Patent ID: 8693794

Claim:
An image processing apparatus includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor executes a process comprising: reducing multiple input images chronologically input as moving images and accumulating respective reduced images of the multiple input images in a predetermined memory; generating one reduced image from the reduced images accumulated in the memory; smoothing level values of a pixel included in the one reduced image and pixels surrounding the pixel with respect to each of multiple ranges set according to the width of level values of pixels; synthesizing multiple range-by-range results of the smoothing on the basis of the input images; and outputting an image synthesized at the synthesizing, wherein the generating includes weighting the reduced images in such a manner that the closer a frame is to latest input image, the more heavily a reduced image of the frame is weighted, and includes generating the one reduced image by performing weighted averaging on the reduced images, and the generating includes weighting the reduced images in such a manner that the larger difference in average level value from a reduced image of the closest frame to latest input image a reduced image has, the less heavily the reduced image is weighted, and includes generating the one reduced image by performing weighted averaging on the reduced images.