Patent ID: 8411911

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: an image capture unit configured to capture an image; a characteristic part detector configured to detect a characteristic part of a face from the image captured by the image capture unit, the characteristic part comprising eyes, a nose, a mouth, or eyebrows; an outline generator configured to generate a pseudo outline of the face based on positions of the characteristic part, comprising the eyes, nose, mouth, or eyebrows, detected by the characteristic part detector; and a correction unit configured to correct the image based on the pseudo outline generated by the outline generator, wherein the correction unit is configured to transform the image based on the pseudo outline, wherein the image processing apparatus further comprises: a distance calculation unit configured to calculate a distance from the pseudo outline for each pixel in the image; and a moving-distance defining unit configured to define a moving distance depending on the distance calculated by the distance calculation unit for each pixel, and wherein the correction unit is configured to transform the image based on the moving distance of each pixel.