Patent ID: 7893964

Claim:
An image correction device comprising: a corrected image generation unit configured to generate a corrected image by correcting for shake, on the basis of shake information on a target image, in accordance with a correction instruction issued to the image correction device; and a correction controller configured to instruct the corrected image generation unit to correct for shake before the correction instruction is issued, wherein the correction controller determines, on the basis of the shake information, whether to perform the preceding correction control for the target image; the shake information includes information specifying the amount of shake of an image included in the target image; the correction controller determines, on the basis of the amount of shake, whether to perform the preceding correction control for the target image; a plurality of input images are sequentially treated as target images; the correction controller determines, by comparing the amount of shake specified with a predetermined reference value, whether to execute the preceding correction control for the target image; and the reference value is determined by an earlier correction instruction.