Patent ID: 8873108

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: a luster region determination unit configured to determine a luster region and regions other than the luster region included in an input image based on a luminance value of the input image; a luminance correction value calculation unit configured to calculate a luminance correction value of the luster region; and a corrected image generation unit configured to generate a corrected image of the input image by applying the luminance value to the regions other than the luster region and by applying an extended luminance value to the luster region, the extended luminance value being obtained by adding the calculated luminance correction value to the luminance value so that the extended luminance value is greater than a maximum luminance value of the input image and is less than a maximum luminance value to be reproduced by an output device in case that the maximum luminance value of the input image is less than the maximum luminance value to be reproduced by the output device.