Patent ID: 8417029

Claim:
An image processing method comprising: a generating step of generating, from a color image, a first image in which at least one of a plurality of color components has a resolution lower than that of the other color components; a holding step of holding the first image, which has been generated at said generating step, as a base image; an extracting step of extracting, from the color image, a rectangular region that includes an object image; a specifying step of specifying a region of the object image and a region of a background image in the rectangular region that has been extracted at said extracting step; and a fill-up step of executing fill-up processing of a region, which corresponds to the object image that has been specified at said specifying step, with regard to the base image; wherein a first fill-up processing executed with the color of the base image for a boundary between the object image and the base image, and wherein said fill-up processing step executes a second fill-up processing with the color of the background image for a boundary between the object image and the background image.