Patent ID: 7417668

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: a moving picture playback device which plays back moving picture data recorded on a record medium, and displays moving pictures in a moving picture display area set on a monitor; a record instruction device which designates a frame of a moving picture displayed in the moving picture display area to be recorded as a still picture; a still picture data extraction device which extracts a predetermined number of frames of still picture data immediately before, after, or before and after a moment when a record instruction is received, from moving picture data at predetermined intervals, together with still picture data at the moment when the record instruction is received, based on the record instruction received during playback of the moving picture data: a still picture playback device which plays back each piece of the still picture data extracted by said still picture data extraction device, and displays a still picture in a plurality of still picture display areas set in an area different from the moving picture display area on the monitor; a recording device which records each piece of the still picture data extracted by said still picture data extraction device on a record medium; an optical image capturing system; an image pickup device; a moving picture data generation device which continuously captures images picked up by said image pickup device through said optical image capturing system in a predetermined period, and generates moving picture data; and a moving picture data recording device which records moving picture data generated by said moving picture data generation device on a record medium, and further comprising a device that designates the segmentation ranges of immediately before, immediately after and before and after, wherein the still picture data extraction device extracts still pictures from the designated segmentation range, and wherein the monitor displays a screen which displays the moving picture to be edited, the still pictures segmented from the moving pictures, the playback bar indicating the playback progress state and the playback time.