Patent ID: 8711241
Filing Date: 2014-04-29
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image capturing apparatus comprising: an image capture unit configured to generate an image signal by photo-electric conversion of an object image; a foreign substance detection unit configured, in a foreign substance detection image capturing mode, to detect, from a foreign substance detection image signal obtained by said image capture unit, foreign substance information that is information of a position and size of a foreign substance in an image sensing plane of said image capture unit; a lens information acquisition unit configured, in the foreign substance detection image capturing mode, to acquire lens information of a lens used upon capturing the object; a register unit configured, in the foreign substance detection image capturing mode, to register the detected foreign substance information and the acquired lens information; a face region detection unit configured, in a normal image capturing mode, to detect a region of a personal face from the captured image signal obtained by capturing the object; a recording unit configured, in the normal image capturing mode, to record the detected foreign substance information, the acquired lens information registered by said register unit, and the face region information acquired by said face region detection unit in a file header of captured image data obtained by capturing the object; a conversion unit configured to convert the foreign substance information detected by said foreign substance detection unit into second foreign substance information on the basis of the lens information recorded by said recording unit; a determination unit configured to determine whether the region of the second foreign substance information is overlapped with the region of the face region information; and an interpolation unit configured to interpolate a pixel corresponding to the foreign substance in the captured image data on the basis of the second foreign substance information, wherein said interpolation unit interpolates the pixel in a case that the region of the second foreign substance information is not overlapped with the region of the face region information and said interpolation unit does not interpolate the pixel in a case that the region of the second foreign substance information is overlapped with the region of the face region information.