Patent ID: 8446424

Claim:
An image processing apparatus for recording a moving image, said image processing apparatus comprising: a signal processing unit configured to convert an input moving image signal into first image data composed of (a) a luminance signal and (b) a color-difference signal, and to output the first image data; a conversion unit configured to convert the first image data into second image data having a reduced ratio of color-difference signal data amount to luminance signal data amount per predetermined numbers of pixels as compared to that of the first image data, and to output the second image data as image data for display; a compressing unit configured to compress the first image data by a predetermined compressing method and to output the compressed image data, wherein said compressing unit does not receive the second image data output from said conversion unit; and a recording unit configured to record the compressed image data compressed by said compressing unit as moving image data on a recording medium, wherein (a) the compression by said compressing unit to output the compressed image data for recording by said recording unit, and (b) the conversion by said conversion unit to output the second image data for display, are performed in association with the same first image data in parallel, and wherein for the second image data, the ratio of the color-difference signal data amount to the luminance signal data amount per predetermined numbers of pixels is less than that of the first image data.