Patent ID: 8068149

Claim:
An image processing device, comprising at least two of: a converter for unifying multiple photoelectric conversion characteristics of image data of an image picked up by an image pickup section having multiple photoelectric conversion characteristics into a single photoelectric conversion characteristic; a corrector for performing an optical correction of correcting a distortion of the image by interpolating the image data of the distorted picked-up image resulting from an optical characteristic of the image pickup section, and locally changing a resolution of the image; and a compressor for performing a dynamic range compression of compressing a dynamic range of the image data by extracting an illumination component from the image data based on a space frequency of the image, and compressing the extracted illumination component, wherein the compressor performs the dynamic range compression with respect to image data to be obtained after the optical correction is performed by the corrector, and the converter performs a processing of unifying the photoelectric conversion characteristics with respect to image data to be obtained before the optical correction is performed by the corrector.