Patent ID: 7646891

Claim:
An image processor comprising: an image input unit configured to receive two-dimensional images; a motion calculator configured to select a plurality of motion detecting areas for each of two images received by the image input unit, and configured to calculate motion vectors between the two images, with regard to each of the plurality of motion detecting areas, based on projective data that is acquired by computing, in a predetermined direction, pixel values in the motion detecting areas; a conversion/compensation unit configured to calculate pivoting and zooming components by means of the plurality of motion vectors calculated by the motion calculator, and configured to apply pivoting and zooming conversion to the second image, based on the pivoting and zooming components, and configured to acquire a compensated motion vector by subtracting the pivoting and zooming components from the plurality of motion vectors; a displacement calculator configured to calculate the image correlativity between the two images, in a direction that the compensated motion vector designates, and configured to calculate the amount of pixel displacement between the two images, based on the correlativity calculations; and an image output unit configured to cut away an area from a camera-shake compensation area designated in a frame, the area being produced by displacing an image output area in the camera-shake compensation area, by the pixel-displacement amount calculated by the displacement calculator, and configured to output the area as an image for the image output area of the frame.