Patent 7973850 was granted and assigned to Nikon (Somalia) on July, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An image processing apparatus includes a discriminating unit that discriminates a color component originating in an image structure in an image captured through an optical system from a color component attributable to a chromatic aberration of the optical system, and a correction unit that corrects the color component attributable to the chromatic aberration of the optical system based upon discrimination results provided by the discriminating unit.