Patent ID: 8682134

Claim:
An apparatus for processing a moving image comprising: an acquiring section which acquires moving image data of an object imaged at a predetermined imaging frame rate; an identifying section which applies a predetermined analysis process to the moving image data acquired by the acquiring section and identifies a first frame image among a plurality of first frame images and second frame images constituting the moving image data, wherein the first frame images are to be reproduced in slow motion, and the second frame images are frame images other than the first frame images; and a processor which performs a frame-number reduction process to reduce a number of the second frame images at a predetermined ratio; wherein: the acquiring section acquires the moving image data of the object imaged at the predetermined imaging frame rate which is higher than a predetermined reproduction frame rate which is set for reproducing the moving image data; and the processor reduces the number of the second frame images according to a ratio between the imaging frame rate and the reproduction frame rate such that a time required to reproduce the second frame images at the reproduction frame rate corresponds to an actual time spent on taking the second frame images.