Image processing apparatus

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2005-12-29

2010-12-21

Bhatnagar, Anand (Department: 2624)

Image analysis

Applications

C713S176000

Reexamination Certificate

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07856117

ABSTRACT:
An apparatus that embeds data in an image includes a mark embedding unit that embeds a feature that forms a predetermined pattern in the image, as a mark to be used to specify an area in which the data is embedded, and a data embedding unit that embeds the data in the image of the area specified by the mark.

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