Patent ID: 8804832

Claim:
An image processing apparatus, comprising: a receiving unit for receiving first video data containing a plurality of frames and second video data having a spatial resolution higher than the frames contained in the first video data and a temporal resolution lower than the frames contained in the first video data; an image conversion unit for magnifying the frames of the first video data to generate a plurality of magnified frames; a motion prediction unit for detecting a motion vector between each sequential frame pair of the magnified frames; and an image generation unit for, based on the second video data received by the receiving unit and the motion vector detected by the motion prediction unit, performing motion compensation in sequential order from one of the magnified frames associated with a time that corresponds to a time associated with the second video data, and sequentially generating motion compensated image data corresponding to the first video data based on the motion compensated frames and the motion vector, wherein the image generation unit sequentially generates the motion compensated image data by combining, at a predetermined ratio, a reference block of a first frame of the second video data specified by a respective motion vector, and a corresponding reference block of a second frame of the plurality of magnified frames that is immediately subsequent in time to the first frame of the second video data and belonging to a corresponding respective frame pair of the magnified frames used to generate the respective motion vector, to thereby generate an intermediate created picture, and wherein the predetermined ratio is based upon a difference amount between the reference block of the first frame of the second video data and the corresponding reference block of the second frame of the plurality of magnified frames.