Patent ID: 7071990

Claim:
A display apparatus, connectable with one or more other display apparatuses and having display means for displaying an image in accordance with an input video signal, comprising: classifying means for determining a class corresponding to a pixel of interest such that plural class reference pixels in the vicinity of the pixel of interest to be predicted are extracted from the input video signal and the class corresponding to the pixel of interest is determined from the extracted class reference pixels; prediction coefficient generation means for generating a prediction coefficient corresponding to the class determined by the classifying means; pixel prediction means for predicting the pixel of interest such that plural prediction reference pixels in the vicinity of the pixel of interest are extracted from the input video signal, and the pixel of interest is predicted by means of a prediction operation using the extracted plural prediction reference pixels and the prediction coefficient; and display control means for displaying an image including at least the pixel of interest on display means such that images displayed on the present display apparatus and said one or more other display apparatuses form, as a whole, a complete enlarged image of the image corresponding to the input video signal.