Patent ID: 7961961

Claim:
An image processing apparatus for carrying out an image processing for an image signal obtained by an image acquiring unit, comprising: a motion detecting unit which detects motion information from image information in a plurality of frames obtained from the image acquiring unit; a noise reducing unit which reduces a noise included in the image signal by using the motion information detected by the motion detecting unit; a moving object detecting unit which detects a moving object from the image signal subjected to the noise reduction processing by using the motion information detected by the motion detecting unit; an interlace progressive converting unit which converts the image signal into a progressive image format by using the motion information detected by the motion detecting unit if the image signal to be handled by the image acquiring unit is in an interlace image format; and a coding unit which codes image information transmitted from either the interlace progressive converting unit or the moving object detecting unit by using the motion information detected by the motion detecting unit.