Patent ID: 9621766
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: G06T,H04N

Claim:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: hardware, including a processor and memory; a skeleton component separation unit implemented by the hardware and configured to separate a skeleton component having a plurality of pixels and illustrating a perspective structure from a source image; and a mist/fog correction unit implemented by the hardware and configured to calculate, based on color information in each color channel of the skeleton component, a correction factor and correct, based on the correction factor, brightness of each pixel of a plurality of pixels of the source image, wherein the mist/fog correction unit is configured to calculate, from a minimum value of color channel of each pixel of the skeleton component, an amount of superimposition of mist/fog of the each pixel of the source image and calculate a gamma value for correction of the each pixel of the source image from the amount of superimposition of mist/fog to perform a gamma correction by using the gamma value with respect to the each pixel of the source image.