defective pixel and writing the image data not corrected and directly supplied from the image sensor in the memory if the count is not coincident with the position data of the defective pixel an image processing apparatus and method is provided which is capable of correcting defective pixel data at high speed with a simple circuit application_number US 53766900 A description fig1 a 1 b and 1 c are a block diagram of an image processing apparatus and diagrams illustrating the operation thereof according to an embodiment of the invention fig2 is a flow chart illustrating the operation of the image processing method to be executed by the apparatus shown in fig1 a to 1c the method including a defective pixel data correction process with reference to the accompanying drawings the operation of the embodiment apparatus will be described referring to fig1 a reference numeral 1 represents a counter for counting the number of pixels of image data of one frame to be transferred from an image sensor ccd 10 the image data is serially transferred from the image sensor at a clock signal of for example 12 27 mhz reference numeral 2 represents a correction circuit for defective pixel data reference numeral 3 represents an image data delay circuit reference numeral 4 represents a dram for storing image data and defective pixel information of at least one frame reference numeral 5 represents a.