Patent ID: 7218675

Claim:
An image signal processing apparatus for use with a video camera, comprising: a unit having an inputting section arranged to input an image signal representing a sequence of images of a subject produced by an image sensing unit; an electrical image stabilizing unit arranged to detect movement in the image signal caused by shaking of the image sensing unit and to correct the movement in the image signal by removing the effect of the movement, so as to output a corrected sequence of images in which a position of the subject is stabilized; a sensor unit arranged to detect the occurrence of panning of the video camera and to determine corresponding panning information; and a compression encoding unit arranged to encode the corrected image signal output by the electrical image stabilizing unit by applying interframe predictive encoding, wherein in a case where panning of the video camera is detected by the sensor unit, the electrical image stabilizing unit interrupts correction of movement in the image signal based on the panning information and the compression encoding unit encodes the corrected image signal based on the panning information, and wherein said interframe predictive encoding uses a target image in the corrected sequence of images, and a predicted image based on an image previous to the target image in the corrected sequence of images.