Patent ID: 8111297
Filing Date: 2012-02-07
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus executing preprocessing to smoothly perform a movie display of image data composed of a plurality of still image frames obtained by still-image photographing, comprising: an image inputting unit importing said still image frames; a frame interpolating unit applying frame interpolation to said still image frames in time-axis direction in order of photographing, to generate one or more interpolated image frames; a combining unit performing moving addition of one of still image frames and one of said interpolated image frames or one of said interpolated image frames and another one of said interpolated image frames in said time-axis direction, to generate one or more composite image frames; a smoothing unit controlling smoothness of said movie display by controlling, among said still image frames and/or said interpolated image frames which are temporally preceding/succeeding, the number of still image frames and/or interpolated image frames, to be used when generating said composite image frames and by controlling more high spatial frequency components in said composite image frames; and a recording control unit recording said composite image frames being generated, wherein when the number of still images and/or interpolated image frames to be used when generating said composite image frames increases, said smoothing unit changes a processing characteristics of a smoothing filter corresponding to said composite frame either by cutting off of lower frequencies in a high-frequency cutoff characteristic of said smoothing filter performing smoothing on said composite image frames generated by said moving addition in a direction of a motion between frames other than said composite image frames, or by increasing a high spatial frequency cutoff amount of said smoothing filter in said composite image frame.