Patent ID: 8503855

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: an acquiring unit which acquires moving image data in which a shadow of a foreign substance adhered to a surface of an optical member of an image capturing apparatus is captured and foreign substance information including information of a position and size of the foreign substance; a correction unit which corrects the shadow of the foreign substance in each frame of the moving image data by using the foreign substance information acquired by said acquiring unit; a playback unit which plays back the moving image data; and a control unit which controls the acquiring unit, the correction unit and the playback unit, wherein the control unit controls the acquiring unit, the correction unit and the playback unit so as to correct the shadow of the foreign substance in a playback frame to be played back when the playback status of the moving image data is slow-motion playback, and wherein the control unit controls the acquiring unit, the correction unit and the playback unit so as not to correct the shadow of the foreign substance in a playback frame to be played back when the playback status of the moving image data is either of fast-forward playback and fast-reverse playback.