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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2007
Tetsujiro Kondo, Tokyo, JP;
Takeshi Miyai, Kanagawa, JP;
Masashi Uchida, Tokyo, JP;
Takuo Morimura, Kanagawa, JP;
Shizuo Chikaoka, Tokyo, JP;
Daisuke Kikuchi, Tokyo, JP;
Takeshi Kunihiro, Kanagawa, JP;
Hideki Mori, Kanagawa, JP;
Tetsujiro Kondo, Tokyo, JP;
Takeshi Miyai, Kanagawa, JP;
Masashi Uchida, Tokyo, JP;
Takuo Morimura, Kanagawa, JP;
Shizuo Chikaoka, Tokyo, JP;
Daisuke Kikuchi, Tokyo, JP;
Takeshi Kunihiro, Kanagawa, JP;
Hideki Mori, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image processing apparatus includes an interlace-progressive converter converting an interlace input image into a progressive intermediate image, a motion-vector detector detecting motion vectors of the input image by using a distance shorter than the pixel interval of the intermediate image, a cyclic-coefficient setting unit setting, on the basis of a vertical motion, a first cyclic coefficient for a first type of pixel and a second cyclic coefficient for a second type of pixel, a motion compensator motion-compensating, on the basis of the motion vectors, a past progressive output image to generate a motion-compensated image, and an output image generator generating a progressive output image by adding pixel values of the first type of pixels and the second type of pixels of the progressive intermediate image and the motion-compensated image by using the first cyclic coefficient and the second cyclic coefficient as weights.