Patent ID: 6842172

Claim:
An image processing apparatus for synthesizing a hair image with a three-dimensional shape image of a head part, to generate a hair-style-matched image, comprising: a storage part for storing a hair-style data piece constructed by a plurality of hair data pieces arranged on a two-dimensional array, wherein the storage part stores the hair-style data piece constructed with a plurality of data pieces arranged on a two-dimensional array corresponding to a projected image obtained by projecting a three-dimensional hair style expressed by a columnar coordinate system on a two-dimensional coordinate system; a read out part for reading out the hair-style data piece stored in the storage part; a mapping part for mapping the hair data piece corresponding to a hair contained in the hair-style data piece read out by the read out part, at a predetermined position on the three-dimensional shape image of the head part; and a generation part for generating the hair-style-matched image, based on a mapping result obtained by the mapping part.