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US 11,956,399 B2Granted
Reading apparatus and method
AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKatsunori Suzuki
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Abstract
A reading apparatus includes a communication unit, a scanner, and a processor. The communication unit communicates with a wireless tag provided on paper. The scanner scans the paper. The processor acquires data from the wireless tag through the communication unit, acquires an image from the paper by using the scanner, and generates a file in which the data is embedded in the image as hidden characters.
Claims20
A reading apparatus comprising:
- a reader configured to communicate with a wireless tag provided on a paper;
- an optical scanner configured to optically scan the paper to read an image from the paper as image data;
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- a processor configured to:
- acquire data from the wireless tag using the reader,
- acquire the image data from the optical scanner, and
- generate a file in which a first layer contains the data and a second layer other than the first layer contains the image.
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A method executed by a processor, the method comprising:
- acquiring data from a wireless tag provided on a paper,
- optically scanning an image from the paper as image data, and
- generating a file in which a first layer contains the data and a second layer other than the first layer contains the image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.