Patent ID: 7764310

Claim:
An image processing apparatus executing preprocessing to smoothly perform a movie display of image data composed of a plurality of still image frames obtained by still-image photographing, comprising: an image inputting unit importing said still image frames; a frame interpolating unit applying frame interpolation to said still image frames in time-axis direction in order of photographing, to generate one or more interpolated image frames; a combining unit performing moving addition of one of said still image frames and one of said interpolated image frames or one of said interpolated image frames and another one of said interpolated image frames in said time-axis direction, to generate one or more composite image frames; and a smoothing unit increasing smoothness of said movie display by suppressing more high spatial frequency components in said composite image frame by controlling the combining unit to increase the number of added frames to be used when generating said composite image frames as alienation of motion between said still image frames becomes larger.