Hitachi, Ltd.

Toshiyuki Moritsu

Kazuo Takaragi

Ryoichi Sasaki

Kunihiko Miyazaki

Seiichi Susaki

Tsutomu Matsumoto

Mitsuru Iwamura

Mizuhiro Sakai

Makoto Kato

Harushi Someya

Kazuya Hisaki

Nobuo Kotatsu

According to the invention, techniques for authenticating that a digitally signed document is genuine. Specific embodiments according to the present invention can determine whether a digital signature was generated by a digital signature generator, or if the digital signature was generated by a third party posing as the digital signature generator. Specific embodiments can provide independent verification of digital signer identity based upon prior signed messages, time/date stamps, and the like. Techniques according to the present invention can be embodied in methods, apparatus, computer software and systems.

Digital signing method

A contracting method and system are arranged to obtain description data in which a description content presented by one of the concerned parties with a contract to the other is built or data for specifying the description content before the concerned parties make an electronic contract for provision of a commodity or service (contract data creation signing process), generate contract data containing the description data or the specifying data (contract data creation signing process), and writing an electronic signature of both or either of the concerned parties with the contract data (contract data creation singing process and contract data signing process).

Method for making contract and system for processing contract

Light sources are disposed at a plurality of different positions for an object body to be photographed, and a plurality of images corresponding to respective light source positions are photographed, and from the change in the direction or the color on the surface of the object body to be photographed, the parameters to be the coefficient for introducing the direction or the color on the surface of the object body observed from the light source position are measured, and an image can be synthesized for any light source position using the above-mentioned data. Thereby, it is made possible to synthesize an image for any light source position with the data which can be easily available as the images of an object body photographed with a camera and so on, without needing many hands or special tools.

Method of synthesizing an image for any light source position and apparatus therefor

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Yokohama, Japan

Toshiyuki Moritsu