Patent ID: 7961985

Claim:
An image processing apparatus that generates one still image from multiple images, the multiple images being multiple still images having information of an exposure time, which varies according to lightness of a photographic subject at a shooting time, said image processing apparatus comprising: an image extraction module that extracts the multiple images used for generation of the one still image; a deviation computation module that computes a degree of deviation between each combination of the extracted multiple images; an image selection module that selects at least two images among the extracted multiple images, based on the computed degrees of deviation, so that the computed degree of deviation is small to such an extent that the at least two images are regarded as those of the same subject, said image selection module having an exclusion module that excludes any image having the computed degree of deviation out of a preset threshold range from the extracted multiple images, and said image selection module selecting images other than the images excluded by said exclusion module as the at least two images; a threshold setting module that sets the threshold range for each still image, based on the varying exposure time; and an image composition module that combines the at least two selected images to generate the one still image, wherein each of the modules of the image processing apparatus is executed by a processor.