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Article: California Inventor Develops Video Content Unauthorized Copying Prevention Method
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- June 19, 2008
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Thomas P. Dawson of Escondido, Calif., has developed a method for copy protection of video content.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preventing the copying of useable video content is disclosed. The method includes identifying the video signal content of a video signal that is suitable to be extracted, extracting video content from the video signal to transmit to a receiver, and replacing the extracted video content with marred video content in the video signal."
An abstract of the invention, released by the Patent Office, said: "The method further includes placing the extracted video content in a user data channel of a program ...