Abstract:
After a digital content is loaded into an information terminal such as a PC, ID information unique to a viewer or a user of the PC is imprinted into the content. The ID information is imprinted into a predetermined location of the content or alternatively, it may be imprinted over the entire content in the form of a spatial frequency. The content with an ID added thereto is then enabled to be used in the terminal.
Abstract:
A multiresolutional filter called a critical point filter is introduced. This filter extracts a maximum, a minimum, and two types of saddle points of pixel intensity for every 2null2 (horizontalnullvertical) pixels so that an image of a lower level of resolution is newly generated for every type of a critical point. Using this multiresolutional filter, a source image and a destination image are hierarchized, and source hierarchical images and destination hierarchical images are matched using image characteristics recognized through a filtering operation.