Patent ID: 7729563

Claim:
A method of acquiring a processed frame by performing image processing on a desired frame sampled from a video image, said method comprising the steps of: computing a similarity between said desired frame and at least one frame which is temporally before and one frame which is temporally after said desired frame; and acquiring said processed frame by obtaining a weighting coefficient whose value increases or decreases in correspondence to said similarity, then weighting said at least one frame with said weighting coefficient, and synthesizing said weighted frame and said desired frame; wherein said desired frame is partitioned into a plurality of areas; and wherein motion is computed for each area of said plurality of areas; said areas are grouped into a plurality of subject areas based on said motion of each area of said plurality of areas; said similarity is computed for each of corresponding subject areas in said at least one frame which correspond to said plurality of subject areas; and said processed frame is acquired by obtaining weighting coefficients whose values increase or decrease in correspondence to a reference level of the similarity, then weighting said corresponding subject areas of said at least one frame with said weighting coefficients, and synthesizing said weighted subject areas and said plurality of subject areas.