PICTURE PROCESSOR AND PICTURE PROCESSING METHOD

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a picture processor and a picture processing method, which can prevent the generation of a texture that is not intended at the time of generating a mosaic picture and can generate the mosaic picture of high picture quality. SOLUTION: When a mosaic picture is formed by combining a plurality of material pictures, a picture to be the base of the mosaic picture is divided into the areas of M×N (step S300). The picture characteristics of the divided areas are obtained (step S301). It is permitted that one material picture overlaps with the areas to the number K of use limit times and it corresponds to them based on the picture characteristics. The material picture corresponding to the divided areas is decided (steps S306-309).