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Abstract

Image processing method and apparatus for combining a plurality of texture images and generating a mosaic image. A first image serving as an original image is divided into a plurality of tile areas; a texture image having a minimum difference between the average luminance of R, G and B tristimulus values in each tile area and average luminance of R, G and B tristimulus values in each texture image is selected; and a mosaic image is produced by substituting the tile area by the selected texture image. In determination of the texture image, L*a*b* space parameters of each tile area and each texture image are compared and a texture image having the closest space parameter is selected as the image for the corresponding tile area, and a mosaic image is generated.

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