NOTICING AREA EXTRACTING DEVICE AND AUTOMATIC COMPOSITION DECIDING DEVICE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To extract a noticing area adjusted to human subjectively and to automatically device well-balanced composition. SOLUTION: A noticing area extracting device and an automatic composition deciding device 10 include an image forming device 14, which generates the original image of a panoramic image from video photographed by a camera 12. A noticing area extracting device 20 extracts a noticing area from the original image given from the device 14. Namely, evaluation matched with human subjectivity is given in accordance with the physical feature of the original image and the noticing area is extracted in accordance with the evaluated result. A composition cutting off device 22 cuts out the extracted noticing area and an adjacent image area from the original image by referring to data on paintings painted by painters and photographs taken by photographers stored in a memory 24. Namely, the data can be cut out by the same composition as the case with painted images or photographed images.