Patent ID: 7936919

Claim:
An image correction apparatus comprising: a color correction value calculating circuit which calculates a color correction value based upon specific image data representing a specific image contained in an image represented by applied image data, the color correction value being premised on the fact that the specific image is an image of one type among images of a plurality of types; a probability calculating circuit which calculates the probability that the specific image is the image of the one type among the images of the plurality of types based upon an angle θ formed by a color vector obtained from the specific image data and a color vector representing an image of types other than the one type; a color correction value adjusting circuit which adjusts the color correction value and outputs said adjusted color correction in accordance with the probability calculated by said probability calculating circuit, wherein the adjusted color correction value varies monotonically with said probability, with the adjusted color correction value being equal to the color correction value when the probability is at a maximum value, and with the adjusted color correction value being equal to a predetermined value which results in no color correction being performed when the probability is at a minimum value; and a correcting circuit which applies a color correction to at least the specific image data among the applied image data based upon the adjusted color correction value.