US Patent 7433534 Edge emphasizing circuit

An edge emphasizing circuit includes a weighing addition circuit, and the weighing addition circuit performs on the basis of a weighing coefficient applied from a coefficient calculating circuit a weighing addition with respect to raw image data and data obtained by performing a filtering process on the raw image data by a median filter. Then, an aperture signal producing circuit produces an aperture signal on the basis of a result of the weighing addition. The aperture signal is in an adder superimposed on Y data output from a signal processing circuit, whereby an edge component of the Y data is emphasized.