Generation of decorative picture suitable for input picture

摘要

The invention provides a technique for generating a decorative image to be added to an input image which are suitable for input images. The data structure 300 of decorative image data representing the decorative image to be added to the input image by means of an image processing apparatus comprises an element image storage portion for storing color element image data representing image constituting at least some of the area of the decorative image. The element image storage portion stores a non-rewritable MIB representing whether modification of image representation components included in the color element image data is permitted by the image processing apparatus.