IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM

摘要

An image processing apparatus and method, a recording medium and a program for suppressing the image degradation (blurred images), which otherwise would occur due to an imaging blur, thereby providing a significantly clearer display of images as converted in frame rate. A higher frame rate converting part (11) subjects an input motion image to a higher frame rate conversion process. For each of a plurality of frames constituting the motion image, an imaging blur suppressing part (13) corrects, based on one or more values, which correspond to the frame to be processed, of the values of parameters indicative of an imaging blur characteristic detected by an imaging blur characteristic detecting part (12), the pixel values constituting the frame to be processed. This can provide a motion image which exhibits a higher frame rate than when inputted and the pixel values of which have been appropriately corrected so as to suppress the imaging blur. The present invention is applicable to a television system.