Patent Document ID: 20110103683
Application ID: 12871449
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. An image processing device that generates a photo-mosaic image by dividing a production target image into a plurality of blocks of arbitrary forms and replacing the blocks by replacement images comprising: subject detecting means for detecting a subject on a material image on the basis of the material image used to generate the replacement images; working means for performing a working process on the material image conforming to the form and size of the block concerned such that a region of the subject on the material image puts in the block; image generating means for clipping a subject-including region of the material image which has been subjected to the working process so as to have the same form and size as the block and generating a clipped image in which the subject is included; and replacing means for setting one of a plurality of clipped images which is the most similar to the block in terms of color-related characteristics as the replacement image for each block of the production target image and replacing the block by the replacement image to generate the photo-mosaic image.