Patent ID: 7250966

Claim:
A method for determining a displacement of images in an image sequence for compensating for a camera movement, a plurality of image regions of the images being available for determining the displacement, each of the plurality of image regions being provided at a preselected position of the images, and each of the plurality of image regions having preselected dimensions, in which there are predetermined numbers of pixels in various directions of the image, and for separating an image movement mainly caused by a camera movement from an additional movement, which is superimposed on the image movement in subregions of an image to be corrected, the method comprising: determining a probability of the image movement occurring without the additional movement at different positions of an image; specifying and fixing, for each of the plurality of image regions, a position and dimensions as a function of the probability of the image movement occurring inside at least one image region of the plurality of image regions without the additional movement; and determining the displacement by preferentially using the at least one image region of the plurality of image regions.