| 摘要 |
<p>An image protection apparatus includes (a) a set-state determining unit (3) that determines a set state regarding a protection function for an image, and (b) a protection process unit (5) that, when the protection function is determined by the set-state determining unit to be in a valid state, selectively performs lossless coding of a specified image region of an input image, thereby to perform a conversion to a state making it difficult to verify an image in a portion corresponding to the specified image region. Thereby, the conversion can be performed to the state making it difficult the image verification by a third person. In addition, when posterior verification of an image is necessary, the image can be played back to an original image.
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