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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2000
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A deterrent effect for a forgery of an image can be provided and both of the protection of a picture quality of an image of a relatively low similarity and the prevention of a forgery of an image of a relatively high similarity can be realized. For this purpose, an image processing apparatus has embedding processing means for embedding predetermined information which can specify an output apparatus and an output date/time as a digital watermark having a resistance according to a similarity with a specific image into an output image, thereby enabling the deterrent of a forgery of the specific image according to the similarity to be realized while outputting an image which the operator intends to output.