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When the shares of a qualified subset are superimposed, the original secret image can be visually recovered. Region incremental visual cryptography (RIVC) is a class of visual cryptography; it encrypts a single image into a shared image with multiple levels of secrecy, and when decrypted, the secret image of each region can be gradually recovered. Traditional VC encrypts two black-and-white images, and its recovery method is equivalent to a logical OR operation. To obtain a better recognizability of the restored image, the XORoperator becomes a simple and efficient method of encryption and decryption. Because the XOR operation needs extra cost or equipment, if the equipment cannot be obtained, the scheme can be more flexible if the secret can still be restored by using OR decryption (superimpose). In this paper, we propose a novel RIVC that allows encoding multiple secret regions of a secret image into n random grids. 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