Patent ID: 8630499

Claim:
An image processing apparatus, comprising: an interface that communicates with a camera; an acquisition unit that acquires compressed image data which is obtained by compressing image data photographed by the camera from the camera via the interface; a decompressing unit that decompresses the compressed image data acquired by the acquisition unit; an image correction unit for performing image-correction processing according to a parameter set by a user, on the image data decompressed by the decompressing unit; and a control unit that controls the acquisition unit and the image correction unit in accordance with a compression rate of the compressed image data acquired by the acquisition unit, wherein the control unit controls the acquisition unit to further acquire compressed corrected image data on which the image-correction processing has been performed by the camera from the camera in the case where: (a) the compression rate of the compressed image data acquired by the acquisition unit is larger than a threshold value and (b) corresponding image data, which is not compressed and corresponds to the compressed image data of which the compression rate is larger than the threshold value, exists in the camera, and wherein the control unit further controls the image correction unit to perform the image-correction processing on the decompressed image data decompressed by the decompressing unit in the case where the compression rate of the compressed image data acquired by the acquisition unit is smaller than the threshold value.