Patent ID: 7889383

Claim:
An image output apparatus comprising: a reading device for reading, from a recording medium on which image data representing a subject image and data representing photometry values obtained by respectively performing photometry for a plurality of sections obtained by dividing an imaging area are recorded, the image data and the photometry value data being correlated to each other, the image data and the photometry value data; a display control device for controlling a display device such that the subject image represented by the image data read by said reading device is displayed on a display screen; a designation device for designating a desired image zone in the subject image displayed on said display screen; a brightness adjusting means for correcting, on the basis of the photometry value data corresponding to an image in the zone designated by said designation device, the brightness of the image in the designated zone; and an image data output device for outputting, the image data representing the image the brightness of which is corrected.