Patent Document ID: 20040044670
Application ID: 10233836
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for uniquely identifying captured images using an image capture device, the method comprising the steps of: receiving information corresponding to a captured image from a photosensor; generating a first image from the received information, the first image comprised of at least a plurality of first pixels corresponding to the captured image; generating a second image from the received information, the second image having a different resolution than the first image and comprised of at least a plurality of second pixels corresponding to the captured image; generating a header, the header comprised of information corresponding to the received information; selecting a plurality of encryption pixels from the plurality of first pixels, such that each one of the plurality of selected encryption pixels corresponds uniquely to one of the plurality of second pixels of the second image; and altering data of each one of the selected plurality of encryption pixels such that information uniquely identifying the captured image is encrypted into the selected plurality of encryption pixels, and such that corresponding ones of the plurality of second pixels remains unaltered so that the information is determinable by comparing the encrypted pixels with the unaltered second pixels.