Patent ID: 7269852

Claim:
An authenticity output method of outputting a verification result of authenticity based on digital data, comprising the steps of: receiving unique discriminating information to be outputted with a verification result of authenticity based on the digital data, wherein the unique discriminating information is discriminable only by a specific user who inputted the unique discriminating information; registering the unique discriminating information into a personal table for verification, the personal table for verification associating the registration information inputted by each of a plurality of users with that respective user; verifying the authenticity based on the digital data; when the verification result of the authenticity based on the digital data is outputted to one of said users, reading out the unique discriminating information registered in said personal table for verification associated with that user and outputting said unique discriminating information with said verification result on a display screen to that user; wherein the user is able to verify the unique discriminating information as inputted by the user; and wherein the unique discriminating information is selected from the group consisting of character train information, image data information, audio data information, motion image data information, finger language data information, digital mark data information, and combinations thereof.