IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM

摘要

An image processing apparatus determines an importance of subject in an image. The image processing apparatus comprises an image input unit that inputs a series of multiple frames of images captured in temporal sequence, a determination target region extraction unit that extracts determination target regions to be subjected to an importance determination from the images on the multiple frames input into the image input unit, and a determination unit that determines an importance of the determination target regions on the basis of an appearance frequency of the determination target regions in the images on the multiple frames.