Estimation of blurring degradation of the image to use the specular highlights

摘要

Is provided (70) a method and apparatus for estimating the blur degradation (75) an image including specular highlights. First, specular highlights in the image are identified using, for example, assist a user (77). Then, by using as (78C) blur kernel foreground that has been extracted (78A) and can be extracted from (75) image as the foreground the specular highlights that have been identified, blur kernel is derived. Next, using the blur kernel derived, by deconvolution (79), the image (75) can be deblurring. [Selection Figure 7