Patent ID: 7463285

Claim:
An image pickup apparatus comprising: image pickup means having an image pickup element in which an area for total camera-shake correction when a large camera shake occurs is absent, for picking up an image of a subject; camera-shake correcting means for correcting picked-up image data of said image pickup means according to a camera-shake component applied to said image pickup means; and still image generating means for determining whether a camera-shake image is present in an image pickup area of said image pickup means, and for finding, for each coordinate point, an average of a cumulatively added image in which image data corrected by said camera-shake correcting means within a predetermined time are added together, so as to generate a still image, in which addition is performed on respective image data at a respective coordinate point when a part of the camera-shake image corresponding to the respective coordinate point is determined to be in said image pickup area and in which the addition is not performed on the respective image data at the respective coordinate point when the part of the camera-shake image corresponding to the respective coordinate point is determined to be outside said image pickup area.