1. An image processing apparatus comprising: a bright spot detection unit configured to detect the number of bright spots from an image picked up by an image pickup unit; a blurring processing unit configured to perform blurring processing on the image picked up by the image pickup unit; an edge emphasis processing unit configured to perform edge emphasis processing on the image picked up by the image pickup unit; and a control unit configured to control the image processing performed on the image by selecting the blurring processing, or the edge emphasis processing, or neither of the two according to the number of bright spots detected by said bright spot detection unit.