Method of processing image information and method of preventing forgery of certificates or the like
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorTakashi Yamaguchi
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Abstract
Additional information, composed of characters, images, voice, etc., is converted into two-dimensional codes and then converted into a visible additional image to be embedded. The additional image is embedded in a full-color main image in a state of invisibility to produce a composite image. The composite image is recorded on a non-electronic medium such as paper or on an electronic medium, such as a memory on a personal computer, over the Internet. The embedded additional image is extracted from the composite image recorded on the recording medium and the additional information is reproduced.
Claims1
A method of preventing the forgery of identity cards comprising:
- preparing an image of the face of a person for identification and a composite image in which security information for assuring the image of the face of the person is embedded in a state of invisibility;
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- recording the image of the face of the person and the composite image in different positions on an identity card,
- wherein the composite image is produced by
- converting a main image comprising an image of the person's face into achromatic image information,
- modulating an additional image comprising characters or images using predetermined pattern image information to produce a pattern-modulated image information,
- adding predetermined color difference amounts to the resulting pattern-modulated image information, and
- superimposing the pattern-modulated image information having the color difference amounts added on the main image converted into the achromatic image information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.