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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2009
Hironori Sumitomo, Moriguchi, JP;
Hironori Sumitomo, Moriguchi, JP;
KONICA MINOLTA HOLDINGS, INC., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In a motion vector generation apparatusaccording to the present invention, when motion vectors are sequentially generated for a plurality of images, a target point is determined at a sub-pixel level in any of the plurality of images, a corresponding point corresponding to the target point is searched at the sub-pixel level in another image different from this image, and a motion vector is calculated on the basis of the target point and the corresponding point. Then, the corresponding point is defined as a new target point, and the aforementioned process is repeated to sequentially generate the motion vectors. Thus, the motion vector generation apparatusof the present invention can compute consecutive motion vectors by performing correspondence search at the sub-pixel level in the plurality of images.