Patent ID: 8208752

Claim:
An image processing apparatus which corrects a shot image, which is shot by an image capturing apparatus and on which a shadow of a foreign substance existing on a shooting optical path of the image capturing apparatus is captured, so as to reduce an influence of the shadow of the foreign substance, the apparatus comprising: a display unit which displays the shot image; a correction unit which corrects the shot image so as to reduce the influence of the shadow of the foreign substance on the basis of an original file which has foreign substance information which is information associated with the shot image and concerning at least a position and size of the foreign substance existing on the shooting optical path of the image capturing apparatus; an input unit which is used by a user to input additional foreign substance information in accordance with the shot image displayed on said display unit; and an additional registration unit which additionally registers the additional foreign substance information input by said input unit in the foreign substance information when the additional foreign substance information is unregistered foreign substance information in the original file, wherein said additional registration unit registers the additional foreign substance information in an additional file which has information which indicates the type of the image capturing apparatus of which the captured image is to be corrected.