Patent ID: 8243328
Filing Date: 2012-08-14
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A printing method comprising: obtaining scene information concerning image data from supplemental data that is appended to the image data; classifying a scene of an image represented by the image data, based on the image data; comparing the classified scene with a scene indicated by the scene information; printing a printout that is used to urge a user to make a confirmation when a mismatch between the classified scene and the scene indicated by the scene information exists; reading in a printout on which the user has filled out printing instructions; enhancing the image data based on at least one of the scene indicated by the scene information and the classified scene, in accordance with the result of the reading in; and printing an image represented by the enhanced image data, wherein the scene indicated by the scene information and the classified scene are compared for the image data of each of a plurality of images, for the image data of each of the images, an image represented by the image data of the plurality of images is printed on the printout and an instruction region is provided with which the user can give an instruction of a scene, in the instruction region of image data for which a mismatch between the scene indicated by the scene information and the classified scene exists, a mark used to give an instruction of the scene indicated by the scene information and a mark used to give an instruction of the classified scene are printed, in the instruction region of image data for which a match between the scene indicated by the scene information and the classified scene exists, a mark used to give an instruction of at least one of the scene indicated by the scene information and the classified scene is printed, in the instruction region of image data for which a mismatch between the scene indicated by the scene information and the classified scene exists, either one of the mark used to give an instruction of the scene indicated by the scene information and the mark used to give an instruction of the classified scene is printed in an emphasized manner, and when an image represented by image data for which a mismatch between the scene indicated by the scene information and the classified scene exists is printed, and neither the mark used to give an instruction of the scene Indicated by the scene information nor the mark used to give an instruction of the classified scene is filled out, then the image data is enhanced based on the scene indicated by the mark that is printed in an emphasized manner, and the image represented by this enhanced image data is printed.