Image processing equipment and image processing method

The invention relates to image processing equipment which comprises the components of an image receiving module which is configured for receiving a to-be-processed image; a face area identification module which is configured for identifying a face area in the received image; a skin whitening module which is configured for processing pixels in the face area according to the brightness of a whole image and the brightness of the face area, thereby whitening the pixels in the face area; a face skin smoothing module which is configured for calculating face roughness of a face skin area in the face area and filtering the face skin area according to the face roughness; and an image output module which is configured for outputting the processed image. The invention further provides an image processing method. According to the image processing equipment and the image processing method, when a user wants to beautify the face skin in a picture, the face skin can be adaptively whitened according to the brightness of the face skin in the picture and the brightness of the whole picture, and furthermore the face skin can be adaptively smoothed according to the roughness of the face skin.