Patent ID: 8885979

Claim:
An image processing apparatus, comprising: circuitry configured to input frame image data of a moving person and a moving object, determine whether the moving person in the input frame image data meets a predetermined condition, generate motion transition image data expressing a motion transition of the moving person in such a manner that a plurality of moving person images are sequentially arranged side by side in a predetermined direction by performing a composition process using moving person images included in a plurality of frame image data, and when the moving person in the input frame image data satisfies the predetermined condition compose the moving object image data expressing the moving object that moves according to the motion transition image data of the moving person images, generate moving object trajectory image data based on a trajectory determining process performed on the moving object of the moving object image data when the input frame satisfies the predetermined condition, wherein the circuitry overlays the moving object trajectory image data on a portion of the motion transition image data following an image data frame in which the moving person satisfies the predetermined condition, the frame image data is captured in ambient lighting, and the moving object is a ball, a frisbee, a javelin or a badminton shuttle.