Patent ID: 8345110

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: a subject movement data creation unit that detects movement of a subject in a plurality of partitioned blocks that partition a screen area of a video, detects a partitioned block where there is movement of the subject and detects back-and-forth movement of the subject in the partitioned block using reversal of a movement direction of the subject contained in movement data, and creates a plurality of subject movement data items in accordance with a period of the detected back-and-forth movement; a still image acquisition unit that acquires a still image; and a still image processor that causes an image of a still image block corresponding to the partitioned block specified by a plurality of the subject movement data items to move sequentially in accordance with the movement of the subject specified by the subject movement data items, on the still image acquired by the still image acquisition unit, using the subject movement data items created by the subject movement data creation unit.