Patent ID: 8189953

Claim:
An image processing apparatus, comprising: a conversion section that converts first image data in a first format into second image data in a second different format, the first and second image data associated with a wide-field image having distortion due to being captured using a wide-angle lens; a thinning-out section that generates thinned-out line data from the second image data and sequentially outputs the thinned-out line data at every predetermined timing, a plurality of the thinned-out line data constituting thinned-out data corresponding to a thinned-out wide-field image; a switching section that performs switching from an output of the second image data to an output of the thinned-out line data in response to a predetermined signal; a correction section that performs distortion correction on a selected area of the wide-field image to generate a distortion-corrected image; and a synthesis section that synthesizes the thinned-out wide-field image and the distortion-corrected image to generate a synthesized image for display on a display unit.