FAULT TOLERANT DATA STORAGE ON PHOTOGRAPHS

摘要

A method of printing digital data on a photograph includes loading an image processing program, transforming image data with the image processing program to produce transformed image data; redundantly encoding the transformed image data and the image processing program into a distributed form; and printing the redundantly encoded data using an invisible ink on a surface of a print media while simultaneously printing out the transformed image data as a photographic image in a visual, human readable form on the same surface of said print media. The redundantly encoded data is distributed across the print media such that the encoded data may be read and decoded despite a partial obliteration of the encoded data.