Patent ID: 8494230

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable medium: the non-transitory computer readable medium comprising: an area setting module, wherein the area setting module sets, in a target image that includes a face image, an area including the face image as a compression area, wherein the face image comprising a plurality of face parts is divided into a plurality of face part areas; an image deforming module, wherein the image deforming module compresses the compression area in a specific direction at a predetermined compression rate; and a face deforming module, wherein the face deforming module: sets a transformation area including at least one face part area of the plurality of face part areas, determines a layout for a plurality of division points, determines an amount of movement in the plurality of division points based on the compression rate, and moves the plurality of division points, thereby deforming the face image by an expansion amount determined on the basis of the compression rate in such a manner that at least a part of the face image is expanded in the specific direction.