Image processing system, image capturing apparatus, image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer-readable medium storing program

#This patent application claims priority based on Japanese patent applications, 2001-276708 filed on Sep. 12, 2001, 2002-65988 filed on Mar. 11, 2002, and 2002-106372 filed on Apr. 9, 2002, the contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.

#1. Field of the Invention

#The present invent ion relates to an image processing system, an image capturing apparatus, an image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer-readable medium storing program for image processing. More particularly, the present invention relates to an image capturing apparatus outputting an image in conjunction with an obtaining condition, under which the image is obtained, so as to change contents of the image processing by an external image processing apparatus; and an image processing apparatus performing an image processing based on the obtaining condition.

#FIG. 1 shows an image processing system according to an embodiment of the invention.

#FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a digital camera 10.

#FIG. 3 is a functional block diagram of the digital camera 10, which is characteristic to an embodiment of the invention.

#The invention will now be described based on the preferred embodiments, which do not intend to limit the scope of the present invention, but exemplify the invention. All of the features and the combinations thereof described in the embodiments are not necessarily essential to the invention.

#FIG. 1 is an image processing system of the first embodiment of the present invention. The image processing system comprises a digital camera 10, a printer 12, and a personal computer 14. The digital camera 10, the printer 12, and the personal computer 14 communicates datum to each other over a data transmission line. The data transmission line includes IEEE1394, USB, and the like as wired interfaces, and IrDA, Bluetooth, wireless LAN, and the like as wireless interfaces. The data transmission line may be a network having a plural number of wired interfaces and wireless interfaces, like the Internet network. Also, digital camera 10, printer 12, and personal computer 14 may use a removable medium as a recording medium to exchange data with each other.

#The digital camera 10 obtains an image of a subject, and sends the obtained image data to the printer 12 or the personal computer 14. The printer 12, or personal computer 14 outputs the image data after performing specific process for the image data. Specifically, the printer 12 outputs the image data by printing the image, and personal computer 14 outputs the image data by displaying the image on a monitor. Also, personal computer 14 changes configurations of the digital camera 10 or the printer 12 by sending configuration data to them.