Patent ID: 8848067

Claim:
An image processing apparatus for dividing Raw moving image data constituted by a plurality of Raw image frames, with development parameters being associated with some Raw image frames of the plurality of Raw image frames, into a first Raw moving image data and a second Raw moving image data, the apparatus comprising a processor programmed to function as a device that comprises: a designation unit which designates a last Raw image frame, from the plurality of Raw image frames, which corresponds to a last image frame of the first Raw moving image data or a leading Raw image frame, from the plurality of Raw image frames, which corresponds to a leading image frame of the second Raw moving image data; a generating unit which generates development parameters corresponding to the last Raw image frame of the first Raw moving image data and the leading Raw image frame of the second Raw moving image data by performing interpolation processing using development parameters associated with a first Raw image frame and a second Raw image frame of the some Raw image frames, the first Raw image frame immediately precedes the Raw image frame designated by said designation unit and the second Raw image frame immediately succeeds the Raw image frame designated by said designation unit; and a dividing unit which divides the Raw moving image data into the first Raw moving image data and the second Raw moving image data while associating the last Raw image frame of the first Raw moving image data with a first development parameter generated by said generating unit and corresponding to the last Raw image frame and associating the leading Raw image frame of the second Raw moving image data with a second development parameter generated by said generating unit and corresponding to the leading Raw image frame, the first Raw moving image data is stored in a first Raw moving image file and the second Raw moving image data is stored in a second Raw moving image file.