Patent ID: 6724946
Filing Date: 2004-04-20
Classification: G06K,G06T

Abstract:
An image processing method for forming a mosaic image by combining a plurality of material images, comprising the steps of:dividing an image, which is the basis of the mosaic image, into a plurality of areas; calculating an average value of each of R, G, and B color components in each of the plurality of areas into which the image has been divided in said dividing step; forming a mosaic image by calculating differences between the average value of each of R, G, and B color components in each of the plurality of areas and an average value of R, G, and B color components in each of the material images, and selecting and pasting a material image having a minimum difference to respective ones of the areas so as to form the mosaic image; and applying a pixel matrix having a size corresponding to the resolution of the mosaic image to joints between the material images and performing a filtering process on the mosaic image, wherein the filtering process is independently performed on each of R, G, and B color components of the joints of the material images.