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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:
Sep. 22, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 19, 2005
Applicants:
Yasushi Abe, Kanagawa, JP;
Satoshi Ohkawa, Tokyo, JP;
Masayoshi Miyamoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Jun Ebata, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Yasushi Abe, Kanagawa, JP;
Satoshi Ohkawa, Tokyo, JP;
Masayoshi Miyamoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Jun Ebata, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An image processing apparatus includes an extracting unit to extract watermark data from image data of an image; a generating unit to generate a watermark image based on the watermark data; and a superimposing unit to superimpose the watermark image on the image.