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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 19, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Yasutaka Noguchi, Kawasaki, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 ;
Abstract
An image processing method comprises the steps of developing coded data into image data by analyzing them, at the same time, creating the positional information within one display of the image data, discriminating the area to embed a pattern that indicates a specific addition information therein in accordance with the kind of image data and the positional information created in the development step at the time of development, and embedding the information hardly discriminately by eye-sight in the area discriminated in the discrimination step.