Patent ID: 8363935

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: a red eye candidate detecting section that detects a red eye candidate, which is an area of a color included in a predetermined color range of a red color, from image by using a detecting threshold value differentiating a red eye from a gold eye; a gold eye candidate detecting section that detects a gold eye candidate, which is an area of a color included in a predetermined color range of a gold color that is not overlapped with the predetermined color range of a red color, from image by using the detecting threshold value; a red eye-gold eye-correcting section that performs a predetermined red eye correcting process to the red eye candidate detected by the red eye candidate detecting section, and performs a predetermined gold eye correcting process, which is different from the predetermined red eye correcting process, to the gold eye candidate detected by the gold eye candidate detecting section; and a red eye-gold eye-separating section that judges whether the red eye candidate detected by the red eye candidate detecting section is a predetermined red eye or a predetermined gold eye by using a red eye separating threshold value of which level of R component is higher than a level of R component of the detecting threshold value; and a gold eye converting section that converts a color of the red eye candidate, which was judged by the red eye-gold eye-separating section as a gold eye, into a color, which is judged by the red eye-gold eye-separating section as a red eye, wherein the red eye-gold eye-correcting section performs the red eye correcting process to a red eye candidate of which color was converted by the gold eye converting section.