Digital signature authentication systems and methods are disclosed. An example method of authenticating a digital signature extracted from a high resolution image includes comparing an extracted signature from an image to a reference signature. The example method also includes authenticating the extracted signature against the reference signature according to one of a plurality of different authentication protocols.

Methods for designing and producing a security feature are provided. In general, the present disclosure provides methods of designing a printed image in a security feature, the security feature comprising an array of optical elements overlaying the printed image, wherein the printed image comprises a two dimensional matrix of rows and columns of pixels, the method comprising; correcting for a mismatch between the pixels of the printed image and the array of optical elements by doing one or more of: adding one or more pixels; removing one or more pixels; and moving one or more pixels.

A computerized exchange network makes available on the Internet collected information of items under inspection, such as goods, real estate, or the like. In one aspect, the items and collected information, such as images and videos, are added to a virtual showroom or other virtual inspection site that presents an inventory of such goods, real estate, or the like available from multiple sellers and/or locations. In another aspect, detailed objective information about the items is provided. In another aspect, a data structure includes desired criteria for a desired item and provides an alert when an item of interest matches the desired criteria.

An image forming apparatus includes: an image reading section, an operating section; a synthesizing region acceptance section that accepts, through the touch panel, specification of an object synthesizing region of a document image acquired by reading by the image reading section; an object acquiring section that acquires a plurality of objects to be individually synthesized in the object synthesizing region; and an image creating section that synthesizes each of object images representing the acquired objects in the object synthesizing region of the document image, thus creating, for the plurality of objects, individual outputting synthetic images containing the respective object images synthesized thereinto.

An image processing apparatus includes an image reading portion, a position detection portion, and a print processing portion. The image reading portion is configured to read an image of a document. The position detection portion is configured to detect position information of each of check boxes included in a read image by the image reading portion. The print processing portion is configured to be able to print a position specifying image indicating the position information of each of check boxes detected by the position detection portion.

A system and method renders a micro gloss effect image on a recording medium using a color printer having multiple color marking materials by electronically creating an electronic image region having a first image region and a second image region; electronically painting the first image region of the electronic image region with single component black; electronically painting the second image region of the electronic image region with multiple component black, the multiple component black being a combination of all single color marking materials in the color printer; and rendering, using the color marking materials of the color printer, the electronic image region on the recording medium such that the second image region of the electronic image region is rendered with all single color marking materials in the color printer and the first image region of the electronic image region is rendered with only single component black marking material.

Tools (e.g., a device administration application) may be provided to permit a document production administrator to configure stamper parameters and to pick and choose parameters to be made available for setting by users of a multi-function document processing (MFP) device, for example, via a graphical user interface (GUI) provided on the operational display of the MFP device. The device administration application may be configured to permit the document production administrator to configure, from a user terminal or from the MFP device, a stamper GUI portion of a graphical user interface (GUI) provided on the operational display of the MFP device.

In an image processing apparatus, upon input of first identification information through an identification information input device and a first document image through an image input device, a control device functioning as a controller recognizes a first text in the first document image, extracts a plurality of words constituting the first text, selects first symbols or characters from the first identification information in a predetermined first order, selects first words from the plurality of words in a predetermined second order, inserts, upon each selection of the first symbol or character and the first word, a predetermined sign and the first symbol or character between the first word and the next first word to generate a first character string, converts the first character string to a first 2D barcode, and assigns the first 2D barcode to the first document image. An output device outputs the first 2D barcode-assigned first document image.

Method and system for image augmentation. A captured image of a user in a scene includes a user portion and a background portion with partial scene features cut off at the image frame borders. A first set of imaging parameters is obtained, including the position and orientation of the camera when capturing the image. A background-image is retrieved in accordance with the obtained imaging parameters, from a database that includes imagery of real-world environments. The retrieved background-image is captured at a second set of imaging parameters such that the background-image includes supplementary scene features located beyond the image frame borders of the captured image and supplementing information for the partial scene features of the background portion. An updated image is generated in which the user appears relative to a background that includes the supplementary scene features, by image fusion of the captured image with the background-image.

An image processing device includes an image acquisition unit that acquires a captured image to be processed from a storage unit in which a captured image having first date/time information indicating a time of imaging is stored, a date/time information acquisition unit that acquires the first date/time information and acquires second date/time information indicating a date/time when the captured image to be processed is acquired, an elapsed date/time calculation unit that calculates an elapsed date/time from the time of imaging by making a comparison between the first date/time information and the second date/time information, and an image processing unit that selects image processing based on a length of the elapsed date/time from among a plurality of kinds of image processing that change according to the length of the elapsed date/time and performs the selected image processing on the captured image to be processed.