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[[File:Nikon D90 - board 0 - Nikon Expeed EI-149-1769.jpg|thumb|[[EXPEED|Nikon EXPEED]], a [[system on a chip]] including an [[Color image pipeline|image processor]], [[Video_scaler#Video_processor|video processor]], [[digital signal processor]] (DSP) and a [[32-bit]] [[microcontroller]] controlling the chip]]
An '''image processor''', also known as an '''image processing engine''', '''image processing unit''' ('''IPU'''), or '''image signal processor''' ('''ISP'''), is a type of [[media processor]] or specialized [[digital signal processor]] (DSP) used for [[image processing]], in [[digital camera]]s or other devices.<ref>[http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~sjrob/Teaching/B4_SP/b4_sp.pdf DIGITAL SIGNAL & IMAGE PROCESSING]</ref><ref>[http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/BOOKS/VERNON/Chap004.pdf Fundamentals of digital image processing]</ref>
Image processors often employ [[parallel computing]] even with [[Single instruction, multiple data|SIMD]] or [[Multiple instruction, multiple data|MIMD]] technologies to increase speed and efficiency.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Merigot |first=Alain |last2=Petrosino |first2=Alfredo |date=2008-12-01 |title=Parallel processing for image and video processing: Issues and challenges |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167819108000999 |journal=Parallel Computing |series=Parallel Processing for Image and Video Processing |volume=34 |issue=12 |pages=694–699 |doi=10.1016/j.parco.2008.09.009 |issn=0167-8191}}</ref> The [[digital image]] processing engine can perform a range of tasks.
To increase the system integration on [[Embedded system|embedded devices]], often it is a [[system on a chip]] with [[multi-core processor]] architecture.
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