Patent ID: 8120672

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: a still image encoder, which codes still image data; a moving image encoder, which codes moving image data comprising a series of frames; a storage unit, which sequentially and temporarily stores the series of frames of the moving image data; an image correcting unit, provided in an input route of the still and moving image data from the storage unit and leading to the still image encoder and the moving image encoder, which performs a filtering process on the still image data and the moving image data, respectively; and a control unit, which, responsive to a still image capture instruction signal while the moving image data is coded by the moving image encoder, captures one frame of the frames stored in the storage unit so as to reserve the captured one frame in the storage unit as the still image data, wherein the one frame captured and reserved in the storage unit is obtained by the still image encoder after correction by the image correcting unit.