing technologies employ cyan/magenta/yellow/black to form colors, they can produce only a limited spectrum of colors. Photoluminescent colors are outside their capabilities. Fluorescent colors—such as the yellow, pink and green dyes used in highlighting markers—can similarly be used and have the advantage of being visible without a black light.)
[0032] An improvement to existing encoding techniques is to add an iterative assessment of the robustness of the mark, with a corresponding adjustment in a re-watermarking operation. Especially when encoding multiple bit watermarks, the characteristics of the underlying content may result in some bits being more robustly (e.g. strongly) encoded than others. In an illustrative technique employing this improvement, a watermark is first embedded in an object. Next, a trial decoding operation is performed. A confidence measure (e.g. signal-to-noise ratio) associated with each bit detected in the decoding operation is then assessed. The bits that appear weakly encoded are identified, and corresponding changes are made to the watermarking parameters to bring up the relative strengths of these bits. The object is then watermarked anew, with the changed parameters. This process can be repeated, as needed, until all of the bits comprising the encoded data are approximately equally detectable from the encoded object, or meet some predetermined signal-to-noise ratio threshold.
[0033] The foregoing applications, and others, can generally benefit by multiple watermarks. For example, an object (physical or data) can be marked once in the spatial domain, and a second time in the spatial frequency domain. (It should be understood that any change in one domain has repercussions in the other. Here we reference the domain in which the change is directly effected.)
[0034] Another option is to mark an object with watermarks of two different levels of robustness, or strength. The more robust watermark withstands various types of corruption, and is detectable in the object even after multiple generations of intervening distortion. The less robust watermark can be made frail enough to fail with the first distortion of the object. In a banknote, for example, the less robust watermark serves as an authentication mark. Any scanning and reprinting operation will cause it to become unreadable. Both the robust and the frail watermarks should be present in an authentic banknote; only the former watermark will be present in a counterfeit.
[0035] Still another form of multiple-watermarking is with content that is compressed. The content can be watermarked once (or more) in an uncompressed state. Then, after compression, a further watermark (or watermarks) can be applied.
[0036] Still another advantage from multiple watermarks is protection against sleuthing. If one of the watermarks is found and cracked, the other watermark(s) will still be present and serve to identify the object.
[0037] The foregoing discussion has addressed various technological fixes to many different problems. Exemplary solutions have been detailed above. Others will be apparent to the artisan by applying common knowledge to extrapolate from the solutions provided above.
[0038] For example, the technology and solutions disclosed herein have made use of elements and techniques known from the cited references. Other elements and techniques from the cited references can similarly be combined to yield further implementations within the scope of the present invention. Thus, for example, holograms with watermark data can be employed in banknotes, single-bit watermarking can commonly be substituted for multi-bit watermarking, technology described as using imperceptible watermarks can alternatively be practiced using visible watermarks (glyphs, etc.), techniques described as applied to images can likewise be applied to video and audio, local scaling of watermark energy can be provided to enhance watermark signal-to-noise ratio without increasing human perceptibility, various filtering operations can be employed to serve the functions explained in the prior art, watermarks can include subliminal graticules to aid in image re-registration, encoding may proceed at the granularity of a single pixel (or DCT coefficient), or may similarly treat adjoining groups of pixels (or DCT coefficients), the encoding can be optimized to withstand expected forms of content corruption. Etc., etc., etc. Thus, the exemplary embodiments are only selected samples of the solutions available by combining the teachings referenced above. The other solutions necessarily are not exhaustively described herein, but are fairly within the understanding of an artisan given the foregoing disclosure and familiarity with the cited art.
[0039] (To provide a comprehensive disclosure without unduly lengthening the following specification, applicants incorporate by reference the patent documents cited herein.)
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1. A method of producing a banknote having digital data encoded therein, the method comprising: slightly altering an original image but without leaving any substantially human-apparent evidence of image alteration, and printing the banknote with the altered image, wherein visible light scanning of the banknote yields scan data from which the digital data can be decoded, yet rendering of the scan data for human viewing does not reveal the existence of said encoded digital data.
2. The method of claim 1 in which the digital data comprises plural bits.
3. The method of claim 2 in which said plural bits are encoded redundantly across the banknote, rather than the banknote being marked in a single localized region only.
4. The method of claim 1 in which the encoding makes use of a code signal.
5. The method of claim 1 in which the encoding makes use of a discrete cosine transform.
6. The method of claim 1 which includes encoding with two different digital watermarks.
7. The method of claim 6 in which the two different digital watermarks are of different robustness.
8. The method of claim 6 in which the two watermarks are encoded in accordance with different code signals.
9. The method of claim 1 which also includes providing the banknote with a hologram.
10. The method of claim 1 which includes encoding a calibration signal with the digital data.
11. The method of claim 10 in which the calibration signal is adapted to facilitate decoding of the digital data from the encoded banknote notwithstanding rotation.
12. A method of enhancing the security of a banknote, the method including digitally watermarking a banknote with machine readable, generally imperceptible, digital data, characterized by generating a pattern corresponding to said digital data, and physically texturing the surface of the banknote in accordance with said pattern, said texturing being independent of printing on the banknote.
13. The method of claim 12 in which said digital data comprises plural bits.
14. The method of claim 13 in which said plural bits are encoded redundantly across the banknote, rather than the banknote being marked in a single localized region only.
15. The method of claim 12 in which the encoding makes use of a code signal.
16. The method of claim 12 in which the encoding makes use of a discrete cosine transform.
17. The method of claim 12 which includes encoding with two different digital watermarks.
18. The method of claim 17 in which the two different digital watermarks are of different robustness.
19. The method of claim 17 in which the two watermarks are encoded in accordance with different code signals.
20. The method of claim 12 which also includes providing the banknote with a hologram.
21. The method of claim 12 which includes encoding a calibration signal with the digital data.
22. The method of claim 21 in which the calibration signal is adapted to facilitate decoding of the digital data from the encoded banknote notwithstanding rotation.
23. The method of claim 12 in which visible light scanning of the banknote yields scan data from which the digital data can be decoded, yet rendering of the scan data for human viewing does not reveal the existence of said encoded digital data.
24. A method of producing a security document having digital data encoded therein comprising: slightly altering an original image, said alterations varying across the image in accordance with local image characteristics rather than being uniform thereacross, and printing the security document with the altered image, wherein visible light scanning of the security document yields scan data from which the digital data can be decoded, yet rendering of the scan data for human viewing does not reveal the existence of said encoded digital data.
25. A method of producing a security document having digital data encoded therein, the method comprising: slightly altering an original image but without leaving any substantially human-apparent evidence of image alteration, and printing the security document with the altered image, wherein visible light scanning of the security document yields scan data from which the digital data can be decoded, yet rendering of the scan data for human viewing does not reveal the existence of said encoded digital data.
26. The method of claim 25 in which the digital data comprises plural bits.
27. The method of claim 26 in which said plural bits are encoded redundantly across the security document, rather than the security document being marked in a single localized region only.
28. The method of claim 26 in which the encoding makes use of a code signal.
29. The method of claim 26 in which the encoding makes use of a discrete cosine transform.
30. The method of claim 26 which includes encoding with two different digital watermarks.
31. The method of claim 30 in which the two different digital watermarks are of different robustness.
32. The method of claim 30 in which the two watermarks are encoded in accordance with different code signals.
33. The method of claim 25 which also includes providing the security document with a hologram.
34. The method of claim 25 which includes encoding a calibration signal with the digital data.
35. The method of claim 40 in which the calibration signal is adapted to facilitate deconding of the digital data from the encoded security document notwithstanding rotation.
36. The method of claim 25 wherein the security document comprises a passport.
37. The method of claim 25 wherein the security document comprises a check.
38. The method of claim 25 wherein the security document comprises a lable.
39. The method of claim 25 wherein the security document comprises a tag.
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