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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2015
Filed:
May. 24, 2012
Applicants:
Yoshiyasu Tanaka, Yokosuka, JP;
Takaaki Yamada, Sagamihara, JP;
Yuzo Oshida, Yokohama, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Hitachi Solutions, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); H04N 1/32 (2006.01); H04N 21/8358 (2011.01); H04N 21/845 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/32165 (2013.01); H04N 1/32197 (2013.01); H04N 1/32203 (2013.01); H04N 1/32208 (2013.01); H04N 1/32229 (2013.01); H04N 1/32251 (2013.01); H04N 1/32299 (2013.01); H04N 1/32304 (2013.01); H04N 1/32309 (2013.01); H04N 1/32315 (2013.01); H04N 21/8358 (2013.01); H04N 21/8456 (2013.01);
Abstract
An embodiment of this invention is an image processing device, including: a sectioning unit for sectioning an image into a plurality of sections to be processed; and a classification unit for classifying the plurality of sections to be processed into at least a clarification-processing-adapted area for embedding a latent image into the image, and an obfuscation-processing-adapted area for embedding a digital watermark into the image based on a characteristic of the image.