FAQ

User guide of HiddenTag® App

Hiddentag app is supported by iOS and android Smartphones.
It is registered in Apple App store, Google Playstore, OneStore and other Chinese markets.

For the maximum security and lower risk of replication, authentication can be verified only through the HiddenTag app.

QR code is an open source technology with very low security.
For the maximum security and least possible risk of being forged, our service is offered only through HiddenTag App. App is free and runs on any Smartphone.

1. Make sure sticker is placed in the center of the screen and move your phone back and forth to focus well.
2. Try scanning in a better lighting.
3. Hold the screen in a way to block the reflection of the light.
4. Try all above mentioned methods repeatedly.
If you tried everything and the sticker is still not recognized, please contact to HiddenTag customer service center.

Due to the continuous monitoring, when scanning a suspected product a counterfeit claiming page pops up.
Please, contact CK&B or the person you purchased the product from for further enquiries.
If you wish to contact us, have the unique numbers and the serial number of the sticker, which you can check from the scan history on your device, on hand for a faster response.

Production of HiddenTag® Sticker

After the confirmation of customized design of sticker and landing page, we send you the pre-production sample and start the mass production once it is confirmed.
It takes around 2 weeks. In case the client provides a design of sticker and landing page, we can deliver it even earlier.

Minimum size is 12mm*12mm for normal type and 20mm*8mm in case of wide type.
Any size bigger is available.

Yes. We provide different delivery forms to match your production facility. Sheet form is provided for the manual labeling and roll form is available for machine labeling facility.

We can apply our technology on various materials such as hologram sticker, metal plates, glass, leather, normal clothes and care label.

HiddenTag® Technology

HiddenTag is a technology developed to enable utilization of digital watermarking technology in mobile devices.
Service approach is similar to general QR code, however with our code you have the capability to have customized design and a stronger protection for carrying information.

HiddenTag was developed by applying digital watermarking technology.
Digital watermarking is a technology which enables embedding information into and detecting from the multimedia content in a way that cannot be seen with the naked eye.
Currently it is used as a substitute for QR codes for linking hidden data to corresponding online material for advertising and marketing.
With the more advanced digital watermarking technology, it is also utilized as product authentication and anti-counterfeit tool.

HiddenTag data is created by the use of QRJOY and HiddenTag solution at the moment.
For further inquiries, please contact us through the online contact form.

You can download HiddenTag and Scanhit apps from your app market.
These are leading apps that have been developed to allow scanning both HiddenTag and QR code.
Applications can be downloaded free from most of the app markets.

Digital Watermarking

It refers to a converted signal to suit the properties of each content so as to insert user information into that content, which takes the form of numbers, character, logo etc.
For instance, when the user enters data “CKNB” in characters, these are inserted into the chosen content and the same is detected.
Depending on the method of input the user has selected, the watermark to be inserted may take the form of serial number like the bar code type, author or title of the content, logo or user ID.

It refers a series of processing to insert or extract watermark into or from the content. A signal that cannot be seen or heard by human is inserted into the image, video or audio signals and applied to various areas such as copyright, finger printing and monitoring/filtering systems.

Not at all. The watermark is inserted in such a way that it cannot be recognized visually or acoustically ensuring that the one with the watermark has the equal visual or audio quality as the original.

It can be used in the protection of copyrighted contents that have become a hot topic in recent conversation.
In the occurrence of illegal content distribution it can also be used in finger printing to identify the illegal distributor. Using the watermarking technique in the search engine, a watermark can be searched and the content containing that watermark can be filtered.
In the video/audio monitoring system, it enables monitoring of the commercial broadcasting, and determines if the content has been modified by identifying falsification or counterfeit in the digital content.

Watermark Detector and Watermark Embedder are the 2 main components of the watermark module.
Watermark Detector is used when detecting watermark from the content.
Watermark Embedder is used when embedding the watermark into the content after checking whether original content carrying any watermark.

It varies depending on the user environment and content’s type and size, but in most cases it works on a real-time basis. For general video monitoring system the insertion or detection of watermark is done on a real-time basis and for the copyrighted system the time to insert or detect can be adjusted depending on the importance of the copyright verification.

Yes. Multi-watermarking is feasible. However in general cases involving copyright protection, it is designed to detect of a watermark exists and prohibit insertion of another watermark in data if it already contains a watermark. This is so to protect the rights of the original copyright owner.

It is difficult to search accurate content information just with Metadata and the content header extracted with the content header parser.
For this reason, there exists a watermarking applied technology which enables insertion of a watermark into the content and searching of that watermark to the watermark search filter, and search that content, the success role is 100%.
Even if there is no information about the content you want to search, you can still search that content anytime just with the sample of that content.

Watermarking should ideally cause no visual / acoustical loss to the original as well as be detected no matter how it is modified.
It should be perfectly resistive to attacks like compression, editing, change of file format, partial piracy.
CK&B possesses the world best technologies and products.

Yes surely. CK&B offers the batch processing function for processing contents in large volume/size. To ensure quick result, the company possesses the optimal algorism and solutions with the optimized code.

Yes it can. A watermark can be detected even if the content containing watermark is printed out and scanned, recorded or taken by camera.

- Image : BMP, JPG, GIF, ANIMATED GIF, TIF, PCX, PGM, TGA
- Video : WMV, MPEG, ASF, AVI
- Audio:WAV, WMA, MP3, OGG
(Additional formats can be available upon request of the user.)

Content DNA filtering

Unique content information ( DNA, Signature, Feature) is digitalized to extract a DNA, and this DNA is then compared with the DNA secured from the original work to determine the sameness of the two.

The Contents DNA Filtering Technology is used to expose and crack down illegal contents from portals, P2P, web hard etc. It can also be used in image search or similar product search for shopping malls.

The Technology Applied to various types of contents differs slightly from type to type, in extracting a feature from an image DNA, properties like color, texture, shape are mainly used.
For extraction of video DNA features, properties like movement of each frame in migration and motion vector of the object inside the frame are mainly used.
For extraction of audit DNA features, properties like detection of a particular section, extraction of unique data from a specific area and psychoacoustic model spectrum inside the section are used.

Yes, it is feasible. Based on the outstanding technical competences of CK&B, it is highly resistive to various attacks like rotation, application of video filtering, cut video, color changes, compressed format changes., offering the optimal search results.

It refers to a subfield pf Digital Signal Processing, which processes digital video in whatever the format user desires using algorithm. Then digital video processing technologies embrace digital video improvement, video recovery, video analysis, video recognition and video compression.

- Image DNA Filtering : JPEG (GRAY, TRUE COLOR, CMYK), TIFF (SINGLE, MULTI, GRAY, TRUE COLOR), BMP (INDEX, TRUE COLOR), GIF(Single, Animated), TGA(GRAY, TRUE COLOR)
- Video DNA Filtering : VI, MPG, MP4, VOB, MKV, MTS, M2T, M2TS, TP, TS, WMV, ASF, FLV
- Audio DNA Filtering : mp3, ogg, wav, wma
(Additional formats can be available upon request of the user.)

Document Security

It refers to a barcode inserted into a document available on internet, which is used to prevent counterfeit or falsification.
This Technology enables the insertion of entire document information into 2D barcode to determine if the document has been falsified or forged by comparing it with the original.

It refers to a technology that combines the outstanding watermarking technology of CK&B with the features of 2D barcode so as to hide a Visible Carrier inside an area not recognizable by human. In this Context, a Visible Carrier refers to an image that is artificially created when there is no image to insert a watermark (such as logo or seal) info.
A 2D watermark is used to hide data inside a document that contains no image (logo or seal), and a forensic mark (such as the Computer’s IP address, login information, time information etc) can be hidden to track down illegal accesses.

Yes there is. A 2D barcode or 2D watermark can be inserted into the logo or the seal contained in the document to enable detection of document falsification or counterfeit.

Yes. Document falsification or counterfeit can still be verified even if the 2D barcode therein is defaced or damaged with the help of powerful information insertion technology of CK&B.

Digital Watermarking

It refers to a subfield pf Digital Signal Processing, which processes digital video in whatever the format user desires using algorithm. Then digital video processing technologies embrace digital video improvement, video recovery, video analysis, video recognition and video compression.

Video Media (digital video media in particular) can maximize the multimedia efficiency.
Since multimedia is widely used in various areas, digital video media and digital video processing technologies are widely used in various fields. The digital video processing technology is used in carious industries, including broadcasting and film, medical, security, publishing and documentation, science, military and remote sensing space system.

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