Patent ID: 8248429

Claim:
An image processing apparatus for recording a moving image, comprising: a signal processing unit configured to convert an input moving image signal into first image data composed of a luminance signal and a color-difference signal and to output said first image data; a compressing unit configured to compress said first image data by a predetermined compressing method and to output the compressed image data; a recording unit configured to sequentially record said compressed image data compressed by said compressing unit as moving image data on a recording medium; and a conversion unit configured to convert said first image data into second image data having a reduced ratio of the color-difference signal data amount to the luminance signal data amount per predetermined numbers of pixels as compared to that of the first image data and as compared to that of the compressed image data, and to output said second image data as image data for display; wherein said compressing unit does not receive the second image data output from said conversion unit; wherein said signal processing unit outputs said first image data to both said compressing unit and said conversion unit in parallel, wherein a) said compression by said compressing unit for recording said compressed image data by said recording unit, and b) said conversion by said conversion unit for displaying said second image data, are performed in parallel, and wherein the color-difference signal data amount of the second image data is less than that of the first image data, whereas the luminance signal data amount of the second image data is equal to that of the first image data.