Patent ID: 7688478

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: an input device that inputs image signals for a plurality of channels; a storage device that stores a plurality of kinds of processing procedures to be performed on the image signals; an operating element that specifies, as target processing procedures, at least two kinds of processing procedures among the plurality of kinds of processing procedures stored in said storage device, and enables at least one of the target processing specified procedures and also at least one processing procedure between the target processing procedures to be arbitrarily specified; a processing device, operable when the at least one processing procedure between the target processing procedures is specified said operating element, that generates the specified at least one processing procedure by interpolating the target processing procedures, and carries out real-time processing on at least one image signal for at least one corresponding channel among the image signals for the plurality of channels input by said input device according to the generated specified at least one processing procedure; and an output device that outputs an image signal, and wherein said processing device outputs the image signal, subjected to the real-time processing, in real time via said output device.