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Methods and systems for utilizing conjugate cluster halftone screens to embed patterns or images as invisible watermarks into both digital halftone image files and corresponding printed documents are disclosed. In general, two or more two-conjugate halftone screens can be configured to provide a basic information carrier for embedding a digital watermark into a document. Thereafter, one or more clusters can be created from the two-conjugate halftone screens, wherein such clusters include the same centroid position relative to a grid defined by fundamental halftone frequencies. Two halftone patterns can then be blended from the two-conjugate halftone screens in a cluster-to-cluster basis so that virtually no loss of image quality occurs in comparison with an output of either the two-conjugate halftone screens, thereby permitting the digital watermark to be embedded into the document utilizing the two-conjugate halftone screens.

For the purpose of removing wraparound artifacts without degrading image quality of an image, there are provided a phase correcting section (1072) for conducting phase correction processing on received signals in an actual scan based on a reference signal as a corrective signal received by one of a plurality of receive coils (1013), without applying a gradient magnetic field Gp in a phase encoding direction, and an unfolding section (1075) for removing wraparound artifacts in an image based on the signals received by the plurality of receive coils (1013) in the actual scan and subjected to the phase correction processing by the phase correcting section (1072), and on the difference in sensitivity distribution among the plurality of receive coils (1013), so that the phase correction processing is conducted while preserving the relative phase relationship among the coils, and unfolding processing (removal processing) is conducted using the result of such phase correction processing.

Lossless video data compression is performed in real time at the data rate of incoming real time video data in a process employing a minimum number of computational steps for each video pixel. A first step is to convert each pixel 8-bit byte to a difference byte representing the difference between the pixel and its immediate predecessor in a serialized stream of the pixel bytes. Thus, each 8-bit pixel byte is subtracted from its predecessor. This step reduces the dynamic range of the data. A next step is to discard any carry bits generated in the subtraction process of two's complement arithmetic. This reduces the data by a factor of two. Finally, the 8-bit difference pixel bytes thus produced are subject to a maximum entropy encoding process. Such a maximum entropy encoding process may be referred to as a minimum length encoding process. One example is Huffman encoding. In such an encoding process, a code table for the entire video frame is constructed, in which a set of minimum length symbols are correlated to the set of difference pixel bytes comprising the video frame, the more frequently occurring bytes being assigned to the shorter minimum length symbols. This code table is then employed to convert the all of the difference pixel bytes of the entire video frame to minimum length symbols.

An image forming processing apparatus includes: an image processor which synthesizes a latent image embedded background image data concerning a latent image embedded background image which is embedded with a mask image capable of keeping invisible in the process of printing but becoming visible in the process of copying as a latent image and a primary image data concerning a primary image into output data; and a controller which determines whether or not a synthesizing mode of synthesizing the latent image embedded background image and the primary image is set, and controls the image processor to synthesize the primary image data and the latent image embedded background image data without any superimposition of the primary image and the latent image embedded background image when the synthesizing mode is set.

An image forming apparatus which may form first and second visual images on first and second sides of a recording medium, includes a first image bearing member, a second image bearing member, a first transfer device that transfers the first visual image formed on the first image bearing member onto the second image bearing member or the second visual image formed on the first image bearing member onto the second side of the recording medium, a second transfer device that transfers the first visual image carried by the second image bearing member onto the first side of the recording medium, and a fixing device including first and second fixing members so as to fix the second and first visual images on the second and first sides of the recording medium, respectively. Surface properties of the first fixing member and the second image bearing member are substantially the same.

The invention discloses an underwater image mosaic method based on multi-scale image fusion and SIFT features. The method comprises the following steps: 1) using an improved white balance algorithm and a CLAHE algorithm based on linear interpolation to perform image enhancement on the underwater image; 2) adopting a double pyramid image fusion method to fuse the enhanced image to obtain an underwater preprocessed image; 3) The underwater preprocessed image is registered through the improved SIFT algorithm; 4) After the image affine transformation matrix is ​​calculated, the final underwater image mosaic is completed using the linear gradient synthesis algorithm. The present invention proves through experiments that this method fully considers the underwater environment and underwater imaging characteristics, and can obviously improve the effect and accuracy of underwater image enhancement, registration and splicing.