Patent ID: 7830566

Claim:
An image processing method, comprising: photographing a subject under viewing environment of the subject to acquire image data of a subject image that is thus photographed; performing colorimetric conversion on the acquired image data to acquire first colorimetric values of said subject image; as well as acquiring first chromaticity information and first illuminance information of a first light source illuminating said subject as subject illuminating conditions characterizing the viewing environment of the subject, and second chromaticity information and second illuminance information of a second light source illuminating a reproduced subject image as reproduced subject image viewing conditions characterizing viewing environment of the reproduced subject image as one of a hardcopy image and a softcopy image; performing on said colorimetric values of the subject image chromatic adaptation correction based on said first and second chromaticity information and said first and second illuminance information of the first and second light sources that are acquired, and contrast correction based on said first and second illuminance information of the first and second light sources to acquire second colorimetric values of said subject image; and correcting an amount of flare in outputting the reproduced subject image for said second colorimetric values of the subject image in accordance with the viewing environment of the reproduced subject image to obtain as tristimulus values corrected third colorimetric values of the reproduced subject image to be output as the hardcopy image and the softcopy image.