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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2011
Applicants:
Yuka Minegishi, Kawasaki, JP;
Hiroaki Nashizawa, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Yuka Minegishi, Kawasaki, JP;
Hiroaki Nashizawa, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An image processing apparatus for applying film grain effects on an image of received image data includes a generating unit configured to generate, on the basis of pixel values randomly read from grain data including a plurality of pixel values, a basic grain image having a certain size larger than the grain data; a resizing unit configured to resize the basic grain image generated by the generating unit to have the same size as the received image data; and a combining unit configured to combine the basic grain image resized by the resizing unit with the received image data.