Patent ID: 8659792
Filing Date: 2014-02-25
Classification: G06K,H04N

Abstract:
1. An apparatus comprising: a processor; a memory; a setting unit configured to set an identifying value selected from plural different identifying values by a user; and a causing unit configured to cause a printing unit to print out a copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image corresponding to the set identifying value on paper, wherein the causing unit causes the printing unit to print out plural different images and the plural different identifying values, each value corresponding to a different one of the plural different images, on paper, wherein each image of the plural different images printed out on the paper includes a first region and a second region having bigger dots than the first region, and a density of the first region in the each image is different, and wherein when the causing unit causes the printing unit to print out the plural different images and the plural different identifying values, an image corresponding to the identifying value set by the setting unit is outlined on the paper.