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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2015

Filed:

Feb. 28, 2013
Applicant:

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Daiki Kondo, Hakodate, JP;

Toru Kikuchi, Hino, JP;

Masato Ikeda, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/46 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06T 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00523 (2013.01); G06T 11/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

An image generation apparatus stores a plurality of selection condition rows including a plurality of selection conditions used for selecting an image from a plurality of material images, selects at least one material image from the plurality of material images as a first material image, obtains a feature quantity of the first material image, selects a selection condition row which is stored in the storage unit and includes a selection condition including the obtained feature quantity, selects a second material image from the plurality of material images based on a selection condition row which has been selected, and generates an image based on the first and the second material images which have been selected and the selection condition row which has been selected.


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