Image processing apparatus and method, computer program and storage medium

Patent name: Image processing apparatus and method, computer program and storage medium Patent application number 4 Publication number: 1517231
Application Date: 2004.01.20 Publication Date: 2004.08.04 Applicant: Japan Canon Inc. The purpose of the present invention is to generate a character image that can be copied by an original only by a user who is permitted to copy. Therefore, there is provided an image processing apparatus for generating and outputting a text image having a background of an embossed image as a background. The embossed image contains a latent image that is hardly recognizable to the human eye. Copying is performed by copying a copy of the information recorded on the recording medium. The image processing apparatus is characterized in that the latent image is more clearly formed on a recording medium of a copy target. The image processing apparatus is characterized in that it has an electronic watermark embedding mechanism. The electronic writing of the text and/or image information synthesized on the plate image is performed electronically. The embedding of the watermark information; the text image is an image obtained by synthesizing text and/or image information in which the electronic watermark information is embedded in the embossed image.