Patent ID: 8068672

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: feature-value extracting means for extracting a feature value from an image; setting means for setting setting information for applying a process to the image; recording means for recording the setting information in association with the feature value of the image in a data recording medium; and operation means for performing an operation specifying the process to be applied to the image, wherein the setting means sets the setting information for applying the process to the image on the basis of details of the operation of the operation means, the recording means records the details of the operation in association with the feature value of the image in the data recording medium, and when the details of the operation of the operation means specifying the process to be applied to the image are to specify a relative process with respect to the immediately preceding process applied to the image, the recording means records, in association with the feature value of the image, the details of the operation and setting information based on the immediately preceding process in the data recording medium.