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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110311046 | Image Forming System, Image Forming Apparatus, and Method in which an Application is Added An image forming system includes a first computer, a second computer, and an image forming apparatus. The first computer is configured to provide an application file to a first special hash function and generate a first special hash value corresponding to an input first... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110164748 | Packaging film for product authentication, authentication method and system A packaging film which contains pigment particles randomly distributed in a low surface-area density is used for the authentication of products. An imaging device is used to record a first digital image of a packaged product. The positional coordinates, and optionally t... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110026708 | RECORDING MEDIUM, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME AND APPARATUS FOR REPRODUCING THE SAME There is disclosed a method for generating data for a recording medium. The method includes receiving original content data representing a plurality of still images and identifying a first subset of the still images to be recorded with copy-protection and a second subse... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20100119067 | ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT ENCRYPTING SYSTEM, DECRYPTING SYSTEM, PROGRAM AND METHOD An electronic document encrypting system 200, for accomplishing an object of providing a system capable of distributing an electronic document containing important information with a browsing restriction being set and information with none of the browsing restric... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100111301 | SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES OF PROTECTION AND AUTOMATIC VERIFICATION OF PAPER DOCUMENTS AGAINST FALSIFICATION, ADULTERATION AND LEAKAGE Protection of documents printed in paper is provided by processes for detection, immediately and clearly, of different types of falsification, adulteration, inclusion and omission. A network accessible system is capable of detecting several fraud aspects. A “Remote Ex... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100091341 | DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PORTABLE DATA SCANNING AND TRANSMISSION A device, system and method for portable data scanning and transmission are provided. The device is a portable appliance including resources for interoperating with a scanner to scan images of paper based documents, and a memory for storing the images without the need f... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20100086131 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOTE SIGNATURE ACQUISITION A system for remote signature acquisition, includes a local computer located in a first position where a document is needs to be executed, a remote computer located at a second position, a camera connected to the local computer, a tablet connected to the remote computer... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20100074443 | IMAGE ENCRYPTION AND IMAGE DECRYPTION APPARATUS AND METHOD Input data is converted into an image, and in the input image, an encryption region that is a region in which the image is to be encrypted. Meanwhile, on the basis of an encryption key, encryption key-related information that is information related to the encryption key... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100074442 | Image Scanning System, and Image Scanner and Computer Readable Medium Therefor An image scanning system includes an image scanner and a terminal device connected with the image scanner. The terminal device accepts a password, stores an image encryption key, encrypts the image encryption key with the password, sends the encrypted image encryption k... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100067694 | FILE-TRANSMITTING METHOD AND SCANNING DEVICE USING THE SAME A file-transmitting method and a scanning device are provided. A document is scanned and an image file of the document is generated. The image file is stored to a remote storage device. File-access data for accessing the image file is generated. The file-access data is ... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20100052852 | Methods and devices for enrollment and verification of biometric information in identification documents Methods and devices for the secure encryption, enrollment, verification, and decryption of biometric and biographical identification information. The unique sequence of steps and the use of a combination of visible watermarking, invisible-fragile watermarking decoding, ... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100046753 | INFORMATION OUTPUT SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR TAMPERING DETECTION An information output system for tampering detection 100, including: a digital image acquiring unit 15 for acquiring a digital image including target information for tampering detection as an image; an encrypting unit 11 for converting the digital i... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100034380 | SCANNING APPARATUS, HOST APPARATUS AND SCAN IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF A scanning apparatus, a host apparatus and a scan image processing method thereof. The scan image processing method of the scanning apparatus includes generating a scan image by using a scan target document, obtaining an encryption key which includes color space informa... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100027851 | Apparatus, method and process for the stochastic marking and tracking of printed products A system and method records and identifies certain attributes of printed products for verifying their authentication and for tracking individual printed products or copies of printed products. In embodiment of the invention, a static code with redundant information and ... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100027793 | FACSIMILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, FACSIMILE APPARATUS, FACSIMILE COMMUNICATION METHOD, TRANSMISSION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECEPTION PROCESSING METHOD A facsimile communication system which is capable of selectively performing encrypted communication or non-encrypt communication according to the intention of a user. A transmitting-side digital multifunction machine inputs the port address of a receiving-side digital m... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100014668 | Image data verification program recorded on a recording medium, image data verification method, and image data verification system An image data verification system for verifying image data using a computer and method are provided. The method includes registering image data of an original and extracting information regarding a part of information forming the original image data. The method also inc... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100008504 | Data transmitting apparatus, data receiving apparatus, data transmitting method, and data receiving method The present invention provides a data transmitting apparatus in which a device information obtaining unit obtains device information of a device connected to the data transmitting apparatus; a verification unit verifies validity of a data receiving apparatus, based on t... | 01/14/2010 |
| 20090323950 | Image encryption/decryption apparatus, method and program An image encryption apparatus encrypts a digital image by specifying a partial region from the digital image, converting the selected partial region into a processing image based on an encryption key, and specifying a position of the partial region by regularly converti... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090238364 | IMAGE SCANNER A scanner includes a scanning unit which scans an object to generate scan data, a scan data storage, a location information transmitting unit configured to transmit location information indicative of a location where the scan data is stored to an external device, a devi... | 09/24/2009 |
| 20090222664 | UNIT USING OS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE SAME A chip mountable on a replaceable unit used in an image forming job is disclosed. The chip includes a central processing unit (CPU) to perform at least one of authentication and cryptographic data communication with a main body of the image forming apparatus using an op... | 09/03/2009 |
| 20090220162 | SYSTEM, COMPUTER SOFTWARE PRODUCT AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND PROCESSING HANDWRITTEN DATA A system, computer program product and method are provided that smooth handwritten information following the transmission of handwritten data to a second computing device, thereby reducing the memory, processing and communications bandwidth requirements of a first compu... | 09/03/2009 |
| 20090214033 | IMAGE ENCRYPTION APPARATUS AND IMAGE DECRYPTION APPARATUS Area data indicating an encryption area of image data and level data indicating an authority level for the encryption area are received. Upon being triggered by an input password, an encryption key is generated for each received authority level. Check data to be detecte... | 08/27/2009 |
| 20090136032 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image reading apparatus includes: an original reading section reading an image from an original and generating image data on the read image; a key generation section generating a key for encrypting on the basis of the image data generated by the original reading sect... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090067627 | Method and System for Transmitting Data From a First Data Processing Device to a Second Data Processing Device The present invention relates to a method and a system for transmitting data from a first data processing device (2) to a second data processing device (1), wherein the first data processing device (2) has a display device (3). In the case of... | 03/12/2009 |
| 20090046856 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ENCRYPTING, OBFUSCATING AND RECONSTRUCTING DATASETS OR OBJECTS A method of encrypting or obfuscating a first dataset, the dataset comprising a plurality of data elements, the method comprising distributing the data elements among one and at least one other of a plurality of discrete further datasets. Also provided is a method of re... | 02/19/2009 |
| 20090022313 | ENCRYPTED DATA PROCESSING METHOD, ENCRYPTED DATA PROCESSING PROGRAM AND ENCRYPTED DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS An encrypted data processing method for a printing system provided with a host which transmits print data or encrypted data formed by encrypting the print data, and an image forming apparatus connected with the host via a communication network to execute printing based ... | 01/22/2009 |
| 20090022312 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DOCUMENT SYNCHRONIZATION A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to convert a destination document into a destination document tree hierarchy. The destination document tree hierarchy is flattened into a destination document hash table comprising a set of destination ... | 01/22/2009 |
| 20090003601 | ALPHA-MASKED IMAGE MATCHING A method and system is disclosed for authenticating a physical medium (1405). The method starts by retrieving (1406) a reference digital signature (1412) previously determined (1403) based upon visual characteristics of an area (1402) ... | 01/01/2009 |
| 20080279380 | Information Processing Method, Information Processing Device, Computer Program For Achieving the Information Processing Method, and Computer-Readable Storage Medium of Storing the Computer Program The present invention aims to provide the technique of appropriately enabling the encryption and decryption to the partial area with respect to the image data to which the partial encryption and the multiple encryptions have been applied. More specifically, the predeter... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20080267402 | Image Forming Apparatus, Image Forming Method, Information Processing Apparatus and Information Processing Method In an image forming method of receiving encrypted data generated by an information processing apparatus, decrypting the encrypted data into data to be printed, and causing an image forming apparatus to execute printing processing, print data is acquired by decrypting th... | 10/30/2008 |
| 20080201784 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SECURE DOCUMENT PRINTING A secure document printing system is provided. A policy server is used to define access rules for a document, and select individual users and/or groups that will have access to the document. The policy server stores the access rules along with a document decryption key.... | 08/21/2008 |
| 20080199008 | Image forming device and image forming method An image forming device, to which an external storage is detachably connected, is provided with a first password acquiring unit configured to acquire a password input by a user when print data is to be encrypted, and an encrypting unit configured to encrypt the print da... | 08/21/2008 |
| 20080168554 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF OUTPUTTING An image forming apparatus capable of printing encrypted PDF and XPS files through a direct printing scheme even if the image forming apparatus has no user interface or control panel, and a method of outputting document using the same. The method includes determining wh... | 07/10/2008 |
| 20080118064 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR ENCRYPTING PORTIONS OF A DOCUMENT USING SELECTIVE ANNOTATION The invention provides a method, system, and program product for encrypting portions of a document using selective annotation. One method according to the invention includes: defining an annotation border adjacent a portion of a document using a digital pen; applying to... | 05/22/2008 |
| 20080112564 | IMAGE AND OPTICAL MARK SCANNER WITH ENCRYPTION A scanner for scanning images and optical marks with optical mark recognition (OMR) and encryption is disclosed. A scanning system may include a scanning head configured to read documents comprising characters, marks, and images. The scanning system may include an encry... | 05/15/2008 |
| 20080101606 | TRANSACTION RECORDAL SYSTEM A method of printing a security document having a security feature, the method including, receiving the security document, and encrypted identity data at least partially indicative of an identity of the security document. The identity is decrypting using a secret key as... | 05/01/2008 |
| 20080044021 | Image forming apparatus, image forming method and, computer readable medium and computer signal An image forming apparatus comprises: an output part that outputs variable information varying in a time-dependent manner in the image forming apparatus; a first encrypt part that encrypts the variable information outputted from the output part using a first encrypt key... | 02/21/2008 |
| 20080044022 | ENCRYPTION DEVICE AND METHOD, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An encryption device which is capable of preparing an encrypted document not easily deciphered by a third person. The encryption device encrypts information formed on a recording member on the basis of a predetermined encryption code. A surface of the recording member i... | 02/21/2008 |
| 20080019519 | System and method for secure facsimile transmission A system and method for the secure transmission of a facsimile, which verifies that a selected user transmitted the document and only allows for the designated recipient or recipients to receive the facsimile is provided. A sending user scans a document, which is then e... | 01/24/2008 |
| 20080013727 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD An image processing apparatus for scanning and printing out an original document is disclosed, including a setting part setting an encryption degree for encrypting contents in a range in the original document to become difficult to visually determine, for each of one or... | 01/17/2008 |
