Patent ID: 9002103
Filing Date: 2015-04-07
Classification: G06T,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: a definition reducing section that is configured to generate a low definition image having a lower definition than a received image, based on the received image; a color region extracting section that is configured to extract a color region from the low definition image generated by the definition reducing section by extracting pixels of the low definition image which have saturation greater than or equal to a value greater than zero, the color region corresponding to a region marked as a to-be-masked region; a concealing image generating section that is configured to: wherein the concealing image generating section is configured to generate the concealing image based on the color region extracted by the color region extracting section; a graying image generating section that performs gray image generation of the received image and generated a grayed image; and an image combining section that is configured to superimpose the concealing image on a part of the grayed image, the part including information to be concealed, to generate a single image of the concealing image and the grayed image.