Content Adaptive Watermarking for Digital Images

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional digital image processing systems face challenges in accuracy, efficiency, and flexibility when inserting watermarks into multiple images, often requiring repetitive user interactions and inefficient utilization of computing resources.

Innovation Solution

An adaptive watermark system that intelligently evaluates various watermark configurations to determine content-adaptive placements and colors, generating marked digital images with improved visibility and accuracy by analyzing effectiveness scores for multiple anchor points and user preferences.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If conventional systems allow users to manually select and position watermarks in digital images, then users can control watermark placement, but the process becomes time-consuming and inefficient for processing multiple images

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser control over watermark placementVSAvoidspeed of image processing

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically determines optimal watermark configurations by analyzing image content and effectiveness scores, eliminating the need for manual user selection and positioning while maintaining high accuracy in watermark placement

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically adjusts watermark parameters including position, color, and size based on image analysis and effectiveness scores to optimize visibility and placement accuracy for each image

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

2Ease of manufacture

If conventional systems use fixed watermark placement methods, then the process is simple to implement, but accuracy and flexibility of watermark positioning deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesimplicity of system implementationVSAvoidaccuracy of watermark placement

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of manufactureVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-calculates and evaluates multiple watermark configurations before final selection, using effectiveness scores to determine the optimal placement in advance, thereby achieving high accuracy without complex real-time computation

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses effectiveness scores derived from analyzing image content and watermark visibility to feedback-adjust watermark placement decisions, continuously optimizing accuracy based on measured performance

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

3Reliability

If conventional systems process each image individually with manual watermark insertion, then quality control is maintained, but the time required increases significantly for multiple images

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvequality of watermark placementVSAvoidprocessing time for multiple images

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies a unified automated watermarking approach across multiple images simultaneously, using the same effectiveness scoring and selection mechanism for each image to maintain consistent quality while processing batches efficiently

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS12148062B2Generating content adaptive watermarks for digital images

Publication Date: 2024.11.19 ADOBE INC

AI summary

The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for generating marked digital images with content adaptive watermarks. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems intelligently evaluate a plurality of watermark configurations to select one or more content adaptive watermarks for one or more target digital images and generate one or more marked digital images by adding the selected content adaptive watermarks to the one or more target digital images.