Patent ID: 8848081

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: an image pick up unit configured to convert an optical image of a target object to image signals; a control unit configured to drive said image pick up unit so as to read out the image signals consecutively from said image pick up unit in a field-by-field base; a signal processing unit configured to generate an image from the image signals consecutively read out from said image pickup unit in a field-by-field base; and a setting unit configured to set an image pick up condition of said image pick up unit in a field-by-field base, wherein said control unit executes a control to change a horizontal cycle, at which said image pick up unit is driven, in the field-by-field base, when the image pick up condition set by said setting unit does not satisfy a predetermined condition, and does not execute the control to change the horizontal cycle, at which said image pick up unit is driven, in the field-by-field base, when the image pick up condition set by said setting unit satisfies the predetermined condition.