Patent ID: 8558912

Claim:
An image pickup apparatus comprising: an image pickup unit; an image processing unit configured to process an image signal obtained by the image pickup unit; a display unit configured to display, on a display, an image based on the image signal that is picked up by the image pickup unit in real time and outputted from the image processing unit; a color determination unit configured to determine a color value based on color information included in a region of an image that is picked up in real time by the image pickup unit and being displayed on the display by the display unit; and a color conversion parameter determination unit configured to determine color conversion parameters for leaving the color value determined by the color determination unit and converting a color component value included in the image signal other than the determined color value into a predetermined color value, wherein the image signal is processed by the image processing unit based on the parameters determined by the color conversion parameter determination unit and the processed image is displayed by the display unit.