Patent ID: 7394486

Claim:
An image data processing device for processing image data, using image data generated by an image generating device, and image generation record information that is associated with the image data and that includes at least subject area information indicating a subject area in the image, the image data processing device comprising: an image quality adjuster that calculates a hue of pixels in the subject area, and if a proportion of pixels having hue of a predetermined color range relative to all pixels within the subject area is greater than a first predetermined threshold value, executes an image quality adjustment process on the image data which is appropriate for an image containing a subject identified by the predetermined color range, wherein the image generation record information includes shooting mode information indicative of a shooting mode used in producing the image data by the image generating device, and the image quality adjuster does not execute the image quality adjustment process if the shooting mode indicated by the shooting mode information is a mode which is not a standard scene mode and which was manually set in the image generating device.