Patent ID: 7773825

Claim:
An image stabilization apparatus, comprising: a detection unit detecting an amount of an image blur between first captured image data and other image data included in a plurality of consecutively captured image data; an evaluation unit selecting at least one image data as appropriate image data to use in correcting image blur from the plurality of consecutively captured image data according to a result of the detection of the amount of image blur; and a correction unit generating corrected image data with its image blur corrected using the appropriate image data and excluding the image data not selected by the evaluation unit, wherein the evaluation unit: is configured to be capable of determining, in time series of an image capturing from a second captured image data, whether the image data is suitable for an image stabilization by superposing with the first captured image data; and in case of determining m th image data is not suitable for the image stabilization, selects at least one image data as the appropriate image data from the first captured image data to m−1 th image data without selecting the m th image data or later, wherein m is an integer larger than or equal to 2.