Patent ID: 7932928

Claim:
An image processing method that executes image processing of image data having shooting information, which is obtained at a time of shooting and includes information on a selected shooting scene, said image processing method comprising: acquiring image data, the image data being associated with scene-dependent image processing condition specification information, the scene-dependent image processing condition specification information being used to specify a scene-dependent image processing condition applied for image processing, wherein the scene-dependent image processing condition specification information allows a digital still camera to specify a condition for image processing to be performed in an image processing apparatus, and wherein the scene-dependent image processing condition specification information does not include a shooting time condition; receiving selection information that determines which of the selected shooting scene and the scene-dependent image processing condition specification information is to be used to acquire the scene-dependent image processing condition; acquiring a scene-dependent image processing condition suitable for the selected shooting scene from a memory device, which stores multiple scene-dependent image processing conditions as image processing conditions suitable for respective shooting scenes; and executing image quality adjustment of the image data with the acquired scene-dependent image processing condition, wherein said memory device stores a first scene-dependent image processing condition corresponding to the selected shooting scene and a second scene-dependent image processing condition corresponding to the scene-dependent image processing condition specification information, said acquiring the scene-dependent image processing condition is implemented with selecting either of the first scene-dependent image processing condition and the second scene-dependent image processing condition according to the received selection information, and each operation of the image processing method is executed by a CPU.