To provide a technique capable of enhancing a color identification performance.
A digital camera 1A is provided with: an image pickup device for acquiring an image by applying photoelectric conversion to a light image by a photographing optical system; an image information acquisition section 22 for acquiring a relative brightness component value Y and color difference component values Cr, Cb on a given region in the image; an absolute brightness value calculation section 23 for calculating an absolute brightness value Bc(Bvc) based on the relative brightness component value Y; and a color information determination section 27 for determining color information on the given region based on the absolute brightness value Bc(Bvc) and the color difference component values Cr, Cb.
Yoshitake Hidetoshi
Takahiro Arita