Patent ID: 7042501

Claim:
An image processing apparatus for subjecting input image data of an image obtained by optical photographing to preset processing and making the input image data to output image data, comprising: storage means for storing the image data at high resolution that is finely scanned and the image data at low resolution that is pre-scanned; a display for displaying the image carried by the image data at high resolution or low resolution that is read from said storage means; display switching means for switching at least one portion or all portions of the image displayed on said display from the low resolution to the high resolution and vice versa; designation means for designating a region to be corrected including an eye, said designating means designating the region to be corrected within the image at low resolution that is displayed on said display by said display switching means; and red eye correction means for correcting a red eye effect in the image data at the high resolution by subjecting the eye in a region of the output image data at the high resolution that corresponds to the region designated by said designation means to eye color transformation processing, wherein said display switching means switches in such a way that at least the region designated by said designation means in the image of the low resolution is displayed on said display at high resolution before or after, or both before and after the region is processed based on the output image data at the high resolution by said red eye correction means.