When a color-reproducibility precision is determined with a plurality of
evaluation colors, an overall color-reproducibility precision needs to be
obtained with the plurality of evaluation colors to evaluate color
reproducibility with a high precision. A color-evaluation-scale
calculation section calculates color differences and metrics from the
input colorimetric values of a reference image and the input colorimetric
values of an image to be evaluated, for a plurality of evaluation colors,
and computes a plurality of color-evaluation scales indicating a
color-reproducibility precision of the image to be evaluated, according
to the calculated color differences and metrics.