Patent ID: 8346012

Claim:
A moving picture image processing apparatus, comprising: a plurality of super resolution processors, each generating for each image of a motion picture a feedback value for pixels of an inputted image at a second resolution based on a differential image at a second resolution representing a difference between an inputted image at a first resolution and an image at the second resolution higher than the first resolution, each super resolution processor having as an input the same image at the second resolution and a different successive inputted image at the first resolution; an image buffer circuit for the image at the second resolution, said image buffer circuit providing the image at the second resolution to each super resolution processor; a moving picture application circuit configured to output from at least one of the super resolution processors a feedback value having only moving picture pixel information that is usable for adding to the previous image stored in the image buffer circuit; a summing circuit configured to receive the feedback values from at least one super resolution processor and the moving picture application circuit to provide as an output the image at the second resolution; and an addition circuit configured to replace the image stored in the image buffer circuit with a new image obtained by adding a previous image stored in the image buffer circuit with the image outputted from the summing circuit, each new image providing a successive image of said motion picture, and the addition circuit is further configured to output the new image.