An image correction apparatus comprising: a difference computing unit which computes an absolute difference value between corresponding pixels in a first and a second image; a combining ratio computing unit which computes a combining ratio of the second image to the first image; a combining unit which produces a corrected image by combining the value of an attention pixel in the first image with the value of the corresponding pixel in the second image in accordance with a combining ratio computed for the attention pixel and by taking the combined value as the value of the corresponding pixel in the corrected image, and characterized in that the image correction apparatus further comprises a motion metric computing unit which, within a filter region defined around the attention pixel, counts the number of pixels each of whose absolute difference values between corresponding pixels in the first and second image is not smaller than a first threshold value, and which, when the count of the number of pixels is not smaller than a second threshold value, computes a motion metric value indicating a likelihood of the presence of a moving object by taking a statistically representative value among the absolute difference value of the attention pixel and the absolute difference values of the pixels located within the filter region and each of whose absolute difference values is not smaller than the first threshold value and, when the count of the number of pixels is smaller than the second threshold value, computes the motion metric value by taking a statistically representative value among the absolute difference value of the attention pixel and the absolute difference values of the pixels located within the filter region and each of whose absolute difference values is smaller than the first threshold value, and wherein the combining ratio computing unit sets the combining ratio lower as the motion metric value becomes larger. a difference computing unit which computes an absolute difference value between corresponding pixels in a first and a second image; a combining ratio computing unit which computes a combining ratio of the second image to the first image; a combining unit which produces a corrected image by combining the value of an attention pixel in the first image with the value of the corresponding pixel in the second image in accordance with a combining ratio computed for the attention pixel and by taking the combined value as the value of the corresponding pixel in the corrected image, and characterized in that the image correction apparatus further comprises a motion metric computing unit which, within a filter region defined around the attention pixel, counts the number of pixels each of whose absolute difference values between corresponding pixels in the first and second image is not smaller than a first threshold value, and which, when the count of the number of pixels is not smaller than a second threshold value, computes a motion metric value indicating a likelihood of the presence of a moving object by taking a statistically representative value among the absolute difference value of the attention pixel and the absolute difference values of the pixels located within the filter region and each of whose absolute difference values is not smaller than the first threshold value and, when the count of the number of pixels is smaller than the second threshold value, computes the motion metric value by taking a statistically representative value among the absolute difference value of the attention pixel and the absolute difference values of the pixels located within the filter region and each of whose absolute difference values is smaller than the first threshold value, and wherein the combining ratio computing unit sets the combining ratio lower as the motion metric value becomes larger.