Digital Rights Management (DRM) can be defined as a system that uses software, or software and hardware, to prevent the unauthorized use of copyrighted digital content.

In the context of digital video, DRM is usually associated with professionally produced content such as movies and TV shows. However, the desire to retain rights to video content can extend to any video-enabled experience, including live streaming events, surveillance camera footage, video conferencing applications, and even home movies to name a few.

EuclidVision’s higher-level modeling techniques create models that can be separated from the encoded video. These models can then be leveraged across many similar videos, and the DRM for the video can be focused on the separated models rather than each individual video.  The models then act as the “keys” to the encoded videos. The patent application for Object Archival Systems and Methods discusses such a DRM implementation.