Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090016568 | APPARATUS FOR OBSERVING AND CAPTURING LATENT IMAGES ON OBJECTS, AND METHOD FOR USING SAME - An apparatus for easily shooting an invisible image (such as an invisible two-dimensional bar code) latent on an object. The operation of the apparatus is made intuitive and simple and may be incorporated into cameras peripheral to computers and mobile telephones. A novel framing and focusing system is also disclosed. | 01-15-2009 |
20090019287 | CONTENTS SERVER, CONTENTS RECEIVING APPARATUS AND NETWORK SYSTEM FOR ADDING INFORMATION TO DIGITAL CONTENTS - Method and system for embedding a unique and different digital watermark in digital contents for each access without increasing the overhear or load at the contents server. The contents server has a digital watermark-embedded contents storage unit for storing a plurality of digital contents where a different digital watermark is embedded, and a fingerprint performing unit for, adding to the digital contents the information specified using a bit row that is formed by a digital watermark being embedded for each part of the digital contents. | 01-15-2009 |
20090124195 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR GENERATING DATA FOR PRINTING INVISIBLE INFORMATION, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PHYSICAL MEDIUM WHEREUPON INVISIBLE INFORMATION IS PRINTED - A method of manufacturing a physical medium configured to store data. A layout design of visible and invisible information to be printed in a book with visible and invisible ink, respectively, is generated. The visible information includes an article. The invisible information includes a URL of an address of a web server at which additional information associated with the article is located. Print data of the visible and invisible information based on the generated layout design of the visible and invisible information are generated. The generated print data of the visible and invisible information are stored on the physical medium. A book containing the article in visible ink and the invisible information in invisible ink is produced. A cellular phone is used to obtain the additional information by identifying the URL via illuminating and photographing the invisible information in the book using a light-emitting element in the cellular phone. | 05-14-2009 |
20100287057 | SELF SHOPPING SUPPORT BY GETTING CONTENTS FROM ELECTRONIC SHELF LABELS - To support a shopper to perform self-service shopping by using an electronic shelf label (ESL) while looking at actual items displayed in a store and to expand the functions of the electronic shelf label (ESL) to enable the linkage with other data processing systems expansively. A shopper uses a mobile processing device (typically, a cell phone owned by the shopper) in a store. The functions necessary to obtain contents from the electronic shelf label (ESL) are obtained by introducing an application program into the shopper's own cell phone, by which it is expected that the shopper is able to easily enjoy shopping. When photographing the electronic shelf label (ESL), the contents associated with items are encoded (the price display automatically changes to a barcode) and then decoded. | 11-11-2010 |
20120309372 | MANUFACTURING A PHYSICAL MEDIUM CONFIGURED TO STORE DATA AND OBTAINING ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH AN ARTICLE IN A BOOK - A computer program product to implement a method for manufacturing a physical medium configured to store data. A layout design of visible information to be printed with visible ink in a book is generated, the visible information including an article. A layout design of invisible information to be printed with invisible ink in a book is generated, the invisible information including a Universal Resource Locator (URL) of an address of a web server at which additional information is located, the URL being encoded in a code within the invisible information, the additional information being associated with the article. | 12-06-2012 |
20130046975 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR INFORMATION MANAGEMENT - A system and method of decrypting is provided. The method includes grouping domain data of the domain for authorized parties, encrypting a group of leaves in the grouped data having a tree structure using a common key, generating first public data, obtaining a common key by decrypting the first public data using a secret key of a link creator and decrypt the groups using the common key and the secret key, generating a, propagating records, generating second public data by encrypting the table using a common key, obtaining a common key by decrypting the first public data and the second public data using a secret key and generating a view by decrypting data received from a method for the link creator using the common key obtained by decrypting the first public data and the second public data using the secret key. | 02-21-2013 |
20140117085 | CELLULAR PHONE FOR ILLUMINATING INVISIBLE INFORMATION IN AN OBJECT TO OBTAIN ADDITIONAL INFORMATION LOCATED AT A WEB SERVER - A cellular phone configured to be used by an operator. The cellular phone includes a light-emitting element, a digital camera, and a memory. The light-emitting element is configured to emit light of a specific wavelength to illuminate invisible information written in invisible ink in an object to make the invisible information visible. The invisible information includes a Universal Resource Locator (URL) of an address of a web server at which additional information is located. The URL is encoded in a code within the invisible information. The digital camera is configured to take a picture of the illuminated invisible information to capture an image of the code. The memory is configured to store the captured image. | 05-01-2014 |
20140146369 | MANUFACTURING A PHYSICAL MEDIUM CONFIGURED TO STORE DATA - A method of manufacturing a physical medium configured to store data. A layout design of visible information to be printed with visible ink in a book is generated, the visible information including an article. A layout design of invisible information to be printed with invisible ink in a book is generated, the invisible information including a Universal Resource Locator (URL) of an address of a web server at which additional information is located, the URL being encoded in a code within the invisible information, the additional information being associated with the article. | 05-29-2014 |
20140295903 | PEER-TO-PEER EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION USING PUBLIC BROADCASTING - A method for emergency communication includes encoding a message for visual display including a message to field and a message from field. The visual display is revealed to a reading device in communication with a broadcast center, which stores the visual display. The messages are decoded and sorted from visual displays at the broadcast center. On an index channel, a time and channel number for when a message body of the message will be broadcast on a message channel is broadcasted. The message body is broadcasted on the message channel. | 10-02-2014 |