Image stabilization using bit-plane matching

An image stabilizing apparatus for correcting motion of an image recording apparatus by using a bit-plane matching technique, and an image stabilizing method thereof. In the image stabilizing apparatus, a field memory 102 stores input digital image information. A motion detecting circuit 101 calculates an amount of movement of input image information between two fields by using bit-plane matching technique and outputs a motion vector of the image recording apparatus. A motion correcting circuit 103 corrects the motion of the image recording apparatus by moving image information stored in the field memory 102 in an opposite direction to the direction of the motion vector.