Patent ID: 8121429

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: input means for inputting a characteristic parameter indicating the characteristics of a filter process performed on an image-captured signal that is generated by capturing light of a real world; detection means for detecting, on the basis of the characteristic parameter input by the input means, a phase shift amount between the image-captured signal and an obtained signal obtained as a result of a filter process performed on the image-captured signal; first forming means for forming a first prediction tap composed of a plurality of obtained pixels used to predict a target image-captured pixel value among the image-captured signals on the basis of the obtained signal that has been phase-shifted using the phase shift amount detected by the detection means; coefficient obtaining means for obtaining a first prediction coefficient generated in accordance with the characteristic parameter and the phase shift amount in order to predict the target image-captured pixel value by product-sum computation with the value of the first prediction tap; and first computation means for generating a first output signal corresponding to the image-captured signal by performing product-sum computation between the first prediction coefficient obtained by the coefficient obtaining means and the value of the first prediction tap output from the first forming means.