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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2015
Casio Computer Co., Ltd., Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Tomoyuki Nagao, Fussa, JP;
CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A nail printing apparatus is provided with a controlling unit for acquiring an end position on a tip side of a nail of a finger based on image data of an image of the finger, wherein the finger includes the nail having a nail tip portion and a nail back portion whose color is darker than a color of the nail tip portion. The controlling unit acquires luminance difference values which are difference in two of luminance values adjacent to each other in the image data, acquires a reference position where the luminance difference values represent a extreme value corresponding to a difference value between color of the nail tip portion and the nail back portion, and acquires the end position of the nail based on a position where the luminance difference values represent extreme value on the tip side from the reference position.