Patent ID: 7456873

Claim:
A camera comprising: a first signal processing system including 1) a first gamma conversion processor adapted to subject an output from an image pick-up device to gamma conversion processing, 2) a luminance signal generator adapted to generate a first luminance signal based on the output from the first gamma conversion processor, 3) an edge signal generator adapted to generate an edge signal based on the first luminance signal generated by the luminance signal generator, 4) a coring processor adapted to suppress a small output signal of a predetermined level with respect to the edge signal generated by the edge signal generator, and 5) a final luminance signal generator adapted to generate a final luminance signal by adding (A) the first luminance signal generated by the luminance signal generator and (B) an output signal of the coring processor; and a second signal processing system configured by a processing system different from the first signal processing, the second signal processing system including 1) color correction processing unit for performing color correction processing based on an output which is the output from the image pick-up device and which is not subjected to the gamma conversion processing, 2) second gamma conversion processing unit for performing gamma conversion processing, coming after the color correction processing unit, and 3) chroma signal generating unit for generating a chroma signal, coming after the second gamma conversion processing unit.