Abstract: An apparatus for cancelling noise and improving details of color components of an image by processing a color component value corresponding to a respective pixel, including a high-frequency component detector for individually detecting a high-frequency color component value contained in the color component value corresponding to the respective pixel, a noise detector for receiving the high-frequency color component value detected by the high-frequency component detector, judging whether a noise component is contained in a corresponding pixel and outputting a first binary signal indicative of a judgement result, a storage unit for outputting a value designated by the detected high-frequency color component value and the first binary signal among detail improved values and noise cancelled values both of which are pre-stored therein, and an adder for individually adding the value output from the storage unit and the corresponding color component value.