IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGING DEVICE, EVALUATION DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND OPTICAL SYSTEM EVALUATION METHOD

An image processing device that can highly precisely correct an image with a degraded image quality due to the unnecessary diffracted light generated in the optical system including the diffractive optical element is provided. The image processing device includes an evaluation area setting unit (111) which detects a saturated pixel having a saturated luminance value, from among pixels included in the image and to set an area in the image including the detected saturated pixel as an evaluation area, a pixel count calculating unit (112) which calculates a pixel count for each of luminance values of pixels included in the set evaluation area, a first luminance value determining unit (113) which determines a first luminance value indicating a maximum luminance of an image of the unnecessary diffracted light, based on a transition of calculated pixel counts arranged in order of luminance value, a second luminance value determining unit (114) which determines a second luminance value which is a luminance value corresponding to a background of the image, and a correction unit (116) which corrects a luminance value of a pixel of luminance lower than luminance of the first luminance value and higher than luminance of the second luminance value from among the pixels included in the evaluation area so as to lower the luminance of the pixel.