Patent ID: 7764848

Claim:
A high-resolution enabling apparatus comprising: an acquisition unit configured to acquire, from an image source, an image represented by pixel values indicating brightness levels; a first setting unit configured to set, as a reference frame, one frame included in the image; a second setting unit configured to sequentially set, to be a plurality of target pixels, a plurality of pixels included in one or more frames included in the image, respectively; a third setting unit configured to set a plurality of target image regions including the target pixels, respectively; a searching unit configured to search the reference frame for a plurality of similar target image regions similar to each of the target image regions in a change pattern of pixel values; a selection unit configured to select, from the similar target image regions of the reference frame, a plurality of corresponding points corresponding to each of the target pixels; a fourth setting unit configured to set a plurality of sample values concerning brightness at the corresponding points to a pixel value of a target pixel corresponding to the corresponding points; and a computation unit configured to compute a plurality of pixel values included in a high resolution image corresponding to the reference frame, based on the sample values and the corresponding points, the high resolution image containing a larger number of pixels than pixels contained in the reference frame.