Image pickup processing method and image pickup apparatus

1. An image capturing processing method comprising:

a first step of capturing an image by a camera;

a second step of detecting, in only an upper region of the image captured in the first step, feature data of the image and calculating a correction amount from the feature data detected in only the upper region; and

a third step of performing, based on the correction amount calculated in the second step, correction control of an optical system of the camera or correction of image data of the image.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second step includes the steps of:

extracting a perpendicular edge element in the upper region;

detecting, as the feature data, a roll amount of the image based on the perpendicular edge element; and

calculating a roll correction amount of the image based on the roll amount.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein

in the second step, the roll correction amount is calculated using a roll amount at a current time and a roll amount at a previous time.

4. An image capturing system comprising:

a camera for capturing an image;

a region limiting section for limiting image data of an image captured by the camera to an upper region of the image and outputting the limited image data;

a correction amount calculation section for detecting, from the limited image data output from the region limiting section, feature data of the image and calculating a correction amount from the feature data; and

a correction section for performing, based on a correction amount calculated by the correction amount calculating section, correction control of an optical system of the camera or correction of the image.