摘要 |
The present invention relates to inspection reports for certifying that a particular event has actually taken place at a particular date or time, and, where appropriate, at a particular place. The invention provides an inspection apparatus ( 100 ) including, in a secure casing, a central processing unit ( 1 ), a digital audiovisual device ( 2 ) such as a camera and/or a video camera and/or a sound recorder, a clock ( 3 ), and a watermarker ( 4 ) capable of embedding temporal information provided by the clock ( 3 ) in the data stream coming from the audiovisual device ( 2 ). The apparatus ( 100 ) may include, in addition to the above-mentioned devices and depending upon the application envisaged, supplementary incorporated measuring instruments providing digital data, in particular a geographic position measuring device ( 5 ) such as a GPS.
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