Patent ID: 6987589

Claim:
An image processing device for carrying out a dodging treatment, which has a first processing line and a second processing line, to respective lines of which color image signals are input, the first processing line comprising: a luminance image signal generator for generating a luminance image signal from said input color image signals; a filter for filtering said luminance image signal to generate an unsharp image signal; a dynamic range compressor for subjecting said unsharp image signal to a dynamic range compression treatment to generate a compressed unsharp image signal for the dodging treatment; the second processing line comprising: at least one memory for delaying said input color image signals for a time period corresponding to a delay time which occurs as a result of processing in the first line, thereby generating delayed input color image signals, said delay time occurring as a result of processing of said input color image signals; an adder for subtracting said compressed unsharp image signal for the dodging treatment from each of said delayed input color image signals to generate processed image signals for the dodging treatment.