摘要:
It is an object to provide an adding technique for enabling additional information to be certainly decoded from an image to which two or more kinds of additional information was added to an input image so that it is difficult to discriminate by the human eyes. To accomplish this object, for example, a plurality of kinds of additional information is periodically added to the input image at different periods so that it is difficult to discriminate by the human eyes. The image to which those additional information was added is outputted to an image forming unit.
摘要:
Trace information showing a fact that an illegal output request has been issued from any one of data processing apparatuses is managed. Under an output environment such that an output apparatus is shared from a plurality of data processing apparatuses, when it is detected that a kind of data received by a CPU is specific data such that an output is legally limited, information to identify a transfer source side of the specific data or the received data is preserved and managed in an RAM or the like.
摘要:
It is an object to provide an adding technique for enabling additional information to be certainly decoded from an image to which two or more kinds of additional information was added to an input image so that it is difficult to discriminate by the human eyes. To accomplish this object, for example, a plurality of kinds of additional information is periodically added to the input image at different periods so that it is difficult to discriminate by the human eyes. The image to which those additional information was added is outputted to an image forming unit.
摘要:
It is an object to provide an adding technique for enabling additional information to be certainly decoded from an image to which two or more kinds of additional information was added to an input image so that it is difficult to discriminate by the human eyes. To accomplish this object, for example, a plurality of kinds of additional information is periodically added to the input image at different periods so that it is difficult to discriminate by the human eyes. The image to which those additional information was added is outputted to an image forming unit.
摘要:
A copy protected document is disclosed which comprises a document having a surface for receiving printed images, a first image which indicates that a copy of the document has been made, the first image comprising a series of concentric circles radiating out from a central point, and a second image which hides the first image.
摘要:
An image processing apparatus and method for deriving a digital watermark embedded in an image is provided which has a recognizing unit for recognizing a predetermined characteristic area in the image and a deriving unit for extracting the digital watermark from the image data in the recognized characteristic area.
摘要:
An image processing circuit of an image processor performs predetermined image processes on input image data from an external device. A data scrambling circuit scrambles the processed image data in accordance with input scrambling information from a controller of an image forming system. A data scrambling circuit of the image forming system receives the scrambled input data from the image processing apparatus. A printer forms an image on the basis of the received image data. Accordingly, without changing ROMs of the image processor, a scrambling function is arbitrarily changed by the image forming system.
摘要:
Control for adding additional information to an input image is efficiently done in correspondence with the recording sheet used without any sensors for detecting the type of recording sheet. To achieve this object, according to this invention, whether or not the additional information is to be added to input image data to be hardly identified by the human eye is controlled in accordance with the type of image formation process. Alternatively, a method of adding the additional information to input image data to be hardly identified by the human eye is controlled in accordance with the image processing mode corresponding to the recording sheet.
摘要:
In the present image forming system, when a digital copying machine having no specimen image judging section makes a copy, it transfers an input image to an image processing apparatus having the specimen image judging section within the system to request to judge whether the input image is a copy-prohibited image on its behalf. When the judging result is returned within a predetermined period, the digital copying machine controls the copying operation based on the judging result: when the judging result is negative, a normal copying operation is carried out; when the copying is totally prohibited, the image processing apparatus ends the copying operation after informing the user that the copying operation is terminated because the copying of the subject image is prohibited. Consequently, whether the subject image data are a specimen image like paper money can be discovered at the image processing machine, thereby preventing a crime, such as forgery of paper money or securities. Also, if the specimen image judging section is installed in the image processing apparatus, each digital copying machine connected to the same does not have to include the specimen image judging section, thereby suppressing a cost increase.
摘要:
An image forming system has a plurality of image forming devices connected via a network. The system includes an image processor which processes an input image signal to produce a processed image signal. Respective additional information is superimposed on the processed image signal in a form that is not conspicuous to the human eye in preparation for transfer of the processed image signal to each of the plurality of image forming devices, with the respective additional information being different for each of the plurality of image forming devices. The processed image signal with the respective additional information superimposed thereon is transferred via the network to the respective ones of the image forming devices via the network.