Patent ID: 7433082

Claim:
An apparatus for image processing, comprising: an attribute creating unit that creates, from image data, attribute information that indicates image characteristics of the image data; a storing unit that stores the attribute information; a processing unit that carries out different image processing of pixels in different image areas of the first image data based on the attribute information; a transferring unit that transfers the image data to an outside system; an input unit that inputs image data from the outside system; and a determining unit that determines whether attribute information of the image data inputted by the input unit is stored in the storing unit, and specifies the stored attribute information of the image data inputted by the input unit as active attribute information if it is determined that the attribute information of the image data is inputted by the input unit stored in the storing unit, wherein the processing unit carries out a processing of the image data inputted by the input unit based on the active attribute information.