Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080232639 | Apparatus, method, and computer product for image processing - An image processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit, an area setting unit, and an adding unit. The obtaining unit obtains an adding method by which additional information is to be added to image data containing content information. The area setting unit sets an additional-information area to which the additional information is to be added based on the adding method and the content information. The adding unit adds the additional information to the additional-information area by the adding method. | 09-25-2008 |
20080232640 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program product - An image processing apparatus configured to embed embedment information in image data includes an embedment information acquisition unit configured to acquire embedment information to be embedded in the image data, an information embedment manner determination unit configured to determine an information embedment manner to embed the embedment information according to one of the acquired embedment information and image data to be generated by embedding the acquired embedment information in the image data, and an information embedment unit configured to embed the acquired embedment information in image data according to the information embedment manner determined by the information embedment manner determination unit. | 09-25-2008 |
20080240495 | Image processing device, image processing method, program, and recording medium - An image processing device including an area generation unit configured to generate a supplemental data-embedded area in image data having content data separate from an area occupied by the content data, and a data embedding unit configured to embed supplemental data in the supplemental data-embedded area. | 10-02-2008 |
20090116077 | Image processing device, image processing method, image processing program, and recording medium - In a data processing device, an additional information acquiring unit is configured to acquire, from a plurality of input image data items, respective items of additional information relevant to the plurality of input image data items. A log management unit is configured to manage a log of output image data, wherein, when the plurality of input image data items are integrated into an output image data, the log management unit manages respective items of additional information acquired from the plurality of input image data items contained in the output image data, as a log of the output image data. | 05-07-2009 |
20090116690 | Image processing device, image processing method, image processing program, and recording medium - An image processing device extracts additional information from image data and includes an input unit to input a plurality of image data items, an additional information extracting unit to extract an additional information item from each image data item, and a determining unit to determine a process to be performed for each image data item based on the extracted additional information item. The determining unit is configured to determine a process to be performed for an image-data group containing the plurality of image data items, based on a plurality of additional information items extracted from the plurality of image data items, and determine a process to be performed for each image data item based on one of the plurality of additional information items. | 05-07-2009 |
20090119482 | Image forming device, image formation controlling method, and image formation controlling program - An image forming device includes a plurality of input units, a plurality of processing units, and a plurality of output units which are arranged to perform image-data processing. The image forming device includes a processing operation executing unit configured to instruct a processing operation of each of a predetermined input unit, a predetermined processing unit, and a predetermined output unit. A controlled unit reporting unit is configured in the processing operation executing unit to notify a controlled unit of processing to be performed, to each of the predetermined input unit, the predetermined processing unit, and the predetermined output unit. | 05-07-2009 |
20090147292 | Apparatus, system, and method for image processing - A confidential document is generated by encoding distribution destination information specifying a destination to which the confidential document will be distributed. | 06-11-2009 |
20090190182 | Apparatus, system, and method for image processing - An image processing apparatus includes an image information acquisition device, an embedment information acquisition device, an embedment mode information acquisition device, an embeddability determination device, and an embeddability information output device. The image information acquisition device acquires image information on a target image into which supplemental information is to be embedded. The embedment information acquisition device acquires embedment information on the supplemental information. The embedment mode information acquisition device acquires embedment mode information on an embedment mode in which the supplemental information is embedded in the image information. The embeddability determination device determines embeddability of the supplemental information into the image information based on the embedment mode information, the embedment information, and the image information. The embeddability information output device outputs determination-result information on a determination result of the embeddability determined by the embeddability determination device. | 07-30-2009 |
20090201538 | Image processing method and image processing apparatus - An image processing apparatus processes image data that contains a confidential image portion. The image processing apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives designation of the confidential image portion; a generating unit that generates specification information that specifies the confidential image portion; an adding unit that adds the specification information to the image data thereby generating first processed image data; and an output unit that outputs the first processed image data. | 08-13-2009 |
20090213397 | Apparatus, system, and method of process control - An apparatus, system, and method for image processing are disclosed, each of which obtains a mark from image data, detects additional information in the mark, determines whether the mark is detected in the mark to generate a determination result, and controls processing performed by an image processing apparatus with respect to the image data based on the determination result. | 08-27-2009 |
20090280305 | TRANSPARENT SUBSTRATE WITH ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SHIELDING FILM, METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME, AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - The transparent substrate with an electromagnetic wave-shielding film of the present invention includes: a primer layer | 11-12-2009 |
20090304228 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND SYSTEM OF CONTROLLING SETTING INFORMATION FOR CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENT - An apparatus, method, and system of generating a confidential document by adding additional information to image data are described, each of which obtains administrator setting information set by an administrator, and user setting information set by a user. Information for display to the user is controlled based on at least the administrator setting information to satisfy the requirement set by the administrator setting information even when the user setting information differs from the administrator setting information. | 12-10-2009 |