Image processing apparatus, imaging apparatus, image processing method and program recording medium

An image processing apparatus comprising:

• an image reading section that obtains a captured image;
• a high luminance point detecting section that detects a high luminance point having a luminance value equal to or higher than a predetermined value in the captured image;
• a chroma extracting section that (1) sets a first area in the captured image with the high luminance point serving as a reference point and extracts a first chroma representing a chroma of an area near the high luminance point by using color information of the first area, (2) sets a second area at a position farther apart from the high luminance point than the first area in the captured image, the second area having luminance points with a luminance value less than the predetermined value in the captured image and (3) extracts a second chroma representing a chroma of an area farther apart from the high luminance point than the first area by using color information of the second area;
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• a color bleeding estimating section that estimates intensity of color bleeding appearing in the captured image based on a value of the first chroma relative to the second chroma.