Patent ID: 8144161

Claim:
A texture synthesis device comprising: a determinator for determining a prioritization among regions to be synthesized of an area to be synthesized as a function of image information in an area adjacent to the area to be synthesized; and a synthesizer for synthesizing the regions to be synthesized in an order that depends on the prioritization, wherein the determinator and the synthesizer are formed such that, after a synthesization of one or several of the regions to be synthesized by the synthesizer, the determinator iteratively determines the prioritization among the remaining regions to be synthesized, as a function of the image information in the area adjacent to the area to be synthesized, including the one or several synthesized regions, and wherein the synthesizer, in the case that the synthesizer does not find a suitable synthesization for any of the remaining regions to be synthesized, is formed to cancel the synthesization and to fill the remaining regions to be synthesized by means of interpolation, wherein at least one of the determinator and the synthesizer comprises a hardware implementation, and wherein the determinator is formed to perform the prioritization such that regions to be synthesized which are adjacent to regions comprising image information more relevant to human perception are given higher priority than those which are adjacent to regions comprising image information less relevant to human perception.