Patent ID: 7304682

Claim:
An image processing system comprising: an image capturing apparatus for capturing an image of a subject, comprising: an image capturing instruction unit for generating a first instruction signal and a second instruction signal for instructing capturing of the subject; an image pick-up unit for capturing a first image of the subject in response to the first instruction signal, and a second image of the subject in response to the second instruction signal; and a backlight status detector for detecting backlight status based on the first image and the second image; and an image processing apparatus for performing image processing on the image captured by said image capturing apparatus, comprising: a correction unit for correcting the second image when said backlight status detector detects the backlight status; wherein said image capturing apparatus further comprises a extracting unit for extracting a second subject area which is an area indicating the subject and a second background area which is an area indicating a background of the subject, wherein said correction unit corrects brightness of the second subject area based on a first table which stores a correlation between brightness before the correction and brightness after the correction, and corrects brightness of the second background area based on a second table which stores a correlation between brightness before the correction and brightness after the correction, the second table being different from the first table.