摘要:
An image processing method is provided. This method comprises: a first information extraction step of extracting first information, including a registration signal used to correct the geometrical distortion of an image; a determination step of employing results obtained at the first information extraction step to determine whether second information is to be extracted from the image; a division step of dividing the image into at least one block; and a selection step of selecting the block. In this method, the first information and the second information are embedded in the image as invisible or less visible electronic watermarks, and are added to components of said image that are less easily discerned by a human's eyes. Further, the amount of said first information is smaller than the amount of said second information, and the first information is embedded more deeply in the image than is the second information.
摘要:
To provide a variety of methods for extracting digital watermark information from an image as correctly as possible. For example, a first pattern arrangement and a second pattern arrangement which is different from the first pattern arrangement for use in a calculation for extracting the digital watermark information are provided. A state of an original image without the digital watermark information embedded is inferred, using a second pattern arrangement, and a reliability of the digital watermark information to be extracted in accordance with the state is determined. Or to decide the embedding position of the digital watermark information from the image data, the extracting start position is discriminated by detecting the positional information by multiple times at the different extracting start positions. Or to detect a geometrical distortion, a registration signal is embedded on the image.
摘要:
To provide a device capable of determining uniquely the direction of rotation applied to an image and extracting digital watermark information correctly even in the case where a registration signal having a symmetric axis is embedded. A device for enabling digital watermark information to be extracted from image data having the digital watermark information embedded therein in such a manner that it can hardly be perceived by human eyes, in which processing for extracting rotation information and position information from the image data is performed plural times for rotation angles different from one another. For extracted position and rotation information, confidence coefficients indicating accuracy thereof are calculated. The position and rotation angle at which the digital watermark information is embedded are determined based on the confidence coefficients.
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 object of the present invention is to assuredly provide image data with the position of a region of interest in an image represented by the image data. In order to achieve this object, position information for specifying a region of interest within the image is embedded so as not to be recognized by human eyes, using a digital-watermark technique.
摘要:
A provider side apparatus provides original digital data together with a digital signature generated by the provider side apparatus, the digital signature detecting whether the original digital data was falsified or detecting a change level given to the original digital data. Upon reception of the digital data, a receiver side apparatus can know the originality of the received digital data or a change level of the received digital data from the original digital data, in accordance with the digital signature corresponding to the digital data.
摘要:
A provider side apparatus provides original digital data together with a digital signature generated by the provider side apparatus, the digital signature detecting whether the original digital data was falsified or detecting a change level given to the original digital data. Upon reception of the digital data, a receiver side apparatus can know the originality of the received digital data or a change level of the received digital data from the original digital data, in accordance with the digital signature corresponding to the digital data.
摘要:
A provider side apparatus provides original digital data together with a digital signature generated by the provider side apparatus, the digital signature detecting whether the original digital data was falsified or detecting a change level given to the original digital data. Upon reception of the digital data, a receiver side apparatus can know the originality of the received digital data or a change level of the received digital data from the original digital data, in accordance with the digital signature corresponding to the digital data.
摘要:
It is an object of this invention to efficiently embed digital watermark information in the above image or audio data. In order to achieve this object, there is provided a data processing apparatus comprising input means for inputting digital data including at least one of image data and audio data, transforming means for transforming a data format of the digital data, compression means for compressing the digital data whose data format has been transformed by the transforming means, and embedding means for embedding digital watermark information in the digital data whose data format has been transformed by the transforming means, wherein the apparatus includes a plurality of image processing modes, compresses the digital data by using the transforming means and the compression means in a first mode, and embeds digital watermark information in the digital data by using the transforming means and the embedding means in a second mode.
摘要:
This invention has as its object to provide a technique for embedding digital-watermark information in image data while minimizing deterioration of the original image quality. To this end, a data processing apparatus of this invention has input means for inputting image data consisting of a plurality of coefficients, and embedding means for embedding digital-watermark information in coefficients having values falling within a predetermined range of the input image data.