Patent ID: 8150201

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: a processor configured to: receive input image data comprising a long-time exposure image and a short-time exposure image; detect a brightness-change pixel in which it is determined that a brightness change has occurred during a photographic period corresponding to a long-time exposure time on the basis of analysis of pixel values in the long-time exposure image and the short-time exposure image; and correct a pixel value of the brightness-change pixel detected by the image analysis unit, wherein the pixel value correction includes: selectively combining pixel values in the long-time exposure image and pixel values in the short-time exposure image to generate a combined image, generating an intermediate image, the intermediate image being a blurred image of the combined image, and determining a pixel value of the brightness-change pixel using a pixel value of a corresponding pixel in the combined image and a pixel value of a corresponding pixel in the intermediate image, the corresponding pixels in the combined and intermediate images being located at positions corresponding to the brightness-change pixel.