Patent ID: 7720287
Filing Date: 2010-05-18
Classification: G06T,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: an image reader that reads image information; a generator that generates unique additional information to be added to the image information read by the image reader; an extractor that extracts, in a case where existing additional information has been included in the image information read by the image reader, the existing additional information; and an additional information processor that embeds the existing additional information and the unique additional information in the image information, wherein in a case where a plurality of pieces of the existing additional information extracted by the extractor exists, and where an area in which they are embedded reaches a predetermined upper limit, the additional information processor deletes the second oldest or subsequent one among the extracted existing additional information, and processes to embed the unique additional information generated by the generator into an area in which the deleted existing additional information has been embedded.