Patent Document ID: 20040169747
Application ID: 10731237
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. An image processing apparatus for generating a color image in which each pixel has a plurality of color components and a uniform sensitivity characteristic relative to optical intensity on the basis of a color-and-sensitivity mosaic image in which each pixel has one of the plurality of color components and is captured with one of a plurality of sensitivity characteristics relative to the optical intensity, comprising: extraction means for extracting a predetermined area centered on a pixel of interest, which is an object to be processed, from the color-and-sensitivity mosaic image; generation means for making uniform the sensitivity characteristics relative to the optical intensity of pixels included in the predetermined area extracted by the extraction means and generating local area information including the pixels, each pixel having one of the plurality of color components and the uniform sensitivity characteristic relative to the optical intensity; edge detection means for detecting an edge of the local area information on the basis of, of the pixels included in the local area information, pixels having a first color component; first interpolation means for interpolating the first color component associated with the pixel of interest by computing a weighted average using, of the pixels included in the local area information, the pixels having the first color component on the basis of the direction of the edge detected by the edge detection means; statistic-information computing means for computing statistic information on the basis of the pixels included in the local area information; and second interpolation means for interpolating a color component other than the first color component associated with the pixel of interest on the basis of the first color component associated with the pixel of interest, which is interpolated by the first interpolation means, and the statistic information.