Patent ID: 8279930
Filing Date: 2012-10-02
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus, the image processing apparatus comprising: a processor configured so as to: generate, on the basis of a first frame of time t of a moving image and a second frame of time t+1 of the moving image, an interpolation frame of the moving image which comes after the first frame in terms of time and comes before the second frame in terms of time, where the first frame and the second frame each include one or more corresponding pixels between the first frame and the second frame, the first frame includes a first pixel not having a corresponding pixel in the second frame and, the second frame includes a second pixel not having a corresponding pixel in the first frame; determine one or more interpolated pixels in the interpolation frame for the one or more corresponding pixels between the first frame and the second frame by allocating one or more motion vectors between respective ones of the one or more corresponding pixels of the first frame and the second frame; determine a first target pixel in the interpolation frame for the first pixel in the first frame not having a corresponding pixel in the second frame by determining a first background vector between the first pixel in the first frame and a first corresponding pixel in a third frame of time t−1 of the moving image which comes before the first frame in terms of time; and, determine a second target pixel in the interpolation frame for the second pixel in the second frame not having a corresponding pixel in the first frame by determining a second background vector between the second pixel in the second frame and a second corresponding pixel in a fourth frame of time t+2 of the moving image which comes after the second frame in terms of time.