COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND METHOD

摘要

A foreground component image and a background component image of a picked up image are processed at a high speed by utilizing a network. A client computer (27) outputs to a separation server (11) information specifying image data to be separated. The separation server (11) fetches image data specified from an accumulation server (18) and outputs it to a motion detection server (12). After the motion detection processing is performed, the separation server (11) outputs image data, a motion vector, and position information to an area identification server (13). The area identification server (13) generates area information on the area of image data and outputs the area information in addition to the image data, the motion vector, and the position information to a mixture ratio calculation server (14). The mixture ratio calculation server (14) calculates a mixture ratio using the image data, the motion vector, the position information, and the region information, and according to these information, a foreground and background server (15) separates a foreground and a background of the input image. The present invention can be applied to an image processing business model.