Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Ryuji Funayama

Minehiro Konya

Hajime Takezawa

Mitsuhiro Hakaridani

Harunobu Mori

Atsuro Matsuoka

An image processing device of the present invention is provided with an area position specifying device and a computing device. When the user specifies a desired object by using the area position specifying device, the computing device generates an emphasized image, in which the specified object is emphasized, and a line image, and the computing device further produces a composite image of these images so as to achieve an illustration image. In addition to the line image, the emphasized image is produced so that it is possible to emphasize an object desired by the user regardless of a state of the line image; consequently, it is possible to generate a natural illustration image in accordance with the actual image.

Image processing device and image processing method

An image processing apparatus includes a designating section for designating an arbitrary region or an arbitrary position of an image; a specifying section for specifying an object region which is present in the designated region or position, and which can additionally be in a vicinity of the designated region or position, from pixel information in the designated region or position; a determining section for determining an image region to be cut out from the image, based on the specified object region; and a cutting section for cutting out the determined image region from the image.

Image processing apparatus

The present image processing device includes an image obtaining device which obtains an electronic image (still image) or a series of electronic images (moving image), an image extraction processing device which performs image extraction processing for extracting from the image obtained by the image obtaining device a specified object domain an operator wishes to cut out, and a result output device which outputs an image extracted by the image extraction processing device. The image extraction processing device sets two mutually exclusive provisional domains in the obtained image, and, based on separability of the provisional domains, extracts a partial image containing the specified object domain.

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Nara, Japan

Ryuji Funayama