Personal information providing apparatus and method
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsHwan Joon KIM, Weon Il JIN
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Abstract
A personal information providing method and apparatus is provided. The personal information providing apparatus may extract personal information about at least one characteristic corresponding to a predetermined standard from a database storing personal information of a plurality of characteristics, embed the personal information about the at least one characteristic in a predetermined image, generate a personal information image, generate a watermark having trace information embedded, and embed the watermark in the personal information image.
Claims21
A personal information providing apparatus, comprising:
- a database to store personal information of a plurality of characteristics;
- a personal information extraction unit to extract personal information from the database regarding at least one characteristic corresponding to a predetermined standard;
- an image generation unit to embed the extracted personal information about the at least one characteristic in a predetermined image and generate a personal information image;
- a watermark generation unit to generate a watermark having trace information embedded therein, the trace information configured to trace generation of the personal information image;
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- a merging unit to embed the watermark in the personal information image.
A personal information providing method, comprising:
- extracting personal information about at least one characteristic corresponding to a predetermined standard from a database storing personal information of a plurality of characteristics;
- embedding the personal information about the at least one characteristic in a predetermined image and generating a personal information image;
- generating a watermark having trace information embedded configured to trace the generation of the personal information image;
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- embedding the watermark in the personal information image.
A computer-readable recording medium storing a program for implementing a personal information providing method including instructions to cause a processor to:
- extract personal information about at least one characteristic corresponding to a predetermined standard from a database storing personal information of a plurality of characteristics;
- embed the personal information about the at least one characteristic in a predetermined image and generating a personal information image;
- generate a watermark having trace information embedded therein configured to trace generation of the personal information image;
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- embed the watermark in the personal information image.
A personal information providing system, comprising:
- a personal information requesting terminal to generate a personal information request;
- a personal information providing apparatus including:
- a receiving unit to receive the personal information request from the personal information requesting terminal
- a database to store personal information of a plurality of characteristics;
- a personal information extraction unit to extract personal information from the database regarding at least one characteristic corresponding to a predetermined standard;
- an image generation unit to embed the extracted personal information about the at least one characteristic in a predetermined image and generate a personal information image;
- a watermark generation unit to generate a watermark having trace information embedded, the trace information configured to trace generation of the personal information image;
- a merging unit to embed the watermark in the personal information image;
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- a transmission unit to transmit the personal information image to the personal information requesting terminal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.