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Secure authentication of images

  • US 5,799,082 A
  • Filed: 11/07/1995
  • Issued: 08/25/1998
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/07/1995
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. Apparatus for capturing and authenticating an image, the apparatus comprising:

  • a digital image camera, having a lens that forms a digitally expressed image of a selected view;

    digital image recording and storage means for receiving the digitally expressed image from the camera and for storing this digitally expressed image as an array of pixel values, with each pixel value corresponding to a pixel in an array of pixels; and

    position determination means for determining position information, which includes at least one of the location of the camera, the angular orientation of the camera and the time at which the camera forms a digitally expressed image and for storing this position information as part of the digitally expressed image in the digital image recording and storage means, where the position information is stored as part of the digitally expressed image as an overlay on, or modification of, digital values representing pixel values for the digitally expressed image.

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