Image creating device, image creating method and recording medium

An image creating method for an image creating device comprising a recording section and a CPU, the image creating method being executed by the CPU and comprising:

• acquiring a photographic image captured by an image capturing unit;
• creating a face component image using components of a face included in the acquired photographic image, the face component image being an image shown by lines, and the component creation unit deleting portions present outside of a facial contour and leaving portions present inside of the facial contour to thereby create the face component image;
• extracting feature information of a shape of an outline of the face included in the acquired photographic image;
• performing a comparison of the feature information of the shape of the outline of the face in the acquired photographic image with a plurality of items of candidate feature information describing shapes of outlines of faces which are shown by lines and are recorded in a recording section, and specifying a hair style image corresponding to one of the plurality of items of candidate feature information which matches the extracted feature information of the shape of the outline of the face image based on a result of the comparison, the hair style image being an outline image of human hair;
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• creating an image shown by lines by combining the specified hair style image and the created face component image.

A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having a program recorded thereon which is executable to control a computer of an image forming device to function as:

• an acquiring unit that acquires a photographic image;
• a component creation unit that creates a face component image, the face component image being created using components of a face included in the photographic image acquired by the acquiring unit, the face component image being an image shown by lines, wherein the component creation unit deletes portions present outside of a facial contour and leaves portions present inside of the facial contour to thereby create the face component image;
• an extraction unit that extracts feature information of a shape of an outline of the face included in the photographic image acquired by the acquiring unit;
• a specifying unit that (i) performs a comparison of the feature information of the shape of the outline of the face in the photographic image acquired by the acquiring unit with a plurality of items of candidate feature information describing shapes of outlines of faces which are shown by lines and are recorded in a recording section, and (ii) specifies a hair style image corresponding to one of the plurality of items of candidate feature information which matches the feature information of the shape of the outline of the face image extracted by the extraction unit based on a result of the comparison, the hair style image being an outline image of human hair;
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• an image creation unit that creates an image shown by lines by combining the hair style image specified by the specifying unit and the face component image created by the component creation unit.