The present invention corrects the insufficient peripheral light amount
due to the lens shading and correcting the non-uniformity of light amount
at the periphery due to a distortion resulting from a precision of the
lens or a poor mounting precision of the lens. A peripheral light amount
correction circuit is structured by an image synchronization signal
generation circuit, a coordinate conversion circuit and a luminance value
correction computing circuit. An integrated value of luminance values is
calculated at the coordinate conversion circuit to extract light amount
information. Coordinate values to be input to the luminance value
correction computing circuit are generated based on an
integrated/averaged value of the light amount information. In the
luminance value correction computing circuit, peripheral light amount
correction functions are converted based on the input coordinate values
from the coordinate conversion circuit to perform appropriate correction
on the input image.