1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates an image processing apparatus and an image processing method for combining images.
2. Description of the Related Art
Conventionally, an image processing apparatus that combines a plurality of images has been available to generate a single image. For combining a plurality of images, such an image processing apparatus discards attribute information attached to the original images or selects the attribute information of one of the images.
However, when the attribute information is processed as described above, optimum attribute information is not supplied to a combined image. This makes it impossible to switch processing for optimum image processing in accordance with attribute information.