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Abstract

An image pickup apparatus capable of compensating fault pixels at high accuracy with considering the image configuration in a region surrounding the fault pixels, constructed as including: a CCD image pickup device having two-dimensionally arrayed pixels; a fault pixel information storage means for storing the position of fault pixels of the image pickup device and, if the fault pixels are two-dimensionally consecutive, a pattern of their order; and a pixel defect compensation processing section for detecting an image configuration of a region surrounding a fault pixel location in image pickup signal from pixel information in the surrounding of the fault pixels, selecting based on the detected image configuration pixels by which the fault pixel should be interpolated, and compensating the fault pixels based on interpolation by the selected pixels.

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