Patent ID: 8208179

Claim:
An image processing apparatus, comprising: an image information acquisition device to acquire image information on a target image into which supplemental information is to be embedded; an embedment information acquisition device to acquire embedment information on the supplemental information; an embedment mode information acquisition device to acquire embedment mode information on an embedment mode in which the supplemental information is embedded in the image information; an embeddability determination device to determine embeddability of the supplemental information into the image information based on the embedment mode information acquired by the embedment mode information acquisition device, the embedment information acquired by the embedment information acquisition device, and the image information acquired by the image information acquisition device; and an embeddability information output device to output determination-result information on a determination result of the embeddability determined by the embeddability determination device, wherein the embeddability determination device includes an embeddable volume acquisition unit to acquire embeddable volume information on a volume of information embeddable in the image information based on at least a total information volume designated as embedment information, and wherein, based on a comparison between a volume of the supplemental information to be embedded in the image information and the volume of information embeddable in the image information, the embeddability determination device determines the embeddability of the supplemental information into the image information.