Patent ID: 8041147

Claim:
A method for realistic stitching and showing image blocks of an electronically recorded multipart image whereas relative positional offset values of the image blocks recorded with overlap are determined in a co-ordinate system in directions x and y and stored in matrix format, and the image blocks to be shown are stitched together on the basis of the stored values, the method comprising the steps of: subdividing the overlaps of the individual image blocks into smaller regions; picking up at least one region most useful for the determination of the stitching; identifying a main offset direction vector related to the offset value on the basis of the regions; determining an offset goodness value in addition to a relative positional offset value; stitching together blocks of the image so that first the two image blocks characterised by the best offset goodness values are stitched together and the two image blocks characterised by the worst offset goodness values are stitched together last, and only the co-ordinates of the images figuring in a table are modified in the course of the stitching process; distributing errors produced by the stitching process over several image blocks, and, further comprising the step of: selecting at least two image regions offering the highest-definition image blocks from among the smaller regions while searching for at least one region that is most useful for defining the stitching.