Patent ID: 8223222

Claim:
A method of storing or transferring an image along with an image-processing parameter for processing said image, said method comprising, when storing or transferring a second image for storage or transfer which has a second resolution for storage or transfer differing from a reference resolution, the steps of: correcting a reference image-processing parameter set according to a reference resolution image having said reference resolution, based on a difference between said reference resolution and said second resolution, so that it becomes a second parameter corresponding to said second image; storing or transferring said second parameter obtained by said correction, along with said second image, wherein the reference image-processing parameter is corrected so that an image characteristic, obtained by reading out the stored second image and processing the second image using the corrected reference image-processing parameter, is substantially the same as an image characteristic obtained by processing the reference resolution image using the reference image-processing parameter, and wherein said processing said image comprises one of applying a frequency-enhancing process and dynamic range process to said image, and said processing is based on said image-processing parameter.