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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2008
Kousuke Irie, Kurokawa-gun, JP;
Kousuke Irie, Kurokawa-gun, JP;
Fujifilm Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A digital still camera has a CCD image sensor, which includes an active pixel area for image pickup of an image to produce image data. A black pixel area is disposed outside the active pixel area, and produces black pixel data. The image pickup apparatus includes an amplifier for adjusting white balance of the image data. A smear detection unit detects a smeared portion of a smear phenomenon in the image according to the black pixel data. A tone correction unit reduces chroma of the image in a predetermined hue area according to a smear level of the smear phenomenon determined from the black pixel data, to carry out color correction of the smeared portion for the image data after adjusting the white balance.