Patent ID: 8746820

Claim:
A nail print apparatus comprising: a first image obtaining section which obtains a finger image including a nail image of a plurality of nail sections of a first person; a second image obtaining section which obtains a finger image including a nail image of a plurality of nail sections of a second person; a finger type detecting section which detects a type of each finger from the finger image of the plurality of fingers of the first person obtained by the first image obtaining section and the finger image of the plurality of fingers of the second person obtained by the second image obtaining section; a storage controlling section which stores the type of finger detected by the finger type detecting section corresponded with the nail image of the nail section obtained by the first image obtaining section and the second image obtaining section for each of the first person and the second person; an adjusted nail image generating section which adjusts the nail image of the first person stored by the control of the storage controlling section to match the nail image of the corresponding finger of the second person to generate an adjusted nail image; and a print controlling section which controls printing of the adjusted nail image generated by the adjusted nail image generating section on the nail section of the corresponding finger of the second person.