Patent Document ID: 8094213
Application ID: 12376971
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: a processor configured to: set, for an original image, a first image region including a reference point arbitrarily selected on a screen thereof, and a second image region other than the first image region on the screen; reduce the original image by decimating pixels of image data thereof; set, for a reduced image obtained by reducing the original image, a reference point of the reduced image corresponding to the reference point of the original image, a first reduced image region corresponding to the first image region, and a second reduced image region corresponding to the second image region; modify, within the reduced image, an image in the second reduced image region so that the degree of modification increases with increasing distance from the reference point of the reduced image; expand image data of the second reduced image region, of which the image has been modified, into the second image region by interpolating pixel values between individual pixels constituting the image data; combine the image data expanded into the second image region with image data of the original image constituting the first image region; and output image data of an image that is modified so that the degree of modification increases with increasing distance from the reference point of the original image.