Patent 7602977 was granted and assigned to Digimarc on October, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present invention relates generally to digital watermarking, steganographic data hiding, and data compression. One claim recites a method including: obtaining media comprising imagery or audio; obtaining plural-bit data; embedding the plural-bit data in the media with digital watermarking, the digital watermarking altering data representing the media; and adjusting compression of the media in accordance with at least one characteristic associated with the digital watermarking. Other claims and combinations are provided as well.