Patent ID: 8068700
Filing Date: 2011-11-29
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: an image input portion receiving (N+1) low-resolution images (where N is an integer of 2 or more); a motion amount detector taking one of the (N+1) low-resolution images as a datum image and detecting a amount of motion between the low-resolution image taken as the datum image and each of the other N low-resolution images; an image evaluator selecting, based on the detected amounts of motion, M (where M is an integer of 1 or more fulfilling N>M) out of the N low-resolution images each as a consulted image; and a resolution enhancer producing, based on the detected amounts of motion, the datum image, and the M consulted images, a high-resolution image having higher resolution than the low-resolution images, wherein the image evaluator takes each of the N low-resolution images as an evaluated image, and when an image coordinate system common to the datum image and the evaluated images is called a common coordinate system and, based on the detected amounts of motion, the datum image and the evaluated images are arranged in the common coordinate system, the image evaluator