Patent ID: 8675051
Filing Date: 2014-03-18
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus that generates interpolation frames between respective frames of a first video image and a second video image that constitute stereoscopic video, the image processing apparatus comprising: a motion vector detection unit that detects a motion vector between frames of each video image using two temporally consecutive frames that constitute the first video image and two temporally consecutive frames that constitute the second video image; a disparity vector detection unit that, using a frame that constitutes the first video image and a frame that constitutes the second video image, detects a disparity vector that represents disparity between the two frames; a correction unit that, when there exists a non-detection position at which no motion vector is detected in a frame of one video image from among the first video image and the second video image, performs correction by detecting a corresponding position included in a frame of the other video image that corresponds to the non-detection position using the disparity vector, and setting a motion vector of the frame of the other video image at the corresponding position, to the non-detection position; and an interpolation frame generation unit that generates respective interpolation frames of the first video image and the second video image using the motion vector after correction, wherein the interpolation frame generation unit maps each pixel in a frame to a position in an interpolation frame, on a basis of a motion vector; generates thereafter each pixel of the interpolation frame using the pixels mapped to each position in the interpolation frame; and generates pixels at the position of the interpolation frame to which a plurality of pixels are mapped, using only pixels at a position for which a motion vector detection result has been corrected by the correction unit, from among the plurality of pixels.