US 2017/0090418 A1 · HOLOGRAPHIC ENCRYPTION OF MULTI-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES AND DECRYPTION OF ENCRYPTED MULTI-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES

Abstract

Cryptographic techniques for encrypting images, and decrypting and reconstructing images, are provided to facilitate preventing unauthorized access to images. A holographic cryptographic component (HCC) generates complex holograms of multi-dimensional source images of a multi-dimensional object scene. The HCC generates phase holograms, based on the complex holograms, using a stochastic hologram generation process, and encrypts the phase holograms to generate encrypted holograms based on a random phase mask, which can be the private encryption key. At the decoding end, an HCC overlays a conjugate phase mask on the encrypted holograms to decrypt them, wherein the decrypted holograms are illuminated with a coherent light source to generate holographic images that reconstruct the source images. The source images are only reconstructed properly if the correct phase mask is used. If HCC applies the encryption process repetitively to the same source image, HCC can generate a different encrypted hologram in each run.

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Dependent claims

A system, comprising:

at least one memory that stores executable components;
and
at least one processor, coupled to the at least one memory, that executes or facilitates execution of the executable components, the executable components comprising:
a hologram generator component that generates a set of complex holograms based at least in part on a set of source images of a multi-dimensional object scene;
and
a holographic cryptographic component that applies a stochastic hologram generation process to facilitate generation of the set of complex holograms, to facilitate generation of a set of phase holograms based at least in part on the set of complex holograms, and to encrypt the set of phase holograms using a random phase mask as a private encryption key to facilitate cryptographically securing the set of source images, wherein the set of phase holograms represents, at least in part, the set of source images, and wherein the set of phase holograms is generated based at least in part on random information derived from the stochastic hologram generation process.

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A system, comprising:

at least one memory that stores executable components;
and
at least one processor, coupled to the at least one memory, that executes or facilitates execution of the executable components, the executable components comprising:
a holographic cryptographic component that receives a set of encrypted holograms associated with a set of source images and decrypts the set of encrypted holograms to generate a set of decrypted holograms based at least in part on a conjugate phase mask, wherein the set of encrypted holograms is based at least in part on a set of phase holograms that represent, at least in part, the set of source images and are derived from a set of complex holograms via a stochastic hologram generation process, and wherein the conjugate phase mask inversely corresponds to a random phase mask used to encrypt the set of phase holograms to generate the set of encrypted holograms;
and
a display component that presents a set of holographic images that is generated in response to illumination of at least a portion of the set of decrypted holograms using a coherent light beam, wherein the set of holographic images reconstruct and correspond to the set of source images.

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Holographic encryption of multi-dimensional images and decryption of encrypted multi-dimensional images

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Holographic encryption of multi-dimensional images and decryption of encrypted multi-dimensional images

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