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In an image processing apparatus, a plurality of substantially corresponding points are designated on a reference image and a peripheral image. The degree of coincidence is detected between a window in the peripheral image with a corresponding point as the center, and windows successively cut from t

In an image processing apparatus, a plurality of substantially corresponding points are designated on a reference image and a peripheral image. The degree of coincidence is detected between a window in the peripheral image with a corresponding point as the center, and windows successively cut from the reference image, whose center is a corresponding point. The corresponding point at the center of the window having the highest degree of coincidence in the reference image is moved and an offset between this corresponding point and the corresponding point on the peripheral image is detected. When a corresponding point whose offset is greater than a threshold exists, the peripheral image is subjected to an affine transformation using a corresponding point on the reference image whose offset is less than the threshold. The processing is repeated by using the corresponding point on the transformed peripheral image. The two images are merged by an affine transformation when the offsets of all corresponding points become smaller than the threshold.

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An image processing apparatus comprising: display means for displaying first and second images; designating means for designating a first point on the first image and a second on the second image, the second point corresponding to the first point; acquiring means for acquiring a peripheral image of

An image processing apparatus comprising: display means for displaying first and second images; designating means for designating a first point on the first image and a second on the second image, the second point corresponding to the first point; acquiring means for acquiring a peripheral image of the first point in the first image, which has a first predetermined size; determination means for determining a search zone in the second image, which includes the second point and has a second predetermined size; searching means for searching an area having a maximum degree of coincidence with the peripheral image from the search zone; correcting means for correcting a position of the second point based on the searched area; and merging means for merging the first and second images on the basis of the first point and the second point corrected by said correcting means.