INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To process adaptively even edited material, to obtain a statistically certain processing result as a processing result of the processing, and to reduce a user's manipulated variable or to suppress rapture or unnatural emphasis as a result. SOLUTION: A learning unit 21 and an output image generating unit 22 perform input energy classification as follows. Namely, such classification is performed that, when sharpness of a waveform in an edge part of an image is defined as a feature amount, a plurality of classes are provided in accordance with degrees of the feature amount, each of pixels constituting data Sa, Sb, Sc of SD or data I is defined as an attention pixels, and the attention pixel is sorted into any one of the plurality of classes on the basis of the feature amount. The present invention may be applicable to a system for applying resolution improving processing to edited material, for example. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT