Patent ID: 8358355

Claim:
An imagining apparatus comprising: a first converting circuit that receives image data of an image subjected to an automatic white balance correction and converts the image data according to one of a plurality of scene-reference color space formats; a reader-writer to write the linear scRGB image data to a non-volatile memory and read the linear scRGB image data from the non-volatile memory; a converter; and a tone correction circuit for performing a tone correction for non-linear scYCC image data in a scYCC scene-reference color space format, wherein the plurality of scene-reference color space formats comprise a first scene-reference color space format and a second scene-reference color space format having linear image data and an extended color space of the first scene-reference color space format, wherein when capturing an image, the reader-writer writes the linear scRGB image data to the non-volatile memory, and wherein, when monitoring the image, the reader-writer reads the linear scRGB image data from the non-volatile memory, wherein the converter coverts the linear scRGB image data into the non-linear scYCC image data of the scene-reference color format, the tone correction circuit corrects tone of the non-linear scYCC image data according to an operation of the user, and the reader-writer writes the non-linear scYCC image from the tone correction circuit to the non-volatile memory.