Patent Document ID: 20040021779
Application ID: 10619438
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: image obtaining unit, adapted to obtain image data from a recording medium on which the image data has been recorded; face region extraction unit, adapted to extract a face region of a person from the image data obtained by said image obtaining unit; image feature amount calculation unit, adapted to calculate an image feature amount of the face region extracted from the image data by said face region extraction unit; correction effect inference unit, adapted to infer whether or not a correction effect can be obtained by correcting a characteristic of the image data, based on the image feature amount calculated by said image feature amount calculation unit, and to output a first inference result based on the inference; and image correction unit, adapted to, in a case where it is inferred by said correction effect inference unit that the correction effect can be obtained based on the first inference result, correct the characteristic of the image data based on the image feature amount and thus output post-correction image data.