Patent Document ID: 9002103
Application ID: 12725056
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: a definition reducing section that is configured to generate a low definition image having a lower definition than a received image, based on the received image; a color region extracting section that is configured to extract a color region from the low definition image generated by the definition reducing section by extracting pixels of the low definition image which have saturation greater than or equal to a value greater than zero, the color region corresponding to a region marked as a to-be-masked region; a concealing image generating section that is configured to: i) convert the color region into a concealing region for concealing a part of the received image, and ii) generate a concealing image including the concealing region, the concealing image reducing a visibility of an original content of the part of the received image, and being different from the color region, wherein the concealing image generating section is configured to generate the concealing image based on the color region extracted by the color region extracting section; a graying image generating section that performs gray image generation of the received image and generated a grayed image; and an image combining section that is configured to superimpose the concealing image on a part of the grayed image, the part including information to be concealed, to generate a single image of the concealing image and the grayed image.