Patent ID: 8620048

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a tomography image of a target to be captured; a detection unit configured to detect layer boundaries of a plurality of layers sequentially positioned in the depth direction from the acquired tomography image; a calculation unit configured to calculate the number of the layer boundaries of the plurality of layers sequentially positioned in the depth direction at a predetermined position of the image; and a determination unit configured to determine each type of the detected layer boundaries of the target to be captured according to the number calculated by the calculation unit, wherein the determination unit is configured to determine the structure of a target eye to be captured by at least one of: checking the type of the layer boundaries at a predetermined horizontal position of the tomography image, checking the position of the layer boundaries at a predetermined horizontal position of the tomography image, checking the type of layers at a predetermined horizontal position of the tomography image, checking the presence of a pseudo-image at the predetermined position, and determining whether the predetermined position corresponds to at least one of the macula of the retina, the optic disc of the retina, and other portion of the retina, and a combination thereof.