Patent ID: 7973850
Filing Date: 2011-07-05
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus, comprising: a discriminating unit that discriminates a color component originating in an image structure in an image captured through an optical system from a color component attributable to a chromatic aberration of the optical system, wherein: the discriminating unit alters a sharpness of at least one color component of the captured image and discriminates the color component originating in the image structure in the captured image from the color component attributable to the chromatic aberration of the optical system based upon a difference in color response characteristics between at least two color components including the color component in correspondence to which the sharpness has been altered; and if the color response characteristics between the two color components is represented by a monotonically decreasing function relative to a change in the sharpness, the discriminating unit determines that the color component in correspondence to which the sharpness has been altered is a color component originating in an image structure in the captured image.