Patent ID: 8274570

Claim:
An image processing apparatus for correcting hand shake blur occurring at the time of capturing the moving image, comprising: generation means for generating, by setting a specific image among a plurality of images constituting the moving image as a reference image serving as a reference of a hand shake blur correction process and setting the remaining images as correction target images to be subjected to the hand shake blur correction process, a correction amount by which position displacement of a correction target image relative to the reference image is to be corrected; estimation means for estimating a hand shake blur area representing an area where hand shake blur relative to the reference image has occurred, on the basis of the correction amount generated by the generation means; detection means for detecting an intentional picture composition changing operation at the time of capturing the correction target image, on the basis of the correction amount generated by the generation means; and updating means for updating a set correction area to an area where hand shake blur in the correction target image relative to the reference image is to be corrected on the basis of the hand shake blur area estimated by the estimation means and a result of the detection performed by the detection means, wherein the correction target images follow the reference image in an order in which the images were captured, and in a case where at least one of a horizontal component and a vertical component of a correction amount for a first correction target image is greater than a corresponding component of a correction amount for a second correction target image following the first correction target image, the estimation means estimates the hand shake blur area on the basis of the correction amount for the first correction target image.