Image processing apparatus capable of properly emphasizing differences in brightness between bright spots, image processing method, and storage medium

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PATENT NO 9591231
APP PUB NO 20160117803A1
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14887854

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A technique that makes it possible to obtain a natural photographed image which does not give a feeling of strangeness and emphasizes differences in brightness between bright stars and low-brightness stars, without depending on a photographic scene. In a case where photographing the starry sky, the number of bright spots is detected from a picked-up image, and image processing performed on the picked-up image is controlled to at least blurring processing or edge emphasis processing or neither the blurring processing nor the edge emphasis processing, according to the number of detected bright spots.

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  • CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA

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Ueyama, Teruhiko Kawasaki, JP 16 250

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