Patent ID: 8289342

Claim:
An image processing apparatus, comprising: an input unit that inputs data of an image; a conversion unit that converts the data of the image inputted by the input unit into data of a form having a color space including a luminance component; a selection unit that selects data of a plurality of pixels for each component constituting the color space, from the data of the image converted by the conversion unit; a texture processing unit that carries out texture processing on the data of the plurality of pixels selected by the selection unit using a brush stroke pattern and using respective colors of the pixels; a hatching processing unit that carries out hatching processing of adding a diagonal expression substantially perpendicular to an orientation of the brush stroke pattern on an area of data having pixels of low luminance from the data of the image converted by the conversion unit, using the respective colors of the pixels; a composition unit that carries out processing of compositing the data of the image on which the texture processing has been carried out by the texture processing unit, with the data of the image on which the hatching processing has been carried out by the hatching processing unit; a contour enhancement processing unit that carries out contour enhancement processing of enhancing a contour portion of the data of the image composited by the composition unit based on the luminance component of the data of the image converted by the conversion unit; and a storing control unit that controls storing the data of the image on which the contour enhancement processing has been carried out by the contour enhancement processing unit.