Image creating apparatus

An image creating apparatus comprising:

• a storage device for storing images of a plurality of components included in a single composite image with distance from a view point of a person observing said composite image to the respective images, images of a plurality of small components divided about one or all of the components according to a distance from the view point for each component;
• an image composite device for executing a process for each pixel to select an image having the shortest distance from the view point in the images of a plurality of components or small components extracted from said storage device;
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• a control device for selecting image component data from said storage device based on a character quantity of an image component extracted from the image data received by said image input device and the image class selected by said class select device to create an image.

An image creating method comprising the steps of:

• receiving input of image data through an image input device;
• storing in a storage device a plurality of image component data each having a different character quantity in each of a plurality of image classifications which is provided with a different trend of character quantity;
• receiving a selection-input for one of said plurality of image classes through a class select device;
• and
• selecting image component data from said storage device based on character quantity of an image component extracted from the image data received by said image input device and the image class selected by said class select device to create an image.

An image creating apparatus comprising:

• an image input device for receiving input of image data;
• a character quantity extraction device adapted to extract a character quantity of a face component from said image data;
• a storage device adapted to store a plurality of image component data, each data of said plurality having a different character quantity in each of a plurality of image classes respectively, each of said image classes having a different trend of character quantity;
• a class select device for receiving a selection input for one of said plurality of image classes;
• and
• a control device for selecting image component data from said storage device based on said character quantity and said selected image class to create an image.

An image creating apparatus comprising:

• an image input device for receiving input of image data;
• a character quantity extraction device adapted to extract a character quantity of a face component from said image data wherein said character quantity comprises a quantity representing a measured value of eye slant;
• a storage device adapted to store a plurality of image component data, each data of said plurality having a different character quantity in each of a plurality of image classes respectively, each of said image classes having a different trend of character quantity;
• a class select device for receiving a selection-input for one of said plurality of image classes;
• and
• a control device for selecting image component data from said storage device based on said character quantity and said selected image class to create an image.

An image creating apparatus comprising:

• an image input device for receiving input of image data;
• a character quantity extraction device adapted to extract a character quantity of a face component from said image data wherein said character quantity comprises a quantity representing a measured value of eye roundness;
• a storage device adapted to store a plurality of image component data, each data of said plurality having a different character quantity in each of a plurality of image classes respectively, each of said image classes having a different trend of character quantity;
• a class select device for receiving a selection-input for one of said plurality of image classes;
• and
• a control device for selecting image component data from said storage device based on said character quantity and said selected image class to create an image.

An image creating apparatus comprising:

• an image input device for receiving input of image data;
• a character quantity extraction device adapted to extract a character quantity of a face component from said image data wherein said character quantity comprises a quantity representing a measured value of eye size;
• a storage device adapted to store a plurality of image component data, each data of said plurality having a different character quantity in each of a plurality of image classes respectively, each of said image classes having a different trend of character quantity;
• a class select device for receiving a selection-input for one of said plurality of image classes;
• and
• a control device for selecting image component data from said storage device based on said character quantity and said selected image class to create an image.