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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 03, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2005
Applicants:
Masafumi Hamatake, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoko Sugiura, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventors:
Masafumi Hamatake, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoko Sugiura, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In an apparatus for embedding an electronic watermark, a determining unit determines whether a specified area that is specified is present in image data. A text/non-text detecting unit detects a text area and a non-text area in the image. The specified area is at least one of the text area and the non-text area as an area. The embedding unit embeds an electronic watermark into the specified area.