Method and apparatus for re-construcing high-resolution images
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsCasey L. Miller, James W. Owens
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Abstract
A method for constructing a high-resolution image includes constructing a second plurality of time-sequential frames having a second resolution from a first plurality of time-sequential frames having a first resolution, the second resolution being lower than the first resolution, and constructing an image from the second plurality of time sequential frames, the image having a resolution that is higher than the second resolution.
Claims19
A method comprising:
- constructing a second plurality of time-sequential frames having a second resolution from a first plurality of time-sequential frames having a first resolution, the second resolution being lower than the first resolution;
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- constructing an image from the second plurality of time sequential frames, the image having a resolution that is higher than the second resolution.
9- A system comprising:
- memory for storing a first plurality of pixel values corresponding to a plurality of respective time-sequential frames;
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- a processor that is programmed to use the first plurality of pixel values to generate a second plurality of pixel values corresponding to an image having a greater resolution than any of the plurality of time-sequential frames.
The system of claim 9, wherein the system comprises one of a computer or a digital camera.
The system of claim 9, wherein the resolution of the image is equal to four times the resolution of one of the plurality of time-sequential frames.
The system of claim 9, wherein the image is generated by interlacing pixels from each frame of the plurality of time-sequential frames with pixels from each other frame of the plurality of time-sequential frames.
The system of claim 9, wherein a total number of pixels in each of the plurality of time-sequential frames is equal to one fourth of a total number of pixels in the image.
A method comprising:
- obtaining a plurality of time-sequenced frames of higher-resolution image data, each of the plurality of frames being defined by a plurality of pixel values, such that each of the plurality of pixel values corresponds to a location in a matrix;
- generating a frame of lower-resolution image data for each of the plurality of time-sequenced frames of higher-resolution image data, such that pixel values corresponding collectively to substantially all locations in the matrix are used in the plurality of lower-resolution frames of image data;
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- constructing at least one higher-resolution image from the plurality of lower-resolution frames of image data.
A computer-readable medium having stored thereon an executable instruction set configured to direct a processor to perform a method comprising:
- constructing a second plurality of time-sequential frames having a second resolution from a first plurality of time-sequential frames having a first resolution, the second resolution being lower than the first resolution;
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- constructing an image from the second plurality of time sequential frames, the image having a resolution that is higher than the second resolution.
A system comprising:
- means for constructing a second plurality of time-sequential frames having a second resolution from a first plurality of time-sequential frames having a first resolution, the second resolution being lower than the first resolution;
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- means for constructing an image from the second plurality of time sequential frames, the image having a resolution that is higher than the second resolution.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.