Patent Document ID: 20090167904
Application ID: 12289365
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. An image processing circuit comprising: a plurality of memories for storing line pixels of a frame constituting an image; a specific pixel detecting unit for obtaining, for pixels of an arbitrary N×N (N is a natural number) array of the frame of the image sequentially read from the plurality of memories, a luminance difference value which is a difference of luminance between an observation pixel positioned at a center of the array and each of other (N×N−1) pixels, detecting a first minimum pixel ( 1 ) having a minimum luminance difference value among a plurality of pixels adjacent to the observation pixel, detecting a first minimum pixel ( 2 ) having a minimum luminance difference value from the observation pixel among three pixels opposite to the first minimum pixel ( 1 ) relative to the observation pixel, detecting a second minimum pixel ( 1 ) having a minimum luminance difference value from the observation pixel among adjacent pixels on a side one pixel outside the first minimum pixel ( 1 ), and detecting a second minimum pixel ( 2 ) having a minimum luminance difference value from the observation pixel among adjacent pixels on a side one pixel outside the first minimum pixel ( 2 ); and a pixel interpolating unit for applying filter coefficients having predetermined weights to the observation pixel and specific pixels including the first minimum pixel ( 1 ), the first minimum pixel ( 2 ), the second minimum pixel ( 1 ) and the second minimum pixel ( 2 ) which are detected at the specific pixel detecting unit, applying filter coefficients having weights corresponding to the luminance difference value and a distance from the observation pixel to pixels other than the specific pixels in the N×N pixels, obtaining a total sum of results of applying each filter coefficient to each pixel, and dividing the total sum by a total sum of filter coefficients of N×N pixels to obtain an interpolated value for the observation pixel.