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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 04, 2001
Image processing device and method for generating changes in the light and shade pattern of an image
Takahiro Onodera, Saitama, JP;
Takahiro Onodera, Saitama, JP;
Konami Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In order to represent, as a video, changes in the light-and-shade patterns of an image with a reduced demand for storage capacity and a relatively small amount of preparation, light-and-shade pattern data representing the light-and-shade pattern to be added to an original image and constructed by assigning a palette number to each image region obtained by dividing the original image is prepared. A plurality of palette data constructed by assigning color information having brightness difference to each palette number are generated, the plurality of palette data being different from each other. A plurality of light-and-shade images each based on the light-and-shade pattern data and one of the palette data generated at the palette data generating step are translucently blended, in sequence, into the original image.