Patent ID: 8315448

Claim:
A medical image processing apparatus to which a plurality of color components corresponding to frame-sequentially picked-up images of an object are time-sequentially inputted while maintaining periodicity thereof, the medical image processing apparatus comprising: a color component storage section that can store a first color component as one color component, among the plurality of color components, which is inputted to the medical image processing apparatus at one timing and a second color component, which is the one color component inputted to the medical image processing apparatus at timing preceding the one timing by one cycle or more; and an image correction processing section that simultaneously reads the first color component and the second color component stored in the color component storage section and performs image correction processing, wherein: the image correction processing section includes a pseudo color component generation section that generates a pseudo color component of the one color component between the one timing and the timing preceding the one timing by one cycle or more, from the first color component and the second color component, and performs motion interpolation processing using the pseudo color component generated by the pseudo color component generation section, and the pseudo color component generation section includes a motion vector calculation section that calculates a motion vector between the first color component and the second color component, and generates the pseudo component using the motion vector calculated by the motion vector calculation section, the first color component, and the second color component.