IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSOR, AND PROGRAM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image processing method for widely using the advertisement area of an advertisement image such as merchandise, and for providing much more information relating to the merchandise.

SOLUTION: This image processing method includes: storing a notice image as an image to be displayed by a noticing means and additional information corresponding to the notice image; when receiving a photographic image including the notice image, retrieving whether or not the notice image is stored; when the notice image is stored as the result of retrieval, specifying the position of the notice image in the photographic image as the position of the noticing means; calculating a camera parameter including the information of a distance from the noticing means to the photographic position of the photographic image and a direction from the noticing means to the photographic position; and generating a composite image by adding the additional information based on the camera parameter.

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