Patent Document ID: 8368815
Application ID: 12565230
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: a calculating unit configured to calculate motion information relating to between two images that make up an imaged moving picture; and a selecting unit configured to select compositing target images serving as compositing targets from a plurality of images that make up said imaged moving picture based on reliability that indicates the likelihood of said calculated motion information, wherein said selecting unit includes a section selecting unit configured to select a section used for selecting said compositing target images from a plurality of images that make up said imaged moving picture based on said reliability, and an image selecting unit configured to select said compositing target images from a plurality of images included in said selected section based on relative position relationship of images included in said selected section; and wherein, in the case that said selected compositing target images are taken as reference images, and a target image that is another image included in said selected section, and said reference images have been each converted with said motion information, said image selecting unit selects a new compositing target image based on an overlaying rate between said target image and said reference images, the overlaying rate being determined by dividing an area of an overlapping region of a compositing image that includes the target image and said reference images with one of an area of the target image and an area of the reference images.