Patent 7970227 was granted and assigned to Sony on June, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An image processing apparatus that generates one output image front plural input images includes a detecting unit that detects a positional relation among the plural input images, a pixel-value calculating unit that calculates a pixel value of a pixel of the output image using pixel values of pixels of the input images and an interpolation function, a determining unit that determines whether the pixel of the output image is a motion pixel, and an adjusting unit that adjusts a high-pass characteristic of the interpolation function on the basis of a result of the determination on whether the pixel of the output, image is a motion pixel.