Enables identification and detection of processing and type of digital
content, while using multiple electronic watermarks. One embodiment
provides a data processing detection system having an embedding apparatus
for adding a predetermined additional signal to digital content,
including a watermark design unit and embedding signal generators for
generating multiple types of additional signals, correlated with each
other and of differing robustness from each other for the processing of
the content data, and a synthesis unit for adding the multiple types of
additional signals to the content data; and detection apparatus for
detecting additional signals in the digital content, and for detecting
the additional signals embedded by the embedding apparatus, including an
individual detector for detecting in the content data multiple additional
signals, and a determination unit for examining deterioration levels of
the additional signals to determine the type of processing performed for
the content data.