Patent ID: 8463076

Claim:
An image processing apparatus for processing and outputting image data, comprising: an image processing content storage unit for storing image processing contents so that an image processing is divided into a non-spatial filtering processing not depending on a spatial characteristic of the image data and a spatial filtering processing depending on the spatial characteristic of the image data, said non-spatial filtering processing including at least one of a brightness adjustment processing, a contrast adjustment processing, a hue adjustment processing, a color saturation processing, and a ground elimination processing, said spatial filtering processing including at least one of a noise elimination processing, a contour stress processing for stressing a contour of the image data, and a moiré elimination processing; an image processing content sorting unit for sorting the image processing contents; a thumbnail magnification ratio determining unit for determining a magnification ratio of a thumbnail image according to the image processing contents, said thumbnail magnification ratio determining unit being arranged to determine the magnification ratio at a first ratio when the image processing contents contain only the non-spatial filtering processing, and at a second ratio when the image processing contents contain only the spatial filtering processing, said second ratio being greater than the first ratio; a thumbnail image creation unit for creating the thumbnail image from the image data according to the magnification ratio; and an image processing unit for applying the image processing to the thumbnail image according to the image processing contents.