Patent ID: 7940426

Claim:
A method for image processing comprising: providing an image data of an image that is comprised of a plurality of pixels; obtaining a first statistical feature amount based on a plurality of pixels sampled by edge pixel sampling which samples pixels having x-y chromaticity within the range of 0.35<x<0.40, 0.33<y<0.36 from the image; obtaining a second statistical feature amount based on a plurality of pixel data sampled by uniform sampling which samples pixels uniformly from the image; and applying a plurality of image processes to the image data to reproduce a converted image data, each image process having an image process strength, wherein the plurality of image processes include at least one of contrast correction, brightness correction and chroma saturation emphasis, wherein intensity of the contrast correction is determined based on the second statistical feature amount, the intensity of the brightness correction is determined based on the first statistical feature amount and the intensity of the chroma saturation emphasis is determined based on the second statistical feature amount, wherein, the application of the edge pixel sampling to the image data and the application of the uniform sampling to the image data are completed in one image scanning.