NTT Develops Internet Access Platform using Electronic Watermarks
July. 09, 11:38:12 (JST) Japan Corporate News Network
Tokyo - Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (TSE: 6472) has developed an Internet Access Platform that uses electronic watermark technologies--a technology for embedding additional information in an image, video, or other contents, with virtually no effect on the image quality. The new serivece platform dubbed "CyberSquash"
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Info directly from NTT's site...
The CyberSquash platform will be provided for a period of approximately six months, starting from July 8, via NTT-SL's "Cyber Trial*3" service site (http://www.cyber-trial.com/). In this trial, watermarks have been embedded in images on the site, and users can access CyberSquash functions simply by pointing a web camera at a printout of the image, or by taking a picture using a mobile phone with a digital camera function. The first 1,000 users will receive a free "SquashCard" (PDF file) -- a name card featuring a watermark
See the "SquashCard" system overview chart here.