Patent ID: 6999116
Filing Date: 2006-02-14
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: a detecting part which detects, in an inputted image signal, a high-luminance portion that exceeds a predetermined value; a pattern generating part which generates a two dimensional pattern according to the detection made by said detecting part, the pattern spreading two-dimensionally from a center of the detected high-luminance portion to a periphery of the detected high-luminance portion in both a horizontal direction and a vertical direction and having suppression characteristics such that a suppression level is reduced from the center of the detected high-luminance portion toward the periphery of the high-luminance portion; a separating part which separates a color signal from the image signal; and a suppression part which suppresses the separated color signal in a prescribed two-dimensional area including the detected high-luminance portion in both the horizontal direction and the vertical direction by the two dimensional pattern.