Patent ID: 8483509

Claim:
An image processing apparatus which develops RAW image data, the apparatus comprising: a magnification setting device that sets a magnification representing a ratio of a number of pixels within a display region of a display device to a number of pixels in a corresponding area in the RAW image data; a read out device that reads out RAW image data; a developing device that develops RAW image data; an extracting device that extracts, from the RAW image data, a number of pixels less than a number of all of pixels included in the RAW image data based on an area determined from the magnification set by said magnification setting device and the display region of the display device; a control device that causes said developing device to develop the pixels extracted by said extracting device; a display control device that controls the display device to display, within the display region, the image data developed by said developing device; and a parameter setting device that sets, in accordance with a user's operation, a parameter for a developing process, wherein said developing device executes the developing process in accordance with the parameter set by said parameter setting device, wherein the parameter to be set by said parameter setting device includes a parameter for sharpness processing, and wherein, when the magnification is less than 100%, said developing device executes a sharpness process simpler than a sharpness process for a magnification larger than 100% or does not execute the sharpness process.