Patent ID: 9565412
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. An image processing apparatus which develops photographed data to obtain developed data, comprising: a saturation level calculation unit configured to calculate saturation levels of respective color signals in the photographed data; an upper limit determination unit configured to determine an upper limit of a dynamic range in the photographed data; a replacement ratio calculation unit configured to, based on the upper limit, obtain replacement ratios for the color signals, which change toward the saturation levels of the color signals; an adjustment unit configured to adjust each of the color signals according to the upper limit; a replacement process unit configured to carry out a replacement process in which a color signal of which the saturation level is low is replaced with a color signal of which the saturation level is high based on the replacement ratio; and a development process unit configured to obtain the developed data by carrying out a predetermined process on the photographed data subjected to the replacement process by said replacement process unit.