IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM AND MEDIUM FOR RECORDING THE SAME

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To simply attain a special effect wherein the image quality of a prescribed object region differs from the image quality of other regions. SOLUTION: When a function of a "second processing" is selected, a DRC-volume processing section 112 carries out high image quality processing, and an image signal obtained by the processing section 112 is an output image signal Vout. In this case, the processing section 112 generates a signal with image quality in response to a value of an image quality parameter as the output image signal Vout. An object extract processing section 113 generates object area information OAI denoting an area of a prescribed object on the basis of the image signal Vin and supplies the information OAI to the processing section 112 as a control signal. The processing section 112 locally revises the image quality parameter on the basis of the information OAI to carry out special effect processing of background confusion. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI