Patent ID: 6987884

Claim:
A picture processing apparatus for generating a second picture from a first picture, said second picture being of higher picture quality than said first picture, comprising: acquisition means for acquiring said first picture; storage means for storing said first picture, acquired by said acquisition means; storage processing means for storing a new first picture acquired by said acquisition means at a position registering with said first picture stored in said storage means to permit a storage picture of said first picture to be stored in said storage means; first extraction means for extracting the first pixel information from both said storage picture and said first picture, acquired by said acquisition means, based on the position of a subject pixel of said second picture; feature value detection means for detecting a preset feature value from said first pixel information; classification means for classifying said subject pixel to one of a plurality of classes based on said feature value; second extraction means for extracting the second pixel information from both said storage picture and said first picture, acquired by said acquisition means, based on the position of said subject pixel; and generating means for generating said subject pixel by using said second pixel information in accordance with a generating system preset corresponding to the classes classified by said classification means.