Patent ID: 6975437
Filing Date: 2005-12-13
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A color correction method for obtaining processed image data by carrying out color correction processing on an image, which is represented by image data obtained by a digital camera, the method comprising the steps of: setting correction degrees for lightness, chroma and hue of predetermined specific colors before correcting lightness, chroma and hue of the image represented by the image data; obtaining correction values for lightness, chroma and hue by weighted addition of the correction degrees of the lightness, the chroma and the hue of the specific colors, based on a distance in a uniform color difference space between a center color of each of the specific colors and a color in the image represented by the image data; and obtaining the processed image data by correcting lightness, chroma and hue of the image represented by the image data, based on the correction values of the lightness, the chroma and the hue.