Patent ID: 7336852

Claim:
An image processing apparatus for synthesizing a source image and a target image by positioning the target image in a designated synthesis area in the source image, comprising: a search part searching coded data of the source image per predetermined independently processable block for an objective block corresponding to the designated synthesis area; an objective block synthesis part synthesizing detected coded data of the objective block of the source image and coded data of the objective block of the target image, the coded data being encoded in accordance with a JPEG 2000 standard; an encoder encoding image data into coded data by performing two-dimensional wavelet transform, quantization, and encoding on the image data in accordance with the JPEG 2000 standard; and a decoder decoding the coded data into the image data by performing inverse two-dimensional wavelet transform, dequantization, and decoding on the coded data in accordance with the JPEG 2000 standard.