Apparatus and method for calculating source image coordinates

A method of calculating source image coordinates comprising:

• calculating, by a polynomial calculator, a value of an (N−1)-th order differential polynomial corresponding to a converted image coordinate n, by a recursive computation;
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• calculating, by an accumulator, the source image coordinate xn corresponding to the converted image coordinate n by using the value of the (N−1)-th order differential polynomial corresponding to the converted image coordinate n and the previous source image coordinate xn−1 corresponding to a previous converted image coordinate n−1,
• wherein the (N−1)-th order differential polynomial is differentiated from an N-th order polynomial x(n) with respect to the converted image coordinate n, the N-th order polynomial x(n) representing the source image coordinates xn with respect to the converted image coordinate n, and N denoting a natural number larger than 2, and wherein a second order differential polynomial is the same as the (N−1)-th order differential polynomial when N=3.