Abstract: An apparatus and a method for displaying images in an electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a processor that obtains an image and a depth map corresponding to the image, separates the image into one or more areas based on the depth map of the image, applies an effect, which is different from at least one of other areas, to at least one of the areas separated from the image, and connects the areas, to which the different effects have been applied, as a single image, and a display that displays the single image.

Abstract: A method and an image capturing device configured to generate a defocused image from a reference image and one or more of focal bracketed images to provide an artificially defocused blurred image. The artificially defocused blurred image is a fusion image composed by processing the reference image and one or more of focal bracketed images to provide a clear foreground with gradual blurred background based on a created depth map. The method is time efficient as it provides faster processing on a captured and down sampled reference image and one or more captured down sampled aligned focal bracketed images. The depth map created using region based segmentation reduces a misclassification at a time of classifying foreground-background and misclassification of pixels to provide fast, robust artificial blurring of background in the captured reference image.