Patents by Inventor Shuuko Kikuchi

Shuuko Kikuchi has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Copy-forgery-inhibited pattern or stamp image combined with image data based on user actions
    Patent number: 7738143
    Abstract: The image data with the copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image added and an image area flag signal stored in the hard disk drive are inputted into a thinning filter. A thinning circuit does not perform thinning processing on these pieces of data and outputs the inputted image, as it is. The filter performs processing so that an image of a copy-forgery-inhibited pattern background part may be deleted. A selector selects an image signal not passing through the filter for a latent mark of the copy-forgery-inhibited pattern whose image area flag is set as “Character,” and select an image signal subjected to the processing by the filter for a copy-forgery-inhibited pattern background part whose image area flag is set as “Photograph.” By doing so, it is possible to perform low pass processing on only the copy-forgery-inhibited pattern background part and perform processing of making a latent-mark part emerge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koichi Ishimoto, Masaki Kashiwagi, Nobuaki Miyahara, Takayuki Hirata, Yousuke Aoki, Asami Horiuchi, Kenji Nagai, Shuuko Kikuchi
  • IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD
    Publication number: 20070147929
    Abstract: The image data with the copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image added and an image area flag signal stored in the hard disk drive are inputted into a thinning filter. A thinning circuit does not perform thinning processing on these pieces of data and outputs the inputted image, as it is. The filter performs processing so that an image of a copy-forgery-inhibited pattern background part may be deleted. A selector selects an image signal not passing through the filter for a latent mark of the copy-forgery-inhibited pattern whose image area flag is set as “Character,” and select an image signal subjected to the processing by the filter for a copy-forgery-inhibited pattern background part whose image area flag is set as “Photograph.” By doing so, it is possible to perform low pass processing on only the copy-forgery-inhibited pattern background part and perform processing of making a latent-mark part emerge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2006
    Publication date: June 28, 2007
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koichi ISHIMOTO, Masaki KASHIWAGI, Nobuaki MIYAHARA, Takayuki HIRATA, Yousuke AOKI, Asami HORIUCHI, Kenji NAGAI, Shuuko KIKUCHI