Method and apparatus for generating mosaic image
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsByung-Jun SON, Tae-Hwa HONG, Soo-Kyun KIM, Sung-Dae CHO
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for generating a mosaic image by mosaic processing of an image are provided, in which an object to be used in a mosaic is acquired from a received image, the object is stored in a storage medium, a target image to be mosaic-processed is received, a mosaic block size is set, at least one object selected from among objects stored in the storage medium is received for use as a mosaic block, the target image is divided into a plurality of areas each having the mosaic block size, and the object is set as a mosaic block by reflecting a color of each divided area in the object.
Claims12
A method for generating a mosaic image by mosaic processing of an image, comprising:
- acquiring from a received image an object to be used in a mosaic;
- storing the object in a storage medium;
- receiving a target image to be mosaic-processed and setting a mosaic block size;
- receiving at least one object selected from among objects stored in the storage medium, for use as a mosaic block;
- dividing the target image into a plurality of areas each having the mosaic block size;
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- setting the object as a mosaic block by reflecting a color of each divided area in the object.
An apparatus for performing mosaic processing on an original image, comprising:
- an object image extractor for extracting from a selected area of an image an object to be used in a mosaic;
- an object modeler for analyzing a property of the object received from the object image extractor and storing information about the property of the object in a storage medium;
- an image analyzer for analyzing an image property for each divided area of the original image;
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- a mosaic image generator for receiving at least one object selected from among objects stored in the storage medium and generating a mosaic image by reflecting the image property of each divided area in the selected object.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.