Patent ID: 9432576
Filing Date: 2016-08-30
CPC Classification: G06T,H04N

Claim Text:
1. An image fusing method for fusing images from an array of cameras, comprising: retrieving, with a digital processor, input images from the array of cameras; selecting, with the digital processor, a camera from the array of cameras as a reference camera; estimating, with the digital processor, misalignment between retrieved input images from the reference camera and retrieved input images from other cameras in the array of cameras; estimating, with the digital processor, misalignment parameters between the reference camera and the other cameras in the array of cameras; correcting, with the digitial processor, the retrieved input images from the other cameras based on the estimated misalignment parameters to generate corrected image data; estimating, with the digital processor, local disparity between image data from the reference camera and the corrected image data from the other cameras in the array of cameras; using, with the digital processor, the estimated misalignment parameters and the estimated local disparity to map image data from the other cameras onto a reference camera grid corresponding to the reference camera, wherein the retrieved input image data from the other cameras in the array of cameras is fused in the reference camera grid utilizing fractional offsets from integer coordinates; producing, with the digitial processor, an output image grid on the reference camera grid; and interpolating, with the digitial processor, output pixels using processed data for producing a high-resolution image.