Image processing device and image processing progam

• US 20100119105A1
• Filed: 10/26/2009
• Published: 05/13/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Seiko Instruments Incorporated (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Instruments Incorporated (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: Tani, Kazuo, Kawanaka, Akira, Kobayashi, Hirokazu, Suzuki, Takaaki, Moriya, Koichi
• Application Number:
  US12/589,595
• Publication Number:
  US 20100119105A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/100
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 1/0021 Image watermarking
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2201/0052 Embedding of the watermark in the frequency domain

Abstract

Provided is a technology of embedding watermark data into an arbitrarily-shaped region by applying a wavelet transform. Prepared are: image data into which the watermark data is to be embedded; a shape map that defines the arbitrarily-shaped region into which the watermark data is to be embedded within the image data; and the watermark data. An SA-DWT processing unit uses the shape map to recognize a given region included in the arbitrarily-shaped region within the image data, and subjects image data in the given region to the wavelet transform. The wavelet transform causes the image data in the arbitrarily-shaped region to be divided into frequency bands, and a watermark data embedding unit embeds the watermark data into a frequency space of the image data generated by the dividing. An SA-IDWT processing unit subjects the resultant to an inverse wavelet transform, and watermark-embedded image data is generated.

Claims

1. An image processing device, comprising:

division image data acquiring means for acquiring division image data obtained by dividing image data into which watermark data is to be embedded into frequency bands by a wavelet transform;

division region data acquiring means for acquiring division region data obtained by dividing, into the frequency bands, region data that defines a region into which the watermark data is to be embedded within the image data; and

embedding means for embedding the watermark data into the division image data corresponding to a region defined by the acquired division region data.

2. An image processing device according to claim 1, wherein:

the division image data acquiring means acquires the division image data obtained by dividing the region defined by the region data within the image data; and

the embedding means embeds the watermark data into the acquired division image data.

3. An image processing device according to claim 1, wherein:

the division image data acquiring means acquires the division image data obtained by dividing an entirety of the image data; and

the embedding means embeds the watermark data into the region defined by the acquired division region data within the division image data.

4. An image processing device according to claim 1, further comprising boundary identifying means for identifying, with use of the acquired division region data, a boundary of the region into which the watermark data is to be embedded within the division image data,

wherein the embedding means embeds the watermark data preferentially inside the identified boundary.

5. An image processing device according to claim 1, wherein the division region data acquiring means acquires the division region data by dividing the region data into the frequency bands.

6. An image processing device according to claim 1, wherein the embedding means embeds the watermark data into a predetermined frequency band.

7. An image processing device according claim 1, further comprising watermark-embedded image data generating means for generating watermark-embedded image data by compositing the division image data in which the watermark data is embedded by the embedding means.

8. An image processing device, comprising:

watermark-embedded image data acquiring means for acquiring watermark-embedded image data in which watermark data is embedded;

division watermark-embedded image data acquiring means for acquiring division watermark-embedded image data by dividing the acquired watermark-embedded image data into frequency bands by a wavelet transform;

division region data acquiring means for acquiring division region data obtained by dividing, into the frequency bands, region data that defines a region in which the watermark data is embedded within the watermark-embedded image data; and

reading means for reading the watermark data from the division watermark-embedded image data corresponding to a region defined by the acquired division region data.

9. An image processing device according to claim 8, wherein:

the division watermark-embedded image data acquiring means acquires the division watermark-embedded image data obtained by dividing the region defined by the region data within the acquired watermark-embedded image data; and

the reading means reads the watermark data from the acquired division watermark-embedded image data.

10. An image processing device according to claim 8, wherein:

the division watermark-embedded image data acquiring means acquires the division watermark-embedded image data obtained by dividing an entirety of the watermark-embedded image data; and

the reading means reads the watermark data from the region defined by the acquired division region data within the division watermark-embedded image data.

11. An image processing device according to claim 8, further comprising boundary identifying means for identifying, with use of the acquired division region data, a boundary of the region in which the watermark data is embedded within the division watermark-embedded image data,

wherein the reading means reads the watermark data from inside the identified boundary.

12. An image processing device according to claim 8, wherein the division region data acquiring means acquires the division region data by dividing the region data into the frequency bands.

13. An image processing program for causing a computer to implement:

a division image data acquiring function of acquiring division image data obtained by dividing image data into which watermark data is to be embedded into frequency bands;

a division region data acquiring function of acquiring division region data obtained by dividing, into the frequency bands, region data that defines a region into which the watermark data is to be embedded within the image data; and

an embedding function of embedding the watermark data into the division image data corresponding to a region defined by the acquired division region data.

14. An image processing program for causing a computer to implement:

a watermark-embedded image data acquiring function of acquiring watermark-embedded image data in which watermark data is embedded;

a division watermark-embedded image data acquiring function of acquiring division watermark-embedded image data by dividing the acquired watermark-embedded image data into frequency bands;

a division region data acquiring function of acquiring division region data obtained by dividing, into the frequency bands, region data that defines a region in which the watermark data is embedded within the watermark-embedded image data; and

a reading function of reading the watermark data from the division watermark-embedded image data corresponding to a region defined by the acquired division region data.