IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD

摘要

The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus and an image processing method capable of performing weighted prediction on the basis of local characteristics of an image. An inter-TP motion prediction/compensation unit 76 performs a matching process on a block of an image of a frame to be encoded using an inter-template matching method and performs implicit weighted prediction using a weighting coefficient computed from the pixel values of a template region for the matching. The weighting coefficient is computed by a weighting coefficient computing unit 77. The present invention is applicable to, for example, an image encoding apparatus that performs encoding using the H.264/AVC standard.