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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2009
Kanako Saito, Inagi, JP;
Yasunori Taguchi, Kawasaki, JP;
Takashi Ida, Kawasaki, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus includes, a unit generating a sample-texture image, a unit searching a preset-search range for similar pixels and to generate a texture image by assigning a pixel value of each of the similar pixels to a pixel value of a processing-target pixel in the texture image, the preset-search range being included in the sample-texture image and including a position corresponding to a position of the processing-target pixel to which any pixel value is not yet assigned, the similar pixels having, around the similar pixels, variation patterns similar to a pattern of pixels which are located in the texture image near the processing-target pixel and to which pixel values are assigned, and a unit combining the texture image and a base image of a same size as the texture image to obtain a synthetic image, the base image holding shades similar to shades of a transform-target image.