Patent ID: 7840095

Claim:
An image processing method for converting moving image data formed with a plurality of first image data having a first resolution into moving image data formed with a plurality of second image data having a second resolution, the plurality of first image data being sequentially processed for display, the image processing method comprising: a first step including generating position alignment data between the first image data to be processed and another first image data other than the first image data to be processed; a second step including aligning a position of candidate image data having the second resolution corresponding to the first image data to be processed with a position of the other first image data, in accordance with the position alignment data generated by the first step; a third step including updating the candidate image data so as to minimize a first difference between the other first image data and the candidate image data position-aligned by the second step; and a fourth step including executing the second step and the third step at least one time, and using the candidate image data having the difference equal to or smaller than a reference value, as the second image data corresponding to the first image data to be processed; a fifth step including generating an initial value of the candidate image data in accordance with the first image data to be processed and the second image data already generated for another first image data other than the first image data to be processed; wherein the initial value generated by the fifth step is used as the candidate image data at the second step to be executed before the third step is executed for the first time.