Sony Corporation

Junichi Ishibashii

Tetsujiro Kondo

Naoki Fujiwara

Seiji Wada

Takahiro Nagano

Toru Miyake

Takashi Sawao

The present invention particularly relates to an image processing apparatus in which motion blur contained in a blurred image can be eliminated. An area specifying unitspecifies a non-mixed area formed of a foreground area consisting of foreground object components which form a foreground object and a background area consisting of background object components which form a background object, or a mixed area in which the foreground object components and the background object components are mixed. A separating/blur-eliminating unitsimultaneously performs processing for separating the foreground object components and the background object components from the pixel data of the mixed area and processing for eliminating motion blur from the separated foreground object components based on a result obtained by specifying the area. The present invention is applicable to an image processing apparatus in which a difference between a signal detected by an image-capturing device and the real world is considered.

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Saitama, Japan

Junichi Ishibashii