A fuel cell for production of electrical energy, such as a fuel cell, comprising a fuel chamber (1), an anode (2a), a cathode (2b), an electrolyte (3) disposed between said anode and said cathode, an oxidant chamber (4), wherein said chambers (1 and 4) enclose said anode, cathode and electrolyte, wherein a fuel flowing from the fuel chamber is oxidized at the anode, thereby producing electrical energy, wherein said electrolyte (3) is a ceramic composite electrolyte comprising at least one salt a...

A distributed collaborative computer system is provided that comprises a plurality of server computers interconnected via a high-speed link. Client computers can connect to any available server computer and start or join a conference hosted on either the server computer to which the client computer is connected or any other server in the system. As a result, the system and method of the present invention is easily scalable to support an arbitrary number of participants to a conference by merely ...

A distributed collaborative computer system is provided that comprises a plurality of server computers interconnected via a high-speed link. Client computers can connect to any available server computer and start or join a conference hosted on either the server computer to which the client computer is connected or any other server in the system. As a result, the system and method of the present invention is easily scalable to support an arbitrary number of participants to a conference by merely ...

A distributed collaborative computer system is provided that comprises a plurality of server computers interconnected via a high-speed link. Client computers can connect to any available server computer and start or join a conference hosted on either the server computer to which the client computer is connected or any other server in the system. As a result, the system and method of the present invention is easily scalable to support an arbitrary number of participants to a conference by merely ...

Multimedia data embedding, such as video, image or audio data watermarking. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method first receives a vector x of N data samples, where X=[x(0)x(1) . . . x(N-1)] and represents multimedia. Next, the method receives a vector p, where P=[p(0)p(1) . . . p(N-1)] and represents a pseudo-random sequence. Finally, the method generates a new vector x' in which the vector p is embedded in the vector x, such that x'=[x'(0)x'(1) . . . x'(N-1)] and x'=x+aq, where a co...

A digital watermark detector uses weighting functions to enhance watermark detection. The weighting function applies more weight to parts of a digitally watermarked signal that are more robust to distortion. As such, the method provides for more reliable watermark detection, especially in applications where distortions, such as lossy compression or analog conversion, more accurate detection more difficult. In one version of the method, the detector projects the watermarked signal into a pseudora...

Transactional watermarking is disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes receiving an original multimedia content source. The original multimedia content source may have already had a watermark added thereto. The method watermarks at least a portion of the source at least two times, each time with a different watermark to generate a different watermarked version of the original multimedia content source. A final watermarked content source is then generated by utilizing ...

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A digital watermarking method performs tonal detection on a signal (e.g., audio) to identify tonal and non-tonal components. These components are analyzed to compute appropriate weighting of a digital watermark for the tonal and non-tonal components. This tonal detection method is also used in recovering the watermark. A decoding method performs tonal detection on a watermarked signal, computes weights for tonal and non-tonal components, and recovers the embedded watermark using the weights. The...

Systems and methods for secure multimedia authentication with discrete level tamper localization are described. In these aspects, the term "discrete" means that tamper localization is at the pixel level with respect to an image or video data, or at the sample level with respect to audio data. More particularly, and in one aspect, multimedia is evaluated to determine authenticity of the multimedia. This evaluation is based on data block(s). Responsive to determining that the multimedia is not aut...