Image creating device, image creating method and recording medium storing program

An image creating method using an image creating device which creates a portrait image which schematically expresses a face, the method comprising:

• extracting a plurality of feature parts of a face in an image;
• creating a portrait image of the face on a basis of the feature parts extracted in the extracting;
• specifying, among the plurality of feature parts extracted in the extracting, a feature part to be used as a feature in the portrait image by setting any one of a usage of the portrait image created in the creating, a characteristic of the face and a relation between a person corresponding to the face and a user as a reference;
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• controlling creation of the portrait image in the creating on a basis of the feature part specified in the specifying.

A computer readable recording medium in which a program readable by a computer of an image creating device which creates a portrait image which schematically expresses a face is recorded, the programs make the computer function as:

• an extraction section which extracts a plurality of feature parts of a face in an image;
• a creating section which creates a portrait image of the face on a basis of the feature parts extracted by the extraction section;
• a specifying section which specifies, among the plurality of feature parts extracted by the extraction section, a feature part to be used as a feature in the portrait image by setting any one of a usage of the portrait image created by the creating section, a characteristic of the face and a relation between a person corresponding to the face and a user as a reference;
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• a creation control section which control creation of the portrait image by the creating section on a basis of the feature part specified by the specifying section.