Patent Document ID: 9437026
Application ID: 13849710
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An image creating device comprising: a CPU which functions as: an acquiring unit that acquires a photographic image; a component creation unit that creates a face component image, the face component image being created using components of a face included in the photographic image acquired by the acquiring unit, and the face component image being an image shown by lines, wherein the component creation unit deletes portions present outside of a facial contour and leaves portions present inside of the facial contour to thereby create the face component image; an extraction unit that extracts feature information of a shape of an outline of the face included in the photographic image acquired by the acquiring unit; a specifying unit that (i) performs a comparison of the feature information of the shape of the outline of the face in the photographic image acquired by the acquiring unit with a plurality of items of candidate feature information describing shapes of outlines of faces which are shown by lines and are recorded in a recording section, and (ii) specifies a hair style image corresponding to one of the plurality of items of candidate feature information which matches the feature information of the shape of the outline of the face image extracted by the extraction unit based on a result of the comparison, the hair style image being an outline image of human hair; and an image creation unit that creates an image shown by lines by combining the hair style image specified by the specifying unit and the face component image created by the component creation unit.