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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 30, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 09, 2010
Yukinori Noguchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Hirokazu Kameyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Yukinori Noguchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Hirokazu Kameyama, Kanagawa, JP;
FUJIFILM Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided is an image processing apparatus, including a characteristic region detecting section that detects a characteristic region from an input image; an image generating section that generates, from the input image, a low-quality image, which is of lower quality than the input image, and a characteristic region image, which is of higher quality than the low-quality image at least at the characteristic region; a difference processing section that generates a characteristic region difference image indicating a difference between an image of the characteristic region in the characteristic region image and an image of the characteristic region in the low-quality image; and an encoding section that encodes the characteristic region difference image and the low-quality image.