Patent ID: 8471905

Claim:
A missile guidance system assembly for generating an enhanced image of a target in an environment and guiding a missile based on the enhanced image, comprising: a sensor adapted to generate multiple consecutive frames of image data over time, wherein each frame of image data corresponds to an image of the target and the environment; and a computer responsive to the image data, wherein the computer is adapted to: select an object window within each frame of the generated image data including image data corresponding to the target; perform an upscale process to scale the image data within the object window to a higher resolution to produce a super-sampled output image, the upscale process including: rotating the image represented by the image data in each object window to present the image of the target at a selected angle; registering the image represented by the image data in the object window in a first frame with at least a second image represented by the image data in the object window in a second consecutive frame; deconvolving the image data according to a point spread function associated with the sensor; and combining at least the first and second consecutive frames of image data to generate the output image of the target according to the registered images by generating an average value for each pixel in the output image, the average value being determined from corresponding pixel values in each frame of the multiple consecutive frames of image data; and an output system coupled to the computer and adapted to receive the output image of the target from the computer and to provide a missile guidance signal responsive to the output image.