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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2016
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Tomotaka Uekusa, Yokohama, JP;
Yasushi Ohwa, Machida, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention has an object to enable white balance correction appropriate to an image photographed with strobe light-emitting. An image processing apparatus includes: a first correcting unit that corrects image data photographed with strobe light-emitting using a first WEB correction value corresponding to environmental light, and generates a first WEB correction image; a second correcting unit that corrects the image data photographed with strobe light-emitting using a second WEB correction value corresponding to strobe light, and generates a second WEB correction image; a combining ratio calculating unit that obtains a combining ratio of the first and second WEB correction images based on information on a distance to an object photographed with strobe light-emitting and distribution characteristics of the strobe light; and a combining unit that combines the first and second WEB correction images based on the combining ratio.