IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR CAUSING COMPUTER TO EXECUTE THE METHOD

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To generate an image with natural perspective in setting plural focus areas.

SOLUTION: A focus area setting part sets, as a focus area, each of plural areas which have to be kept in focus, in a taken image of subjects. A depth acquisition part acquires a depth to each subject in association with a pixel within the image. A blur processing part blurs each pixel within the image to a degree corresponding to the minimum value in the absolute values of respective differences between the depth corresponding to the target pixel and the depth corresponding to each focus area.

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