Patent 7266217 was granted and assigned to Digimarc on September, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Image, video, and/or audio data is encoded with at least first and second watermarks. In one implementation a method includes: receiving content; embedding a first watermark signal in the content; compressing the content; embedding a second watermark signal in the content. The first watermark signal and the second watermark signal are designed to respond differently to at least a first type of signal processing. Other implementations are also provided.