Patent ID: 8537232

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: a display that displays a first image; an allocating unit that divides image information of the first image into components corresponding to a plurality of apparatuses, each of which reproduces the first image as a reproduced image and displays the reproduced image, and allocates the components to the plurality of apparatuses; an information acquiring unit that acquires component information of the reproduced images displayed by the plurality of apparatuses that corresponds to the components allocated by the allocating unit, the component information generated by the plurality of apparatuses based on (i) the allocated components and (ii) the reproduced images displayed by the plurality of apparatuses; and an image generating unit that combines the component information acquired from the plurality of apparatuses by the information acquiring unit and generates a reconstructed first image, wherein the components comprise a red (R) color component, a green (G) color component, and a blue (B) color component of the image information, wherein when all reproduced images displayed by the plurality of apparatuses are the same as the first image, the reconstructed first image is identical to the first image, and when any one of the reproduced images displayed by the plurality of apparatuses is different from the first image, the reconstructed first image is not identical to the first image.