Patent ID: 7038713

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: means for receiving image data from a source of image data supply; image processing means for performing image processing on the received image data to produce output image data; display means for displaying an image carried by the image data supplied from said source of image data supply; designating means for designating at least one principal part of the image displayed by said display means; and setting means for setting image processing conditions in accordance with information about said at least one principal part of the image designated by said designating means; wherein said setting means calculates said image processing conditions using image data within said at least one principal part designated by said designating means and image data within an entire image area of said image, and sets said calculated image processing conditions in accordance with said information about said at least one principal part and information about said entire image area of said image, and said image processing means performs said image processing on said image data within said entire image area of said image under said image processing conditions set by said setting means.