Patent ID: 9602709
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: G11B,H04N

Claim:
1. An image pickup apparatus comprising: an image sensor for picking up an image of an object; a storage for storing a photographed image picked up by the image sensor; an output interface for outputting the photographed image picked up by the image sensor to an external image processing apparatus; a communication device for transmitting, to the external image processing apparatus, a transmission request of parameter information of an image processing that is performed on the photographed image, the external image processing apparatus setting the parameter information for the photographed image, and for receiving, from the external image processing apparatus, the parameter information that is transmitted from the external image processing apparatus according to the transmission request; a system control processor and a memory storing a program executable by the system control processor to cause the system control processor to perform the functions of a recording unit, an operation detection unit and a control unit, the recording unit recording, in the storage, the parameter information received by the communication device in relation to the photographed image, the parameter information being used for performing a same image processing on the photographed image related to the parameter information as an image processing performed on the photographed image by the external image processing apparatus; the operation detection unit detecting an operation in the image pickup apparatus; and the control unit controlling the transmission of the transmission request of the parameter information by the communication device, wherein the control unit controls the communication device so as to transmit the transmission request of the parameter information to the external image processing apparatus when the operation detection unit detects a predetermined operation.