US Patent 7991050 Moving picture decoding apparatus and moving picture decoding method

According to one embodiment, a moving picture decoding apparatus comprises a decoding module configured to decode an input stream containing coded moving picture data and coding information of the coded moving picture data and configured to produce decoded moving picture data and decoding information, an interpolation image generation module configured to generate an interpolation image frame to be interposed between frames in the decoded moving picture data, and an image generation control module configured to control the generation of the interpolation image frame based on the decoding information.