Patent ID: 7916955
Filing Date: 2011-03-29
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus that applies image processing to each of a plurality of frames constituting stored video content, comprising: an image processing unit that sequentially applies image processing for improving image quality to the plurality of frames constituting the video content from a first frame; a storage unit that stores image processing information that includes information relating to detail and progress of the image processing; and a transfer unit that, in a case in which the image processing is interrupted after the image processing has been applied to a part of the plurality of frames constituting the video content, transfers the video content and the image processing information regarding the image processing to another image processing apparatus in order to apply the image processing to the frames, within the video content, to which the image processing has not been applied, wherein the information relating to detail of the image processing included in the image processing information regarding the image processing includes information relating to a kind of the image processing, and wherein the information relating to progress of the image processing included in the image processing information regarding the image processing is frame number information which indicates a last frame, within the video content, to which the image processing has been applied, and wherein the transfer unit transfers the video content and the video processing information using a content for transfer in which the image processing information is multiplexed with the video content.