Patent ID: 8126281

Claim:
An image processing apparatus, comprising: a pixel-relative-position calculation section for calculating a relative position between a pixel position of a first pixel constituting the motion compensation image and a pixel position of a reference pixel of a reference image, the reference image being used for calculating a pixel value of the first pixel on the basis of motion vector information; a relative-position quantization section for performing quantization processing of the relative position calculated by the pixel-relative-position calculation section to generate quantized-relative-position information; a relative-position-averaging processing section for receiving the quantized-relative-position information and performing averaging processing of the quantized-relative-position information corresponding to a plurality of pixels of the motion compensation image; and a motion-compensation-image generation section for generating a motion compensation image by calculating a pixel value of a constituent pixel of the motion compensation image on the basis of at least the quantized-relative-position information and a pixel value of the reference pixel, wherein: the relative-position-averaging processing section performs the averaging processing of the quantized-relative-position information such that the quantized relative position becomes identical for a number of pixels determined in accordance with a number of bits capable of being operated in parallel in the motion-compensation-image generation section; and the motion-compensation-image generation section generates the motion compensation image by calculating the constituent pixel value on the basis of at least the reference pixel value and the quantized-relative-position information set to have an identical value for each of the plurality of pixels generated by the relative-position-averaging processing section.