Patent ID: 7589863

Claim:
A method of determining image correction comprising the steps of: obtaining image data representing a photographic frame image as source image data; generating corrected image data by effecting an image correction by a predetermined correction degree on the source image data, wherein said image correction comprises correcting image deterioration in two-dimensional characteristics of said photographic frame image, and wherein said predetermined correction degree is determined by a correction direction degree representing a two-dimensional direction and a correction intensity degree representing an intensity of said image correction on said photographic frame image; displaying a corrected reproduced image based on the corrected image data on a monitor; and fixedly determining a final correction degree for an image correction to be eventually effected on the source image data while monitoring the corrected reproduced image; and wherein the step for generating corrected image data comprises the step of providing a correction degree matrix having entries with differing correction degrees, with one of correction direction and correction density being associated with a column of said correction degree matrix and the other being associated with a row of said correction degree matrix, and generating a plurality of corrected image data by effecting the image correction on the source image data with a plurality of differing correction degrees; and wherein the displaying step comprises the step of displaying a plurality of corrected reproduced images based on selected ones from the plurality of corrected image data on the monitor in correspondence with the entries of said correction degree matrix.