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Image protection apparatus, imaging apparatus, and program

  • US 20060008157A1
  • Filed: 07/06/2005
  • Published: 01/12/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/07/2004
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. An image protection apparatus, comprising:

  • a set-state determining unit that determines a set state regarding a protection function for an image; and

    a protection process unit that, when the protection function is determined by the set-state determining unit to be in a valid state, selectively performs lossless coding of a specified image region of an input image, thereby to perform a conversion to a state making it difficult to verify an image in a portion corresponding to the specified image region.

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