Patent ID: 8736682

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: a moving image data acquisition unit configured to acquire moving image data representing a synthetic image obtained by superposing a moving subject image on a still image; a notable-region specification unit configured to specify, as a notable region, a region of the moving subject image represented by the moving image data acquired by the moving image data acquisition unit; and an image processing unit configured to perform image processing of changing a style of the synthetic image into a pictorial image in accordance with predetermined parameters; wherein the image processing is configured to perform the image processing by using different processing degrees between the notable region in the synthetic image specified by the notable-region specification unit and regions other than the notable region in the synthetic image; and wherein the image processing performed by the image processing unit comprises: first image processing of increasing a processing degree by setting numerical values of the parameters to be increased when the image processing is performed on the notable region, and decreasing a processing degree by setting numerical values of the parameters to be decreased when the image processing is performed on the regions other than the notable region; and second image processing of finely rendering a texture of the pictorial image by finely drawing an image portion of the notable region when the image processing is performed on the notable region, and coarsely rendering a texture of the pictorial image by coarsely drawing an image portion of the regions other than the notable region when the image processing is performed on the regions other than the notable region.