US Patent 7382492 Image processing apparatus and image processing method

The image processing technique of the invention receives an input image with an ID of a digital camera used for taking the input image (step S100) and performs color adjustment of the input image (step S110). The technique then specifies a color difference between an original image prior to the color adjustment and a resulting color-adjusted image after the color adjustment and generates a color correction profile based on the specified color difference (step S140). The generated color correction profile is stored in mapping to the ID of the digital camera (step S150). In response to input of each image with the ID of the digital camera, the generated color correction profile is attached to the each input image.