Patent ID: 8649551
Filing Date: 2014-02-11
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
1. An image generation apparatus, comprising: an image store storing image data defining an image; a data store storing data associating different portions of the image as portions of the image which are to be sequentially modulated with sequences of blurring values; and an image processing unit processing the stored image data to generate a sequence of composite images in which the portions of the image defined by image data are sequentially modulated, wherein portions of each composite image correspond to portions of the image defined by image data stored by the image store and in which other portions of the composite images in the sequence of images correspond to the other portions of the image defined by the image data stored by the image store to which a selected blurring function selected from a plurality of different blurring functions has been applied, the selected blurring functions applied being selected on the basis of the sequence of blurring values associated with the image portions which are to be sequentially modulated.