Patent ID: 8040407

Claim:
An image capturing apparatus comprising: an acquisition unit which acquires original image data containing an image of an object; a smear detection unit which detects, from the original image data, a smear region where a smear is generated, and which detects a smear amount of pixels in the smear region; and a smear correction unit which corrects a level of pixels in the smear region in the original image data by a first correction amount obtained by multiplying the smear amount by a first coefficient, thereby generating first image data, and corrects the level of pixels in the smear region in the original image data by a second correction amount obtained by multiplying the smear amount by a second coefficient, thereby generating second image data, wherein the first image data is used for at least either of image displaying and image recording, the second image data is used for at least one of exposure control, focus adjustment, and white balance control, and the first coefficient is smaller than the second coefficient.