Patent ID: 9396529
Filing Date: 2016-07-19
CPC Classification: G06K,G06T,H04N

Claim Text:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: a masking area retainer that retains a masking area specified by a user for an image, the image having distortion; a masking processor that performs masking processing for the image having distortion using the masking area of the masking area retainer; a distortion corrector that corrects the image that is subjected to the masking processing using a correction parameter for correcting distortion of the image; and a masking area shaper that shapes the masking area of the corrected image into a predetermined shape; wherein the corrected image is displayed together with the image when the user specifies the masking area, the corrected image is the image corrected by the distortion corrector, the image displayed is the image having distortion that is subject to the masking processing by the masking processor.