Patent ID: 9256913
Filing Date: 2016-02-09
CPC Classification: G06F,G06K,G06T,H04N

Claim Text:
1. An information processing apparatus comprising: an input unit configured to input an image; a setting unit configured to set items to be synthesized as a copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image with the input image; an obtaining unit configured to obtain the items set by the setting unit; and a control unit configured to control (a) a printing apparatus to print, if all of the set items are obtained by the obtaining unit, an image generated by synthesizing the input image with a copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image which is generated based on the obtained all of the items, (b) the printing apparatus to print, if one of the set items is not obtained but remaining set items are obtained by the obtaining unit, an image generated by synthesizing the input image with a copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image which is generated based on the obtained remaining set items, and (c) the printing apparatus to print, if none of the set items is obtained by the obtaining unit, neither the input image nor a copy-forgery-inhibited pattern.