Patent ID: 7933041
Filing Date: 2011-04-26
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An output device which uses image data and photographic information relating to an image quality in a case of image data photographing in a digital still camera, which includes at least exposure bias value information in image data generation and which has been associated with said image data by said digital still camera, and outputs said image data, said output device comprising: an image quality parameter value acquirer that analyzes said image data and acquires a value for an image quality parameter which indicates at least a characteristic relating to a brightness of said image data; an image quality adjuster that computes an image quality adjustment quantity for each image data from a standard image quality parameter value and said image quality parameter value, modifies said image quality adjustment quantity with individual photographic information, and adjusts an image quality of said image data by applying the modified image quality adjustment quantity, wherein said standard image quality parameter value is determined in advance for said image quality parameter value relating at least to said brightness, and said image quality adjuster uses said photographic information to modify said image quality adjustment quantity regardless of a value of said photographic information; and an output that outputs said image data that has been subjected to said image quality adjustment.