Patent ID: 8531601

Claim:
An image processing apparatus which inputs moving image data containing m frames per unit time and outputs moving image data containing 2m frames per unit time, comprising: an input unit which inputs image data of each frame; a filter unit which generates low-frequency image data and high-frequency emphasized image data from the image data of a frame input by the input unit; an inter-frame interpolation unit which detects a motion between the low-frequency image data generated from the input current frame and the low-frequency image data generated from an immediately preceding input frame and generates motion-compensated low-frequency image data located at an intermediate position in point of time between the low-frequency image data generated from the input current frame and the low-frequency image data generated from the immediately preceding frame; and an output unit which outputs, as a double-rate frame, each of the high-frequency emphasized image data of the immediately preceding input frame and the motion-compensated low-frequency image data generated by the inter-frame interpolation unit.