Patent ID: 8559527

Claim:
An image display apparatus comprising: a data receiving unit configured to receive an encoded bit stream; a decoding unit configured to receive the encoded bit stream from the data receiving unit and to decode the encoded bit stream, in order to generate an image signal; a detecting unit configured to detect whether a frame has been lost from the encoded bit stream due to an error; an image interpolation unit configured to receive the image signal from the decoding unit and to output an interpolation frame or the image signal, the image interpolation unit including an interpolation frame generating unit configured to determine a motion vector for the interpolation frame and to generate the interpolation frame based on the image signal received from the decoding unit; and a display unit configured to display an image based on a signal received from the image interpolation unit; wherein when the detecting unit detects that a frame has been lost, the image interpolation unit supplies the interpolation frame in place of the lost frame to the display unit, with the timing of the lost frame; wherein the interpolation frame generating unit is configured to generate the interpolation frame based on image signals in at least the frame preceding and the frame succeeding the lost frame.