Patent ID: 8810677

Claim:
An image processing apparatus, comprising: an image capturing module for capturing a plurality of Bayer pattern images; an image separation module, coupled to the image capturing module, for decreasing the Bayer pattern images in size and transforming the Bayer pattern images to produce a plurality of first YCbCr format images; an image stabilization module, coupled to the image capturing module and the image separation module, for receiving Y channel images of the first YCbCr format images and the Bayer pattern images to perform motion estimation, so as to produce a plurality of global motion vectors; a temporal noise reduction module, coupled to the image capturing module and the image stabilization module, for performing a temporal blending process on the Bayer pattern images according to the global motion vectors, to produce a plurality of first noise reduction images; and a spatial noise reduction module, coupled to the temporal noise reduction module, for performing 2-dimensional spatial noise reduction on the first noise reduction images to produce a plurality of second noise reduction images.