Methods, apparatuses, and mediums for repairing a pixel associated with motion-picture processes
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsShigehiro Shimada, Takashi Totsuka
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Abstract
Intra-frame repair is applied to an area to be repaired which lacks image information in a frame. Matching between the area to be repaired in the frame and areas in adjacent frames is performed to obtain the corresponding areas in the adjacent frames and average processing is applied to pixels to be repaired among continuous frames. Thus, a motion picture is repaired.
Claims21
A motion-picture repair method in which a pixel which lacks information is repaired in a motion picture formed of a plurality of continuous images, comprising:
- a continuity maintaining step for repairing the pixel which lacks information such that the images are continuous in the time domain, according to the information of the image area corresponding to the pixel which lacks information, in at least one image of the previous and next images of the image to be repaired having the pixel which lacks information, wherein, if the image area corresponding to the pixel which lacks information, in the previous or next image of the image to be repaired lacks pixel information, when the corresponding image has been repaired, said continuity maintaining step performs continuity maintaining processing according to the pixel values of the repaired image.
A motion-picture repair apparatus in which a pixel which lacks information is repaired in a motion picture formed of a plurality of continuous images, comprising:
- control means for controlling continuity maintaining processing to repair the pixel which lacks information such that the images are continuous in the time domain, according to the information of the image area corresponding to the pixel which lacks information, in at least one image of the previous and next images of the image to be repaired having the pixel which lacks information, wherein, if the image area corresponding to the pixel which lacks information, in the previous or next image of the image to be repaired lacks pixel information, when the corresponding image has been repaired, said control means performs the continuity maintaining processing according to the pixel values of the repaired image, and wherein the control means at least includes an input device.
A medium for providing control information to have a control apparatus execute repair processing for repairing a pixel which lacks information in a motion picture formed of a plurality of continuous images, comprising control information for repairing the pixel which lacks information such that the images are continuous in the time domain, according to the information of the image area corresponding to the pixel which lacks information, in at least one image of the previous and next images of the image to be repaired having the pixel which lacks information, wherein, if the image area corresponding to the pixel which lacks information, in the previous or next image of the image to be repaired lacks pixel information, when the corresponding image has been repaired, said control apparatus performs the continuity maintaining processing according to the pixel values of the repaired image.
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