Patent Document ID: 20110274175
Application ID: 13143514
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A motion vector generation apparatus comprising: an image acquisition unit for acquiring and holding a plurality of images; a target point determination unit for determining a target point at a sub-pixel level in one of the plurality of images held in the image acquisition unit; a corresponding point search unit for searching a corresponding point corresponding to the target point at the sub-pixel level in an image out of the plurality of images held in the image acquisition unit, the image being different from the image in which the target point is determined; and a motion vector calculation unit for calculating a motion vector according to the target point and the corresponding point, the target point determination unit determining, after the corresponding point search unit searches the corresponding point, the searched corresponding point as a target point in the searched image, and the motion vector calculation unit sequentially calculating motion vectors based on the sequentially determined target points and the searched corresponding points corresponding to the target points.