Patent ID: 9055233
Filing Date: 2015-06-09
Classification: G02B,G06T,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of synthesizing a higher resolution image from a plurality of images captured from different viewpoints, comprising: normalizing a set of images using calibration data stored in a storage device using an address conversion module, where: detecting and metering parallax using a parallax confirmation and measurement module, where detecting and metering parallax comprises ignoring pixels in the images that are in an exposed occlusion set; aligning portions of images captured by different imagers to compensate for parallax using an image pixel correlation module based upon the detected and metered parallax and the stored calibration data; and obtaining a higher resolution image having a resolution that is higher than the resolutions of the images in the set of images using a super-resolution module, where color information around the edge of the foreground object that is visible in the baseline image and in the occlusion set of the second image is reconstructed in the higher resolution image using the pixels captured by the first image.