Patent ID: 7127125

Claim:
A method of automatically registering digital images, the method comprising: accessing a first digital image including first content for a feature in a first frame, the first frame representing the feature at a first point in time; accessing a second digital image including second content for the feature in the first frame; accessing a first transformation determined between at least an aspect of a third digital image and a corresponding aspect of a fourth digital image, the third and fourth digital images including content for the feature in a second frame, and the second frame representing the feature at a time that either precedes or succeeds the first point in time; determining automatically a second transformation based on the first transformation, the second transformation reducing a misregistration between at least an aspect of the first digital image and a corresponding aspect of the second digital image; and applying automatically the second transformation to the first digital image to reduce the misregistration between at least the aspect of the first digital image and the corresponding aspect of the second digital image.