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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 08, 1998
Tooru Matama, Kanagawa, JP;
Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd., Kanagawa-Ken, JP;
Abstract
An image processing method, comprising the steps of: picking up an image recorded onto a photographic film which has been developed by dry development and generating a digital image data; determining image quality reduction degree due to graininess on the basis of any of the sensitivity of the photographic film and the film size of the photographic film, and determining a graininess parameter for reducing graininess and a sharpness parameter for determining sharpness emphasizing degree on the basis of the result of determination; and effecting image processing of the digital image data by using at least one of the determined graininess parameter and sharpness parameter.