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 as image processing on the image picked up by the image pickup unit; an edge emphasis processing unit configured to perform edge emphasis processing as the image processing on the image picked up by the image pickup unit; and a control unit configured to control the image processing performed by said blurring processing unit and said edge emphasis processing unit, wherein said control unit controls the image processing performed on the image picked up by the image pickup unit to at least the blurring processing or the edge emphasis processing or neither of the blurring processing and the edge emphasis processing, according to the number of bright spots detected by said bright spot detection unit.