Digital invisible ink
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorEdward N. Chapman
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Abstract
Methods, systems and security devices for rendering digital invisible ink, can involve representing an invisible item in a single color that is not discernable from white by a human eye, embedding the invisible item into white space of a digital document, and converting the invisible item into a visible item using a transform table that defines how to convert the single color of the invisible item so that the invisible item after a conversion to the visible item is discernable by the human eye.
Claims16
A method for rendering digital invisible ink, comprising:
- representing an invisible item in a single color that is not discernable from white by a human eye;
- embedding the invisible item into white space of a digital document;
- converting the invisible item into a visible item using a transform table that defines how to convert the single color of the invisible item so that the invisible item after a conversion to the visible item is discernable by the human eye;
- and configuring the transform table as a table containing data indicative of at least:
- a color space, a depth value, a color and a transform action.
A system for rendering digital invisible ink, comprising:
- at least one processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions to cause the at least one processor to perform:
- representing an invisible item in a single color that is not discernable from white by a human eye;
- embedding the invisible item into white space of a digital document;
- converting the invisible item into a visible item using a transform table that defines how to convert the single color of the invisible item so that the invisible item after a conversion to the visible item is discernable by the human eye;
- and configuring the transform table as a table containing data indicative of at least:
- a color space, a depth value, a color and a transform action.
A security apparatus for rendering digital invisible ink, comprising at least one processor coupled to memory further comprising:
- an invisible item represented in a single color that is not discernable from white by a human eye;
- the invisible item embedded into white space of a digital document;
- and the invisible item covered into a visible item with a transform table that defines how to convert the single color of the invisible item so that the invisible item after a conversion to the visible item is discernable by the human eye;
- wherein the transform table is operable as a table containing data indicative of at least:
- a color space, a depth value, a color and a transform action.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.