Patent ID: 8531545

Claim:
An image processing apparatus configured to perform image processing on an input color image produced by image pickup of a scene through an optical system, the scene including plural objects whose distances from the optical system are mutually different, the apparatus comprising: a conversion part configured to convert the input color image into at least a first color image and a second color image; a filter acquisition part configured to acquire a first chromatic aberration correction filter applied to the first color image and a second chromatic aberration correction filter applied to the second color image for reducing a chromatic aberration component included in an out-of-focus area in the input color image and an image restoration filter for reducing a blur component included in the input color image; and a processing part configured to perform chromatic aberration correction processing using the first and second chromatic aberration correction filters and image restoration processing using the image restoration filter on the first and second color images, wherein the filter acquisition part acquires the first and second chromatic aberration correction filters by using information on chromatic aberration of the optical system, information on an in-focus distance of the optical system in the image pickup of the scene, and information on the distance to an object included in the out-of-focus area, and wherein the processing part outputs a corrected color image by combining the first and second color images on which the chromatic aberration correction processing and the image restoration processing have been performed.