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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2014
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Takumi Takahashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Nobuyuki Asakura, Tokyo, JP;
Etsuro Yamauchi, Tokyo, JP;
Junya Kameyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Saturn Licensing LLC, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
There is provided an image processing apparatus including an image reception unit configured to receive an image with markers including a sub image and marker pixels each indicating, using a pixel value, a combining ratio of a main image and the sub image that is combined with the main image, a combining ratio acquisition unit configured to acquire the combining ratio indicated by a pixel value of the marker pixel in the image with markers, and a combining unit configured to combine the main image and the sub image based on the acquired combining ratio.