Patent ID: 7324246
Filing Date: 2008-01-29
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: an image processing unit for executing image processing based on image data of an image; a region extracting unit for automatically extracting a main subject region corresponding to a main subject in said image for the image processing; and an image display unit for displaying said image in enlargement with said main subject region disposed at a center of image, wherein said main subject region in said image is a face region of a person, further comprising: a determination device for determining whether or not a possibility that an eye region whose color is faulty is included in an image of the face region is high, wherein, when the determination device determines that the possibility that an eye region whose color is faulty is included in the image of the face region is high, said region extracting unit extracts an eye region whose color is to be corrected as well as said image processing unit corrects the color of the thus extracted eye region, and said image display unit displays an image showing a result of correction of the color of the eye region in enlargement with the eye region disposed at the center of image, wherein when a plurality of eye regions are corrected for color, said image display unit displays an image with each of the eye regions disposed at the center of image, and wherein said image display unit displays the image with each of the eye regions disposed at the center according to a sequence of sizes of the eye regions which have been corrected for color.