Patent ID: 8040408

Claim:
An image signal processing apparatus, comprising: a peaking signal generation section configured to extract and amplify high frequency components contained in an input image signal to generate a peaking signal; an operation section configured to allow a target area for which contour correction is to be performed using the peaking signal to be accepted; a control section configured to generate an area gate signal describing position information corresponding to the designated target area; and a mask processing section configured to perform a mask process of outputting an image signal to which the peaking signal has been added to the target area designated through the operation section based on the area gate signal supplied from the control section; and a scaling processing section configured to convert pixels of the image signal for which the mask process has been performed is converted at a predetermined scaling ratio, wherein when the image signal for which the contour correction has been performed has been caused to be displayed in an enlarged size through the operation section, a value of the scaling ratio applied to the image signal that is output to the designated target area is caused to be larger than a value of a scaling ratio applied to an image signal that is output to other than the designated target area.