Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program

摘要

An object of the present invention is to provide an image processing apparatus that obtains a high-quality image signal by determining an amount of noise in an optimum fashion and reducing the amount of noise. The image processing apparatus reduces a noise component contained in the image signal picked up by an image pickup element and digitized. The image processing apparatus includes a determining unit which determines whether or not a target pixel in the image signal is within a predetermined noise range for each pixel, and a noise reducing unit which reduces the noise of the target pixel based on the determination result.