Patent ID: 7729558

Claim:
An apparatus for processing an image signal which converts a first image signal constituted of plural items of pixel data into a second image signal constituted of plural items of pixel data, said apparatus comprising: a plurality of frame memory portions for storing pixel data of a plurality of consecutive frames of the first image signal together with a motion vector that corresponds to the pixel data and lies between mutually adjacent frames; data selection means for selecting plural items of pixel data located respectively in a time directional periphery and a space directional periphery with respect to a target position in the second image signal based on the plurality of frames stored in the plurality of frame memory portions; and pixel data generation means for generating pixel data of the target position in the second image signal by using the plural items of pixel data selected by the data selection means, wherein each of the frame memory portions has a plurality of banks; and wherein when the frames are divided into units of major blocks in which a plurality of minor blocks are arranged two-dimensionally, the minor blocks located at different positions in the major blocks are stored in each of the plurality of banks, wherein the data selection means selects: plural items of pixel data located in the space directional periphery with respect to the target position from the frame memory portion in which a current frame in the first image signal is stored, said current frame corresponding to a frame in which the target position in the second image signal is present; and plural items of pixel data located in the space directional periphery with respect to a position obtained by performing motion compensation on the target position by using the motion vector stored in the plurality of frame memory portions together with the pixel data, from the frame memory portions in which frames before and after the current frame are stored.